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  1. The people declaring Bill Self was a winner at Oral Roberts and Grant McCasland and Nate Oats were Sweet 16 features at mid-major programs.
  2. By "winner at oral roberts" you mean he went 55-54 in four years. By "winner at tulane" you mean "tulsa" where he was 42-22 in his first two years (a one-and-done in the NCAAs) before making his Elite Eight appearance in his final season. So the difference is he went to two NCAA tournaments in his seven years at non-Power 5 schools while Rodney Terry went to one in his 10 years. But Self at ORU and Tulsa certainly doesn't fill the bill you described for being an elite coach.
  3. It really seemed to me that Schaefer was insisting they work the ball inside for some reason. Maybe to slow the pace of the game and save their legs for Monday/Tuesday? Maybe to draw fouls on their non-athletic centers who -- once saddled with four fouls each -- really became irrelevant and enabled our girls to penetrate and hit short jumpers/layouts? I'm not sure why -- especially when it was Holle's 8-0 run with two threes to start the fourth quarter that finally blew the game open. It was too bad West Virginia couldn't hold on -- the T-Mobile Center was PACKED with Kansas State fans. It's definitely going to be a "road game" tomorrow, especially with Iowa State and OU fans rooting against Texas.
  4. There are 351 NCAA basketball teams. Nobody on your list has done what you claim Rodney Terry should have done at Fresno State and UTEP to earn your praise. ***Brad Underwood cheated at SFA. All three of his NCAA appearances were vacated because they used academically ineligible athletes. ***Grant McCasland made the NCAA Tournament once in six years at UNT, never making it to the Sweet 16. ***Nate Oats was in Buffalo for four years and made the NCAA Tournament twice, never making it to the Sweet 16. ***You can't compare Chris Beard's success at Texas Tech (a Power 5 conference school) to Terry's time at Fresno and UTEP. He had one year at a mid-level D I school (UALR) but didn't make the Sweet 16 there. ***Bill Self was 55-54 in four years at Oral Roberts and 42-22 in his first two years at Tulsa (a one-and-done in the NCAAs) before making his Elite Eight appearance in his final season.
  5. Would he have pulled this off at Fresno State or at UTEP? I mean, you're expecting him to have already done this even though only a handful of programs in the country do, and to have done it with infinitely fewer resources.
  6. Yep... absolutely huge to get out of the 8-9 matchup with the winner playing Houston. Should we beat Kansas State in our opener on Wednesday, we'll face Iowa State in the next round. Big 12 men's basketball tournament schedule Tuesday, March 12: First round Game 1: No. 12 UCF vs. No. 13 Oklahoma State, 11:30 a.m. (Big 12 Now on ESPN+) Game 2: No. 11 Cincinnati vs. No. 14 West Virginia, 2 p.m. (Big 12 Now on ESPN+) Wednesday, March 13: Second round Game 3: No. 5 BYU vs. Game 1 winner, 11:30 a.m. (ESPN/2) Game 4: No. 8 TCU vs. No. 9 Oklahoma, 2 p.m. (Big 12 Now on ESPN+) Game 5: No. 7 Texas vs. No. 10 Kansas State, 6 p.m. (Big 12 Now on ESPN+) Game 6: No. 6 Kansas vs. Game 2 winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN2/U) Thursday, March 14: Quarterfinals Game 7: No. 4 Texas Tech vs. Game 3 winner, 11:30 a.m. (ESPN/2) Game 8: No. 1 Houston vs. Game 4 winner, 2 p.m. (ESPN/2) Game 9: No. 2 Iowa State vs. Game 5 winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN/2) Game 10: No. 3 Baylor vs. Game 6 winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN/2) Friday, March 15: Semifinals Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner, 6 p.m. (ESPN/2) Game 12: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN/2) Saturday, March 16: Championship Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner, 5 p.m. (ESPN)
  7. Not gonna lie…. thus was funny to watch outside the Big XII women’s tournament.
  8. Yes... my layman's attempt at will the pretrial motions be on hold until the appeals court takes a stab at it or will it have to wait for the verdict to come in and get tacked on to the other bajillion issues for the appellate court.
  9. Fulton County Board of Ethics hearing scheduled to review two complaints against the district attorney today has been canceled. https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/fani-willis-complaints-fulton-county-board-of-ethics-meeting-stream/85-de7cc696-bee5-4eb7-8460-36033fd4d4cb
  10. By the time all of this is over, Terrence Bradley will be lucky if he can find a client who will hire him to help fight a parking ticket? Any idea why he would clam up on the stand after telling so many of his fellow attorneys what had happened? Surely he realized they would impeach his testimony. If McAfee doesn’t disqualify them, what are the chances he signs off on a pre-trial appeal of his decision? https://nypost.com/2024/03/05/us-news/evidence-mounts-against-fani-willis-as-new-witness-unearthed/
  11. I never heard her say Cross was paid $250, but apparently that was the case. Floyd, however, was earning $150/hour. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/fani-willis-investigation-attorney-ashleigh-merchant-subpoenaed-by-senate-committee
  12. Frogs up 40-20; UCF up 25-20 on Houston with 3:19 to play in the first.
  13. McAfee has another trial this week. I believe it's for murder, I do declare.
  14. 2. Merchant testified before the state Senate committee today, with evidentiary billing records, that Cross and Floyd were paid $150/hr. Additionally, Wade has billed for $700k while Cross has billed for a total of $100k and Floyd even less than that. 5. Nobody has said anything about bribery. Wade and Willis were a romantic couple in November 2021 when she contracted with him. That type of conflict of interest is ethically barred by any public entity. But that's not even what the debate is about at this point. It's moved on to fraud upon the court and forensic misconduct through church speeches and book deals. Nineteen of the charges being brought against the defendants are for filing false documents with the court. Wade filed false documents in his divorce case. He filed false documents with the Georgia bar as he routed his income from Fulton County into a FOILA. He swore to a false affidavit that Willis then filed with the court. And that doesn't even get into the witness tampering and suborning perjury the latest affidavit citing the conversation overheard by the Cobb County prosecutor. To look at it from afar, one might even call this "racketeering." Willis and Wade should have immediately recused themselves from the prosecution when the conflict of interest was alleged. They knew the truth. They knew they had screwed up. All of this would be a moot point if they had said, "We see how there could be some concern about this potential conflict but the defendants' due process rights have not been violated and to ensure there's no future appearance of a conflict of interest we are turning the case over to an assistant district attorney." There are plenty of people uber-pissed at this duo because what they did was totally reckless and completely unnecessary. This was the one trial that federal claims of immunity couldn't derail. There should have been a six- to eight-week televised trial with The Donald at the defendants' table right between July 4th and Election Day. The media would have loved every second of it, culminating in a conviction by a partisan jury and speculation over whether Trump would be able to manage the free world from the Georgia State Penitentiary system. At this point, everyone's anger should be channeled solely toward the them.
  15. Very important game for Texas tonight when TCU plays at West Virginia (6 o'clock on the super secret Big 12 network.) Texas is 8-9 with a game remaining vs. Oklahoma. Frogs are 8-8 with tonight's game and then hosting UCF. Texas would hold the tiebreaker for the No. 7 seed in KC if they both finish 9-9, but would drop to No. 8 if TCU wins out. ... Personally, I would much rather play Iowa State in the quarterfinals than Houston.
  16. According to testimony in the state Senate committee hearing this morning, there are two other full-time employees in the D.A.'s office assigned exclusively to this case who make $175,000 a year. And the two other (more experienced) special prosecutors -- Floyd and Cross -- on the case have billed for less than $100,000. His use of block billing is also questionable in terms of ethics. Period. She had a pre-existing personal romance/relationship with Nathan Wade when she gave him a contract that would have been worth well over $1 million. It doesn't pass ANY ethical (and possibly legal) standard. That's why they lied and said their relationship started in 2022, though in hindsight they would have been infinitely better off by just admitting what had happened. It almost certainly would have prevented the trial from being delayed. It's OK to think Trump is bad and corrupt AND concede that Fani Willis and Nathan Wade are bad and corrupt. It's OK to be frustrated that the corruption of the latter are going to adversely impact their goal to prosecute the former. But again, if the case is as well-drafted and airtight as those seeking Trump's prosecution believe it to be, then the removal of Willis and Wade to be replaced by other prosecutors from another office shouldn't matter.
  17. But you believe I think I would be a lawyer if I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express?
  18. Disqualifying Wade, Willis and even the Fulton County D.A.’s office doesn’t end the case. if the people of Georgia are deemed by any other district attorney’s office in the state of Georgia to be victims of crimes committed by Trump and his team in the wake of the 2020 election, then they will have the opportunity to pick up the case exactly where it’s being left off. With such a slam dunk case to send the former president and his team to state prison — or at least bog down his campaign for weeks this fall — there should be no shortage of county officials fighting to do for their careers what Willis was doing for hers.
  19. Of course not… it’s not taxpayer money. But Fulton County requires all of its employees to annually report any gift from contractors of more than $100. Willis did receive those — it’s irrelevant that she claims to have provided other gifts of equal value in cash to the contractor. So according to Fulton County, Willis violated its ethics code. As a result, she will be called before the Fulton County Biard of Ethics on Thursday. Would that disqualify her from the case? Not a chance in a million. Once again — had she acknowledged the relationship in full in her response to Merchant’s allegations, including Wade doing so in his affidavit, this would all be over and there’d be a jury selection date. But her response, Wade’s affidavit, Wade’s interrogatories in his divorce case, and their three days of testimony were essentially one big fraud upon the court. That’s a huge ethical breach. And her church speech amounts to jury tampering. That’s why McAfee (or the appellate court) is likely at this stage to disqualify her.
  20. So, who's going to be in Kansas City this weekend? Would love to get together after Saturday's morning session to watch the men play Oklahoma on the big screens in the patio setup across from the T-Mobile Center.
  21. A white jersey vs. a dark jersey. The only thing to be feared is a No. 2 seed in South Carolina's region. I'd feel equally as good about our chances with anyone else in the field.
  22. There was -- at best -- a thin thread of evidence presented to the court that Willis channeling a $650k (would've been $1.25 million by the time the trial was over) to a romantic partner and then reaping the benefits of that contract was a conflict. A very thin thread to argue that there was an individual financial gain to this prosecution. And again, had Willis and Wade acknowledged their relationship preceded his hiring, it would have been something for the county Board of Ethics and, I suppose, the state supervision of county district attorneys, to look into. It certainly wouldn't have derailed the trial as it has. But the issues before the court now have little to anything to do with the timing of the affair. 1) Fraud on the court: They did a tremendously foolish thing by filing a false affidavit, at which point the snowballing effect of three witnesses clearly perjuring themselves in their testimony -- not to mention Willis' behavior which was treated as either "a strong, Black woman speaking truth to power" or "a guilty as hell prosecutor trying to deflect the blame for her professional indiscretions" -- just can't be ignored. 2) Additionally, Willis' church speech in which she told the congregation -- and therefore the media and the jury pool -- that the defendants are racists and that she is doing God's work by prosecuting them -- appears to be a textbook case of tainting the jury pool. (I forget the legal term for it and I did not stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night, nor do I work with that chick from "Suits" who's going to be queen when Charles kicks it.) Which leaves us with Wade should have recused when the motion was filed. Willis should have recused when the motion was filed. Now the best-case scenario for the prosecution is that their ducks are all in a row and a D.A. in another county -- perhaps Chatham (i.e. Savannah) -- takes the case. But it was already facing significant First Amendment challenges and U.S. history (Tiden v. Hayes, Bush v. Gore and the Georgia Three Governors controversy of 1946-47) suggests that on appeal there wouldn't have been much to support it. But the appeal wasn't the endgame. The endgame was a six- to eight-week trial, video of Trump at the defendants' table each day, an endless loop of Jan. 6 video, and the media being able to muse about a presidential candidate being locked up on election night. Not according to the law. Once Merchant presented a sworn motion detailing Willis' and Wade's alleged conflict of interest, he was obligated to solicit a request from Willis and Wade. All they had to do was tell the truth and that would have ended it. But when Merchant said she had witnesses who would impeach the credibility of the pair, then the can of worms was completely opened.
  23. Can you imagine how pissed they must be in the White House right now? They sent Jeff Desantis -- an expert in this type of prosecution -- down to Atlanta to write the indictment, choose the grand jury and prop up Fani to be the face of the community. He even helped her burn the midnight oil to announce the indictment late at night after Hunter's plea deal blew up. Everything was in place -- a state case that Trump couldn't pardon himself from in a state where the governor doesn't have the power to pardon. Claims of immunity from a federal court wouldn't apply, either. All she had to do was set a court date and bingo, bango, bongo -- a six- to eight-week trial giving the media a chance to run Jan. 6 footage on a loop, remind everyone nightly of the insurrection, and allow the media to speculate whether The Donald would be watching election results from inside the Fulton County Jail or, even better, state prison. All she had to do was NOT HIRE HER BOYFRIEND or at least NOT LIE ABOUT IT when she was caught. If she files a simple affidavit in January that says, "Yep, Nathan and I have been knocking boots since November 2019. How has this impacted anyone's due process?" then the answer is "It hasn't" and a trial date for late summer/early fall is set and the next step is jury selection. Instead, they concoct a half-ass lie about March 2022 and paying cash and did everything they could to tell as many lies as they could before the court. Did they seriously know -- as prosecutors of criminal crimes -- that cell phone data can't track the time and location of people? Did they seriously think there were zero people in the world who knew they were romantically involved as soon as they met in November 2019? Did they seriously think they'd never 1) pissed off people who would talk or 2) come across an officer of the court who would tell the truth no matter the consequences? (i.e. being blackballed from the close-knit fraternity/sorority of Black attorneys in Atlanta.) The latest report is witness intimidation of Bradley being witnessed by the Cobb County District Attorney. Even if McAfee rules against the defendants and doesn't disqualify Wade, Willis and the Fulton County DA's office, there's enough evidence in place for an appeal and this DA and the waiter who saw Wade, Bradley and Wade's lawyer at dinner last month will be called to testify. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13156883/Fani-Willis-warned-Nathan-Wades-divorce-lawyer-stay-quiet-affair-bombshell-new-court-filing-claims-Trump-prosecutor-case-gets-twist-NEW-witness-deliver-devastating-testimony.html As for the public flogging, it continues Thursday at 9 a.m. Central before the Fulton County Board of Ethics. It will be livestreamed -- this latest episode of the unnecessary soap opera will be over in two hours, which ironically leads into "The Young and the Restless."
  24. Or, you know, not have our second-best player get sick and then injured.
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