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Overwhelm them with our depth says

DC Chad Wilt … of his Senior laden two deep. It’s easier for fresh bodies to play with an edge and swagger. Doesn’t about 40 defensive team lettermen this season sound like a plan for success?

“Then you look at the back end, we're talented there at the back end with Jaylin Williams, and Tiawan [Mullen] and Monster [Devon Matthews] and those guys. Seeing Bryant Fitzgerald continuing to grow, right, Bryson Bonds coming on, Josh Sanguinetti we're getting a position now where we can just throw people at them, throw people at them and overwhelm people with our depth.

I've pointed out last season to some of the guys when talking about the depth to show them proof of that, a young man I had last year at Minnesota, Boye Mafe, who was drafted 40th overall and the last three games of the year we had at Minnesota, he and his backup split reps each game being one off in the reps. If one of them played 45 the other one played 44 reps … Boye was drafted 40th overall so that's part of the reason Boye could perform at such a high level is he didn't have to keep the governor on and he could just go play, go play, go play. Throw him in there four-to-six plays, then the next guy is in four-to-six plays, go play with your hair on fire, run around like a madman, and hey tag team that thing out WWE style and the next guy goes.”

https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2022/8/16/football-quoted-fall-camp-edition-august-16-update.aspx

Lots of other good quotes showing where incumbents apparently doubled down to return to good form.

Stuff you don’t see anymore (list).

Flappers
Phones screwed into walls/rotary phones
Belgian social clubs
Italian social clubs
German American Bund campgrounds
Hot plates
Blackboards
Violins
Non-tattooed people
McDonald’s Playplaces
Anne Heche
Rabbit-eared televisions
Televisions built into rich, solid wood cabinets
Guillotines
Grandfather clocks
Men who know how to knot a tie
Intercity bus stations
“Bloom County”
Dukes of St. George
Bewigged judges (east of the Mississippi only)
Jarts
High quality professional dominatrices
Smokestacks
Yugos
Apple IIe’s
Peasants with sickles working the fields
Those TV dinners that took an hour
Saccharine cubes
A lot of cats
IUT
Block after block of bungalows
Pamphlets denouncing the King of Mexico
Daguerreotype studios
Massacres of Huguenots
TGIF lineup on ABC
North American Soccer League trading cards
Tupperware parties your grandma hosts
Saddle shoes
Cocker spaniels
Endless acres of aerials as you ride the train into Chicago
Esperanto congresses
Barbers doubling as the town surgeon
Lovers of Sturm und Drang
Hi-heel sneakers
Guys named Leroy and Gary
Metal ice cube trays
Burger Chef
“Night Court” reruns
Switches, straight off the tree
Emme the plus-size supermodel
Radio repair shops
Fulsome bushes, like a nice boxwood or something
Wallpaper
Basil Fawlty
Bench seats
Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets
45’s (and 78’s!)
Wrist sweatbands
Red stripe wide ovals
Dollar hot dogs and dollar beers at the ballpark
Lou Christie LP’s in the cutout bin of the music counter at the department store downtown
Thoroughly convinced Cartesians
Japanese cars made in Japan, dammit
Old Stuckey’s that *haven’t* been converted to “adult superstores”
Swaggering, alcoholic Britpop bands
Well-annotated and affordable editions of Faulkner’s novels
Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips
Aluminum pitcher and tumbler sets
Al Green’s Drive In
Albums with titles like “Al Green Gets Next To You”
Spam with the twist key
Pull-top tabs on beer and pop cans
Pepsi Free
Nice photos of Alan Greenspan
Mason’s Root Beer or Choc-Ola in the old returnable glass bottles
Kids who know cursive
Lowenbrau
Do they still make Blatz?
Good Voltron
Marty Stauffer’s Wild Kingdom
“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom”
The gum from a pack of baseball cards
Ditchweed
Honey Brown
Killian’s Irish Red
Pool hustlers
Pool halls for the working class
Candace Cameron
Humorous applications of the word “boner”
Marxist-Leninist-Stalinists
Alan Thicke (R.I.P.)
Robin Thicke
A really top notch tobacconist
Shoeshine stands in airports and bank lobbies
Movie series about bloodthirsty midgets
Dialup internet
Socks the cat (R.I.P.)
Any of Kim Jong Un’s - and the Korean people’s - many, many enemies
Pay phones
Pay toilets
Karen Carpenter (true both before and after her death)
C-$
SchrockStar
Queen of the Sea 24-Hour Buffeteria (Stony Island Avenue, Chicago)
Emilio Estevez’s career
“The National”
Cute girls reading Kipling on the bus
Newport ads in “Sports Illustrated”
Chicks in overalls (real farmer ones, not fashion designer crap)
Block I’s
Crimson bison
Hitchhiking hippies
Criminals forced to clean highway trash
Drummers in red leather suits and skinny ties
Shave and a haircut two bits
The regrettable Sam Wyche era IU football styles
A 50%+ three-point-shooting Hoosier
Old fashioned 4-ply toilet paper like Grandpa used to weave
Jimmy’s mom (?)
A ballot the Socialist Workers Party manages to sneak a candidate onto
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Transfat!”
Macarena
Acid-washed jeans
“Desuetude” used properly in a sentence
51/49 beef at the butcher
“CARtoons”
Dogs without a trace of pit bull blood
Dutch royal family action figures
Odes on the Hoover Factory
Good taste in upper-upper-middle-class housing
Richard Simmons showing up at malls
The VHS tapes I used to fill with “The Three Stooges” and late late night HBO and Showtime super soft core back in junior high I wonder whatever happened to
Geranium dainties
Memorized phone numbers
Häagen-Dazs Honey Vanilla, the dirty ****ers
Kids who answer to “Timmy”
Chickens loaded up on antibiotics
Gondola traffic on the White River
Songs about fairies and gnomes and shit
Macramé plant hangers
Bead doors, while we’re at it
B-36’s
Aunts who remember the first time they saw a car

VESUVIAN INTERLUDE
Outhouse
Hand pumps for kitchen water
IBM typewriters
Typewriters
Home answering machines
Telephone party lines
Big V-8 engines with a lot of power
Cars simple enough he, as a teenager, could change engines, transmissions, brakes, etc.
Hand crank ice cream machines
Shag carpet
Velvet wallpaper in bathrooms
Hardwood floors that need to be hand waxed with paste wax

Segways
Weekends spent at The Patch
Hair like Porter Wagoner
Suits he owned that still smell like him
The 45th parallel
Garbage bags full of porno out in fields
Ceramic Dalmatians for purchase on “Wheel of Fortune”
The term “lady love”
East Prussia
Shellacked things
Hare Krishnas down in the subway
Parks you’re not scared to be in
Starving Artist Sale This Weekend Only!
Backyard gardens from anyone 40 or younger
Topol
Kenny Rogers cassette tapes
Brown vans
Roller skaters on city sidewalks
Young boys named Fig
Country clubs centered on a bowling alley
Chest hair replacement programs
Susan Powter infomercials
Libraries with copies of “Gnomes”
Opium dens


HOOKY’S COMMUNICATION CODA
MCI phone cards
GTE phone bags
SI football phones
Drive up pay phones
External antennas for mounted car phones
Beepers

Gopher Illustrated - 2022-23 Big Ten Basketball Preview Series: The Team Capsules


Not too shabby - author seems to at least be familiar with the Teams/Players...

You know what really grinds my gears.....

New NON POLITICAL (haha, sure) thread. They seem to be the longest lasting and most useful around.

What grinds your gears. The more specific the better. I'll start...

So I'm driving to and from Chicago today. A trip I despise mostly b/c I won't stay the night and it's f*cking Tuesday. But I digress. I-65 is Thunderdome. My highway cruiser is a BMW 320i and it's very good at going 90 in the fast lane and getting 32 mpg while doing it. But the got dam semis and their near incessant need to leap frog on a two lane limited access highway where the left lane's defacto speed minimum is 80mph is infuriating. They don't even "draft" each other. So, I don't see how they are saving fuel. They go about 1mph faster than the got dam truck in the right lane and take 90 seconds to pass each other. It's borderline dangerous.

I ranted to my wife about the need for cargo trains between Chicago and where ever the hell these trucks come from (many from Indy) and how BIG TRUCKER is clearly lobbying hard against this. In actuality, of course, I know nothing of whether using trains for more cargo travel makes sense. But when I set my pea brain to it, I considered overseas cargo travel. When we ship containers from point A to point B we load like 5000 of them on a huge ass cargo ship (the biggest ships IN THE WORLD) to move them as cheaply and efficiently as possible. We don't send individual ships across the sea. Now, I know once it arrives somewhere it will be broken up and delivered "locally" via some existing logistical structure.

I think Amazon is going to solve this in the next 10 years. I'd be willing to put upwards of something approaching real money in Amazon stock if they talked about doing it. Shit, they already platform 1/2 the world on AWS. Logistics is next.
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Another one bites the dust

After all, he hires only the "best people":


Edit to add: Maybe another one soon:


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news...his-goal-now-is-to-die-a-free-man/ar-AA10IWl3

How does it reflect on a CEO, if your CFO pleads guilty to 15 felonies, all related to tax evasion schemes?

It would seem to be a bad look for said CEO. I suppose said CEO might try to say that "he barely knew" his employee of 40 years.

Interestingly, part of the plea involves willingness to testify against other people in the organization who were party to the schemes.

One of the problems with going electric vehicles and machines etc.

For those of you that think electric vehicles are the answer- this is a true story from a farmer in the Midwest- and I’m reposting it-

A close friend farms over 10,000 acres of corn in the mid-west. The property is spread out over 3 counties. His operation is a "partnership farm" with John Deere. They use the larger farm operations as demonstration projects for promotion and development of new equipment. He recently received a phone call from his John Deere representative, and they want the farm to go to electric tractors and combines in 2023. He currently has 5 diesel combines that cost $900,000 each that are traded in every 3 years. Also, over 10 really BIG tractors.

JD wants him to go all electric soon.

He said: "Ok, I have some questions. How do I charge these combines when they are 3 counties away from the shop in the middle of a cornfield, in the middle of nowhere?" "How do I run them 24 hours a day for 10 or 12 days straight when the harvest is ready, and the weather is coming in?" "How do I get a 50,000+ lb. combine that takes up the width of an entire road back to the shop 20 miles away when the battery goes dead?"

There was dead silence on the other end of the phone.

When the corn is ready to harvest, it has to have the proper sugar and moisture content. If it is too wet, it has to be put in giant dryers that burn natural or propane gas, and lots of it. Harvest time is critical because if it degrades in sugar content or quality, it can drop the value of his crop by half a million dollars or more. It is analyzed at time of sale. It is standard procedure to run these machines 10 to 12 days straight, 24 hours a day at peak harvest time. When they need fuel, a tanker truck delivers it, and the machines keep going. John Deere's only answer is "we're working on it." They are being pushed by the lefty Dems in the government to force these electric machines on the American farmer. These people are out of control. They are messing with the production of food crops that feed people and livestock... all in the name of their "green dream."

Look for the cost of your box of cornflakes to triple in the next 24 months...”

Vote June 28th in Oklahoma. Let's return sanity to Congress and our nation.

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Depth is the key to winning in the Big Ten. His approach to coaching the entire room from top to bottom and having everyone Ready to play will put us in a position to Win some games when things get tough and the starters get dinged up...



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Dan Abrams: FBI unfairly maligned by irresponsible media coverage

Left-leaning media don't want to cover all the cases of Democrats getting taken down because it would show that corruption is bipartisan, and right-leaning media don't want to cover them because it would undermine the narrative that the FBI is a politicized machine targeting only Republicans.

Interesting take. Now he's got Sean Patrick Maloney talking about how, for all their good intentions, the radical Democrats are damaging the party's standing with a majority of Americans.

Coors Light - Our official beer!

I find it rather hilarious that our dry campus now has Coors Light as the official beer of IU Athletics and yes I understand that we are only talking sporting events. So is the campus still dry unless you are drinking Coors Light? LOL

Will our 21 and over athletes be doing ads for Coors Light? Maybe we can get those pretty blue mountains from their cans replicated on our Jerseys!

  • Poll
Who are your ideal 2024 candidates, and why?

Why did you pick these two?

  • They are moderates who will help slow the pull of our country toward one extreme or the other.

    Votes: 13 40.6%
  • They are both smart and competent.

    Votes: 27 84.4%
  • They are the kinds of people I could see actually unifying the country.

    Votes: 9 28.1%
  • They are younger, and the country needs to move to a new generation of leaders.

    Votes: 12 37.5%
  • Other (specify in your post).

    Votes: 3 9.4%

We have mentioned in a lot of different threads various people we'd like to see running for President, so I thought it might be interesting to have a place just for that discussion. So place your picks here, and let us know why you'd like to see them. Attached poll includes what I imagine would be some common reasoning.

Summer concert updates?

I saw Whiskey Myers about a month ago in Raleigh. Pretty solid show, but it was a rainy night and the crowd was so rednecky it detracted from the show. They rocked more than I expected, and I enjoyed the music, but it wasn't the best environment between the rain, heat and crowd. I'd say a solid 7. Fast forward to this past Friday and I saw Drive By Truckers. Man, great show! Guys are probably all as old as me, but you can tell they still love to play and invest themselves in their performance. Rocked it hard for over 2 hours with no break. At the point when I was thinking, "man, they've got to end or take a break soon" and about 5 minutes into what wound up being their last song, the 2 front guys who both played guitar and sang, (probably 70/30 to Mike Cooley, who I think of as "the voice" of DBT) unplugged, waved and took their bows and applause and exited the stage, leaving the drummer, bassist and keyboards playing. After another minute or two, the bassist followed suit and the other two kept playing. Another minute or 2, and I expected the keyboardist to exit, but the drummer said his goodbyes leaving the keyboardist alone on stage. Finally he stood up, waved and walked off as they brought they house lights up. I thought it was a cool ending, versus everyone walking out and waiting for the cheers and perfunctory encore. Honestly, I thought it was a 10... maybe 9.9 because they didn't play one of my personal favorites Gravity's Gone. I had never seen DBT before and they were terrific. Definitely recommend catching them if you can. Still have tickets later this month to see Jamey Johnson and Blackberry Smoke (who's drummer just had a heart attack), Marcus King in October and comedian Nate Bargatze in December. Who/what shows have you seen and still have on the calendar?

Hardy / McCulley

It's probably not fair to make this comparison and I'm not making any kind of prediction but at least in terms of Donaven McCulley's body frame I keep thinking back to James Hardy. Hardy was listed at 6-5, 220, McCulley is currently listed at 6-5, 210. Hardy's 40 time is listed at 4.49, I found an article that lists McCulley's 40 at 4.6. So I don't know if that's 4.69, 4.6 flat, or somewhere in between. McCulley came in listed at 195 so he's already added some weight and my guess is in the next offseason or two he'll probably add 5-10 lbs more. (The listed weight may be a little inflated.) He might be able to shave up to a tenth off his 40 time too with good training.
What I don't know much about are 1) does he naturally have good hands and 2) does he have a natural ability to adjust to the flight of the ball. Obviously with more reps he will improve over time but if there is a natural talent for it that he's building on he could become a real weapon. I just saw a Tweet quoting him as saying he's always wanted to play receiver. I'm not sure how much of that is just him saying the right thing but if he truly wants to play the position that's a good sign. Perhaps he's identified this as the clearest path to the NFL? Not sure but I'm certainly anxious to see how he looks out there. I think having a receiver with great size will complement what DJ Matthews can do nicely.

Tuesday Throwbacks

Liz Taylor 1949

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Sophia Loren 1955


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Marilyn Monroe 1950.

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Brigitte Bardot during the filming of Helen of Troy, Rome, 1956

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Sophia Loren in THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION (1957)

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In the photo, Miss Universe contestants continue to pose, despite the fact that Miss New Zealand passed out from heatstroke. (Long Beach, California, 1954).

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Marilyn Monroe with her dog, Hugo, for Look Magazine in Amagansett, Long Island (1957)

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Vikki Dougan in a most shocking and scandalous dress for the time (1957).

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Elizabeth Taylor during the filming of Giant, photographed by Frank Worth (1955)

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Madonna, 1977

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