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Looks like a highly skilled euro 7-footer. Left handed, fashions his game after Porzingis. He's a pick and pop kinda guy. Not a rim protector banger type, but prioritizes a school that will play him immediately and a school that puts bigs in the NBA recently. We seem to check the boxes, and next to Reneau could be effective. He is a top priority and will choose b4 November 1.

He couldn't be more opposite than Ballo. He's got some Filipkowski vibes to his game, but I don't see the desire to mix it up in his game. Kenya Hunter is as good as it gets with bigs so if we can get him on campus and not early commit, Woody needs to do his thing.

What is ours ?

Where do they come up with this cosmik debris? Are there any economists in the house?

Pay for your gender studies - worthless - degree. Pay a nice chunk of a down payment. Big credit on an EV. Where is this big sugar daddy in the sky showering these people with all these trillions?

And “price gouging (gauging, as Kamala reads its off a teleprompter).” I want Woodford Old Fashions at $7.50, not $20.00.

Casey Stengel is turning over in his grave —— “Does anybody here know how to play this game?”

Does anyone know if IU still offers the shuttle service from the mall and parking garages on Gameday? Used it a couple years ago but wasn’t sure if they still offered it?
Couldn’t get a straight answer out of the ticket office.
They were going to transfer me but I thought I’d probably have better luck on here.

Whatever - I’m bored.

A reasonable good, not best, case scenario?


8/31 FIU - should win 1-0

9/7 Western Illinois - should win 2-0

9/14 @UCLA - could win - history of talent comparison would say not likely - both teams have a new coach - ours is better - theirs is weird - they have more players back from an 8 win team - their oft-injured back up QB with better numbers now starts - their running game looks solid - passing game good - lost a lot on DL - good size LBs - lost 3 of back 4 - you know what we have sorta 2-1.

9/21 Charlotte - close call could/should win - they have a 2nd year coach who was a HS coach and hedge fund investor hired by Harbaugh at Michigan - went 3-9 in first AAC year, moved up from CUSA - lost 20-38 at Maryland (we lost 44-17) - lost 7-22 at Florida - best win was at Tulsa - hit portal hard - 75 (!) transfers in 2 years - QB from Florida - RB from Michigan - 4 new OL - a “bell weather” game for us, but aren’t they all in a 1st year new regime? 3-1 home win

9/28 Maryland - no more Tagovailoa. But another portal QB spit out by NC State - and they have all been solid to NFL caliber. 2 quality RB’s return 900+ yards. Return 1400 yards among 5 receivers. But … lost 6 OL. Front 7 on defense Adequate+. Back 4 gone. Another game that can tell us where/how we stand. Home game. Can win. Need to win. Home game. Stop the presses! Turtles don’t take us serious - big heads always bite ya - 4-1

10/5 @NW - could win. will be weird. Junior high bleachers on the lakefront. Facts is facts - they won 8 last year after a weird summer and losing Mr. NW. they return 15 starters. Added 6 solid portals, including a decent run threat QB. Fireplug RB. We both played Rutgers, Penn State, Maryland, Wisconsin, Purdue and Illinois last year. We went 1-5. They went 4-2. We played Penn State better. I’d call a couple “even” because of points. Can win. Need to win. Road game. Will we know who we are yet? I “feel” NW had lightning in a bottle last year - which is unreliable. Cig wins road games. Google it. 5-1.

10/19 Nebraska - Rhule. Their 5 wins last year were not impressive to me, and they lost to every “good” team they played, but the Smart Guys think they finally turned it around. 5 star Frosh QB’s are highly loved! A fast 220 pound RB. 8 OL return. Their new DC went to a 3-3-5 to try and keep it in front of them. They improved and bring back a solid bunch. Hard game to win. We are off a bye. Soft beds. Big heads. 5-2.

10/26 Washington - payback is a bitch. They lost everything and we owe them a Penix beating. QB threw for 8,000 in 2 years for Leach. Ponds makes him cry. I still like our chances. 6-2. Cig gets another “first year turnaround patch.

11/2 @MSU - They are a mess. QB Chiles was No. 4 at Oregon State, but played 1 series every game - my plan for assuring a game-ready QB if your top 3 leave. Battling a starter with 9,000 yards at North Dakota. They were awful last year but rallied late to beat us(remember their WR scoring when our guys hit each other?) and Nebraska - both by 3. Road game, but we can win. We have Mo. 7-2.

11/9 Michigan - if they start Tuttle I’ll cry. They return a whopping 7, but they get talent all the time. Home game. If they have completely lost it post-Harbaugh, we need to be REALLY good to win. 7-3.

11/23 @OSU. 7-4.

11/30 Purdue - POTFB. 8-4.

Now that selections are wrapping up, i'm curious how people's seats turned out? I've been a season ticket holder for 22 years now. I'm not a big donor. I got to row 35 last year which made me pretty happy. This year i was pushed back two rows to 37. I'm speculating that maybe more people bout football season tix that pushed them ahead of me. I also thought that maybe people would be dropping due to last year's unfulfilling season (at least in my book, not according to Woody). Every few years I think of stopping my renewal but something compels me to keep going.

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Looks like we just lost 1 big piece of the group visit! Apparently committed to UK this morning.

My son is starting his freshman year at the local, progressive public school. His required history course is World History.

I post this to get general discussion about whether this is the right concept of history to be taught to freshman (14-year-olds), and specific discussion about this course, and if it seems geared towards reaching a particular political viewpoint (not Dem v. Rep, but progressive v. anything else).

For me, I think the course description is designed to reach a progressive view of the world (and maybe an illiberal one, at that) and that this is too much historiography and too little actual history for 14-year-olds. Contra the course description, I actually do want my freshman to learn as much about the history of the world as you can pack into 176 days--he and his classmates haven't learned that yet, so they have nothing to "unlearn." I'm already looking for supplementation (if anyone has any they could recommend, that would be great).


Here's the description of the course from the syllabus (all emphasis in the original):

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The focus on this course is not to learn as much as we can about as much of the history of the world as we can fit into 176 school days. Rather, this course offers a narrower focus, on that synthesizes select historical periods, themes, and ideas throughout human history in an attempt to craft an argument. Because that's what history is: an argument about the past. And to engage in an earnest study of World History requires us to ask historical questions -- questions to which there are no "answers," only evidence-based arguments.

In World History A, we will explore a number of essential questions that will guide our units of study, both in what we ask you to consume as budding historians (readings, film, art, music, and other modes of expression) and in how we assess you throughout the year. These questions may include:

1. Why and for whom does history matter?
2. How do we know what we know about the world and can we trust it?
3. What are the origins of inequality?
4. To what extend did religions and empires improve human life?
5. How did religion, trade, and empire unify the Old World System?
6. How should the early American empires be remembered? What story should be told about their historical significance?
7. How important was the European Age of Exploration? How much changed as a result?
8. How "enlightening" was the Enlightenment? To what extent did the Haitian Revolution challenge the global order?
9. Is progress inherently good? What were the global impacts of industrialization, imperialism, and nationalism?
10. How and why did liberal democracy decline in Germany after World War I? How and why did the Holocaust happen? Why did war (World War II) break out in the Pacific?
11. How and why did anti-colonial movements succeed in the post-war era?

In answering these questions--and these are just the ones we've come up with; you'll be creating questions of your own!--we will challenge some of our own preconceived notions about the history of the world --to unlearn some of what we have learned in hopes of broadening our perspective, deepening our fund of knowledge, and enhancing our critical thinking skills.

COURSE OUTLINE

Semester 1

Unit 1: Introduction to World History/Perspectives in World History
Unit 2: Agricultural Revolution
Unit 3: Collective Myths: Empire in the Ancient World
Unit 4: Empires in the Old World
Unit 5: Empire in the Americas

Semester 2

Unit 6: Global System and the Rise of the West
Unit 7: Egalite for all? Enlightenment and Revolution in the Atlantic World
Untie 8: The Paradox of Progress: The Industrial Revolution, Imperialism, and World War I
Unit 9: World War II and the Holocaust
Unit 10: Decolonization Movements

Those "medal of honor" guys, as he explains it, are all dead or injured.

Funny!

Trump probably tells that joke daily to people for years. "You know, a lot of people think the Medal of Freedom is better...blah blah blah".

His disdain for people who join the military and, worse, those that are KIA or permanently disabled/disfigured and...gasp...let's not forget POWs!....it's just disgusting, fellas.

And this dude is publicly offering high praise for Vlad Putin for giving one of our guys back.

I listened to Trump last night. In the same breath he bemoaned world war, he griped about car insurance going up 55%...and how windmills create bird deaths "like we.ve never seen before".

Again, I implore my Republican friends to untuck their junk, find their spines and kick this dipshit to the curb.

Article going over all of his lies from yesterday.

Trump: medal of Freedom is Better than Medal of Honor because the soldiers are in bad shape or dead.
Goes along with his comment (quoted by Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic): Americans who died in War are “losers” and “suckers”

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And WTF is a COY---YO--TEE?

Might someone have insight into why Liam McNeeley decommitted from IU. This decommitment seems very odd since IU has needed shooters since forever.

I read that McNeeley's family said that Woodson & staff broke off contact. Was this transaction a "Creaning"?

Did McNeeley get a better deal at Connecticut?

Any info is appreciated.

Should be a good one. Dem v JD “Project 2025” Vance.

The fix is in.

There may be no more thoroughly discredited interventionist economic policy than rent control. It's a classic case of something that sounds good to most people when a politician proposes it, but pretty much invariably leads to bad outcomes. Really, this goes for most things that sound good to most people. But, despite learning this over and over again, we still often end up with policies that sound good rather than policies that are good.

As hyperinflation was ravaging Argentina, lawmakers sought ways to "do something" -- because Argentinians were, naturally, insisting that they do. And one of their answers was a 2020 measure simply known as the Rental Law. It was one of the top targets on Javier Milei's list of bad policies to undo.

Well, the policy change is starting to bear fruit.

Argentina's recent repeal of rent control by libertarian President Javier Milei has led to a surge in housing supply, with the freedom to negotiate contracts, previously restricted, directly causing a drop in rental prices.

For many locals, finding a new apartment had become "mission impossible." But after the repeal, Buenos Aires saw a doubling of available rental units, and rental prices have stabilized. Under the new rules, landlords and tenants have more freedom to agree on lease terms.

Since Milei's repeal of rent control laws took effect on December 29, the supply of rental housing in Buenos Aires has jumped by 195.23%...

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Shockingly, the actual outcomes of the rent control policy didn't match up with its advertised intent.

The (rent control) law aimed to provide tenants with more financial security, but by the end of last year, an estimated one in seven homes in Buenos Aires was sitting empty as landlords chose not to rent them out in Argentine pesos. Deposits were capped, and it was nearly impossible to end tenancies early.

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Somebody could probably write a book consisting of nothing but sentences that began with "The law aimed to (do something desirable) , but what really happened was (something undesirable)."
You'd think that everybody would welcome the surge in housing supply, even if begrudgingly. But you'd be wrong.

Not everyone in Argentina supports Milei's measure. Critics argue that the repeal disproportionately benefits landlords at the expense of tenants, many of whom are already struggling with the country's economic crisis. Some worry that the increased housing supply could be temporary, leading to a surge in prices once the market stabilizes.

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Of course that's their objection -- as if tenants are being "benefitted" by having no places to rent. The entire world can learn from what he is doing in Argentina. We're (unbelievably) still instituting rent controls here - or at least proposing them.

President Joe Biden has proposed federal rent control measures, saying they're needed to protect tenants from corporate landlords. He proposed limiting rent hikes to 5% a year for the next two years for landlords with more than 50 units.

Vice President Kamala Harris has also recently indicated support for rent controls, saying at her first major rally since becoming the nominee that she wanted to "take on corporate landlords and cap unfair rent increases." In 2019, after Oregon passed a statewide rent control measure, she praised the bill on Twitter.

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Milei 2024!!!

Glancing at the roster I only saw one PK,didn’t they sign a kid in the portal from somewhere down south?