JamieDimonsBalls said:

I'm going to answer this will bullets because it's spurred a ton of tangents.

• The Parents - WTF dude, these are frosh and maybe sophs in HS. To actually throw an alcohol induced and drug allowed party is insanity. One, these kids are still pretty young. Two, the liability is insane - we're talking many, many years in prison. Why didn't the cops arrest these fools? Anyone with that kind of judgment isn't likely a good parent in the first place.
• The Kids - JFC, if this is the future of our generation, we might as well pray for the asteroid. I cannot help but think of Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers

If they can't have fun and enjoy each other's company and attraction with a little booze and some Halloween costumes, global warming doesn't matter.

• Kids - Brad, I don't remember if you have any daughters too, but curious if you would have a different level of support for a daughter vs. son. My oldest is a girl and I already know I have different (double) standards and no amount of reasoning is going to change that.

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BradStevens said:

In other words, once again, thanks a lot @UncleMark

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76-1 said:

LSU was the only team ranked above us (that I'm aware of) that lost (at #8) but that may allow us to move up at least one slot to #12...,( hopefully even more)...

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TominDallas said:

JMU is good again this year. That team was stacked.

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ulrey said:

Fraud alert..

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Radio Zero said:

I remember growing up in the Detroit suburbs in the 80’s. Don and Max Skirvin calling games broadcast by WOWO in Fort Wayne was really the main connection to IU my dad and I had.

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abraxis said:

Regarding #3, IU just needs to rotate the field to run east/west instead of north/south with TV cameras directed north. When Memorial Stadium’s…excuse me, 17th Street Stadium’s layout was designed in the late 50’s, fossil-fueled Climate Change wasn’t anticipated, with its more violent days of radiant sunshine increasing in historic number, based upon the latest expert science of the day, meteorologically speaking.

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BradStevens said:

So Brad Jr. went to his first high school party last night. Kid he knew since elementary school threw it. He and a neighbor went together (walked to it).

30 minutes later they're back at my house. They left because it was "boring." About 100 kids, lots of girls, some dressed in quite revealing Halloween outfits (learned this from another neighbor whose daughter went and stayed until the end). Lots of alcohol there--beer, liquor. Parents knew, supplied some, and were there at the time. When I asked, so what was boring about it, Brad Jr. said "they were just standing around listening to music." (I'm guessing part of it was fear).

By 10 pm, several kids were hammered (per my other source) including a few girls who were "crossed"--for the uninitiated, that means both high and drunk. The parents then told the kids to leave (many kids also brought backpacks of booze into the party, by the way) and when they didn't go quickly, called the cops on their own party and it was broken up by the police.

So, for parents out there, how do you feel about this? I'm OK with my son experiencing it (and kinda wished he had stayed longer to see actual drunk people act stupidly and just get used to an environment like that) but am really turned off by parents hosting a party with booze for 14 and 15 year olds. I guess I'm a full-fledged parent now, because all I could think of was, what happens if one of those kids gets hit by a car while walking home hammered (this is an urban suburb, so everything is pretty close)? Or the girls get harassed, or worse, walking around at night, drunk, in a sexy outfit?

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• The Parents - WTF dude, these are frosh and maybe sophs in HS. To actually throw an alcohol induced and drug allowed party is insanity. One, these kids are still pretty young. Two, the liability is insane - we're talking many, many years in prison. Why didn't the cops arrest these fools? Anyone with that kind of judgment isn't likely a good parent in the first place.
• The Kids - JFC, if this is the future of our generation, we might as well pray for the asteroid. I cannot help but think of Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers

• Kids - Brad, I don't remember if you have any daughters too, but curious if you would have a different level of support for a daughter vs. son. My oldest is a girl and I already know I have different (double) standards and no amount of reasoning is going to change that.

hozo4ultimate said:

Fair enough. But do you think UCONN fans are going to get to know McNeely or Mullins?

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BoilerN said:

It doesn’t sound bad. It sounds like Painter used the exhibition exactly what it should be used for. Experimentation and trying things you might not try in the season.

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T.M.P. said:

Success doesn't happen in October.

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