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Al_4_ISU

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  1. To piggyback onto this, this point just reminds me of how much it enrages me to see the entire sport get restructured around the whims of the committee. For example, there are 4 D1 schools in Iowa (ISU, U of I, Northern Iowa, and Drake). Drake and UNI are in the same conference and play twice a year. Both would play ISU and Iowa in the non-con in home-and-homes. In part because of how the committee started giving such heavy weight to metrics, ISU and Iowa ended those series to just load up on low major creampuffs to pad their metrics. You'd get punished so much for dropping a game to those highly motivated in-state opponents that it became a true losing proposition to play those games. I was elated at the time (because I hate losing to them) but after attending a UNI/Drake game this year at UNI, I thought "man, it would be fun if ISU still played in this gym". I'm sure there are countless examples of these high major/mid major in-state games being scuttled all over the country as a result of the same phenomena. And it sucks.
  2. The SoCon Championship was an excellent start to the week. It’s become fashionable to shit on conference tournaments because the committee doesn’t value the high major ones much, and as a sports society we only value the final playoff/tournament. But personally, fuck that. This is a great week of sports and I’m so fucking sick of discussions about certain sporting events “not mattering”. It’s fucking sports - none of it matters. I’m gonna have fun watching hoops.
  3. Don’t Be Tough sounds like Prine to me, but I can’t decide if it’s All the Best or Souvenirs
  4. Good While It Lasted has become my favorite
  5. I listened to it a bunch this weekend. My list of favorites hasn't changed much.
  6. That Rolling Stone review misses the point of a few songs - particularly the title track. That song is not a celebration - it's the narrator acknowledging he's a fiendish piece of shit. Which is why it's great.
  7. I've been a volunteer firefighter for a decade or so, and was motivated by a lot of the same things your kid is. I grew up farming (I farm now full time) but I was practicing law full time when I started doing and I was motivated by a desire to help out in the community and get back to doing some honest to goodness real god damn work. Farming full time keeps me away from a lot of calls, but I plan to do at least another 5 years, and have found the experience to be extremely rewarding. If I was doing things all over again, I would strongly consider telling young Al to get into full time career fire service. But to @BabaYaga's point, you will see some shit. I'm just a volunteer and I've seen plenty of dead bodies (we respond to all car accidents in our district). The worst thing I was ever a part of wasn't even a fatality though - it was a lift assist (that's when EMTs need more man power to physically remove a sick or injured person) on a bed ridden 500 lb man who thought he was having a heart attack. We go into the house, and all you could smell was BO and shit. There were pizza boxes everywhere. He was in bed naked, and shitting himself into a bed pad. His feet were swollen and purple and the skin was peeling off. I actually had to run out the front door and vomit into the bushes before I could really help carry him to the ambulance. I told my chief later in the week that that experience (of seeing someone who was alive but clearly decaying) was harder than any fatality I'd responded to. He agreed. So, yeah, buckle up, but I doubt he'll regret it and this may be his calling. Your kid sounds like a badass, IMO.
  8. He's comparing it to the best arena in the country, and to a clear top 10 arena in the country. I really don't think McKale is behind Hilton (and I'm obviously quite biased). At least it wasn't when we played there, or the other handful of Zona home games I've caught.
  9. That’s Drake’s game. Gonna either piss someone off big time in 2 weeks, or result in them getting blown out.
  10. Got my crusty old Drake Law hoody on. Go Dogs!
  11. I’m not a “Spotted Cow is overrated” guy, I’m more of a “Moon Man is underrated” guy.
  12. Agreed. But it’s also proven to be correct already
  13. The crazy part is that it might not be one of the 5 best beers that brewery makes
  14. This is excellent. Uncomfortably honest in a lot of spots. Ride to Roberts, Gravelweed, Eileen, and Good While It Lasted are my favorites
  15. Watching Arch Madness makes me pine for the days of WSU and Creighton in the Valley. I saw the Van Vleet squad lose to UNI in Cedar Falls. Halcyon days for that league. Both WSU and UNI finished Top 15 that year.
  16. Go Dogs! (Drake)
  17. It's their playbook everywhere. I keep trying to tell my dad this (he's a Democrat) and he tells me I'm being cynical. Of course, he also said I was dreaming up crazy hypotheticals when I told him in 2016 that if Trump ever got elected, he'd refuse to leave office peacefully.
  18. Beats the hell out of me. But Jason Isbell and I are both guitar players in the same way that Aaron Donald and I were both defensive linemen.
  19. That's kinda wild. I didn't think you could effectively sound a string above the capo.
  20. This Isbell song has always struck me as appropriate for that day as well.
  21. I went to bed when we were down 20 because I had to get up at 4 to push snow. Not regretting that one bit.
  22. I think Greenspoint posted that picture because we'd never believe it was a real place when he inevitably posts that it closed.
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