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  1. This is incorrect. I remember the era of byes. 64 teams happened in 1985.
  2. This is from a KU site... This is from a VERY, VERY credible and reputable source. Someone who has made the rounds as a college assistant. Here’s the set up as I was told by someone very close to the situation: Rodney, Jerrance and Ulric will be recruiting/coaching and Chris staying on campus overseeing the stuff in the weeds for Beard and will coach every practice with Beard. I can assure you that Beard is not going to allow any of the peripheral stuff to distract from coaching the team, player relationships, game prep and recruiting. Ogden has described in detail to me Beard’s fanaticism with those things. Those 3 recruiting to Austin along with Beard and Nike has potential to be ridiculous. I predict the basketball world is about to find out that Ulric is one of the top 2-3 recruiters in the America. I’ve witnessed him first hand. He has the “it” factor. Every AAU guy in the country freakin loves him. And he is a genuinely great guy. He went way out of his way to help me recruiting a couple of times when he had no incentive. Supposedly the salaries will be Rodney $1 million, Ogden $800K, Ulric $650. Don’t know about Jerrance yet but I would bet he was making $450K+ at Kansas. A new bar has been set by the University of Texas
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    Thie first sentence from bs post is what I saw this morning NBCSN showed video of the interaction; Pulisic sprinting on and then being told he was coming off. Pulisic looked baffled and nothing like a guy telling his manager he tweaked a hamstring. This is Tuchel being his typical self and shifting responsibility for a dumb decision onto someone else
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    When did he suffer the injury? It sure looked like was ready to enter field for second half when Coaching staff called him back Looks like poor communication from tuchel.
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    This is from BS thread on Gringo's Wall of Shame. My responses are underlined. they don’t prioritize:the Olympics Two US camps v. 20 MX camps. True.the U-17 World Cup. Before last U17, US made elimination rounds. False.the U-20 World Cup. US won last two U20 Concacaf tourneys. Made elimination rounds. False.the Gold Cup. Undetermined. This year should be depth prep for qualifiers.the Nations League. Chance for first team to play in meaningful games before qualifiers.the Confederations Cup. Is this still going on?the Super Liga. the Milk Cupthe Festival International “Espoirs” - Tournoi Maurice Revellothe PanAmericanosthe CONCACAF Champions League.what they prioritize:friendlies. haha. that's all we've had in last two years.owning the Mexis. If this was true, we wouldn't have scored against Panama in 2016. Tie game and Mexico misses WC. But true for fans.the World Cup (has never come close to winning it in the modern era). Just qualify and go as far as they can. (And Mexico has?)the Women’s World Cup (this is unfair to the Women’s program because they’re trying to glory hump their success). True. and why not the world is catching up. I have serious questions on how US younger players will do playing on the road in WC Qualifiers. I want them to have Dempsey's attitude and back it up with play.
  6. Kreis post game comment. WTF. Players and coaches take the blame. And this preseason excuse is bullshit. They played way better in the Mexico match and he pulls this preseason shit. He starts Dotson on a bum ankle and he is ineffective. Kreis can't unlock a team. He fucking sucks. https://twitter.com/JeffreyCarlisle/status/1376331708669161472/photo/1
  7. And Treasure of Sierra Madre was on before river quai. What a movie.
  8. Too early to say Shaka to OU?
  9. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nick: Who did the painting?George: Some Greek with a mustache Martha attacked one night.Nick: It's got a...George: Quiet intensity?Nick: Well, no, a...George: Well then, a certain noisy relaxed quality maybe?Nick: No, what I meant was...George: How about a quietly noisy relaxed intensity?
  10. Too bad Covid wasn't delayed last year by a month. We could have picked from the following roster. Note that Ledezma, Llanez and Pomykal were healthy at the time. Ferreira Llanez Aaronson Ledezma Pomykal Dotson (but likely Yueill) Gloster McKenzie Palmer-Brown Cannon Ochoa US U-23 roster for 2020 Olympic Qualifiers Pos. Player Club GK Freese, Matt Philadelphia Union GK Marcinkowski, JT San Jose Earthquakes GK Ochoa, David Real Salt Lake D Cannon, Reggie FC Dallas D Glad, Justen Real Salt Lake D Gloster, Chris PSV Eindhoven D Herrera, Aaron Real Salt Lake D McKenzie, Mark Philadelphia Union D Palmer-Brown, Erik Austria Wien M Aaronson, Brenden Philadelphia Union M Dotson, Hassani Minnesota United FC M Ledezma, Richard PSV Eindhoven M Mihailovic, Djordje Chicago Fire FC M Pomykal, Paxton FC Dallas M Yueill, Jackson San Jose Earthquakes F Ebobisse, Jeremy Portland Timbers F Ferreira, Jesus FC Dallas F Lewis, Jonathan Colorado Rapids F Llanez, Ulysses VfL Wolfsburg F Saucedo, Sebastian Pumas UNAM
  11. Blood simple on last night. Recorde it they yttv. Too much basketball and soccer going on to watch now.
  12. When Shaka moves on I’ll take Tad Boyle.
  13. Instead of emaw it’s ewa
  14. Fereirra had two chances that he should have scored. The early shot that hit the post and the nice pass through from Dotson where Fereirra had a poor first touch. Didn't Glad have an open header off a corner. It could just as easily have been 4-4. Thanks to Ochoa they survived and on to the next game. Next big game against DR. Just win and keep building fitness. And be all in for the semi game as long as Mexico beats or ties CR. Don't want to be 2-0 v. 1-1 Mexico with 1-1 CR playing DR.
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    Make a new one for Olympic. Too Much overlap with friendlies.
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    Word is he hurt his ankle. Was Tessman the next best fit? This roster seems to be shoe-horned. Perea leaves Colombia for US, so he has to make the team. Cardoso chooses US, and he must make the team. Yueill at one time was first choice 6 when Adams was out, so he makes the team. Dotson is a 6. That's 4 players who play the 6 on a 20 man roster. Sure seems that Perea had an inducement for switching. Dotson can play some outside back if the guys are injured and maybe never sees the field. Yueill is captain so is he an 8 with Cardoso as enforcer 6? Hope I'm wrong, but not confident with this roster against Mexico. CR game is up in the air today.
  17. and Harvey Keitel. “They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place.”YAPHET KOTTO - Smokey
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    Surprised no MLS team tried to secure him. Was it in 2019 that he tore up Reggie Cannon in a FCD-SAFC scrimmage? San Antonio FC’s Jose Gallegos, 19, is headed to Germany for a two-week training stint/assessment with Bayern Munich ahead of a potential transfer, per a source. Gallegos was a finalist for 2020 USL Young Player of the Year. — Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) March 15, 2021
  19. I like Hartley. I believe the Red Oak episodes he directed were the best ones. And the Henry Fool trilogy was weird and mystifyingly satisfying. The Book of Life was stunning. Lots to think about including this lesson plan from some unknown college class. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES: divine justice and forgiveness CHARACTERS: Jesus Christ (Martin Donovan), Magdalena (P.J. Harvey), Satan (Thomas Jay Ryan), Edie (waitress), Dave the gambler, OTHER FILMS BY DIRECTOR HAL HARTLEY: Amateur (1994), Henry Fool (1997), No Such Thing (2001), The Girl From Monday (2005), Fay Grim (2006) SYNOPSIS: Jesus returns December 31, 1999 at JFK airport in New York City and checks into a Manhattan hotel. His task is to end the world as we currently know it, judge the wicked, and begin the new Millennium of God’s rule. To do this, he must open the last three seals of the Book of Life, which will bring on the remainder of the apocalypse. But, Jesus is having second thoughts and considering forgiving everyone instead. This means defying God and in essence exiling himself from God just as Satan did. As Jesus struggles with his decision, he locks horns with God’s attorney on earth who insists that Jesus follow God’s law. Meanwhile, Satan likes things just as they are and laments the opening of the Book of Life. When he discovers Jesus’ hesitation, he acquires the Book of Life in an attempt to open just one more seal on it. Unfortunately for Satan, the Book of Life has a security lock on it that he can’t undo. “Those bastards in heaven, they think of everything,” Satan whines. Satan then joins Jesus at his hotel for a New Year’s Eve party, and the new millennium begins just like any normal day. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 1. The beggar at the airport keeps rambling, “Forgive me Jesus I have sinned; have mercy on us now and at the hour of our death.” Why does he have binoculars around his neck? 2. “I could never get used to that part of the job, the power and the glory, the vengeance; but I persevered.” What specifically is the dilemma that Jesus faces? 3. Jesus states, “I remember the flood, Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah. My father he is an angry God; to him the law is everything. Still to this day attorneys are his favorites.” God’s attorney states to Jesus, “You know what your father wants; quit stalling.” What is the connection between God, the law, and punishment? 4. Dave the gambler is an atheist who holds that people don’t have souls and are only “material, mechanisms, biological accidents.” Love, according to Dave, is only a survival mechanism. According to Satan, though, Edie’s love for Dave disproves this: he’s so unreliable that loving him couldn’t facilitate her survival; thus, she has a real soul and isn’t simply a mechanical biological accident. Is Satan’s argument compelling? 5. Dave gambles Edie’s soul away to Satan, and Satan then says the following: “One more soul snatched away from the all-knowing unknowable is still a feather in my cap. So what if it’s the last day of the world; I’m not going to give in without a fight, come what may. Let God almighty rule eternity; my precincts are the minutes and hours of the every day. As long as people have hopes and dreams, well, then, I’ll have my work to do.” What is Satan’s task on earth? 6. “I’ve been misunderstood. They think I hold a grudge against humanity, but that’s not it at all. I just think we have a good system, this tug of war between heaven and hell.” How might this current tug of war be a good system? 7. Prior to his arrival, the first four seals of the Book of Life were already opened, which brought on war, death, famine and pestilence. Jesus says he fears opening the fifth seal the most, though, which requires him facing the martyrs who died for their faith in hopes of divine justice at the end times. What’s so bad about this? 8. God’s attorney states this about God: “My client’s authority rests on this threat [of divine justice] alone.” What does this mean? 9. Early in the film the Pope calls Jesus on the phone, and Magdelana tells the Pope that he got the wrong number. Later in the film Jesus doesn’t even know who the Mormons are. What does this imply? 10. Jesus states, “I won’t judge the living and the dead. I hate this closed door policy. Who do these Christians think they are anyway?” What precisely is the closed door policy that Jesus is objecting to? 11. God’s attorney chastises Jesus for resisting to go through with God’s plan of divine judgment. The attorney states, “I never thought it was a good idea to have God made flesh. It’s messy, the human element, you know.” What does this imply about the nature of compassion and forgiveness? 12. Satan is glad that Jesus will not bring on divine judgment. Still, Satan wants to open the sixth seal which will create earthquakes and natural disasters, and thus provide the right fear factor for introducing a new religion. Is that better than either the current system or God’s plan of divine judgment? 13. What is Jesus’ basic message in the film, and is it sufficient to meet the apparent human yearning for religion? 14. At the close of the film, Jesus speculates about the future and how humans will evolve biologically and culturally. “Will they still believe life is sacred? Will it matter? Do we matter?” Are these questions more the domain of religion or ethics?
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    A good article on the depth of US U-23's. The 2021 Olympic team is at best a “C-“ U23 team for the USA at this moment. So, why am I smiling? Because it is probably the best team we have sent in a decade at least. Think about what that is saying about our overall player pool…our best 2021 Olympic Qualifying roster, ever maybe, is the current “C-“ team. The explosion of talent at the U23 level is astounding compared to just five years ago. https://chasingacup.com/just-how-bad-is-our-2021-olympic-team-and-why-am-i-smiling/
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    My understanding is there is a lot scheduled this summer. Most important is WC qualifying which begins in September. 3 games in Sept. There is Nations League and Gold Cup. I think the plan is to use Nations League for team 1A and GC for second team. Olympic team may be the core of the qualifying team with addition of young players left off Nations league roster. First they need to fucking qualify .
  22. Some selections from my protest songs playlist. Racist Friend - The Specials Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants Let's Face Facts - The Masqueradors Israelites - Desmond Dekker This is Why We Fight - Decembrists House Un-American Blues Activity Dream - Mimi and Richard Farina Burden of Shame - UB40 If There is a Hell Below - Curtis Mayfield This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst - Rodriguez I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After A Change is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke The Heart of the Matter - Rupert Hine The Free Mexican Air Force - Peter Rowan The Sadder But Wiser Girl For Me - Robert Preston For Jefferson and Liberty - Oscar Brand Badges - Minutemen The Partisan - Leonard Cohen
  23. Heard them on KPFT back in early 80s and special shout out to them for forming Ralph Records.
  24. Hmm. Aughts (2000-2009) v. Tens (2010-2019). Going by results and not by seeding. 12 points for winning it all. 10 points for finalist. 8 points for final four. 6 points for Elite Eight. 4 points for Sweet 16. 2 points for 32. 1 point for making tourney. 1/2 point for winning NIT. Aughts (2000-2009): KU: Roy/Self = 54 pts OU: Sampson/Capel = 28 pts UT: Barnes = 37 pts ISU: Eustachy/Morgan/McDermott = 9 pts OSU: Sutton/Sutton/Ford = 25 pts BU: Bliss/Drew = 1 pt TT: Dickey/Knight/Knight = 8 pts KSU: Asbury/Wooldridge/Huggins/Martin = 2 pts Mizzou: Snyder/Watkins/Anderson = 17 pts A&M: Watkins/Gillispie/Turgeon = 10 pts CU: Patton/Bzdelik = 1 pt NU: Nee/Coller/Sadler = 0 pts (Tens) (2010-2019) KU: Self = 46 pts OU: Capel/Kruger = 21 pts UT: Barnes/Smart = 8.5 pts ISU: Hoiberg/Prohm = 15 pts OSU: Ford/Underwood/Boynton = 5 pts BU: Drew = 23.5 pts TT: Knight/Gillispie/Walker/Smith/Beard = 17 pts KSU: Martin/Weber = 20 pts Mizzou: Haith (2010-2012) = 5 pts WV: Huggins (2013-2019) = 13 pts A&M: Turgeon/Kennedy (2010-2012) = 4 pts CU: Bzdelik/Boyle (2010-2011) = 0 pts NU: Sadler (2010-2011) = 0 pts TCU: Johnson/Dixon (2013-2019) = 1.5 pts Aughts 192 - Tens 179.5. Big takeaways: Can't say Texas and Baylor switched, but the differentials are really close: UT 37-8.5=28.5. BU 23.5-1=22.5. TT's point were from last two years due to being a finalist and EE. Mizzou and WV roughly the same. A&M ain't the right comp. OSU way better under Sutton. OU slightly better under Sampson. KSU way better under Martin/Weber. Basically it was two EE runs, but more consistent tournament appearances. I thought ISU was better in both decades, but outside of some really good teams, not so much. 3 B12 teams won the NIT in the Tens. All Texas teams. Let's add some cattle to that hat. Used this website to make calculations. https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/conferences/big-12/ncaa.html
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    Coincidentally, the qualifying tournament works out where most important game is first. US v. Costa Rica. 3/18. Combine this with first weekend of March Madness and March really is like Christmas. Top two qualify for Olympics. US, CRC and Mexico in same bracket (A) with Dominican Republic. A1 v B2 B1 v A2 Finalists qualify. Bracket B has Honduras, Canada, El Salvador and Haiti. If US finishes second then will have to beat first place, likely Honduras. Honduras has qualified last several times and beat US 2-0 last time. Report is that 25 will be called on 3/1 to have camp in Mexico. Not sure who'd I start that first game, but I fully expect Aaronson to stay in Europe. I saw the US v Columbia OQ playoff in 2016 and Colombia's athleticism and size crushed a young and naive US team. Score was only 2-1 (OG for US score) but Colombia dominated. US had Miazga, Arriola and Morris start. Horvath, Acosta and Trapp played full game. US team is way more experienced this time as almost are regular players in MLS.
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