Al_4_ISU

Guys who are already making generational wealth don’t see the point in making money they’ll never spend just for the privilege of dealing with psychotic fanbases.

You guys are trying to literally eat one of your own here, but the guy can coach. BYU was an absolute fucking headache under him.

More and more coaches seem to be passing up on the highest dollar when it comes with a whole bunch of bullshit.

Well, except he doesn’t have to take the Kentucky job. That would be so god damn funny.

McCasland isn't openly fighting with his administration, and didn't just drop a steamer of a season while showing his crazy ass to the world for weeks on end. He very well might be looking to go back, but I think Tang has more incentive to leave his current situation.

I'd have to think that Tang would jump quickly to go back to Waco.

I always go into traffic while on foot. Never understood people who don't. It's a little bit like how I shake my head when I see people cycling the hilly, narrow country roads in my area. I'm an AVID cyclist, but we have tons of paved trails, and the risk of getting hit on these roads is so high due to their construction and the local geography that I just can't relate to people who eschew the safety of the trail just to mix up the scenery a little bit.

I thought seasons 9-11 were pretty much on par with the rest of the series. But I watched seasons 1-6 in essentially one month long binge in 2008, and then saw the remainder of the series as it became available. Ive rewatched most of it over the years, and I think 8 is my favorite, 12 is my least favorite, and the rest are pretty even.

Counterpoint: he made Wildflowers after FMF. Up through "Highway Companion" he was regularly dropping top shelf shit. I won't even include FMF, and here's 10 songs that can rival anyone: Learning To Fly Wildflowers You Don't Know How It Feels Last Dance With Mary Jane Walls Down South Room At the Top Scare Easy Kings Highway Flirtin' With Time

Saw him in Omaha on my 25th birthday. Drive-By Truckers opened. It was an absolute dream bill and an amazing show.

Being 38 doesn't really seem like being young, but I'm like the last era of humans to get into message boards, too.

I can't remember not loving Tom Petty. When I was in pre-school ('89-'90) Full Moon Fever had just come out, my Dad was wearing it out on the tape deck in the car, and one day in class when the teachers asked us to sing nursery rhymes, I claimed I didn't know any and instead sang "Free Fallin'" which lead to my mom getting a fairly stern scolding from the teacher. Loving Tom Petty's music has been a part of my very literal entire consciousness, so it's very hard for me to to wrap my head around someone hating it, or even mildly disliking it.

The last season had some very weak episodes, but the finale was absolutely well executed. Susie trying to play Larry's crippled girlfriend cracked me up, and then of course her final tirade in the courthouse when she found out that Jeff obtained the dressing recipe fraudulently. One final "YOU FAT FUCK" made my day. Cheryl considering her dislike of Mexican food to be some personal, confidential secret and Ted berating Larry "it's not your story to tell" was such a quintessential "Larry David does something completely reasonable and gets absolutely castigated" moment. The call backs weren't so excessive in number to feel like a glorified clip show. They clearly took the lessons of Seinfeld and avoided that ending, which made the meta-ness of "No Lessons Learned" that much better. All good things come to an end, and having 21 combined seasons of Seinfeld and Curb is a lifetime of rewatchable entertainment. Thanks LD. Thanks for everything. It had to be Susie, right?

I don't think he has anything to prove, and say what you will about Baylor and Waco, but he has a lifetime contract there. He won't get that treatment in Lexington. I think we're starting to see more and coaches realize that there's a point of diminishing returns with these monster salaries and making $4M/year with job security and reasonable expectations is better than making $8M and dealing with fucking lunatics that demand you win a natty every year.

I'm this way but with "Harmony Hall"

I just don't see Drew leaving Baylor at this point. He's had to have had opportunities like Kentucky in the past and turned them down.

If he hates Iowa, he REALLY hates ISU

National nightmare avoided

All my rivals gotta be this we way. (Fuck, we are too)

Dawn Staley looks like a black version of Susie from Curb Your Enthusiasm. I can just hear her screaming “JEFF YOU FAT FUCK”

Are we the same person? I bought my first new wallet since the Bush administration last week, and my wife has accumulated at least 100 purses in that time frame.

Right, but how much of those good feelings are due to their continued beneficiary status? If Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and the SEC powers broke off to form Prestige Worldwide, I guarantee that Northwestern and Mississippi State would feel the same way about those blue bloods that the I8 feel about Texas. I live among and am close friends with many Iowa fans. They absolutely hate Ohio State and Michigan despite the financial security afforded them due to their association. Every big dog is hated by whoever is below them in the pecking order. Texas didn't leave the Big 12/USC didn't leave the Pac 12 because of how the other schools viewed them. They left because of concerns that they wouldn't be able to compete at the top level without the financial benefit of being in the SEC or Big 10. In the NIL world, you have to maximize your revenue to compete at the highest level, and they all made extremely rational choices to that end. Same as the schools that left the Pac 12 for the Big 12. The conference model has been the source of a lot of that resentment, IMO. Eliminating that would go a long ways in changing those dynamics.

But you have to remember that villainization was done in the context of the conference system, where "Texas's greed" was an existential threat to these schools being part of major college sports. If Texas wanted more money and left the conference, they were in a position to possibly be de facto relegated. That existential fear/threat can create a whole lot of animosity among the threatened. This is basic human nature. With that threat removed, I strongly doubt that there will be much give a shit about schools with better ratings getting bigger checks. That sentiment might still exist among some, but so what? They can't do anything to cause negative repercussions to Texas. They can't use conference refs to call bad penalties. They can't use conference rules and votes to keep you out of a championship game. Any avenue for their pettiness to result in some kind of tangible negative has been removed in the proposed conference-less system.

But those schools can't really do anything to Texas in this model either. That's part of the genius of getting away from conferences. As a fan of a smaller brand school that's historically been part of the bigger leagues, I can say that most of us don't have a problem with schools like Texas, Ohio State, etc making more money than we do. They have more fans, draw bigger ratings, etc. Is this not America? Are we not a capitalist society? What pisses us off is schools that aren't any different than us getting massive pay days and being part of the club because they hooked up with the oddly benevolent financial juggernauts 150 years ago. It's Purdue, Northwestern, Indiana, Mississippi State, etc getting to roll around in piles of cash that were generated by others that chaps our ass.

Does Chris Beard? I've only been there for recreation, but that part of Arkansas seems pretty progressive and quite different from the rest of the state. It certainly can't be worse than Mississippi right? EDIT: Realized you're talking about Musselman. And Beard has of course already lived in Arkansas.