UNC has some solid athletes for their conference but I hope to see a hot start and atleast a 10-12 halftime pt lead and hopefully a 2nd half like we saw vs Eastern Illinois.
I'm gonna go somewhere in the middle:

Indiana 84- Chatt 67.

NDHuntington reminds us how bad we are this early in the season. Woild like to see 9 steals between Carlyle & Tucker.

Mgabko continues with the impressive offensive show with 22.
Would also like to stick to the 8 man roster until comfortably ahead (hopefully in early-mid 2nd half) then Cupps, Hatton & Newton.

I think most of us knew this was coming. Another 11-9 or 10-10 season. Wash rinse repeat.

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Unfortunately, larger governments and more regulations have consequences. Thankfully, the U.S. has a Conservative Party.

One suggestion, guys. There is a wide range of possible outcomes at the 'shoe this weekend and Saturday's game, for me, is the toughest pick since the UCLA game. I know there's a temptation, particularly this week, to go with "my heart says [Score A] but my head says [Score B]." Your call as to whether to go with your head or your heart, but try to go with just one score prediction. Let's have some fun with this and see who among us is Nostradamus.

Here's my prediction:

IU 27
OSU 23

Go Hoosiers!

Sucks when you don’t have an 8ft center who got to shoot 30 free throws a game

Just my opinions - why Harris lost to Trump - in order of impact:

1. Transgender issue - Demand for/support for transgender education in elementary schools in Florida and elsewhere/penises in female sports and female locker rooms/"Harris supports free transgender surgery for inmates" commercial
2. Cost-of-living
3. 8 years of calling everyone deplorable, immoral, Nazis, fascists, racists and garbage
4. Call for taxing unrealized capital gains - another poke in the eye of the union family who now watches their 401k just like a 1%er
5. The Fredo Syndrome - "we're smart"

Just my opinions - why Democrats think Harris lost to Trump:

1. Identity politics addiction + No. 3 above - "she is a black female in a racist, misogynist nation full of Nazis and fascists and garbage"
2. Vote fraud
3. No legitimate reason

MTIOTF posts occasional feel-good stuff and I enjoy it. Trying to create a thread where people only post good stuff (i.e. don't post political issues that will anger one side or the other). I'm hoping this title is easy to remember, too.

I just saw this and liked it:



There is a you
telling you another story of you.
Listen to her.

Guess all that "he's the next Hitler" stuff was just BS... Either that or Mike and Joe are the first among a willing vanguard of the next Quislings...

They say it's an attempt "to restart communications"... Decoded that means: "we've clearly lost our audience and we're willing to do or say anything to attempt to stay on the air"...

Wake up and crack a beer. IU is about to skull f#ck some cornhuskers.

Such a dumpster fire.

Nearly $35 trillion.


Net international trading position….nearly $20 trillion in the red


“The trade deficit is a statistic with little relation to a country’s prosperity….the vast majority of trade economists do not see the U.S. trade deficit as a ‘problem’ to be solved.”

It’s gonna take a few more years. To fully build back up from Archie. Indiana has the right man for the job!

Blackrock and now Fidelity have applied for a Bitcoin spot ETF. 60+% of Bitcoin hasn’t moved in the last year. Also, supply will dry up some with the halving, next April. Once, people understand Bitcoin they don’t sell. The separation of the State and money will be one of the greatest human achievements in history.

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Any word on if he has been able to get rid of the splint? It will be 5 weeks Saturday since the injury,still too soon?

The preasure is all on the Buckeyes, hear me out. They already have one loss and can't afford another. They are currently scrambling to retool their O-line, they know their pass secondary is not their strength. The longer we stay in the game the higher the water rises for them.

We, on the other hand are truely playing with house money. I would love to Beat the Buckeye, hell I'd love to be B1G Champs too, but our goals are much broader than OSU. We are all ready going to be in a bowl game at worst, maybe even the CFP. , and a great opportunity to beat OSU in the Shoe. I was there in 87, I know how that feels. It would be wonderful. We are only going to be Cinderella once. I hope the shoe fits but if not we are still going to have a special season that we'll all remember.

I am surprised I made it through the complete show tonight about the CFB rankings. I will not go into detail all we heard. Obvious there is national bias against IU. BUT one thing was appreciated by those 4 clowns when talking to the SMU coach and was NEVER brought up with they were dicing up IU like chopped liver. Each team had something in common.

When asked .. the SMU coach mentioned he had an older team. I cannot remember the exact record he said but that is not the point ... that group of older SMU players won a lot and play confident.

Does that sound familiar? It should because Coach Cig mentioned it yesterday when asked ... older team and our coaches have won 24 of their last 25 games. Those of course count the games at JMU played.

But the 4 ESPN clowns never brought up that fact about IU, only went on and on about a weak schedule. You would think the B1G was ranked lower than the Mountain West listening to them. Galloway can go f*** himself but at least McFarland squeezed in "If IU loses a close game they are in the playoffs".... IMO IU wins this game.

The ESPN clowns will be speechless next week. I like what the UM AD said though ... "we watch games and what takes place on the field." ... but two of the ESPN clowns seem to want SOS to count more than what happens on the field !!!!

Screw 'em all and just win out. One game at a time, coaches and players that are use to winning .. and apparently have the ability to shut out all the noise. Even dumbass Galloway said IU had to keep their QB from getting hurt otherwise it is FSU all over again.

Another horrific incident in Iran that will be swept under the rug.


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Meanwhile, protestors are not only supporting anti-Israel, but are literally proclaiming Islamic Jihad to take over various places across the Western world. And if that weren't enough, this is a religion that is responsible for 33,769 Islamist attacks that killed at least 167,096 people between 1979 and 2019. We know those figures are now too low, based not only on Hamas' attack, but various other attacks the past couple of years.


Is there any other cause that is even close to having this much of a detrimental impact across the globe? Is it racist to feel like Islam and its followers are a lost cause? Obviously the majority of Islam followers are probably not bad people and are getting a bad rap.

I read your post re Harris. It’s an interesting historical question and off the top of my head vps have a poor running record but I think the salient part that’s being omitted in your post in comparison to prior elections is Harris’ coronation without a primary.

to finish first team all B1G?

Mgbako has come out hot, Rice has a outsiders chance. Ballo if he averages 13-10-2.5?

Covers a lot of ground including topics we've debated for years on here...

Now it makes total sense. You can't argue with this logic.

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Great troll

Sadly, I think this is just the start.

With Putin's announcement that he'd send troops into Donetsk and Luhansk, and with reports tonight that Russian troops are already rolling through the region, Russia has officially and openly invaded Ukrainian territory. Of course, they were probably already there, anyway, but now there is no room for denial.

This thread is for the foreign policy wonks who got crowded out of the previous thread by the predictable political bullshit. None of that in this thread, please. Let's keep this one focused.