mcmurtry66 said:

Disruptors. I love it. Disrupt that gov industry. With the amount we spend let’s do a four year audit

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bbh_42 said:

My take on why he wouldn't leave. He's 62 and has the support. If he continues to do what he has, he will go down as a legend (sort of already is) at IU and the greatest coach of all time for the program. If he were to leave in a year or two and go to a more well known program, all he can do in his years left is be just another successful coach in a line of successful coaches. Go to Florida State, Bowden will still be their best. Go to Alabama, still behind Bryant and Saban.

Stay at IU and eventually your lasting legacy is going to be a statue outside the stadium and possibly the field named after you. Welcome to Memorial Stadium and Cignetti Field.

His ability to build a lasting legacy is greater at IU than most other programs and since you already have the ball rolling here why start over. He came to the BIG because he recognized that only the BIG and SEC will be the relevant ones and get the lions share of the money. So tell me, which Big or SEC school could you go to that has the blank slate that IU presents to build your legacy.

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secondasky said:

1. During game day, they talked about a specific football only weight room and someone stepped up with $1 million to help with that. They couldn't believe other athletes could use it previously. (for all you previous largest weight room in the country chest pounders)
2. Washington players were on the field warming up at 7am their time.
3. The field doesn't look good on tv. Big sun glare. Field needs changed maybe similar to Colts new field.
4. Really need to put a press box and suites end to end and quickly.

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mcmurtry66 said:

Not in the least. Rfk Jr is spot on re censorship concerns and I love his take on the food industry. Musk is an innovator. Let them make Recs. There are safeguards. I’m tired of inertia and with what we’ve witnessed over the last five years with one agency f up after another I’m all for shaking stuff up. Bloat etc. scary is walz Harris spending and inertia

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UncleMark said:

I was bitching during the game about TJ not keeping the ball himself like I thought he should. It wouldn't surprise me if he'd been told not to and to let his backs do the job.

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BradStevens said:

I think that example is over used outside its context in many areas.

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mcmurtry66 said:

I’ve said it before. My main product we manufacture would cost 6-8x more if we did it in a factory in kc that does it. Brad has the same instincts I do and apparently trump does about our global military influence as well as manufacturing. I know enough to know that trump’s tariffs would indeed raise prices and I know the pain that would come from moving manufacturing back. But I wish I had an idea for how much pain. What it would look like. How long. Etc. And instead of buying navy ships we subsidized favtories for here. Some of the problem overseas is that companies have already had their capital infrastructure invested overseas. So instead of just saying make it here it’s having to build plants again. But what if some of that military budget was carved off for improvements here with restrictions. Restricted funds so it doesn’t go to ceo salaries etc. 85 percent of the products in Walmart are made in China.

What excites me so much about this election isn’t trump. It’s rfk Jr. Tackling censorship. Tackling what we eat. Consumer issues. And musk. Let him loook at these agencies. Let him innovate. Get rid of the bloat

We need a reboot. Gov inertia at a macro level

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Marvin the Martian said:

And the opposite concern, the Hitler-appeasement?

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Hoosier Clarion said:

Brand for all the advanced education he owned was a relative dumb ass. For sure and for certain.

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Hoosier Clarion said:

Brand for all the advanced education he owned was a relative dumb ass. For sure and for certain.

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mcmurtry66 said:

Elon Musk says he’s cut about 80% of Twitter’s staff | CNN Business

Elon Musk has laid off more than 6,000 people at Twitter since taking over the company, he told the BBC in a rare interview late Tuesday.

amp.cnn.com

Value who knows

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Down 80%: Fidelity says X has plummeted in value since Elon Musk's takeover

According to investment giant Fidelity, estimates of its shares in X have become 80% less valuable since Elon Musk took over.

www.usatoday.com

Tammany Hall said:

$40/game ($30/game for recent grads) is a darn good deal in the world of sporting events.

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BradStevens said:

So this is the same type of sentiment I'm expressing re foreign wars, military spending, etc. I'm worried a lot of times these arguments for our military might keeping markets open is only a ploy for guys like Musk (in other sectors) to profit.

If we apply your justification for that here, I guess we'd have to argue that it's OK for Musk to do what you're accusing him of as long as it also improves in some way our overall standard of living. Is that right?

The reason I think my concern more important or serious, though, is that it involves more than just corruption or crony capitalism--it can lead to us getting involved in military conflicts, piss off regions rife with terrorists, and maybe risk a nuclear war.

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mcmurtry66 said:

Agreed. That doesn’t mean there isn’t room for innovation. As I said before I love the idea of an outsider. I’m disappointed it was trump

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Marvin the Martian said:

You were not here in 2009, CO killed a LOT of photons railing on Tesla and the infrastructure bill. So you think that guy is seriously going to reform government? Or are we putting a heroin addict in charge of our drug policy?

Musk knows how to game agencies for his profit, he ain't giving that up. He is just going to insure he doesn't have competition.

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mcmurtry66 said:

I think that guy cut twitter’s staff by 80 percent. I think he has a mind like few others. He’s pulling astronauts out of space. Bringing internet to war torn areas. I think we need to enlist thinkers like that in gov if we want to do anything other than: well I’m with the cdc. We got Xxxxxxx amount allocated last year. We need that plus .5 percent added

Trump said it with WHO. Wait. You bungled Covid too. Why are we just automatically cutting you a check. Biden “and I’m writing a check today to WHO.” Of course. He’s 50 years of gov. Let’s get some people who think differently. If musk is game we’d be fools not to enlist him. You think our gov goose steppers are more innovative? It’s a shame the outsider we got is trump.

Harris and walz. My God it would be impossible to do worse. Perfect gov lifers

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