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QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 07:21 PM) I'm an ND fan, but wow is Weis ever talking out of both sides of his mouth/wants to have his cake and eat it too when it comes to recruiting. He's gonna get torched for this, and rightly so. I'm a huge ND fan too but Weis is a f***ing prick when it comes to recruiting. The guy knows no limits when it comes to going after guys that have already comitted. He went as far as saying telling guys that had recruited to Iowa that..."commitment is just a word" (making it sound like nothing at all). Real freaking brilliant. Its the problem with pro coaches that go to college (and Carrol is 10 times worse than Weis when it comes to going after guys that have signed with other schools) they haven't been around the recruiting and as such they just don't give a s*** and have no respect. It freaking sucks. Luckily aside from Smith (who had a dream of playing at ND but wasn't originally recruited by them) none of my Hawkeyes bought into the crap Weis was spewing. And Smith will probably regret the whole ND thing, ND gets a lot of play on TV (and they are one of my 2 favorite programs) but they haven't had near the success as Iowa has the past few years at getting guys to succeed in the NFL (Greenway was hurt but 1st round pick, Abdul Hodge did great for the Packers, Steinbach, Gallery a high pick albeit has not lived up to his hype, Bob Sanders, Dallas Clark and we have a few DT's and DE's in the league as well. I can't think of ND having many pro guys with success as of late. Albeit I think that will change with the offensive set but on the defensive side of the Ball that has yet to be proven.

I'm still surprised they would let the one other leave for the other island. Wouldn't he know the other's secrets and be able to give all of the people on the island a good idea of who the others are? I mean Juliette didn't have to let him go and he sure as heck wasn't part of the deal Jack brokered. Just seems a little odd considering how protective the others are of there background (as to what exactly they are doing on the island).

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 03:11 PM) No, you were defeated at AH earlier. Unless you are guaranteeing a BTT game. I'm just a tard. I'm thinking more so of the fact that its a good chance that we will play you guys the last game of big ten season and than in the first game of the BTT tourney.

QUOTE(Jimbo @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 01:00 PM) Kansas is just as young too...Paulus is crap and McRoberts is overrated. Suffer Rat Face Let me add that UCLA is insanely young..no seniors and very few juniors on there squad. QUOTE(Jimbo @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 01:11 PM) Duke has had better recruting classes than Kansas...There is no way of ever defending Duke. Coach K picked the wrong players and they suck together. The only decent talent is Scheyer. I can't really say that Duke sucks. They are still a top 20 team in this country and somehow they have a top 5 RPI (than again Arizona is in the top 10 based on RPI and frankly I don't think they are that good of a team). Still I'd be the first to admit Duke has some talent, I just don't expect them to win the tourney this year nor do I consider them one of the handful of very very good teams in this league. They are still good though (better than my Hawkeyes, lol). QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Feb 8, 2007 -> 01:34 PM) Its wierd thinking about a 1-2 seed for Wisconsin. The difference in the quality of opponents is astounding compared to where they generally are put (between 5-8). (And looking at that bracket I dont know how Illinois didnt get in. Barring some major loss id say they are about 80% chance of making it right now.) I think the big 10 only gets 4 teams in with Michigan State and Illinois battling for the last spot and Iowa being a sleeper (still have two games left with Illinois) if they can nearly win out there last few big 10 games (not counting the Wisconsin game, although a win against Wisconsin would do wonders for there RPI and for the team confidence). And yes damn it I'm giving Iowa a small shot.

Those are absolutely terrible.

I did Tiger Scouts, Cub Scouts, & Boy Scouts.

I'm guessing the medication Juliette made has a little something to do with the kid. Last night was yet another fantastic episode, but than again I haven't gotten tired of the show at all and it looks like it is going to be a doozie of a 2nd half of season 3. 2 more seasons left after this and than we'll know a whole lot. By far still the best show on TV in this genre (Jericho is 2nd) and than of course you have the action action based 24.

QUOTE(Palehosefan @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 08:41 PM) Losing Nick Young is really going to hurt though, he's my favorite non-UNC player in the nation. Amazingly under-rated by the public before this year. Ya that guy is a stud for the Trojans. I still can't believe how no one is talking about USC. They have some top notch wins and have been in pretty much all game all season while playing in one of the top conferences in the land.

Great game going on over here on the left coast with UCLA and USC battling it out for tops in the Pac 10. USC is going to be a dominate basketball school with OJ Mayo joining an already talented squad next year. I can't believe it took this long for Tim Floyd to get another gig considering how good of a job he did with the Cyclones. By the way, the Duke game was a real good one and UNC got the win. And dan, you should be happy Sheyer had a career day (26 points) but Duke ended up losing so it was like the best of both worlds (kind of like hot ice).

QUOTE(Felix @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 07:30 PM) meh.. Haluska refused to miss anything tonight... spoiled Spencer Tollackson's best game basically. Oh well.. at least we've got the Floyd of Rosedale You won't have that Floyd for long though Awesome win by the Hawkeyes tonight. Great to get a road win and now we got a real big challenge going up against the Badgers in there house. Hopefully Tucker won't be as ridiculous and that Tyler Smith will actually show up this time around

WOW

.300avg 30 HR 20 steals & a gold glove award. I'm just going to be crazy and hope that today and today only I have a special ability of predicting the future.

QUOTE(Felix @ Feb 7, 2007 -> 03:10 PM) T-Minus 1:50 (give or take..) Iowa really needs this win tonight. They are coming off a great week and at mid-season are 4th in the conference and actually have some hopes of a tourney bid if they can finish strong. The key to that will start tonight against Minny. A loss here and they are probably toast (barring them going undefeated or something the rest of the way).

What started out as a quiet signing day for the Hawkeyes took a huge turn for the positive this morning as four-star prospect Cedric Everson followed his heart and switched his verbal commitment from Michigan State to a signed Letter of Intent to Iowa. Awesome news and at least semi makes up for losing Smith to ND. Iowa now ranked as the 27th best recruiting class in the country. ISU @ 59 according to Rivals.

QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 09:05 PM) It's supposed to go to the best prognosticator but since I was not nominated it will not be going to the most deserving poster this year. Your just lucky cause I'd have that award locked up if I were in it. Lets see...called the Sox acquiring Randy Johnson and Aubrey Huff.....but I did call the Tigers being our biggest competition. QUOTE(Kalapse @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) Haha, who do you think nominated your ass? And I may be nominated for a few but Fathom is taking it to me in two of them and Gage in the other. Don't worry, I'm pretty sure you get the win over me since I'm not actually eligible as a HOF member but somehow I got put into that one.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 08:17 PM) I've had questions about Morris from the very beginning. I have never seen past seasons, so I don't have any knowledge of his previous history, but he seems shaky to me. This is his first year on the show (at least I think it is).

Cold because I can sleep. If it is 100 + and humid I'll get absolutely no sleep at night.

RIP

Has a surprisingly good year....275, 8 HR, 14 SB and plays great defensively in LF and good enough in CF. Ends up becoming a starter (playing most of the time for Pods).

Oden. Durant has closed the gap a bit but in the end I take a guy that can be the best big in the NBA and it has been proven over the history of the game that the best bigs get championship rings. You can't always say that about the best wing players or the best guards.

I love Gonzaga. A, I was at the tournament where they were first cinderella's and really enjoyed watching that team and seeing there entire school close down and support there team. And B, they televise all the games and give me some great late night college basketball on ESPN (cause they play a style of bball that is fun to watch, in fact the WCC is a pretty fun conference to watch play).

QUOTE(shipps @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 10:52 AM) I wonder who they are speculating?Kwame Brown is still in the league right?hehe Phil Jackson did call him a pussy and always meow when Kwame was around But personall speaking I could care less.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Feb 6, 2007 -> 10:06 AM) Everytime I see a graph on global warming, its a 100-200 year snapshot of average temps. This is a bit small of a snapshot when you are talking about global climate changes. Sure we have seen an increase in temps over the last 100 years, and sure it has an affect on our climate at this point in history. But if you take a look through time, the temperature of the world has fluctuated in cycles. This is the hottest the planet has been since around 1000AD. So if it was so hot back in old 1000AD what where they doing to increase the temps. Was it the population at the time, NO. Was it the large amounts of industry or technology, NO. Then why was it so hot back then. Maybe its just a cycle that happens. I know Al Gore built the internet and all but come on. For every theory on global warming being caused by people only, there are others. There is a theory that our climate is more affected on the slight deviations in the tilt of the axis of the earth and its deviations in its orbit that have slow, but farther reaching climate changes then Betsy and her SUV. That has been what I have long said. I think right now we are in a period of global warming but the key is that the history of the earth has had many weather cycles, some with global cooling and others with global warming. I remember in some of my college science classes a few of us were talking with the professor about issues like this and one of the things he pointed out about CO2 was that graph SSI posted (I had forgotten about it but seeing it reminded me). I've long said the debate shouldn't be about the warming (although if people want to so be it) but I do know that polluting the air can't be good for us to breath and polluting the water can't be good since we eat fish out of it and rely on many of the things. I just think its common sense we should do our best to recycle/reuse things as well as consistently lower toxins that we release (not because of global warming, but because it will keep things cleaner. But do I think we are going to cause the polar ice caps to melt and the entire world to flood, no. I think that is up to the earth (now if we set off a nuclear holocaust, well than who knows what will happen but that is by far a greater fear to me than dying in a flood due to the polar ice caps melting).

Umm I'd just like to point out this drug policy slamming is a bunch of crap. They would have had tighter drug policies but it took a zillion times of public outcry and legal pressure to get the PLAYERS UNION to cave in on this and make it an outcry. What was Selig going to do, let the game go into another strike over drug testing (because if the owners had fought for it a few years back that is exactly what would have happened). And this exclusive rights deal with DirectTV in no way shape or form violates there anti trust agreement.

Dustin is the epitome of class and I wish him nothing but the best of luck.