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just goes to show you how many people on this board/in this state have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to basketball

doesnt sound like a guy who is looking to leave. But what do I know?

This move is an example of how much faster this defense will be looking to be.

Your namesake says hi:

Since 98? they weren't even in the top 60 teams in the country. This fan base has severely over rated this team, they are not that good. That is the fact people need to start dealing with.

tucker carlson?

Weird. His ability to do skilled work was completely separate from what he did in other parts of his life. It's like human beings are diverse and complex. /s

Is that what this is all about? Because they're real people, whether you agree with them being here or not.

Hired the 5 star St louis kids HS coach. I would guess that this plays out a little like Kansas did last year. They hired a big time Lousiana HS coach and were rolling in some big recruits early. Then the season starts and you lose horribly every game and recruits starts looking elsewhere. Hey. Now that I typed that it reminds me of us last year too.

What impresses me is that Bill Moos, according to the story, took two months of listening to what people had to say before he made any changes. So often, CEOs (that's really what Moos is) make changes in their respective organizations and they never once ask those "on the ground" what they think of the changes. As an anecdotal example: where I work the CEO wanted to give a certain company preference ahead of all the other companies we do business with because of the amount of money they spent. Seems logical right? Take care of your best customer? Problem was, by prioritizing a certain company, all other orders had to wait until that particular company was taken care of. Orders went from being fulfilled at roughly 92% on time metric to less than 75% and the majority of our other customers started complaining also. So, after 6 months, we went back to just filling orders as they came in. All of this could have easily been avoided if the "big brain" would have just asked us nobodies who do 99% of the heavy lifting what we thought. Terrific leaders make the best decisions when they start asking for feedback from the ground up. Bill Moos seems like he's that kind of leader. Talk to the people first who will be the most affected by the decision/change. Sometimes what seems like a good idea in theory or on paper doesn't work in reality.

I really think it's gonna be Martinez. Do throw a poll up btw. I just feel like the way coaches are talking, the kind of year it's going to be...there's going to be a lot of opportunity and the new guy will be thirsty for it. I have no dog in this fight, though. It's an interesting offseason for the QB room!

Well you see Bruce, we had a Q1 win that you SAID you would look at as a Q1 win when we beat Minnesota. I don't understand how Nebraska should be punished for a season-long injury and a rape accusation on a team we beat, but hey. So you win all the games you're supposed to... Nebraska could have beat Illinois, the committee wouldn't have cared. Nebraska could have beat Penn St., the committee wouldn't have cared. They sure as hell wouldn't have cared about UCF or St. John's. Nebraska could have gone 26-6 (15-3) and the committee wouldn't have cared because we couldn't beat 5 teams that are a five seed or better. And we DID beat one of those teams!

Big 12 and SEC both overrated IMO. Elevated a lot of crappy teams

I don’t think we were that close that one team did us in. Weak SOS and only 1 quality win screwed us. The late loss to Illinois pushed us down too

Probably gonna have to go back further than Davidson.

You're just ignorant.

This is flat-out bigotry.

So this must be the part where we make excuses for how bad Lovie has been in his first few years and point to the "better" recruiting as proof that he needs more time, right?

Not with the good, uh, supplements.

Casting a broad net over illegals as lawless felons is the exact bs I'm talking about that makes it hard to even start the conversation. Again, the FACTS are illegal immagrants commit felonies and crimes that "hurt real people" (violence, sexual assualt, drugs, what have you) at a lesser rate than citizens and thats even if you break that down into ethnicity. And it makes sense, most illegal immagrants aren't looking to cause trouble and end up back where they started. People try to come here legally but the fact of that matter is it is very difficult to come here legally in a timely manner without a large sum of money. People don't have time to wait around in these places people are coming from. Alot of times, "illegals" were also once here legally but their visa has expired. Alot of these people are highly skilled contributors to our society. Alot of people who just came here for better opportunity are good hard working contributors to our society. Its a more complex issue than well they are all criminals get them the hell out.

I always get a kick when white, descendants of Europeans complain about illegal immigration

this topic and the fact that Riley is the poster boy for lack of accountability, is the reason he was, and will always be a loser- maybe a nice guy, but like Callahan and Jennings before him a loser. But most of us knew that when he was hired. It was all there for everyone to see: his win-loss record, his body language, his choices of assistant coaches, etc etc Frost, on the other hand..... the first thing that comes to mind, and this did when I saw his PC when he accepted the UCF job, is winner. At the time, I was thinking, how on earth did UCF get a guy like Frost and we ended up with a retread like Riley?

It is all good. They all get us sometimes.

The cupcakes may be needed next year to increase the season win total though.

I'm really hoping this dude doesn't think that's a "Donte Williams thing" lol

No....just no

Sounds like men need to stop being lazy and pick themselves up by the bootstraps

I think it's pretty obvious that the only thing that matters is wins over good teams. They just as well schedule ten difficult teams in the non conference. Win 3-4 of those and then get somewhat close to .500 in conference and that seems to be enough to get in

as stated before, we are blessed with your presence and knowledge

If you really want in the big dance, don't leave it up to the suits. Our schedule kinda bit us in the ass but we didn't win the big ones when we had the opportunities. Hopefully we can win the NIT. Would be a nice springboard for next season.

I'm all about disagreement here. But if you mock Ric Flair again, so help me, I see a Figure Four Leglock in your future. :-)

I’m taking Arizona State, Baylor and Nebraska if it’s my pick.

Updated after Rhode Island's loss.

We have very different interpretations of where the country is at. Here's mine, for comparison: 1. The economy is doing pretty much what it's been doing for some time now. The stock market is doing very well, of which the tax bill probably played a decent part, but growth in company wealth isn't the only marker of the health of an economy. Those stock buybacks aren't going to last forever. Trump doesn't really seem to have any other economic plans besides his maybe-tariffs & complaining about trade deals. 2. See unemployment graph, but yes, unemployment continues to decrease at roughly the same clip it has been. Even the U-6 unemployment that economic geniuses like Trump loved to point to try to shame Obama has had virtually no course correction. 3. Wage growth rate for workers has seen virtually no improvement under Trump & the wage gap has worsened. 4. I don't know how to quantify minorities doing better or American confidence being restored. Those are subjective statements, and if you feel that way, well, good. 5. I don't know how you measure what's going on with ISIS either. They've been largely driven out of Iraq & Syria, sure. But the human cost of essentially leveling entire cities and aggressive bombing campaigns remains, and I'm not really aware of some master plan Trump has to make sure some new group doesn't spring up in the power vacuum that's left to prevent the cycle from repeating. Carrying out massive military campaigns with sustained bombing that destroys other countries and then up & leaving are a big part of the reason that part of the world largely dislikes us in the first place. 6. North Korea hasn't been forced to the table, they're gleefully running to the table. No past American president would meet with them and given them what they badly wanted: legitimacy. But Trump just can't help his aching desire to the be the center of attention, so he's going to be the first. He's going to go over there, unprepared and winging it, try to put on a good show, and NoKo will predictably come tantalizingly close but ultimately refuse to dismantle their weapons. Because why would they? As soon as they do lose any bargaining power they do have. I'm sure they'll squeeze some concessions out of Trump anyway though, because he's mostly an ignorant rube. 7. Again, whether enemies fear us or not is subjective. I certainly feel they don't. I think they're laughing at us openly because our president is too vain and too much of a coward to fight the battles that need fighting, like formulating a real plan to counter China or saving our democracy from his puppetmaster in Moscow. 8. If you're happy with Trump, fine. I mean lots of people are. But you could just ignore him, like the stock market mostly does. For instance, they didn't really react to these tariffs at all. They've basically decided that Trump is mostly a loudmouth on Twitter without the courage of his convictions. So he can ramble about things the stock market wouldn't like all day, but if he never actually does anything about them, they can just ignore him. Just give us our tax cuts and stay out of our way. But you shouldn't ignore him. Because his words still matter for the future of our country. Even if he doesn't act on them, he's badly damaging the standards of behavior we expect from our leaders. He's openly hostile to democratic norms in the same way Putin or Duterte or Assad or Erdogan or any other two-bit tinpot dictator is. I just hope the bar for our most basic expectations for presidential behavior hasn't been permanently lowered by the embarrassment currently rarely occupying in the West Wing between trips to his golf courses.

Unemployment continues at the same downward trend it has since 2010: North Korea has wanted a US President to come to the table for decades: Trump isn't the first US President to get a North Korean invite. But he's the first to accept. And what enemy now fears us again? North Korea is getting what they want. Russia is cozy with the Trump administration. China doesn't fear the US. Trump isn't doing better than Obama in any of those categories. It's lovely-sounding rhetoric, but it isn't true.

The economy is booming, unemployment is plummeting, minorities are doing better than ever, and American confidence in America has been restored. ISIS has been defeated, North Korea has been forced to the bargaining table, and our enemies fear us once again. Remind me again why I should care what Trump tweets when he’s so clearly doing such a better job than Obama?

Renewables, particularly PV, are becoming so low in cost that fossil fuels will be forced out of the market. The real barrier right now is energy storage, and companies like Tesla are already producing batteries that are economically competitive with current power production, especially when considering ramping costs. I've posted this in one of these threads before, but here's Lazard's Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis from Nov. 2017: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lazard.com%2Fmedia%2F450337%2Flazard-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-110.pdf This is an in-depth analysis of different means of producing power that looks at unsubsidized renewables vs conventional power. The basic summary is that only gas combined cycle power plants ($42-$78/MWh) can compete with utility scale PV ($43-$53/MWh) and wind ($30-$60/MWh) when looking at direct power production, and PV costs are still falling. But the holy grail of renewables is with energy storage, which is now highly competitive at $82/MWh for PV, and both PV and battery costs are falling.

We have. This is what net illegal immigration from Mexico looks like: The problem is a lot of people decided to take Trump's lead and bitch about NAFTA now like we're somehow getting a raw deal. This presents a cognitive dissonance problem for hardcore Trumpers. They want to kick illegals out of the country ASAP, but they've also decided NAFTA is bad and we have to hatchet something that was instrumental in causing the shift in immigration illustrated above... because it's suddenly not good enough for us. You can't really have it both ways. Unless you're OK with basically an authoritarian state that rounds up millions for deportation & goes around poking allies in the eye because you've been convinced by an ignorant charlatan at the head of the table that globalists (i.e., Jews), unfair trade deals and trade deficits are the cause of all our ills. If you're OK with the U.S. becoming that type of country, well, you're going to have to go through myself and other like-minded people that just aren't going to let it happen.

Lmao that won’t last

York just won state championships in basketball

At least he put the Corn emoji on there.

If I were a Vikings fan I'd be pissed at the thought of replacing Keenum with Cousins. If that happens whoever lands Keenum will have a top NFL QB on their hands imo.

I completely get the "Nothing's Free" part, but if I subscribe to the paper or pick it up at the newsstand I should get the same content I would get online except videos and some pictures.

I would watch the sh#t out of some Husker hockey