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Alright... need an island to go to. I'm about to finish up some projects and haven't had a real, get out of the country, vacation since the ex-fiancee and I called it off nearly 3 years ago. Questions: 1. Is there just a flat out good resource for finding what countries have lax travel restrictions? 2. What is a good spot that is very walkable/golf cart type place? (I've done Isla Muljeres a handful of times but would like to try something different) What sayeth the surls?

The crazy thing is Sampson went down for something like 100 impermissible texts and phone calls. 100. One Hundred. He was really just on the cutting edge of recruiting with how many text messages are allowed now. Any coach would look at his show cause and basically chalk it up to the guy who gets arrested for having an eighth of marijuana 24 hours before the drug became legal. Sampson's resurgence is really an indictment on the NCAA and how petty they are with infractions with coaches and programs they don't favor. A lot of people are affected by the NCAA's personal vendettas. That includes coaches, universities, current players, and future players because of schools losing scholarship opportunities for high schoolers. Fuck the NCAA.

I don't remember him like this before he made the move to go to GSW. And the hate came pouring in. He became very jaded and angry with the world. Lebron never did this when he got all the hate after his moves. At least not on social media. I'm not sure why KD cares what others think, especially randoms on social media. When he left okc he got caught talking himself up on Twitter with 2-3 fake accounts he controlled. Basically he would bash people who criticized him via his fake accounts. That was the beginning.

Tech should have called pitino.

Bill Self gets a lifetime contract with KU and a raise above $5M. Also of note it specifically states KU cannot fire him based on the NCAA allegations. Looks like KU has drawn a line in the sand for the ncaa and we are going to be defiant as hell.

Hate to break it to everyone but we knew it the second KD left okc that he was a cunt. KD is and always will be a cunt. In society we live in today sponsors should be cancelling one one the best basketball players of all time. But they won’t because he is the right kind of popular... which is just popular and talented enough to transcend race and injury.

Ahhh “the Carolina way”. It is interesting to me that all of the blue bloods hire a certain profile. I think Duke will get popped for some shit pretty quickly after K leaves. Jeff Capel isn’t getting the Ncaa love that K gets if he takes over. I actually saw a quote from bill self looking up an old article. In 2005 or 2006 he told his staff “I don’t care what we have to do but we have to win here”. Kinda a quote that in the right context let’s you peel back the skin to see the underbelly of big time hoops. UNC is no different. UK is no different. Duke is no different they just have the golden boy as their coach. Indiana might be different and that’s why they have fallen behind the other blue bloods.

Wow on beard. Must have been so far down the line that he can’t turn back or UNC was just holding out hope that Roy wouldn’t retire and never made an overture. Great hire for UT. Tough day for UNC. If they hire Hubert Davis he will be fired after his second year. Definitely not later than selection Sunday of his 3rd.

Nice little hire you made there. Good to move fast with UNC looming.

Roy is leaving the place much better than he found it so they’ve got that. They probably run at beard and if the ink isn’t dry I think they get him. Self followed Roy and he brought us a championship. Beard coaches just like self. In Self’s book he discusses talking to his dad about following a legend and he basically said don’t be a pussy. “if you’d rather be at Illinois, stay at Illinois. If you’d rather be at Kansas, go to Kansas. But don’t not go because you don’t think you can live up to what the guy before you did” Cooncidentally, I started hating Dickie V after that hire too. He went out of his way to call self and said “you don’t want to do that. You’ll never win as much as Roy, but you’ve got a chance to do what he did at Kansas at Illinois. Why would you want to follow a legend?” Dukie V is a fucking pussy.

Beard has to be their #1 target. The pecking order seems to have been set as no job will be more prestigious than UNC this year.

We saw the justices ask if they were inviting trouble by ruling for the players but I wish they asked about the pendulum swinging the other direction. The justices seem to believe the players are a labor pool. If they rule in favor of letting the ncaa govern its own restrictions on benefits, what would that mean for player benefits? I guarantee they won’t be increasing and the door would be open for them to decrease without recourse since the high court already ruled that the ncaa can do what it wants. When you break down the implications of this case it will be absolutely devastating for one group or the other. I hope it’s the ncaa.

What I took from this is that the ncaa is so incompetent that their argument is “we’ve been incompetent for this long, why stop it now?” Pretty incredible an actual attorney has the balls to argue that point in the highest court. I don’t know the lower ruling but it seems to me that unlimited educational benefits should be a slam dunk for the students. In theory, we already have students bargaining just by choosing which school to attend. I can’t see how an argument of “we’ll let them bargain but only to a certain extent” will ever hold up. That seems textbook against the law to me but I’m not a lawyer.

I never understood it. When you have length like he used to zone can be great. But when you face teams that shoot decently you risk getting run out of the gym which he would. Maybe it’s his offenses are getting better and he realizes it is a shooting game now and so he knows he can’t allow teams to shot over him anymore? I think of some of his old teams and think they could have been real contenders if they would’ve played man with a sprinkle of zone. Like you said, clearly he has shown some growth. It’ll be a tough steak to choke down if he wins it all. I’m still holding out that he isn’t even top 4 coaches in the conference but that fades quickly with Kruger retiring and drew actually performing (though he almost choked it away last night). Right now I’ve got it self, beard, huggy, drew. But had Kruger above drew and huggy. I think drew is very close to being tied with Huggy and could surpass him if this doesn’t prove to be a blip on the radar from a late season performance standpoint. TLDR: fuck Baylor. Win me some money you teammate murdering rape city sumbitches.

Confession time. I got in a Calcutta at the country club. If Baylor wins it all my team will win 28k off a 5k bet. Drew has become a better coach since dumping the zone defense. I still hate him. The team wasn’t my choice but here we are. We picked Baylor, Oregon state, creighton, and Syracuse. We were in the money once the sweet 16 hit and now I need Baylor to bring it home for me. 4 guys split the 5k bet evenly.

I cannot believe that porter moser isn’t getting any love for a bigger job. I know a lot of that is his team is still playing but I don’t even see fans on various message boards talking about him for openings. I think he’s a great hire for Marquette, Iowa state (filled already), OU is possible but i think he’d be better near the upper Midwest. Minnesota should have taken a run at him. what is the blemish on him? Can’t recruit?

Kruger is a huge loss for the league. While I don’t want OU to ever be good I’d love for them to bring in a quality coach. At the minimum a coach with personality.

This cuse/wvu game is hard to watch. Such bad offense being run and somehow cuse is scoring on it.

Beilein is 68. An old looking 68. I’m not sure he has 5 years in him on the bench. Might as well get pitino if you’re willing to go old. I’d make a run at the bama coach or mussleman.

Because that was before the ncaa decided to have head coach accountability rules.

Marquette needs to hire the Loyola Chicago guy before he leaves Indianapolis. That would be a great fit I think.

Same with GT.

I feel like live betting this year is going to be much more fruitful with covid. Lot of roster changes are going to be happening I feel like. Especially in h first 2 rounds.

Spring in Oklahoma has a lot of my friends going out to shoot clays. I have a pump action 20 gauge (Winchester) that I got at age 11 or 12. I think it’s time to go get a new 12 gauge. Growing up I shot 410s and 20s and they were always single shot. I loved the simplicity of them. I think I’m going to pick up a side by side 12 before the next shoot.

Spring in Oklahoma has a lot of my friends going out to shoot clays. I have a pump action 20 gauge (Winchester) that I got at age 11 or 12. I think it’s time to go get a new 12 gauge. Growing up I shot 410s and 20s and they were always single shot. I loved the simplicity of them. I think I’m going to pick up a side by side 12 before the next shoot.