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CDC should pull a shock appearance and just walk down from the stands right now live on TV and just hand the clipboard to someone else.

I think the potential talent overall is better than ordinary which makes it that much worse to me.

I'm a little wary of a tax on net worth versus income but I'll be open minded and read it carefully. I would definitely support higher taxes on large income per year easily though.

I would fear a strong generational gap candidate like Kamala or Beto more than Biden or Warren personally if I was a Republican advisor, even though one of the prior two may actually win the nomination if things break well for them. I think the change theme/mantra is good for 2020 juxtaposed against Trump just like it was for years like 2008 (Obama) and 2016 (Trump).

Really good wins so far, especially ISU on the road against a pretty solid team.

I feel bad for Walton, it's a tough job right now and he just doesn't have enough experience and cache to command the room at a high enough level. Not to mention that I think it's pretty well known that Magic and Pelinka also wouldn't mind picking their own coach and so the writing is on the wall. To be fair, I think LeBron's inner circle - if true that they question Ingram's fit - is very correct. Ingram is a terrible fit for the other players on this roster and is simply too inefficient on both ends and I hate saying that about a Duke guy but it's true. He's very talented and could get better with the Lakers regretting letting him go someday, but he's got way too much Carmelo Anthony in his game right now versus Kuzma's playstyle (although Kuzma really is not there at defense yet) which is much better for their specific roster.

Just have to hope we manage to stay just hot enough to grind this win out because I am not counting on anything else at this point. Nice Big 12 wins so far today, TCU/ISU very solid wins for their resumes later this year.

For basketball nerds only, but one person's take on some GOAT discussion. I don't agree with some of the conclusions and how it was put together, but it was still a lot of work and much more well though out than I expected when I first starting reading it. I agreed with his first three though I have them in a different order, and I really agree with how high he placed Hakeem and Duncan, who are usually lower on most GOAT lists as I personally think they are slightly underrated for GOAT. http://www.backpicks.com/tag/all-time-basketball-players/

Totally fair. I think we gave him an extra year at Tech with our loss, so a fair trade.

Only aggy cares that much. I only care to the extent it causes the laughs. The difference between 3rd and 10th for a single class usually isn't that meaningful compared to the coaching staff nailing their evaluations and developing the players to their best potential.

You take Bru if he is there. But, I hope this doesn't cost Helton his job right away because long-term you want USC to remain a sleeping giant and they will not awaken with their current coach. SoCal on its own could be open for a solid pipeline of maybe 2-5 good recruits a year for Texas to grab hopefully without a dominant USC.

I really don't understand why USC accepts having either Swann as AD or Clay as coach. They have legitimate claim and history to being a true blue blood elite football program and can and should be a perennial Top 10 team at worst year after year. It makes no sense to me, but I guess Texas has gone through this too so it does happen...

Agree with this logic for sure, but is Fields a transfer waiver versus Bru who would be requesting an NLI waiver too? Fields attended Georgia for a year so he has no NLI issues as the requirements for the NLI is to attend one year at that institution but Bru is maybe in a different situation. I don't know sometimes why players even sign an NLI, I could be wrong on this but I think a scholarship agreement is enough I believe for what matters and a few players in the past have done that although I think more in basketball.

Can the NCAA waive the NLI rule? I think Bru has signed a NLI? I think even with a full NLI clearance (which may be what Bru asked for from USC who knows) from USC, you can't sign another NLI in the same academic year.

I think whoever specifically told EJ to keep it quiet (however he specifically got the information) should have been personally asked and GIVEN PERMISSION if releasing anything was ok (rather than just the info being "out there") because 1) you respect the source as you should and 2) it's the professional thing to do anyway, and adding to the fire with your own info from a source that asked you to be quiet is a bad way to do this job.

My bottom line on LeBron honestly is that I doubt many other players in the NBA could have done better with this Lakers roster than he has for the time and specific games he has played this year. Maybe Harden for a hot stretch because the sample size is small enough to account for that scenario and he has a past history of carrying a team offensively by himself. Both Curry and Durant are harder to say for me because they have never in their career had to carry an extreme load or iffy roster like LeBron and Harden have in the past, but maybe it's possible.

Being completely honest, if my children were athletically gifted enough to merit multiple P5 offers and the fit made sense otherwise (by position/coach/need/etc), one of the only schools I would seriously be fine with along with Texas of course would be Stanford. It's just too good academically to ignore versus almost any other major football program and academics would always be a big factor for me personally.

Wow. I don't think many not reading this article would realize - if accurate which it probably is - just how elite athletically Owens is overall, it's really ridiculous what the ceiling could be for a guy that athletic. How did so many programs miss this guy? Genuinely curious, did his athletic numbers just not get out there properly earlier on?

Many amongst the roughly 1 to 2 thousand people that run a lot of the elite political/business arenas in Hawaii (especially Waialae Country Club conversations on a nice weekend day by the ocean away from the Pacific/Plaza type downtown area clubs) could probably tell you a story about her. She knew/knows how to network and she is fairly unique for Hawaii in that a small percentage of well connected locals in Hawaii are very embedded in both the standard political/business/non-profit elite but also the defense industry/military arena which makes sense with her military background. (Many people outside of Hawaii don't realize how strong the defense industry is for the state both in terms of economic impact, jobs, and influence) The most dominant politician possibly in all of Hawaii history (certainly modern age in Daniel Inouye) was also very embedded in both of these worlds with equal power and strength at the top. She's incredibly ambitious and waaaay back on the City Council it was obvious she was very different than her father Mike but she's only 37-38 or so I think, plus she's Hindu. There are some rumblings in Hawaii that she actually has a different goal specifically for 2020 than President and if you think about it carefully I think it's maybe obvious given her current age and situation. I did chuckle at her "Saudi Arabia's bitch" Tweet though.

It's not really only wins and losses but the accumulation of multiple seasons of seeing clear deficiencies in coaching. No one is arguing the talent level isn't very high, but the reality is that with a poor coach and good talent you would expect the occasional talent takeover of games where they can beat a good team, but also extreme inconsistency in also being able to lose to much worse talent in other games. This is exactly what we are seeing and have been seeing for a while now, and it's not really about one game at all. The simple bottom line truth for a coach is when your talent level is for example graded say an A- but you are losing too often to C or below talent level teams too often, that is almost always a coaching problem. They have a very tough stretch coming up, and I honestly can see them losing almost every game but I wouldn't be shocked if they rise up and beat some good teams as well but either scenario happening (even losing or winning all of those games entirely) won't really change my opinion because the coaching likely will still be the same.

I'm a believer in Keatts right now although I think he is basically from ACC country so not sure if Texas would interest him much. I was very impressed with last year because a lot of the ACC predictions for his team were worse than 10-12th in the league and most basically in the bottom tier of the league (one main one I read regularly I recall had them predicted for 13th) and he got them to 3rd (and think about how strong the ACC is even in the 4-7 range) and beat some really good teams - Duke, at UNC, Arizona (neutral) - and this replicated his first year at another new program at UNC-Wilmington where his team was not projected to be a contender and he tied for 1st and he exceeded his given talent in my opinion. The prior two years to his arrival at NC State finished 13th in the ACC so it was an immediate turnaround. Two different programs with great first years as the coach. Now this year his team is predicted roughly 5-7 or so in the league by a lot of people, and part of that (I am not convinced they are 5th-6th best in talent) is from last year. Curious to see how it goes this year for them...

So true, I remember the first time I was on the bridge and looking over the water towards the stadium -- "wow, there is LSU and the stadium I guess" -- "looks cool" and then you cross the bridge...

The SEC having only 8 conference games and a November gimme game to recover a little is a huge advantage to me. Plus the lack of many true tough OOC games too.

Boyd/Davis early on (might even cost us a game early) -- for the whole season maybe Watson, Anderson, and Gary. I am hopeful missing Omenihu is not as bad with the talent next year.

The momentum from beating Georgia and knowing you beat two high quality teams (OU/Georgia) without four full classes (read: depth) with the new coaching staff is a good step to me. No worries about ranking at all. I am worried we lose a lot on defense but I think we can manage with the younger talent next year if we stay relatively healthy. No LJH hurts but WR is really not a position of worry to me. We should be fine.