I suppose you agree that the B12 just wasn't all that this year ...

Look for Michigan to beat TxT taking the B12 out completely. I was surprised that ISU didn't get by the first weekend but consistency has been an issue, hasn't it. Ku lost to the FBI and injuries. K-State without Dean Wade was an average team. OU and BU were not tournament worthy. Thankfully, TCU and Texas went to the NIT. Maybe one of them will win that. At least the streak is dead.

Offseason Mind Games . . . An Abnormal Vision

In an attempt to clear up any questions this story raises, I AM a Cyclone fan. Steve Prohm is the coach of my men’s basketball team, and he is a good one. I wish good luck to Fred Hoiberg. I wish bad luck to Nebraska basketball. If this post is too long or you are already bored, please leave now, I don’t like hate mail.

While playing pool with a friend recently, he lofted the 8 ball, it caromed off the bumper and hit me in the head. I saw the 8 just before I was out. During my hiatus, I had a vision of one possible future:

By 2025, many college sports media contracts expire. Financing collapses and the Iowa Regents decide to create a single university system from the three schools and a single athletic department with a single set of teams. The campuses are University of Iowa – Iowa City (UI-IC), UofI – Cedar Falls (UI-CF), and UofI-Ames (UI-Ames). Track teams and women’s volleyball are assigned to UI-CF. Tennis teams, cross country, and women’s basketball are assigned to UI-Ames. The remaining teams are venued in UI-IC. In a “compromise”, the Regents name all the teams the Hawks, thereby retaining the investment in all Hawkeye logos, including the TigerHawk. Regents select three school colors: black, purple, and gold. Each venue may use only 2 colors if they choose. Representatives of UI-IC immediately chose black and gold, UI-CF chose purple and gold. Stubborn to the end, UI-Ames folks at the meeting chose gold on gold.

Hundreds of students, alumni, and fans from all three schools milled around outside the meeting facility. When news of the sports decisions leaked out, numerous fights started. When authorities got control an hour later, most of the people still walking were from UI-Ames. The Regents, getting a little nervous, threw a bone to UI-Ames. They made ice hockey a sanctioned and supported sport to be located in Ames. In recognition of the UI-Ames fighting spirit, they created two new teams for Ames, men’s and women’s riot teams. They were authorized to make and sell cherry pies to pay for riot match damages.

Three months later, all locations in Ames where new gold on gold Hawk uniforms were stored were broken into and the uniforms burned in several bonfires. In the aftermath, thousands of cherry pits were found at the base of the fires.

The Regents, meeting in an emergency session, immediately ceded UI-Ames to the Nebraska University System. In short order, the new school colors became beetle wing red and corn juice white. No decision was made on sports in Ames, but the Nebraska Tractor Test Trials were moved to Jack Trice Stadium at MidAmerican Field. The facility was renamed Trice Tractor Test Trials at NPPD (Nebraska Public Power District) Field. Locals soon called it Mr. Ts. An endorsement deal was signed and the Jack Trice statue was painted John Deere green with a yellow base.

A restaurant and bar on South Duff Avenue mounted a tractor on a 40-foot pole and called itself “I Pity the Fool.” Fool made big money serving smoked meat and corn-on-the-cob. During the next major flood, nothing but water could be seen for 1/3 of a mile around Fool, except for a tractor seemingly floating on the water.

At this point I came to as the EMTs used smelling salts and the vision was gone. Asking a series of questions to check whether my wits were about me, one they asked was, “Who is the coach of Nebraska men’s basketball?” “Tim Miles!,” say I. They, “No, No, No, it’s Fred Hoiberg.” Then I knew . . . it’s all true!!!

Starting a Garden

I realize there are probably some other gardening threads around here but I didn't want to sift through them in order to find an answer to a more specific question so I apologize. I have a roughly 80'x15' spot in my back yard that previously was a garden several home owners ago. It's raised slightly with some landscaping timbers about 5 to 6". It got completely overgrown with weeds along with other plants that someone had put in there at some time. I can't identify what was exactly was in there but it wasn't anything that was at all pleasing to the eye but I know it was just standard yard weeds. I sprinkled a little gas around in there and lit the thing up knowing that is likely the best way to get rid of all that and minimize regrowth of unwanted plants. I realize that may have been my first mistake but it is what it is. What I'm wondering is what and how much I need to till into the soil for maximum plant growth. I plan to plan cucumbers, zucinni, several different vairieties of tomatoes both large and small, green beans and maybe take a 4th of it and section it off for a small stawberry bed. Any and all good advice would be more than welcome. TIA

Smartwatches and golf

A couple things. I have a Gear S3 and play a lot of golf.

First thing, what golf app do you use that gives you fairly accurate yardage?

Second thing, and this is the biggest pain for me. I use my phone to play music while playing, hooked up to a bluetooth speaker. The issue that I have is that as soon as I leave my bag/phone to go putt, my watch drops connection with my phone and for whatever reason Pandora stops even though the bluetooth speaker is still connected. Is there a setting or an app that I can use to prevent this from happening so that I don't have to shut off my bluetooth on my watch in effect killing my opportunity to use a golf app on the watch.

MAC & EWL merging for Wrestling

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2019/3/4/mac-announces-historic-wrestling-expansion.aspx

Cleveland, Ohio – The Mid-American Conference (MAC) announced today a historic membership expansion in the sport of wrestling as the MAC has added seven new affiliate members – Bloomsburg, Clarion, Edinboro, Lock Haven, Rider, George Mason and Cleveland State – to begin competing in the MAC with the 2019-20 wrestling season.

The addition of seven new affiliate members increases MAC wrestling membership to 15 total members. Bloomsburg, Clarion, Edinboro, Lock Haven, Rider, George Mason and Cleveland State all have joined the MAC from the Eastern Wrestling League (EWL) making the MAC the second largest NCAA Division I Wrestling conference.

MAC wrestling membership includes Buffalo, Central Michigan, Kent State, Northern Illinois and Ohio, along with current affiliate members Missouri (since 2013), Old Dominion (since 2013) and SIU Edwardsville (since 2018). The eight current MAC members will compete in the 2019 MAC Wrestling Championship on March 8-9 in Norfolk, Va. on the campus of Old Dominion University. Next season the 15 MAC wrestling programs will compete in the 2020 MAC Wrestling Championship on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.

Bridget Carleton wins Cheryl Miller Award & WBCA All-American

Iowa State women's basketball senior Bridget Carleton caps her historic season with two of the highest distinctions Women's College Basketball has to offer. The Chatham, Ontario native was named the 2019 Cheryl Miller Award winner, which honors the best small forward in NCAA Division I. Upon earning the award, Carleton is also named to the Naismith Starting 5.

Carleton also was named to the 10-member WBCA Coaches All-America Team. She becomes the first Iowa State women's basketball player to earn either distinction. She is also just the second student-athlete to earn the Cheryl Miller Award, joining UConn's Gabby Williams, who was the inaugural recipient.


https://cyclones.com/news/2019/4/4/...xgXmBYsxawAZTkBohwsCgZpcs_YpI7PO-actVMs3j9Sss

Bono

Anyone else hearing the rumor that Bono is going to be fired from other boards? Sounds like it is from recruiting violations, which wouldn't shock me. Also wonder if this could lead Wick to transfer (although he originally went to Wisconsin for Barry, so he might be there for the school and not coach). But, if he does decide to transfer, I know a school that could really use a 165 lber....

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