Everything posted by Al_4_ISU
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
No one is going to do this if it loses money. Everyone will do it if it makes money.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
If there’s money to be made, it’s going to happen. There is literally no other consideration in this sport at this point.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Nah, next week the SEC and Big 10 will announce $2B in private equity.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Nothing. The people who care about that shit are morons though.
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Realignment talk not going away
Exactly. The Big 10 won’t kick them out, but they’ll be making barely better money than the Big 12/ACC.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
I love Silverada (don't care for their name change, but not because of "woke", just used to something else) and I'm not completely digging the new dance pop sound of Wallflower or Radio Wave. Anywhere But Here and Stay By My Side (totally Willie-esque) are among some of their best tunes. Pretty interested to see which way the new album leans. I really dug the cosmic honky tonk shit on Cheap Silver, and thought One To Grow On was/is one of the best country albums of the past decade. Stands up next to Isbell, Turnpike, Sturgill, etc.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
I was extremely humbled when I started mountain biking. I’m a strong road cyclist that can handle about anything on pavement. The first time I had to walk a climb all I could think was “how am I such a fucking pussy?” The fact that it requires so much in the moment focus is what hooked me.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Too many sleeves
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It's you or the kimchi.
My wife is anti-kimchi. I have a man cave in our third garage stall and I keep the kimchi in my beer fridge. We’re all surviving. It’s amazing though. If I eat kimchi in the house and she’s gone, she can home 3-4 hours later and immediately know.
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Uniform Pron
I don’t hate them by any stretch. Just not Gaga about them like most people have been.
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The Surly Mountain Biking Thread
Good day to ride in the Driftless. Ma Nature and a 10 month old have limited my regular rides this year.
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Uniform Pron
It looks like an April Fool’s joke
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
Why in the hell is the default setting “no alert” when setting an event on your Apple calendar? The dumbest shit ever…
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Uniform Pron
As a Vikings fan, I'm not that into it. These are the best alts in the rotation and they should just be the regular unis.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Absolutely. These guys are definitely Petty heads, too.
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Uniform Pron
I think the Coogs should make that their full time uniform
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I'd go back in a heartbeat.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Same. I went in ‘18 when we were in the Alamo Bowl and had a blast.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Michigan Rattlers were fed into my algorithm a few years ago. I'm not a hardcore by any stretch, but they have some songs I love.
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Caitlin Clark …. Seriously
She goes out with the son of the Iowa MBB coach (who played at Iowa for like 6 years). Although a lot of people around Iowa City insist he's just a beard, given the current climate of the state.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Holy hell this is stupid. I think they'll try their best to slide one of the Big 10 schools or OSU/Wazzu in there. If it's Big 12 on Big 12 I'd have to imagine they'd try and avoid a rematch. Most traditional Big 12 schools only play one or two newcomers this year.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
I mean, you guys constantly shit on us and there are schools who care less, and ergo deserve less. This is entertainment. Stanford football clearly isn't entertaining to very many people. I don't think they should be cancelled or relegated or whatever, but nearly every Big 12 program has more enthusiasm and interest surrounding it despite the history, academics, etc.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
My only point is that Stanford is completely fucking checked out. They’re a better school than ISU. They have more athletic history. And no one cares. Why is Utah pining for an association?
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
There are maybe 5,000 people in Stanford Stadium on a fall Saturday. There are 60,000 in Jack Trice.
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Left Behind: A Quick Dose Of Post Big 12 Reality
Maybe it’s my Midwest bias, but what “halo effect” exists from playing sports against a bunch of schools that don’t care about playing sports? This whole idea that athletic affiliation drives academic collaboration is the absolute dumbest fucking part of realignment. ISU and Kansas will never be in the Big 10. Both schools regularly collaborate with Big 10 schools academically.