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  1. 1 hour ago, shadow_operative said:

    the abject rage, and combativeness, and lack of knowledge from htown or utgrad97 or whatever his name is never gets any less grating to deal with. christ on a cracker that shit is old.

    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. 2 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    because bill self was a winner at oral roberts, tulane, and illinois before becoming one of the truly elite coaches in the sport, while RT, at the same stages in his career, was either an assistant coach, or a mediocre HC who couldn’t take the programs he where he was hired and turn them into a program that wins games. and mostly because you clowns keep making the most asinine excuses as to why his 28 year resume pre-Beard being fired doesn’t matter.

    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. 

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  3. 19 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

    We don't have enough women willing to shoot. Almost like they're playing scared. Maybe Booker, Moore and Jones can get us over the hump. 

    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. 

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  4. 11 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    how many times has this been addressed? the answer is yes, yes he would have. that is literally what good coaches do. brad underwood won at SFA; grant mcasland won at UNT; nate oats won at buffalo; chris beard won at UALR and took TTU to the EE and FF in his second and third seasons there; bill self won at oral robert’s and tulane. these are all just very obvious examples that i came up with in 5 seconds off the top of my head. YES. yes rodney terry would have done better in his decade as a HC if were truly a high level coach. stop making this argument, it’s asinine.

    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. 

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    the thing is, if RT was an elite coach he would have done all of that by now, at other schools.

    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. 4 hours ago, KingBobo81 said:

    TCU goes down…I believe that bumps us up to 7th for the conference tourney.

    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. On 2/25/2024 at 12:53 AM, Reality Check said:

    We're on track for 20 wins and a No. 8-10 seed in the NCAA Tournament in a rebuilding year that's further been saddled with Kadin Shedrick's injury That means we're getting fewer than 18 minutes per game from one of our only two players over 6-6.

    Even money says we get to 20 wins in the regular season. But people will still bitch when we lose to Houston in Kansas City and to UConn or Purdue in the Round of 32.

    This.

  8. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I assume certifies the ruling for interlocutory appeal. 

    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. 

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  9. 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?

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    A new witness says she could testify that Fani Willis’ relationship with Nathan Wade dates back to 2019 — and that he even had a garage door opener for their alleged love nest, according to a new court filing. 

    Willis and Wade “definitely” had a romantic relationship during the time Willis was running for DA in 2019 through 2020, Wade’s loose-lipped former business partner and one-time attorney Terrence Bradley spilled to lawyer Manny Arora.

    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/

     

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  10. 52 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    Again you are wrong.  I am not sure why you are intentionally and repeatedly lying about this point but you are.  I even linked the video for you and gave you the time stamp of her comments.  Look again.

    At 2:50 she states unequivocally that Cross was paid $250/hr “the same as Wade”.  She then explains that her bills were lower and at 6:30 explains why.  “Wade was a case manager and was always prsent at the  office working according to office staff.  The other 2 prosecutors were barely seen”.  Stop trying to make the 700k (over 2 years!) and 100k pay difference some kind of nefarious point when the explanation is crystal clear.  HE WORKED MORE HOURS THAN THE OTHER 2”

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    10:01 a.m.: They are now discussing the other special counsel members assigned to the election case. Merchant is giving information on John Floyd and Anna Cross. Merchant says the hiring of Floyd and Cross makes sense to her. Merchant is asked if she reviewed how much they were paid. Merchant says yes and there was a stark contrast. Floyd was paid $150 an hour and he provided itemized invoices. Cross was paid $250 an hour and also provided itemized invoices.

    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

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  11. 3 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

    2.  Wade was paid $250/hr.  This is the exact SAME rate as special prosecutor Cross that you mention above.  Wade billed more cause he worked more hours on this case. (2:50 on linked video).  

    5.  So in conclusion-  You work more, you make more even if your pay rate is the same.  You earn more you have more to spend.  If you spend your earned money on your girlfriend, that is not necessarily a "bribe".  Even if you "bribe" your girlfriend, that doesn't mean your opponents client is getting a unfair trial and that you should be disqualified. 

     

    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.

     

     

     



     

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  12. 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. 

     

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    Comparing a government employee's salary to the fair market price for contracting a private practice law firm to handle a high profile case is absolutely  ridiculous.   This is before even discussing the fact that most private practice firms are gonna steer very clear from trying a former president, especially one who's follows issue death threats like Halloween candy.  Unless you can show that there were other comparable firms willing to take on this case for less, then yes 700k is reasonable to probably low market rate for the job.

    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. 

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    Was she stupid to do this in such a high profile situation?   Yes.

    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.

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  14. 1 hour ago, jdhorn92 said:

    You were doing so well and I agree with all of it, until this part....her husband is a long way down the line and the part about bailing on the Royal Family Inc.  Harvey, Mike and Louis have as good of odds  at King as she does Queen.

    But you believe I think I would be a lawyer if I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express?

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  15. 14 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I'm fucking sick and tired of watching this Cheeto Benito skirt on fucking every charge he fucking faces and successfully throw sand in the gear of EVERY legal proceeding he's ever been involved in. This fucking fishing expedition should have never started in the first place - it was only allowed because the judge is scared of appeals from trump and so is giving FAR more leniency and space to play fuck fuck games than he would ANY other defendant. 

    I'm also fucking sick and tired of the army of useful idiots amplifying the message of "DA IS CORRUPT!!!" when it has fuck all to do with the facts of CRIMINAL ACTS that are documented and alleged.

    It's people that are desperate for something, ANY reason to turn off their critical thinking. It's just the dumbest shit when people decide to go ungabunga and fixate on a detail that doesn't make a difference to the core of the grievance.

     

    Said another way, trump gets to fuck up over and over and over and over and it's in fact his strength that he's so fucky. When the prosecution makes a mistake - that again has nothing to do with the criminality - it's all of a sudden the end of the fucking world (if you're a redhat) and it means that we have to let trump grab justice by the pussy. It's just fundamentally unbalanced and we keep fucking doing it over and over like things will be different the next time. 

    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.

     

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  16. 44 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    The guy who hired me to my current position has subsequently become a pretty good friend and are now equal partners in our medical private practice business.  Our wives are also friends and we occasionally go out to dinner and even vacation together.  I pay for dinner and entertainment sometimes, and sometimes they do.  Our kids are also friends and sometimes his kids are always at my house eating our food, using our wifi and electricity with my kids.   I'm just wondering, are we violating  some code of ethics here?  Can our joint patients sue us for conflict of interest since he had hiring discretion over my employment in the past?   I was fully qualified for the position and was paid fair market rate.  I am just really confused about when my earned income becomes mine and I can spend it how I wish to spend it?   All this pearl clutching over someone spending their earned income as they see fit and under no apparent coercion is making me feel so unethical.

    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.

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  17. 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I have admittedly paid only slight attention to this clown show, but I'll ask the same question that Lovett on the POD asked:

    What is the conflict of interest here?  They are both on the same team.  If it were Willis sleeping with a member of the jury, or the judge, or the defense, then ok sure, conflict of interest.  What am I missing?

    It seems to me, the dotard klan is conflating "conflict of interest" with "WITCH HUNT!"

    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. 

    5 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Counter point: the judge should have never allowed this boondoggle of a fishing expedition for all the reasons above. 

    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. 

     

     

     

     

     

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  18. 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."

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