TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 More discussion on B1G conference expansion
🔥 Is the ACC vulnerable to losing schools?
🔥 Juwan Morgan joins the Pacers franchise #iubb
🔥 Mets & Braves fighting for NL East lead

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Dog hell. Make sure your gates, doors, and exits are locked

This rumor is gaining more ground and IU would really need to step up to the plate for football even if it means rising above basketball.

What do you think the chances are these two come to the B1G soon.

Just signed a max 5 year contract worth over 200 million dollars with Cleveland. He doing a lot better than his buddy Romeo😆

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Posted with hopes that it angers every America-hatin' sumbitch in the world, each of whom is dumber than a bag of hammers.

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We may disagree on many things but hopefully we all agree the USA is the greatest country in the world.

We have problems and we are not perfect, but I am so thankful to live here and experience the opportunity given by the land of the free, paid for by those who have served and sacrificed.

So I hope today, everyone enjoys the freedom to celebrate with friends and family. Be proud of our country, with all its scars, because there is no better place anywhere!

7 bowls
4 decide a Final 4
2 decide Final 2
1 decides national champ

For football only

The 64 will require facility and financial minimum commitments.

But … attendance will continue to decline at games due to cost, streaming options, boredom during TV timeouts.

Rule changes will speed up games.

Rosters will expand.

Transfer rules will contract.

NIL and pay for play will keep kids happy.

I make it clear to the football staff that “the Big Ten and IU are on the precipice of a new world - huge money - and IU intends to start this new world as a winner. Defined as a winner. So at the end of this season, I need to be very confident I should not hire Urban Meyer to be my Moses.”

Is there an official count of how many yesterday?

No 4th of July Celebration in Akron Ohio.

Liberals here might not be interested in this speech but it is an interesting view of the future and past from 1989, both domestically and internationally, for better and for worse, rosy and cautionary.

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One thing for sure, America today is not Reagan’s shining city on the hill.

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Garrick owns a BBQ catering business,and I know other family members as well.But what makes this story notable is who their Grandmother was,and what I discovered while reading the UNC off topic board this evening...

One of the guys on that board is the editor of a small town (NC) newspaper,and they put together a story on the oldest surviving offspring of a Civil War veteran.Interesting read as their Grandmother's father was originally a slave who ended up fighting in the Union Army.She just died,and her obituary specifically mentions her 80+ yr old son (she was 111) who lives in Bloomington,as well as her grandsons...

http://www.robesonian.com/news/102983/devane-daughter-of-slave-civil-war-soldier-dies-at-111

Happy Fourth

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I am too old and too far away to know anything.

the goal is to have the fewest number of schools possible, and still keep both the media and politicians happy.

premise,

you're a former activist hedge fund manage, who has been hired to put together a collalition of schools to make up the top division of college athletics.

any industry consolidation dynamic has the end goal of as much concentration of wealth and power in as few hands as possible.

maximum concentration, while still being able be satisfy both tv/streaming needs, and political forces.

for college sports, what would that number be, and who would be included in that number?

64, 50, 32?

you might have to have enough schools in enough states that you don't piss off 60 US senators all at the same time..

or maybe not, your call. and there's more than one way to satisfy a senator.

how many senators you need to please is just as much a part of the game as satisfying the tv and streaming guys' needs.

example league.

PSU, OSU, Mich, Wisc, Bama, Fla, Miami, Clemson, UGa, LSU, Texas, OU, A&M, USC, Washington, Oregon, FSU, Auburn, MSU, UNC, Iowa, Tenn, UCLA, Nebraska?

that's 24 teams, which is 12 games per Saturday, which is 4 games per each of the 3 Saturday noon, 3:30, 7:30 time slots, and enough to even slide a game or 2 into that late night west coast time slot.

and more than enough to move a game or 2 a wk to Fri night.

should be more than enough for the tv guys. right?

probably more than enough to build an 8 or 16 team national playoff.

of course there's still a possible numbers problem.

we are circumventing monopoly anti trust, no matter how clever we think we are about doing it, so there still could be a DC issue.

i still have 64 US senators totally unrepresented, and maybe a couple more getting flack from their base because of the brother still left behind, like in SC and Okl, and Penn, and Wash and Oregon and Cal and even Ga.

of course some senators in fly over states like Wy or Montana or Idaho, or Nev, or New Mex, or the Dakotas, who aren't invited to the party now, and never have been, might not care since they aren't losing anything they ever had to begin with.

especially if the league laid a mil per senator each in their political PAC account every term, which of course is perfectly legal thanks to our "honorable" judiciary.

remember, the goal is to find the least number of schools/shares of the pie possible to form the league, while still having enough schools to satisfy TV's/streamer's needs, and keep DC off your back.


give us your league.

Does IU have a legitimate shot at KJ Evans? He’s an Eric Gordon type recruit.

Stay safe!

as a boiler fan i found this interesting……

i don’t agree the pac should feel “double crossed”.
after the TX and OK move, all ears should have been perked-up
from what i have read, the big was approached by the cali schools.
so did we ‘poach’?

interesting that he thinks purdue, iu, northwestern facilities put the pac12 to ‘shame’. (my take)

maybe we (the ‘poor’ football programs) ain’t as bad as we thought…..?

Michael Steele held an interesting roundtable, that I thought some of the people on the board who view themselves in a similar fashion could relate to... No doubt many of the folks within MAGA world would derisively characterize this group as RINOs, and undoubtedly there are some on this board who would join in on the name calling. But these people all either ran and held elective office as Republicans or worked for Republican Administrations and/or campaigns. And in the case of Miles Taylor, he actually worked within both the Bush and Trump Administrations...

It won't do any good to advise folks who have no interest in this topic to skip it, in hopes of fostering an actual discussion. We all already know the posts labelling them RINOs will be coming, and more than a few will likely emanate from people who have less experience or legitimacy than these folks when it comes to being a Republican, rather than just a Trumpist.

But I'm essentially interested in hearing from the people on the board who felt they had to leave the GOP due to Trump, no matter if you view yourself as a conservative, moderate or even liberal type of "Republican", or former Republican. Building on that I'm curious to know if you feel you do or do not identify with the issues that they articulate as having left them feeling alienated?

For example, Michael Steele was actually RNC Chairman and held office in MD. Yet he seems to have very little in common with someone like Ronna McDaniel, even though they were both integrally involved in the Romney campaign.

Joe Walsh is a devout Catholic who opposes abortion and is essentially conservatively-oriented on just about everything...But he views Trumpism as an authoritarian blight on the GOP and the US. And as for Miles Taylor, he's actually a homegrown Hoosier from LaPorte with a degree from IU...

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Imho, Walsh nails it with his parting shot regarding CPAC and Hungary...