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Erickson is a pretty good offensive guy. Just throwing it out there.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 08:45 PM)

Oh snap...congrats on the internship. I'm sure your gonna kick some serious butt there.

Content Republican...boarding on Happy but I want to see the economy to continue to rise.

Philly would like to get rid of him but they will also probably ask for something for him. Also the Sox in no way shape or form are going to have any interest in him. We never heard his name come up once when he was available and now that he'll get over 4 mill+ this year his name definately won't come up, imo.

Not a problem. I figure its one of those features that takes a little getting used to, but in certain instances it will be real cool to have.

Damn it, Iowa sure took a dump in the 1st half. had a strong second half though. I figured they were due for a loss cause i think Michigan is a rather solid club. Now its time to see how Iowa responds. They've been playing some cupcakes for a while and now is where they are going to have to step it up. But they can't afford losses like tonight at home.

We got a dvr through our cable company. Not a problem thus far and if there is they replace it for free. Personally I think if you have cable, that getting it through them is a far cheaper option.

This new version of the board is a little bigger then the old version so were making some changes to clear the way for this to work very smoothly. Were also checking on some bugs that are causing a glitch in the mysql and forcing it to stick in a sense and eventually time out the server (probably a horrible explanation). We may be wrong and it could of been caused by another site, but were gonna check anyway and I just want to warn you that you may see an outage or two tomorrow until its fixed. Bear with us though

They better not blow this freaking game. Chandler playing well. Anyone else really dislike Othella. Also Noc is really struggling the past 7-10 days, imo.

I'm going boarding again on Friday.

Alright, quote plus does work. A quick explanation is you click on the quote plus button on every post you want to quote and then it turns to a "-" Once you have all the ones you want selected go to the bottom of the page and click reply. Once you do that all of the quotes will appear in the reply box and anywhere you see an end quote tag you post just below that your response to that quote. Then go to the next end quote tag and type your response for that quote there.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 10:35 AM) You Da Man! Gracias! Testing Quote+ QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 01:24 PM) I'm still seeing several posts pertaining to QUOTES so let me just spew what I know from my usage. If you use FAST REPLY your post will occur w/out any quotes. If you use REPLY your post will occur w a quote of the last user to appear in the post you are replying to. If the +QUOTE was working, then when you reply all users appearing in the post would appear in your reply. But it's not working so +QUOTE does the same thing as -QUOTE. If you select -QUOTE then only the last user to appear in the post will appear in your reply. Even though it looks like +QUOTE is the default since it's not working it's the same as -QUOTE. So the moral of all this is don't bother using the QUOTE button until someone acknowledges +QUOTE is working. Testing Quote+

Ok Juggs, got take a look at it now. You should be all set

Oh gotcha, I can set up something like that. Gimme a few minutes juggs

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 09:44 AM) That may be true, but the top OTs in this draft can be had in the 20s in the first round. There are more skill position players to be had in this draft than I can remember in a long time. I don't know. The two names I hear are that Alex Barron or whatever out of Florida and D'Brickshaw. Most mock drafts I see have them going top 7. D'Brickshaw I've seen going as high as 3. But until the combines this is pure speculation. I know this, if Walter Jones finally gets to be unrestricted then the Bears need to do all they can to get him. However, if that doesn't happen, maybe offer the Bears 1st round to the Seahawks for Jones and there 1st and the Seahawks can grab the WR they need.

Hey Juggs As far as the ignore feature, not many people are going to use it. But when two people just can't get along then by all means they should use the ignore feature. Sometimes that happens and this will be a nice way to keep those fights between the two people that don't get along from ever happening. As far as the posts options, go to your control panel and then board settings and you can change the post you see on the board and in the thread.

There is probably a good shot that maggs up on the northside though. If healthy he'll put up fantastic numbers there.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 08:42 AM) I honestly don't think Knight would consider it. He really left Bloomington with a bitter taste in his mouth. Ya right, Bobby Knight is never going to coach for IU again. Obviously they would go for Alford, but I don't think Alford takes the gig unless this Iowa team collapses. He finally has something going in Iowa and seems relatively happy there. He also has a nice contract situation and it will get very nice if this team plays like its capable of playing.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 07:35 AM) What is everyone's beef with Alford at Iowa? I know he has had some problems with players, but I really don't know any details. He seems to be finally turning things in the right direction, but I still hear negative things. What gives? Mainly because the team has underachieved a few years. I think most of the hatred over Alford stems from an off the court incident involving Pierre Pierce. It was a women charging him with ape or assault and Pierce was suspended but some stories broke out where Alford tried to get the chargers removed by talking to the girl or something along those lines. I don't remember the full story. Alford got ripped by many for it though. As a coach the team looks to be finally going up. He's been hampered with injuries and as a result depth issues the past couple years. It was kind of like the team would stay in the games and go to the bench and then get shelled. That or the starters would be out too long and they'd get creamed. I also think a lot of fans are upset because the team with Evans/Recker failed to go as far as it could of. That was a very very good college team and had Recker not had his knee injury who knows what could of happened. In general Alford can really make it up this year, but I think all Iowa fans are growing tired of not making the tourney. Hopefully it changes this year, but Alford's teams have done well in the past non-conference, I want to see them step it up and play well against the Big 10. First test comes tonight against Michigan.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Jan 5, 2005 -> 08:52 AM) Yeah, and the Astros offer is atleast 6 years 84 million Well 5/75 is a better offer then 6/84 in terms of a per season basis. I think Houston has a better offer out there though, not positive on that though.

Remember here. The Mets offer has yet to come in so the media can be wrong at that one. But if it does then sure the Cubs offer doesn't come close. I still think they made a rather fair offer. A couple weeks ago and Boras may of jumped at the deal when things were super quiet on the Beltran front.

I can't see Flozell getting cut, but I guarantee you, if at all possible Angelo will look to land a big time OT in FA cause then he can move down in the draft and focus on getting a few playmakers, mostly on the offensive side of the ball, but the Bears could use a LB as well. I don't know how much money they have, but if they can sign a stud LT in free agency and a solid WR, then they could move down in the draft, snag a LB, draft a WR early, and get a TE. The rest of the draft get depth in other areas.

Remember, its quite unlikely to get a guy thats a current OC unless his contract is up. For example the Eagles aren't going to let Childress just go and I highly doubt Childress gives up what he has in Philly to join the Bears rank. However an odd rumor going around is that the Bears are hot after Chargers OC Cam Cleeland. I have no idea if his contract is up or not. Linehan however made 300K last year and his contract is up. You know Tice's job is in jeapordy and McCombs is cheap (Tice only made like a million) and I highly doubt he'll give Linehan as good of an offer as he can get somewhere else. As far as Norv Turner goes. He's a WC guy and if you want to know how he runs his schemes take a look at the Raiders, who were pretty solid offensively once Collins settled in. They didn't even have much offensive talent either. Turner was also an OC in Miami and of course had his head coaching tenure in Washington (then he went to Miami and eventually Oakland). Turner runs a west coast offense and has used two variations of it. One focused on the run which was when he had Ricky in Miami, although there offense was still more then capable. It was how that team was built and the other molded around the pass. Then his brother Ron Turner, who got the can from Illinois, left the Bears for U of I and was probably the designer of one of the Bears best offenses, one that improved each of his 4 years on the job. Conway/Graham were the only Bears duo to each catch for 1000 yards in the same season with Kramer at the helm. I also think he was there the year Walsh led the Bears into the playoffs.

Ok I've figured it out even more. For those of you that like me saw two quote buttons, you need to clear your cache. It will naturally do it over time, but if you clear it now, then just hit refresh in a couple areas and you'll see everything like brand new.