Posts made by approxinfinity

@Marco With his size and stroke Dick seems like a good fit at the 3. If you see Self putting Dick in at multiple positions, I think it will be bad news.

@Marco not to mention that Brad Stevens got to be Celtics coach through his performance at Butler. Self took Tulsa to Elite 8 before getting on at Illinois, etc. This would change the landscape of how coaches build resumes dramatically, making it much less organic.

Not a fan at all. Seems selfish and myopic.

@jayballer67 he’s not the 25th highest recruit in history right?

The silver lining of this is Bob Huggins gets to unleash hell on Cincinnati hopefully at least twice a year.

@BeddieKU23 with BYU and Cinci in the north division will mean this time the north is better than the south? Or at least even? Don’t think we make the Orange bowl with mangino if we were in the South.

So it’s a done deal that UCF, Cincinnati, BYU and Houston will join B12?

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32432496/six-schools-officially-apply-join-american-athletic-conference

Man wow since Sept 10. I really must have tuned out. Coming out of hibernation for the Winter I guess.

@Crimsonorblue22 thats fantastic

@Marco History is against you

I predict that Dave will get injured and Mitch will start at some point in the season, hopefully for a short spell.

I would rather see Dajuan get it. He has stepped up in big moments and deserves it.

@focojayhawk thought mckinnie and a Robinson looked sloppy and I didn’t like the Steffan over Turner call. Thought Weah deserved the start and didn’t understand why Arriola was playing forward anyway, when they said he was a late scratch replaced by Weah. Glad that happened as we neeeed Weah. Glad Zardes didn’t get on til stoppage time. Team played well, really liked what Adams, Aaronson, Dest and Weah provided

I don’t think he can guard at the D1 level. Having a big whose only use is to shoot threes is incongruous with every bone in Bills body and he will only see floor when games are total blowouts either way.

Mitch will be the real backup 5 in meaningful minutes with maybe one of the freshmen getting a little run when Self is sick of Mitch

Dest looks much better tonight. That strike was money

I watched but didn’t really watch last nights loss. Long weekend of soccer, and I was ready to turn off my brain when I got home. Anyone have some insights?

@jayballer67 best SEC game of the day?

I don’t think the good players drink much. Tom Brady talking about avocado tequila is a ruse.

I don’t think most players drink a lot, coaches a good number. But when you are driven to win, I think you realize alcohol is an obstruction. At least in excess.

@focojayhawk agree that Pepi has a knack in the box and > Sargent . I liked the guys we rolled with, only minor complaints are Dest and Zardes. Zardes was ineffective as usual and Dest looked sloppy save his huge assist to break the tie. Hope we stay consistent with this group plus the missing stars.

Solid second half.

Wow nice run Weah

Weah looking electric off the bench

Dest back to bumbling around with the ball and lead foot first touches. Maybe we should have subbed him after the assist

Insurance! Nice

Ok! I’m behind you! Pepi! And I can stop talking smack about Dest now. Nice delivery. Totally redeemed all his bad touches with that beautiful chip

The plan is an inverted weave: diagonal back passes as we work for the zero zero draw

Kellen Acosta should be in the game. Need his deep ball threat

Turner was ready for that. Nice strike by Jamaica

For real.

Dest is looking bad again.

Turner with the start. Did he win the starting GK role?

I like saying Miles Robinson like Nandor says “Colin Robinson” in What We Do In the Shadows

Oooh I’m scared! Let’s go!

No Pulisic. No Reyna. Need something from Aaronsen and McKinnie

I think we have a nice pipeline of offensive players. We looked good offensively without Pulisic in that game he went out. Granted it wasn’t a good opponent but we looked balanced. These kids are ready to step up when the offensive leaders aren’t present.

@focojayhawk IMO the biggest problems we have are on The defensive third. Brooks and Ream are too old and slow. Dest hasn’t played up to his potential recently. The robinsons have been good, I think. McKenzie has had problems. Zimmerman and Cannon I think have been decent.

A friend recommended this podcast about the 1998 USMNT : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/american-fiasco/id1389231303

I haven’t listened yet, because he recommended another book that I’m currently listening to which has been very good thus far:

Masters of Modern Soccer by Grant Wahl, narrated by Grant Wahl: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B07CBB873S&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006

The first few chapter is an extended interview with Pulisic

@Marco Richard Branson was great.

I think I’m just complaining. Don’t mind me. There are only a few subjects that interest me at the moment. Space exploration, Chelsea, USMNT and soccer strategy.

I used to care about whether people were virtuous. Then we lived through Donald Trump and are slogging through COVID. Clearly, there are a good number of people who lack basic virtues. Don’t need to look to Florida for a beacon of crazy!

I mean it’s fine to talk about it, I just don’t see any point in deriving whether he’s a good or bad person. At the end of the day, what does that matter unless you’re a Jacksonville Jaguar fan? I assume those exist.

I won’t attempt to justify this guy’s vices, but I don’t see this as being the news that people should care about. Seems like a distraction from real problems. If you want to go after bad behavior that actually is f***ing everyone else on this planet and not just this girl at a bar, there are plenty of people doing just that. It’s not like this guy is the president of the United States. He’s a head coach of America’s greatest gladiatorial sport. It’s ok to bash each other’s brains in, but not engage in extra marital affairs? Seriously, I don’t care at all whether Urban Meyers off the clock activities are virtuous.

@Crimsonorblue22 thanks! Love Dajuan in transition even if it wasn’t full speed, his timing on those passes was perfect.

Also JCL was 43% or something from 3 last year at ISU with volume. Glad to hear he’s ready to do that again. Huge.

The kid is smart (Harris) and has the “it” factor. Tough and steps up to challenges. I’m not surprised. Glad to hear he’s taken a leap forward.

@FarmerJayhawk enjoying your takes!

The last few years have destroyed what little social consciousness this country had. We have entered an era of insular hyper individualism, feeling disconnected from the whole.

Maybe it was all a grand facade that has been shattered, that our common man was never so noble as we hoped him to be. Maybe this is a capitalist end game where giant monopolies greedily gobble up everything while we turn inward and ignore the changing economic landscape. Maybe what will seem like an eternity will just be half a lifetime and we will find what unites us again.

I expect college basketball to haunt me with echoes of yesteryears, and I hope that I can find beauty contained in the 94 by 50 that cannot be defiled still.

@BShark ooooo! I’m ready for that!

I haven’t pulled the stats to see how many unique visitors we have. I’m sure its down a little, but we will see come bball season. We may want to try to pull some new voices in. I haven’t had much success in my limited attempts. We’ve lost a few of our more outspoken members. Are numbers down on other sports chat boards too?

“It was a blessing. It’s been a minute,” a chuckling Locklin said after the game. “But I owe that to my line and my receivers for making big blocks for me.”

Spreading the love = playing hard for each other. Good stuff.

@Kcmatt7 we were up by 6 at halftime with a legit chance to win

Give Kenny Logan Jr a break! He made that split second decision while concussed!

Half our team seemed to get banged up this game.