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The female version would be a 50 year old woman that looks 60, wiry, wrinkled leathery skin, lots of makeup and barb wire tattooed around her biceps.
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On the Shipley recruitment, I was hoping that the OU full court pressure strategy would be less effective on a transfer, than on a HS kid, just due to being older and (hopefully) more mature.
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On SoonerScoop, Stoia noted that OU is feeling good about Shipley, and are trying to keep him on campus until he commits (and that he is still there tonight)
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I know this- as good as our secondary was last year, it would have been worth it to outbid the Buckeyes for Caleb Downs.
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I have a question- 1. We have read, in multiple sources, that last year a handful of programs had football player payrolls north of $20M, funded all by donors/NIL marketers. 2. How much do the other 60 or so P4 programs pay? I don’t know- I’ll guess (pull out of my ass) $5M (Oregon State?)to $20M, maybe with a bell curve distribution? 3. The “House settlement” expected to come down- will have P4 programs distributing $20M, with $15M typically slotted for football, coming from AD coffers (and schools required to pay that if they wish to stay P4): doesn’t that mean a big increase in football player pay, even when not counting donors and NIL? Shouldn’t this mean fewer players entering the portal (better pay where they are), and higher bidding on players in the portal? It doesn’t appear that we have seen that yet, or am I missing something? Are most schools waiting for it to become official?
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By now, are we right to think that the “why” of the trade is extreme Dunning-Kruger on the part of Nico? That he really did look at Luka and think, “that guy is holding us back”, and it was because he really isn’t any good at scouting and assessing basketball talent? Is this the last GM job Nico will ever have? When he gets fired from the Mavs, it’s on to marketing CBD products?
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I know you’re a Sooner. I almost negged you in this, but I really hate to neg. OU is the one to hate. I hate OU for Barry Switzer, who learned the Wishbone from Bellard, at Royal’s instruction, as a favor for Royal’s alma mater. Switzer repaid the favor by mocking Royal when his purchased players were beating Texas. I really hate OU for 2008 (still!), when Stoops got some coaches to vote Texas artificially low, to make sure that Oklahoma made it to the B12 CG, and the resulting BCS CG and Heisman for Bradford (and not Colt). OU is the enemy. The agreement between Texas and OU to leave the B12 was more akin to the Molotov-Von Ribbentrop pact (a temporary agreement to be honored until it suited one party’s purposes to betray the other) than any real alliance. It’s not about OU’s casual indifference to any crimes their players may commit; it’s that OU will do anything they can to win. It is their identity, fed by decades of insecurity and feelings of inferiority as a state. Texas is in the same conference, will always play them every year, and shares a recruiting territory. They are the enemy.
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My take on Stiles Switch- they may not be great at anything, but theyre really good at everything
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We would have liked to have kept Neyor, right? However, his competition for playing time was going to be tougher in 2024 than it was in 2022, right?
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I posted on the Tennessee thread about the SoonerScoop board being all whiney about the current game (“Somethjng must be done about this!”) Here is an example. A moderator was asked what he would do to fix the game, if he were football czar. It’s a nice touch to bemoan “the rich getting richer” while freezing the SEC and B1G at the top. Not self serving at all.
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This is interesting. The last couple of years, Texas has been very active and acquisitive in the portals. I am a little surprised they are being a little restrained now. Does Texas really like its hand that much, that it will forego drawing more cards at WR and RB? Or is this a reaction to the expected high expense of this spring portal offerings, and a desire to not blow the salary structure over anything but the most needed pieces?
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Thanks for the explanation. It helps a lot. I have been enjoying reading SoonerScoop on this topic. There has been a steady drumbeat, for a few years, of “This has to be fixed (current system where they struggle to compete)! Clearly, this is broken!” There was a dawning of hope a year ago, when plans for the “House Settlement” came out, with Castiglione explaining it as a functional cap, with auditors enforcing “real NIL”. Now, there are a lot of voices that realize that the “House Settlement” will not make things like they used to be, like they want them to be. I do wonder about how much OU’s problems are not having enough donors and how much is lack of enthusiasm for Venables as HC. If I were a whale donor, I don’t know how much (if any) I would give if I didn’t believe the coach could deliver.
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I’m kind of doubting that the SMU message board has a similar thread.
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…and this is why I am out and y’all can have your echo chambers all to yourselves, as you prefer.
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On Klatt’s podcast, he compared Nico’s attempt to force a raise to how college coaches have been doing it for years. His example? Jimbo Fisher’s agent threatening TAMU with the possibility of Jimbo getting the LSU job, and wringing the $96M guaranteed contract out of them.
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Are they still charging admission?
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Why? They were attacked by an invading force, that has an avowed (and written) goal of taking their land. When this war is over, Israel intends to leave Gaza. How can you call Israel an invading force?
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Do you realize that in both of those cases, investigations were held? In the latter case, there were criminal and civil trials? In the former, soldiers were disciplined and/or discharged (the investigation determined it was an error and not intentional. This can be googled). Does that make a difference to you? It does to me. “Fog of War” incidents happen, in every army and in every war. I think how armies and nations handle it after is important. I see two nations- Ukraine and Israel. Each trying to be independent, each adjacent to an aggressive neighbor that wants to absorb them and will stop at nothing to do so. Each aggressive invader (Putin’s Russia, Hamas) have disdain for the lives of their own citizens and those in the nation they are attacking). Each can be criticized for not meeting desired standards of liberal democracy, but each clearly more free than its neighbor(s). The only difference is that Israel is in a much stronger position of defense, for now. I support both of them in their wars against aggression.
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This is what I think- 1. There was a Jewish minority in the Levant. 2. After the failed Nazi Final Solution, there were a few million Jewish refugees in Europe. Refugees, in that the survivors of the camps had their homes taken from them and no one was giving them back. Many tried to return home, and new, non-Nazi pogroms killed them. (This is why it is so offensive for US collegiate protesters to yell at Israeli speakers, “Go back to Europe!” Those idiot students may not know that police in France and Germany currently warn Jews against being too obviously Jewish - it’s not safe- and they certainly don’t care). 3. In Response to centuries of European anti-Semitism, a Zionist movement arose. Zionism is a movement with a goal of a Jewish state, in the area of the Biblical Israel. After WWII, this sounded like a good idea to surviving Jews, who fled to the Levant, under British control. 4. The Balfour decision, sectarian fighting, massacres and attempted massacres by both sides, and finally a Jewish state of Israel. Jews in neighboring states dropped in population, voluntarily and involuntarily. 5. De-colonization by the British, and the forming of several independent states and kingdoms, most of which, over the next few decades becoming authoritarian Islamic states. 6. Expelled Palestinians became refugees, but with support of co-religionists, refugees that remained extant, with the goal of re-occupying the land now called Israel. 7. The ugly part- Israel is a liberal democracy, and it is a Jewish state. It has Muslim citizens with full citizen rights, with the exception that laws conform with Judaism and not with Islam, if there is ever a conflict. Israelis are keenly aware that if the Muslim population ever outnumbered the Jewish population, Israel will cease to be a Jewish state. To this end, Israel has immigration policies that very much favor Jews. A Jew from anywhere in the world can claim citizenship in Israel, often at Israel’s expense. Other potential immigrants, such as a close relative of a Muslim Israeli citizen, will find it nearly impossible to immigrate to Israel. (18% of Israelis are Muslim). 8. Those Palestinian refugees? Their leaders want them to move back in and reclaim the land where their grandparents and great grandparents lived. (I say “their leaders”, because rank and file Palestinians don’t get to vote on whether they’d like to make a go of it as a separate state(s) in Gaza and West Bank, or emigrate to Egypt or Jordan. They aren’t given those choices.). This is called “the right of return”, and it means allowing descendants of those expelled to move into Israel, as citizens of a new state or some new version of Israel. Because the Palestinian have been kept as refugees, through an informal cooperation of the world’s nations, there is a rough assessment of who and how many this would apply to. 9. Terror and wars aside- this is the big sticking point. Israel believes, right or wrong , that “right of return” is existentially a no-go. That is why the most liberal and amenable Israelis support a two-state solution, some even willing to cede real estate within the ‘73 borders, but are not willing to consider a “right of return”. 10. Palestinian leadership- for over fifty years, the most militant sections of Palestinian society have been well funded by outsiders (at times Russia, at times Saudi, more recently Iran and Qatar) that really have a goal of eliminating the Jewish state. (Ugly side note- top Palestinian leaders get filthy rich) 11. Gaza- Israel, since 1996, has controlled (with varying degrees of cooperation with Egypt, depending upon that nation’s politics at the time) entry of goods into Gaza. They do this because they find a lot of weapons coming into Gaza. 12. Hamas has controlled Gaza for 18 years. Half the Gazan population is under 18, their “education” overseen by Hamas. (Interestingly, a couple of weeks ago, there were minor Gazan protests against Hamas. A teen was nabbed by Hamas, tortured to death, and his body left at his family’s door.) 13. The war, and the cruel loss of innocent life. You know, the IDF has documented the tunnels and weapons of Hamas. Do you think they are lying, that the IDF dug all those tunnels, built all those crude rockets, purchased and stored all those munitions, buying from the same source as the Iranians do, to make Hamas look bad? Hamas stores weapons in Gazan civilians’ homes and has tunnel entrances in the homes of Gazan civilians. Hamas has military HQs in mosques and hospitals (they documented a torture dungeon in a major Gazan hospital). Why does the IDF fire at Red Crescent vehicles? Because Hamas puts militants in them. They actually have a protocol where an emergency aid vehicle has to check in with the IDF before entering an area, or they fire on them. I’m curious- have any of you studied the statistics on loss of life from the Syrian Civil War? I think that if you did, you would have a greater appreciation for the IDF’s approach.
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Oh, I am all ears. In October 7, Hamas, and nearby Gazan civilians, spirited away over 200 Israeli hostages. Please, enlighten me as to what Israel should have done.
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Not really. The only ones happy with the IDF killing civilians are Hamas, and their supporters in Qatar and Iran. Those IDF soldiers don’t want to be in Gaza. The remaining two dozen live hostages really don’t want to be there. If it wasn’t for October 7, they wouldn’t be there. How odd that there is no world pressure on Hamas’ backers.
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Why? There has been subsequent reporting on the story. IDF says that some of the dead were militants. There is a survivor that IDF released. From the reading, it is clear- the IDF will absolutely fire on marked aid trucks in combat zones. Why? Because they have often carried militants. That’s the situation. Were innocent aid workers killed here? Probably. Militants either disguised as aid workers or at least moon lighting as aid workers? Probably.
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I’d like to see a cash flow statement (edited) … and a pic of the sister noted in the post right above.
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