In advance of BiG Media Days next week from FS and Sat Trad. More kindly phrased questions than answers from either.

The Hoosiers start the 2022 season with three home games against teams that were a combined 8-12 (.400) on the road last season, which is the perfect setup (hopefully) for another matchup on the road against preseason ranked #4 Cincinnati on September 24th.

A hot start seems available for the taking before a grudge match at Cincinnati.

https://hoosierstateofmind.com/2022/07/18/how-indiana-football-makes-bowl-game-2022/

… they’ll need Mullen to again play at an All-Big Ten level. When he can control his half of the field, it puts tremendous pressure on opposing quarterbacks.

Mullen came back to Bloomington for this opportunity: Both a chance to get the Hoosiers rolling again, but also a chance to show the NFL that he’s healthy and ready to play at a high level.

https://saturdaytradition.com/india...itical-questions-indiana-must-answer-in-2022/

The Open money list

I didn't realize he was being forced to play PGA events! #stopprogolferoppression!

Sergio: "I can't wait to leave this tour!"

The Indiana Black Expo announced that Mike Woodson received the Excellence in Sports Award.

"College basketball was so far removed from me. If it did open up, Indiana was the only school I would have ever coached"

Full acceptance speech:

Reading those comments from past players about the coaches is damning against the former administration, and really reinforces some of the thoughts about past hires. Worth a read…

Please make it go away. Annoying af….

TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Kyle Guy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 Looking ahead to B1G Football Media Days #iufb
🔥 Kyle Guy creates 'Dizzy Runs Pro-Am'
🔥 Should there be salary caps for NIL deals?
🔥 #uswnt defeats Canada in CONCACAF Women's Championship

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TUESDAY'S SHOW:

🚨 Kevin Brockway
🚨 Mike DeCourcy
🚨 Kyle Guy
🚨 Chronic Hoosier
🔥 Looking ahead to B1G Football Media Days #iufb
🔥 Kyle Guy creates 'Dizzy Runs Pro-Am'
🔥 Should there be salary caps for NIL deals?
🔥 #uswnt defeats Canada in CONCACAF Women's Championship

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Linking the Yahoo story for people without a sub to NYT. Considering how vocal a few here were about the IRS being used as a political tool, I'm expecting some very vocal condemnations.

Phin just did about 10 minutes with Dakich at the top of his show. I'll come back and post the link when they put it up on the website, but a few things he said that I thought were worth mentioning:

• Woody doesn't let them take plays off. Even if you're not on the floor in practice, you better be paying attention or you'll hear about it.
• Catches shite every time he goes home and he needed the win
• The staff put up the pu picture of AH with their logo at halfcourt in the locker room and used it to motivate them.
• He knew the second shot was in and when sasha went under the screen, he knew he'd have time to get it off.

Nice interview.


Here's the link to the show https://omny.fm/shows/the-dan-dakich-show/best-of-the-dan-dakich-show-friday-1-21-22

For the first time, there are more registered Republican voters than Democrats in Kentucky.

McConnell starts with a whopping 2,500 vote advantage.

Kentucky GOP overtakes Democrats in voter registration
https://www.wdrb.com/news/politics/...cle_06947ab4-0547-11ed-8ab3-6b92a595f92a.html

DIARY OF A POMMIE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

August 31 - Just got transferred with work from Leeds UK to our new home in Karratha, Western Australia. Now, this is a town that knows how to live! Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched the sunset from a deckchair by the pool yesterday. It was beautiful.
I've finally found my new home. I love it here.

September 13 - Really heating up now. It got to 31 today. No problem though. Living in an air-conditioned home, driving an air-conditioned car.
What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a sun-worshipper.

September 30th - Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. No more mowing lawns for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

October 10th - The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least today it's windy though.
Keeps the flies off a bit. Acclimatizing is taking longer than I expected.

October 15th - Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third-degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed three days of work. What a dumb thing
to do! Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

October 20th - Didn't notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car before I left for work this morning. By the time I got back to the car
after work, Kitty had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stuck to the upholstery. The car now smells like Whiskettes and cat shit. I've earned my lesson though: no more pets in this heat.

October 25 - This wind is a bastard. It feels like a giant feckin' blow dryer. And it's hot as hell! The home air conditioner is on the blink and the repair man charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needs to order parts from feckin' Perth ....

October 30th - The temperature's up around 40 and the parts still haven't arrived for the feckin' aircon. Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Bloody $600,000 house and we can't even go inside. Why the hell did I ever come here?

November 4 - Finally got the ol' aircon fixed. It cost $1,500 and gets the temperature down to around 25 degrees, but the humidity makes it
feel about 30. Stupid repairman.

November 8 - If one more smart arse says 'Hot enough for you today?' I'm going to feckin' throttle him. Feckin' heat! By the time I get to work, the car's radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking feckin' wet and I smell like a baked cat!

November 9 Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat on the black leather upholstery in the ol' car. I thought my feckin'
arse was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs of my legs and my feckin' arse. Now the car smells like burnt hair, fried arse and baked cat!

November 10 - Weather report! It might as well be a feckin' recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny, Hot and feckin' sunny! It's been too hot
to do anything for two feckin' months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.

November 15 - Doesn't it ever rain in this damn feckin' place? Water restrictions will be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry up and blow into the feckin' pool. The only things that thrive in this hell-hole are the feckin' flies. You don't dare open your mouth for fear of swallowing half a dozen of the feckers!

November 20th - Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 feckin' degrees today. Now the air conditioner's gone in my car.. The repair man came to fix
it and said, 'Hot enough for you today?'

I had to spend the $2,500 mortgage payment to bail me out of jail for assaulting the stupid
fecker.
Feckin' Karratha! What kind of sick, demented feckin' idiot would want to live here!

December 1 -
WHAT!!!!
The first day of Summer!!!!
You are feckin' kidding!

As many of you know, my 18yo son happens to have Down syndrome (as well as a couple of other medical issues). In May he graduated from high school. In June, he started his first job at a local Cincinnati chili parlor. The job was only for 5 weeks, and was part of a summer program run by the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities (ODOD). ODOD provided a job coach, and the program is not intended to lead to full-time employment with the employer. Instead, it's intended to help develop job skills, allow for the exploration of various careers, etc. But, it was a paying job ($9.50 an hour).

My son was a rock star. The job coach even commented on how he independently exhibited leadership skills with his team (there were two other participants). He also enjoyed going to work (though, like most of us, he still probably would have preferred to stay home at times).

My wife and I believe it is important to allow our son to decide what to do with his earnings (with some guidance, of course). So, what did he want to buy? See my tweet below. Yes, I know I am blowing my cover a little bit, but I could not be more proud of this young man.

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Rugby faces 'ticking time bomb' over dementia as former Wales captain Ryan Jones becomes the latest former player to reveal that he is suffering at the age of just 41​

• Ex-Wales captain Ryan Jones has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia
• The 41-year-old admits he is 'terrified' about the future and the impact it will have
• He believes rugby is ‘walking headlong with its eyes closed into a catastrophe’
• It is thought 200 ex-rugby players have been diagnosed with dementia and CTE

The man representing 185 rugby union players in a concussion lawsuit against the game’s governing bodies has warned of a ‘ticking time bomb’ of early-onset dementia diagnoses and other neurological impairments in the sport.

Former Wales captain Ryan Jones has become the latest former player to reveal that he is suffering with both early-onset dementia and probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the age of 41. Jones believes rugby is ‘walking headlong with its eyes closed into a catastrophic situation’ as it continues to battle the impact of head injuries suffered by its players.

Richard Boardman of Rylands Legal represents the rugby union players in a lawsuit against its governing bodies as well as a further 75 former rugby league players in a separate lawsuit against the Rugby Football League.

He believes there could be thousands more rugby professionals who, as they reach their 30s, 40s and 50s, might end up with dementia, CTE, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease or post-concussion syndrome as a result of taking blows to the head.

Saw on the mainboard where Brownstown's Jack Benter committed to Purdue...

We gonna regret this, fella's....


GoHoosiers...

Games started this morning but Indiana targets get underway in about 30 minutes.

Another full day of action.

A lot of the IU targets see action later this afternoon and evening.

Prospects like DeShawn Harris-Smith, TJ Power, Brady Dunlap, Tyler McKinley, Boogie Fland, Yves Missi, Dylan Harper, James Brown, KJ Windham and much more in action throughout the day.

IU has an extraordinary amount of experience this year. Reckon Everyone can be relied upon to be better (at least and likely) than last year. Came from thinking about how Jordan and Malik are challenging and making Race better every day just by dint of their athleticism and innate drive. And vice versa, and team-wide, with similar iterations similarly playing out every day in a myriad of variations. If the Hoosiers are going to do something symphonic (again), this is the year.

Not saying the 2022-23 Hoosiers are going to be one of Evolutions's Greatest Hits, but if there's not abundant cause for whooping this Season I'll leave off imagining to know anything about the Game.

New ponies (thoroughbreds by all accounts) with new tricks, a seasoned core of elder and wiser veterans, some noteworthy recent success even within what played out as a remarkably seamless and positive transition/upheaval year - all point to an ascendant Team/Program trajectory. And grins, bragging rights, winning tickets, and maybe onto rinse and repeat. Plus.

Only mid-July. Damn. In any case, "Welcome home Mike Woodson". My vote for most stylish, real and qualified Coach in the B10.

The whole venue went cashless. ….

https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-b...ed-up-lines-at-iu-events-and-stores/2022/7/13

Unfortunately, I won't get to play any golf at all.

When I got up this morning, my eyes were really bloodshot and mucus was oozing out of my left eye. I also had congestion, a sore throat and thick blood was coming out of my nose when I blew it.

Because I got up around 3:00 this morning and only had about four hours sleep, my wife drove me to a medical facility in Greenwood that accepts walk-in patients. The doctor examined me, said I have the pink eye and told me not to play golf this weekend because I might be contagious. At least I didn't have COVID for the second time!

I'm really looking forward to Monday because I'm meeting with a church that morning regarding a large color copier I quoted them and then we're installing a color copier at another new customer's facility around 2:00 in the afternoon.

Unfortunately, Monday evening won't be fun. I have to prepare for a colonoscopy and endoscopy I am having Tuesday morning. At least, the doctor and his staff are great!

Story from @Knickoson

"You never get too old to learn how to be a better person"

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The person interviewing Jerry is Chris Ulmer, one of the most extraordinary people I have ever met. Our local Down syndrome association brought him to Cincinnati a few years ago as the keynote speaker for a program for local teachers. By the end of the day I could have sworn I saw halos over him and his wife's heads. From his YouTube page: