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Colts got f***ed bad by the refs tonight.

Good stop inside the 10 and thank you to the 49ers for some awful play calling on 3rd down.

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 08:51 PM) Conte out with shoulder injury. D continues to pull weight The results have been fine but the 49ers are still running rather easily and they have had open receivers all night. Couple terrible plays by Kaepernick keeping the bears in it.

Shaping up to be yet another banner day for the Big 10.

East Carolina is absolutely destroying Virginia Tech. Did not expect that.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 06:17 PM) IF this is true...AP is out a long time. One thing to do it once...but man, bleeding and everything. That is too far. Especially a 4 year old. What the f***, so many f***ing pieces of s*** and idiots in the NFL.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) More than half that piece focuses on Dunn doing things that are bad if not terrible. Why not count GIDP and compare them to total number of balls that stayed in the IF? Better yet, what is the record for hitting into the shift? If it's Dunn there's actually 4 outcomes: K, BB, HR, hit into shift. So he did three things very well his entire career: hit HR, BB, and be left-handed. It's a shame Thome's name is mentioned here as well. Unfortunately Thome (even though he'll go to the Hall and Dunn won't) probably will get the K's thrown at him all the time to the point where you forget what a great hitter he actually was. Thome could actually shorten his swing up here and there. He could also make an adjustment. Dunn hit into very few double plays in his career so I don't understand your point there.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 12, 2014 -> 11:02 AM) I cant wait until the FIBA World Cup is over so i dont have to read the rollercoaster posts about how he looks better and then looks terrible. If he looks like this in December, I will panic. But this is an exhibition tourney He has looked ok physically but he has played awful throughout the tournament and really only has played one decent game.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 03:42 PM) I'll take your word for it, as I haven't seen Starks nor Crosby play. Tate's a decent player, but can't shoot or finish well, so you can only use him so much. So, will be interested to see what Starsk and Crosby can do. Tate was really awful last year against decent competition. He has good court vision but he can't blow by guys so unless his shot has improved dramatically you are playing 4 on 5 whenever he is in the game.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 03:28 PM) Certainly doesn't help things. Who knows how good he'll be in a year off it. Hopefully Starks is pretty good, because Tate can't handle the whole load. Starks is much better than Tate. Cosby is a better option at PG than Tate as well. And Illinois has now already lost 2 rotation players before the season has even started. It is going to be really interesting to see who starts now. I could potentially see Cosby starting at PG along with Nunn, Rice, Hill and Egwu. That lineup would potentially have a lot of firepower on offense but there really isn't a distributor in that group.

QUOTE (fathom @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 02:50 PM) It's depressing to see how bad Rose looks. His "fixed" jump shot looks awful.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Sep 11, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) The time before that, it wound up OK. There were signs Dunn was on the downslope. He struggled the second half of 2009 and had never played in the AL or been pretty much a full time DH. There were a bunch of red flags. VMart is far less risky and a totally different hitter even if he is a little older. He isn't a swing and a miss type of guy. I think these guys age better. Harold Baines put up big numbers between ages 36 and 40. He was good in the second half of 2009 and in 2010 the year before the Sox signed him he was just fine in July and August and then struggled in September. However, he had sucked even worse in September of 2009 and September has been by far his worst month for production throughout his career so I don't really see how there were any red flags there. I don't disagree with you on VMart as a hitter though.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 05:13 PM) What's the connection that Groce/Illinois has to Evans? I'm not sure but they are actually in on a couple kids from Texas in this class (Evans and Thomas).

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 04:56 PM) Well first of all, it depends on your definition of elite, but I guess you are talking top 10/15 guys. Outside of that, he's landed good recruits, especially given where the program was at. Anyway, you're dead wrong on not playing from behind. Did you miss everything coming out of the Brunson's camp after the Snider fiasco? From all indications, Illinois was completely out of the running, and Groce worked his ass off to get back into it and even be considered, let alone top 2. So if we are taking what the Brunsons said as true, then Groce's own f*** up caused him to be behind in this recruitment so that doesn't exactly make me feel better about it. And yes, I'm talking about McDonald's AA caliber recruits. Groce is landing some very solid players and has gotten a couple of guys I think will be great college players. But Weber also landed similar caliber players (in terms of rankings) towards the end of his tenure. Land Evans and this all moot, strikeout on Evans and I see no way we land Thomas or Bragg and you will then be 3 years in without an elite recruit and I'm not optimistic about landing one in 2016 (well maybe Murray but our best chance there would be striking out on Evans and then convincing him to reclassify to 2015).

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 04:48 PM) Yes, because he's had just so many chances and has been playing from behind on every one of them. If you can't land a single elite recruit in 3 years I don't have faith that you are suddenly going to after that and he isn't playing from behind on any of the recruits in this years class.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) Well, he better hope that Evans picks Illinois or it's going to be a rough couple of seasons. What's he like 1 for 3 now on 5 star guys, and the 1 became a zero on signing day? They will be ok. The problem is that it will be becoming pretty clear that Groce isn't capable of landing the cream of the crop.

It will be Nova. Jawun Evans is going to be by far the most important recruit of Groce's tenure.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 01:39 PM) True, but they still got him and aren't they on the PF from there now as well? If you get them to commit/sign, it doesn't matter what the connection was. It was a good move and they may be able to land another player or two from Huntington before that well starts to dry up. It just doesn't say anything about Anderson's ability to close on recruits without hiring someone they already know which you can only do so often.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 01:30 PM) Why's that? I was impressed you guys got MGC. I wasn't. They hired his prep school coach to get him.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 10, 2014 -> 09:20 AM) Again, as would/does the fringe of nearly every fan base. Spurned lover response. I'm not going to freak out if he doesn't come here. I'll freak out he chooses Nova and Evans chooses OK State. That'll set Illinois back, yet again. And I think we lose out on Bragg. Get one of these PG's and Bragg is still a legit possibility. Brunson/Evans, Bragg, Williams and Jordan is a top ten class. Thomas would still be a possibility too. If Groce doesn't land Brunson, Evans or convince Murray to reclassify to 2015 and get him, there really won't be any reason other than blind hope to believe Groce will be able to win big at Illinois.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 9, 2014 -> 02:58 PM) Just making s*** up here. There's no evidence of that, at all. Also, I'd like the record to show that we're treating women differently here, even though we're not supposed to. Equality, right? If Rice had hit another guy in the elevator this is a non-story. Michigan just kicked a player off the team and that kid is facing criminal charges for sucker punching and knocking out a guy that was caught on video so you are wrong here. What would be fantastic is if universities and professional sports teams stop letting guys off the hook for this type of behavior simply because they are good at sports.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 04:36 PM) Does the employer have the right to fire you without justification? I'm truly asking as I don't know. Right now Rice can say he had no legal action taken against him. Why should the business take action when the courts didn't Again don't take this as I agree. I think he should have been prosecuted. But since he wasn't, I don't know the justification. It depends on if you have a contract and what your contract says but most people are at-will employees and can be fired with or without cause by their employer.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 02:37 PM) Uh, no. Losing your job isn't an overreaction to punching someone in the face and knocking them out. Agreed in all instances and even more so when you have a 220 pound athlete knocking out a 120 pound woman.

@DanWetzel: Don't worry, only a few weeks until NFL puts pink on its uniforms to show it cares about women.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 8, 2014 -> 10:13 AM) I don't see how this video changes everything. We already knew Rice knocked her out, to have some new reactions is childish. The suspension was sickeningly short before, and it remains sickenly short now. There was the chance (albeit slim) that she was being incredibly violent with him before we saw the video. That isn't the case after watching it so having a new reaction to the video isn't childish at all.