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  1. RichUT
    If Juve are keen for Pulisic, hopefully that makes it easier to align on terms for Vlahovic.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    I know Raj well. My group is just a couple miles away and we’ve done three picks with Oak (Lucky 7, Blue Note JJ, and Penelope) that are hitting in the next couple months. If there is legit interest here, I could probably broach the subject with him.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    That’s a bit like saying you’re not impressed with Willet because you drank Pure Kentucky. The Musician is their entry level every day shelf bottle that is meant to always be available. You need to try the Cask Strength and a number of their distillery reserve series to fully grasp the progress they have made in a very short amount of time.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    Most of it sucks. Still Austin is a clear exception in my book.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    We picked up one that was ~130 proof and I really didn’t love it. It was super oak forward in an unpleasant way. Some of the guys in the group liked it but I won’t be going back to it.
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    It was a semi-private cruise (16-20 people) via Sunset Oia, and I booked it through a travel agency. It was about a 6 hour excursion that took us to various spots along the Santorini coast. We ended down at the docks in Oia and watched the sun set before docking and finishing up. You can book it directly here: https://sailing-santorini.com We did the Diamond Cruise.
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    I’m on a Catamaran off the coast of Santorini right now. We just had dinner as part of a sunset cruise. The food won’t be the part we remember, but the experience of the cruise will always be remembered. Grabbing a sunset dinner at Pacman in Oia (inside one of the Andronis properties) is for sure worth it. Food is really good, and the view as the sun sets over the ocean is pretty tough to beat. In Athens, we ate at Vezené and Hill Athens Rooftop. The former had the better food while the latter had a great view of the Acropolis and solid Greek fare.
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    To be clear, I think your take is completely detached from reality. The only scenario where that is possible involves a season ending injury to Manning before the 24 season kicks off. Otherwise, no chance in hell. Carry on.
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    Sounds like you’d be willing to shit a golden football if Arch isn’t starting in 2024…
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    Chet Holmgren was in the same class.
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    Right, because there have been so many posts on this thread that have stressed the correlation between recruiting 5 stars and going deep in the tournament. It’s clearly an opinion held by so many here. [emoji849]
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    I doubt that I’ll be able to convince you otherwise then. Just understand that every other school in this situation has released the player from their NLI. For us to take a hard line stance would separate us from every other program in a negative way. We don’t want the reputation of being the school that keeps kids tied to the program against their wishes.
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    On an anniversary trip with the wife in Greece and finally took the plunge on a proper timepiece. I was expecting to pick up a Panerai but something about the timeless quality of this guy spoke to me.
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    And you lost me again. Listen, it doesn’t make a shit bit of difference what either of us thinks here. But I’m not seeing a world where we would never want the buzz/juice associated with pulling down the blue bloods. The program benefits from that in ways that go beyond the pure on court product.
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    It seems like the conversation has shifted away from “recruit absolutely zero five star HS players” towards a discussion about the allocation of resources across HS recruits and transfer portal targets. I can get on board with a 70/30 or 80/20 portal/HS player model. That wasn’t the initial solution offered up, however.
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    You are viewing this as binary when it’s not. You’re also falling victim to recency bias. For however long players are required to spend one year in college it will be worth taking a few swings at the elites. The contact rate is going to be low, but you don’t fully close the door to either pipeline of talent.
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    It seems like basketball recruiting is too much for you. Maybe just don’t follow it and wait for the season to start.
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    Name one other school in the same spot that has refused to grant a kid from his NLI. I don’t think you can, and that’s because it’s recruiting suicide. Other programs would have a heyday if we did that. Beyond that, he could appeal and I’m sure the NCAA would let him out due to the coaching change. Players have the leverage here. I get that people wish they didn’t, but that’s just how it works.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    Sure. I’d love nothing more than to be proven wrong. We still have that bottle somewhere so a side by side would be easy.
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    There is no place for that sort of pragmatism here. Please pick one end of the spectrum or the other, and then proceed with flinging shit at the end you don’t pick.
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    You should pause to consider the long term implications of doing that. It would sink us with every other high profile recruit we’d approach going forward. It’s untenable. We’ve been in the era of player entitlement for awhile now. You just have to grit your teeth, accept it, and move on.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    If I had three pours worse than that last year I’d be shocked. Almost undrinkable. And that was an opinion held by everyone in our group of 10.
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    Sub-optimal
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    Coaching change gives him the ability to be released from his NLI.
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    RichUT replied to Jimbaround's topic in Food and Travel

    Nice thought, but I don’t own any of either.

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