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    Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)

    Hopefully the Big 12 has a quality Grant of Rights so that if some school gets an invite and wants to leave, there can be some $$$ for a silver lining for those that remain.
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    In Memoriam: Ames Business/Restaurants

    Oh wow! Where was this located? Was it somewhere in west Ames? I have a vague memory of going to eat with my folks at a sitdown restaurant somewhere in west Ames in the early 90s but I've never been able to piece together now what the place was that we went to.
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    Well, it's finally over

    If anyone wants to continue in the schadenfreude, they are showing last year’s Iowa VS LSU championship game on Origin Sports (channel 1163 if you have the Samsung TV Plus App). ;)
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    2024 Mens CBB Coaching Carousel

    So is this more funny or less funny now?
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    RIP M Emmet Walsh

    Thanks for posting this! I knew there was something I identified him with the most but couldn't come up with what it was. Jill's dad in Home Improvement.
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    Kelvin Sampson post game

    Compare today's Kelvin Sampson postgame after a 28 pt loss in Hilton South when Houston was ranked #1 with Kelvin Sampson's postgame after a 4 pt loss in Hilton on 1/9/24 when Houston was ranked #2
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    Kelvin Sampson post game

    Was going to post this if no one else. Was so surprised to see everyone saying how he is a class act after the pouting fit he had after they lost in Hilton. And he only wanted to talk about how his players lost the game; not how ISU won it. 2 postgame losses to ISU this season for him and those...
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    Playoff Setup

    If they were going to breakdown bids by conference ahead of time, it would be interesting but never happen is the Big 10 gets 3 bids, the SEC get 3 bids, and then there is 1 more bid that goes to the highest rated team from 1 of those conferences to create imbalance and controversy between those...
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    Playoff Setup

    That's a good point. I guess the key for me, but that I didn't emphasize like I should've is, when we get to the point of Ath Depts getting directly involved with loosely restricted athlete payouts, I speculate that will make teams like Texas get results at Kansas levels because of the players...
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    Playoff Setup

    Big 10 & SEC wouldn't be worried about this because with all the extra money from football (the real money maker) over Big 12 & ACC, they will eventually be able to get their basketball programs at or above the Big 12, ACC, & Big East by the time there was the next contract negotiation. That...
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    ***Official 2024-25 College Football (non-ISU) Thread***

    Thanks for the insight. Hope UNI puts a beating to the teams on their schedule; especially Nebraska and the Dakota schools!
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    ***Official 2024-25 College Football (non-ISU) Thread***

    I didn't know that UNI was headed to Hawaii next season. Good for those guys. Hope they have fun out there! Wow. Just looked at the rest of UNI's schedule for next year and they play @ St Thomas (St. Paul, MN), then @ Nebraska, then @ Hawaii. 3 road games in 3 weeks that are all way different...
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    Williams & Blum Pod: Red alert on bowl season, Liberty Bowl thoughts & hoops wrap-up

    I want to point to the Myers thing as the biggest factor but I go back and forth. You'd like to think that a P5 offense could exert their will over a G5 defense even if the defense knew what was coming. But that may just be a fan level of hoping how things would work. Then looking at ISU's...
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    Stadium construction ...

    I've been noticing sirens playing during all kinds of sports broadcasts lately. Don't know if they've always been there and I didn't notice or if more places are doing it. Numerous non-ISU college football and basketball games. Even noticed in some NFL games. The Washington Commanders were...
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    In memoriam of Brian Ferentz as Iowa's OC

    Maybe she was offered and turned it down. After a year there, she might've realized that she could do better and the trajectory of the major sports isn't going to be good over the next few years.