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And near as I can tell there are no requirements to join a national organization to form a neighborhood watch. Most police forces will offer some training regardless of national ties. I suspect most watches do not bother to pay dues.

The question becomes can he evaluate the level of player he needs to attract at UI?

We elect actual humans to make these decisions.

What the voters seem to have wanted was . . . A criminal in a hoodie confronts you demanding your wallet. You have an option to turn and run or, just like in the movies, you reach into your jeans to get your wallet and pull out a 9mm. Or you are the Korea War vet who instead of exiting the bus, you beat the crap out of the thug in a hoodie who is intimidating you. What they received was . . . Zimmerman Be careful what you wish for.

That particular neighborhood watch was not associated with the national association. Think of it like a parents group at a school that does not pay dues to the PTA. So it was a neighborhood watch not a Neighborhood Watch™. Just like you can have an association of parents and teachers without having a PTA.

This highlights how important it is to pick the right career moves. People will look at your record. Really good ADs will look at your record beginning with year three. By year three you should have most of your recruits in place, comfortable with the University and your recruiting area.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 09:26 PM) In other coach searching news the SIU search could not be going in more of an opposite direction than the U of I hunt. Mario Moccia(our ad) has done a great job in keeping the whole thing under wraps, I'm kind of concerned that Robin Ventura might be our new coach... I heard they were checking Monster.com and Careerbuilders for a candidate

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Mar 21, 2012 -> 04:08 PM) Not right now there aren't, at least nowhere he's going. So if you are speaking short term, you're clearly wrong. If you want to talk long term, he's not on TV so people can begin to know about him, everyone already does. You don't get jobs based on TV appearances, you get them on results. And a top 5 job, if that's what he's holding out for, won't be influenced by studio work on CBS. That's ridiculous. I am talking about TV in a very general sense. A lot of my opinion is based on my father in law who was a D1 AD. Seeing how a guy handles the media is nice. Being a "name" that will help with fundraising and boosters is a plus. And it isn't just the basketball fans that they want to raise money from, but the average alumni who just wants that school pride and band wagon jumpers. And every coach benefits in different ways and different levels. Certainly the out of work coach gains the most from continued national coverage. A guy who is taking his team to the final 4, probably very little. Unless you make a Jimmy the Greek or Al Companas type remark, you can't be hurt by television appearances.

10-13 after an 0-3 start.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 26, 2012 -> 08:13 AM) And that is what Florida's voters have decided their state should be. Was the current law passed by referendum, which would place it directly on them, or what is passed as most other laws? But not needing to run from criminals strikes a positive chord with most people.

Dunn could make all of those seem like bargains.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 02:37 PM) A very strong argument could be made for Bobby being Kenny's finest moment both in his beginning and his end. My pick has always been Estaban Loaiza. But Jenks runs a close second in my book.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 08:50 PM) i haven't read the book or seen the movie. but i'm sure the villains are inspired by Obama/Democrats The GOP pats your head and pins a ribbon on your shirt. You have successfully completed the program!

It is impossible to become POTUS without donations from the very people who will be affected later by government policies. It seems weirder to me to have someone donate, and a politician accept, donations from someone they disagree with and not accept donations from people they agree with. So later it should come as no surprise that the elected official sides with the same people who donated to his campaign. Which is why I favor knowing everyone who donates, even if they do it behind and through a PAC or other such vehicle.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Mar 25, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) Why is anyone assuming that this guy had his gun out? No one's assuming that. We're assuming he saw a scary black kid, muttered to the 911 number that they always get away with this, wandered out to confront him, scared the kid to the point that he was telling people on the phone that some one was chasing him, and then at some point they wound up close enough that the kid struck the guy hard enough to hurt him, and then the guy responded by shooting him. Ideally, this should be a crime. In Florida, it isn't. That's about how I see it. Add in the wanna be crime hero personality and the gang image of a hoodie and you have the perfect storm.

Would he have been killed if he was wearing a sweater tied around his neck and carrying a snickers bar?

I guess if this happened while Bush was President he wouldn't have made any statements. You know white Presidents comment about white things and black President comments about black things.

harmless hyperbole

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 03:54 PM) I get tired of the fake national outrage for anything that can easily be painted as something it may not even be. I'm getting that way also.

So two gun carrying people meet in a dark alley they can have a shootout with no one being charged because they are both protecting themselves.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 07:02 PM) So in perfect conjunction with this thread, what should happen in IL with the bribe taking D who was endorsed by the party, including the governor after his tape asking for cash in an envelope came out? He is arrested and put on trial. If convicted, a D replaces him.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 24, 2012 -> 10:57 AM) lostfan needs to get in here and post his terrifying picture. lol, that one is scary. To the point, why is it that all of the 8th grade gang kids that are in my school wear hoodies and if you ask them to lower the hood, they start arguing? We're painting hoodies as being harmless, which they are, but the image that many of the kids are trying to build is as some gangster. Congrats, the hoodie has that image, now we're going to complain when the public begins to fear kids in hoodies?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 23, 2012 -> 07:57 PM) Alright, props to Lebron, Wade and the Miami Heat for this: edit: it's an old photo but it was retweeted in support of the Martin family I'm wondering what image the Heat were going for when they originally took that photo? Tough guys that will beat you, or angels here to serve and protect?

BTW, at this point I see Zimmerman more as a misguided, overzealous, badly-wants-to-be-a-real-cop, Barney Fife type than a racist vigilante looking to kill minorities. That may change. Much like the rent-a-cop that originally was thought of as the Atlanta Olympic bomber.

The guy who started the thread is new and confused (or drunk)