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I don't know what is going to happen. I also understand some practical difficulties with hiring UM under the current situation today. But I've also learned in this life never to underestimate the power and influence of those with the biggest bags of money. If enough of these people are adamant that something happens, I wouldn't be comfortable betting against it.

I never thought I would consider abandoning support for Texas football, but maybe enough is enough. I'm not a giant booster or anything, but I have definitely contributed over the years. I saw a likely surefire QB down the road and that gave me a little hope, but seeing him now decommit almost feels like the final straw for me. I mean, I can have a lot of fun and enjoyment even if the team isn't always winning every single year, but you have to actually enjoy watching the team. Why subject yourself to negative emotions like that when life has so much more to offer out there?

I give you credit for at least engaging with a very difficult environment I think if you have some conservative leanings. I have some conservative leanings as well, and am coming from the perspective that in 2016, I would have considered voting for ANYONE over Hillary Clinton. (nothing to do with policy, she gives me a visceral and negative gut feeling that she is just not who I want to entrust the country to at all, and this is far beyond politics, only Ted Cruz has also made me react that way prior...and now Trump gives me that feeling) Trump also was a little more of an unknown in 2016, and there were red flags, but I think I can easily see that some voters would take a chance on Trump versus Clinton. I'd say for myself the three worst things off the top of my head Trump has done (and thus he has lost my vote) are the following: 1) Diminished the dignity of the President as the leader of the country. For many people, this might not matter, but for me, I kind of would like the leader of our country to act in a way where children have an easy time admiring the person, even if they disagree 100% with their politics. I have no problem saying that priors like Obama or George Bush never ever in my mind damaged the actual office even though their politics are very different. People focus on the racial stoking and dog whistles, but I notice a lot more that so many things coming out of his mouth are outright lies. Most politicians lie and stretch the truth and such, but this is quite unique to me. 2) Trying to expand executive power (I have this same problem with Democrats too) in a way I don't like, as I favor a much more limited executive branch for certain functions in our government. I don't mind the idea that nothing happens - even at the expense of short-term gain - if a larger body of elected officials can't get something done versus a smaller concentration of power. 3) The COVID response - A lot of what transpired is just hard to defend -- you really can look at specific moments and what did and didn't happen and just scratch your head. I'll be very transparent and say the issues I am tagged conservative here would be 1) guns 2) business/personal taxes and small business regulation and 3) national defense/military issues. I can admit I am much more a social liberal "country club" type on business/fiscal policies. Definite not conservative leanings would be 1) abortion 2) trying to use religious freedom to discriminate and/or leech it into not separating church and state 3) favor a public health care option (but probably not in favor of a universal plan ONLY without other options) and 4) favor path to citizenship for immigrants given a set of clear rules to do so (no serious crimes and other benchmarks to show they would be a productive citizen)

I think the only thing that really matters is that Trump needed not to just win, but to score a knockout blow that fundamentally shook up the race. I doubt that happened, even if one thinks Trump did very well.

I don't think either candidate clearly dominated to a neutral observer, so that's probably an advantage to the candidate ahead and trying to run out the proverbial clock.

Yeah...Ewers has to be loving this

It's always halftime adjustments versus no halftime adjustments. Same old song.

Of course he's a yard short.

You can take it to the bank that if Texas has the ball with the chance to open up a lead...turtle time. Amazing.

Sometimes...a player is just prone to being a mental midget. It is what it is. They have two very talented backs they can still use...

I don't want to see that mental midget on the field the rest of this game!

That's what you get when you trust a mental midget that's already proven with LSU that's he's not clutch.

I would never have Ingram in any clutch situation in a game ever again. Ever. I haven't forgotten LSU too.

Anti-clutch. LSU too.

Another clutch play. Like LSU.

Like clockwork. Texas has ball and lead. Run, run, pass. Punt. 3 and out.

I agree about KD/coaching too. For all of his well known sensitivities and on occasion just strange interactions with the press and especially social media, it has never seemed to translate to his coaches at all as far as I have seen.

I don't know if I have ever heard a more baffling statement by an NBA player about this subject. I'll give KD a slight pass because he was just kind of going with the flow, but he didn't exactly nip Kyrie in the bud either. I don't expect Kyrie to display any real leadership at all, but I would hope KD would reach out to Nash somehow and ensure there are no lingering issues before everyone gets into team activities, etc. This is a really good team too if everyone is healthy next year.

I don't think it's fake, primarily because I buy the simple idea that he caught it by not being smart about social distancing, etc. I also don't think it helps him strategically for the election because I think he needs to be able to campaign and debate to try and change something about the trajectory of the race. I also don't think it meshes well with his personality and wanting to appear weak. The only logical reason (it's hard to try and imagine how his brain works sometimes) perhaps where I can see him actually faking at this point is to provide a ready made excuse in case he gets humiliated on Election Day.

Good to see that people can change their thoughts on a team with new evidence as I certainly recall more than one person thinking Miami had no chance against Milwaukee. I think Miami is really playing well, and I think they can give the Lakers a competitive series. Bam is one of the few players as a coach I would feel ok with matching up against AD, and they play really hard nosed, disciplined basketball. I personally think Spo might be the best coach in the entire NBA, and certainly one of the 3-4 I would try to hire if I was an owner of a team. The main reason I would favor the Lakers overall is mostly LeBron James. He seems to be playing at a very high level right now, and I feel like he knows this kind of chance may never happen again so he will go all out for it. I'm also surprisingly (did not expect it to be honest) low key impressed with some adjustments Vogel has made in these playoffs. The narrative of guys like Kidd possibly sniping behind Vogel for his job way back when he was hired seems like such a distant memory now. The Lakers looked basically dysfunctional at times (Magic Johnson/Rob Pelinka stuff as well, and a bit before that, the atrocious Mosgov/Deng contracts) and somehow it's worked out for them. I really wonder about the Clippers and who they will hire for next year. I think they made the right move, and I would guess Kawhi could have saved Doc if he wanted to (just the nature of the NBA with a guy at his level only one year away from free agency again) so the fact that Doc is gone speaks volumes about Ballmer and possibly Kawhi as well. Maybe the rumors of Doc losing some of the role players because of not holding PG13 more accountable had some real smoke behind it...I don't know...

https://hbuhuskies.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/jeff-mills/780 Let's at least interview him...sigh...

I'm certainly not one to say this prediction is a bad one because frankly he's got some red flags and he could flame out badly. His injury history, his complete (and this is accurate to say) lack of defense is very concerning. I am a little more confident he doesn't have a Wiggins motor (i.e. none) but he's not exactly shown enough to me mentally yet either. I also think him being in Denver is a red flag in itself. But I think his talent is immense. I can watch him play in small spurts and see right away why he was ranked right up there with Ayton as the #1 high school recruit in America the year he came out. I am quite sure he would have been drafted higher if not for his health. And offensively, in a reasonable sample size now given both being his first healthy year and his back issue before, he's shot 51/42/83. I think anyone would take that for someone with his situation. I can't agree though with Kyle Korver as a reasonable comp. MPJ is shooting 72% within three feet of the basket, and can attack the basket very well, especially for his current experience level. He may end up worse than Korver for all I know, but Korver doesn't really have that dimension to his game at all. He's also shooting 46% from the midrange to three point line, which is very good. His massive weakness offensively is inefficiency from 3-16 feet, where he is only shooting 31%. His BPM is 1.5 and his VORP is 0.8, nothing earth shattering, but as a Nuggets GM I'm ok with that so far considering his current weaknesses. And yes, defensively, he's so far away. I don't have a great comp off the top of my head, maybe someone like a Joe Johnson type perhaps. We shall see.

If Michael Porter Jr. can project out to what I think is possible, Denver has a really good thing going here for the future. Three really good pieces, and I think they really fit well together too long-term.

Not surprised to see Playoff Paul George show up as he's often Playoff Harden on steroids, but it's definitely a terrible game for Kawhi. Superstars need to step up when it counts most, and he didn't this game.

Well sure, but trade value is predicated much more on potential value going forward than the current status of a player today. If LeBron James was 21 again, his trade value obviously would be exponentially different than at 35 on the tail end of his career. Huge fan of Luka, but right now for the 2020 playoffs, I'd easily take Kawhi and LeBron over him and not even blink.