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  1. And haphazardly assists the Germans in their evil schemes.
  2. Love me some Italian pils. (I have no god damn clue what the difference is)
  3. Black Stack French Pils
  4. I remember Bowman and Purdy playing in their respective freshmen years and the announcers billing it as a battle of freshman phenoms. It was a pretty tight game that we pulled out and I remember in the next offseason there was a Bowman vs. Purdy debate on a lot of Big 12 pods. Think that one got settled.
  5. Kevin Warren? But to your point, teams 20-40 are essentially the same as teams 40-60 in terms of profile and viewership. 20-60 are more alike than 20-40 are like 1-20. You lose a lot of viewers if you just cut out 20 schools that actually care.
  6. If there’s a super league it will be about 60 schools and everyone in it will have 50K + stadiums
  7. Someone had photoshopped "Football" over "Soccer" on that graphic yesterday and I about rolled off my chair before I realized it had been altered.
  8. It's like ESPN's constant divestment of talent has tangible consequences.
  9. I generally agree with your point, I'm just pointing that his best season (which accounts for 25% of his tenure as a head coach at this point) beats a ton of active coaches, including a lot of the dudes ahead of him on that list. And it's only 3 seasons ago, so there's gonna be some recency bias. I think Baylor's a bottom 1/3rd (of the Big 12) team this year and he's back to being a DC next year.
  10. He's 2 years removed from a conference title. Kirk Ferentz, for example, has never won an outright conference title.
  11. Casey’s pizza is all they have going for them at this point, and you’re never more than 15 miles from one. Legitimately decent, but it used to be great. Some mom and pop gas stations have good pizza too.
  12. I'm an old Millenial who was on the school bus for 90 minutes a day between '92-'95 and we couldn't escape that shit either.
  13. The Gin Blossoms had some excellent Paul Westerberg rip offs.
  14. They sold out to Maverick from Utah. Kum & Go's will be gone soon. Plus, they were fairly inconsistent in their locations and layouts. Tons in central Iowa, but almost none in the far northern part of the state (where I live). It's all Kwik Trip/Star and Casey's, or mom and pop type joints. The occasional Love's at a busy interchange too.
  15. To follow up on this again, I have seen far less Trump shit than the last two cycles. He'll still carry these counties (as well as our neighboring rural MN and WI counties), but enthusiasm and momentum for him seems to be waning. There's even a giant "KAMALA HARRIS" flag right off the main highway through my town, next to the Kwik Star (if you know the Upper Midwest, you know that this is basically the busiest spot in any small town). While it's every bit as cringey as a Trump flag, it feels like a meaningful data point towards a general sense of Trump fatigue.
  16. Intensely emotional songs that resonate specifically with older Gen Z kids. I definitely prefer Sturgill, but I get his popularity.
  17. Hard to tell. People have aggressively avoided talking politics this cycle and there are very few candidate signs up, period. I don’t think he’s peeling any Trumpers, but Walz is exactly the kind of guy that would have swept Iowa 15 years ago.
  18. Fastest Horse In Town fucking rips
  19. Yeah, I think OSU is a good squad, I just think if they and ISU play 10 times, no one is winning more than 6 games. The programs are in very similar places right now.
  20. It doesn't need to. ISU actually beat OSU last year and both squads return basically everyone. It was just another data point, as OSU had a (by one game) better conference record than ISU (OSU played a weaker conference slate, dodging UT in the regular season). If you look at their results against common opponents, it's all over the place. OSU beat OU and KU, ISU lost to them. Both beat KSU (ISU did it on the road, OSU did it at home). Both beat the shit out of Cincy. ISU demolished BYU on the road, OSU should have lost to them at home. My point is that OSU is not in any way, shape, or form obviously on a different tier than ISU.
  21. Nah. The lucrative nature of pandering to the right got him off team blue. If he was ever on it to begin with.
  22. ISU beat OSU last year and both squads return everyone. I think Utah is better (and we play them in Salt Lake) but a whole lot of people have just slotted 2 teams we beat last year ahead of us in OK State and KSU. And it wasn't like we beat OSU when they were doing their stupid 3 man QB rotation. We beat them with Bowman going the whole way. ISU also played UT much closer than OK State did. I'd take that bet on the ISU/Iowa game too. Iowa will win, but it will be by less than a score. 13-10. 9-6. Far from anything resembling an ass kicking. Other than Campbell's first season, and the 2021 debacle, that game has been stupid close. Iowa is an above average squad that has benefitted from an extremely weak conference schedule, and utter incompetence from their premiere non-con opponent. Look at how they fare against anyone that's willing to put the ball in the air against them. It's not pretty. Campbell's a fucking idiot when it comes to that game and routinely tries to beat Ferentz at Ferentzball, and the only time it ever worked was with the shittiest team that he had assembled in Ames and Spencer Petras at QB for Iowa. Iowa has been blessed with shitty opponents that literally hand them the game, unforced (watch the end of last year's Iowa/Nebraska game if you don't believe me), on a regular basis for year after year and it's continuing again this year. They have a lower SOS than much of the Big 12 despite playing in the vaunted Big 10. Iowa's going to win 10 games again this year, but if they get into the playoffs, they will once again be exposed as existing on the spoils of a conference that's really mostly mediocre but just has a lot of eyeballs. I've had to wait to use a portajohn at an ISU tailgate for this exact reason.
  23. Maybe RFK is making a savvy long play to cement his legacy. By going full nut job, he sucks votes away from Trump, gives Harris the W, and meaningfully helps the Democrats win an election. He was never going to be President on his own, but he has a very real opportunity effect the outcome.
  24. It's bad for Trump if Kennedy stays in until the end. Kennedy isn't taking a single Harris vote.
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