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https://hoosierillustrated.com/despite-not-officially-naming-kurtis-rourke-as-the-starting-qb-for-iu-football-curt-cignetti-will-sleep-better-at-night-with-him-under-center/ Ok read. Nothing really new. It’s gonna be Roarke. We all know it’s gonna be Roarke. Cignetti’s comments on Jackson are probably more interesting. Even if the Lewis Hail Mary doesn’t happen, given how much they seem to like Cherry has Jackson as a Soph already been recruited over? Sure feels that way.

A you get your wish. Butler it is.

Never seen this before. Fascinating. I was probably 23 when this came out and it was obviously monstrous. Quintessential 80’s throwaway pop. Energy, vigor, kind of surface. Gave it very little thought, as 23 yo’s tend to do. Now I see this almost 40 years later. The miles on both the artists and the song. It’s matured in a way that we probably all hope we do as people. Depth, perspective, bit of melancholy but still with a certain hopefulness. Bravo, guys, hell of a job.

https://x.com/historyinmemes/status/1818985027587461509 Dude’s tweet here is absolutely correct. Flipping up the lens and staring down the camera is about as bada$$ as it gets.

That kid is coming on in a hurry. Watched a couple of his HS games after he was offered and figured he was 5’11”ish and probably 150-155 and then at the Adidas Eurocamp he measured 6’1” and 175 and he looks like a different kid and he lit it up pretty good. Top 30 may not be his ceiling at this point. Hopefully getting in early is meaningful here.

https://x.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1819162629262434576 Ok, I need 1 or 2 of the steel trap legal minds around here to weigh in. I don’t care about the actual result, but my spidey senses tend to tingle when a judge tells a jury to F itself, particularly when doing so in favor of corporate interests.

Wow. Just wow

https://x.com/CBKReport/status/1818662378587717941 FDU being on this list is awesome for so many reasons.

Less worried about the financial side than I would be Pope busting out cut ups of his offense at BYU and Braylon loving it as much as I do.

https://x.com/ArtButSports/status/1818355352368562421 Dude is a genius

A high academic achiever to serve as practice fodder and 5 fouls in the worst of emergencies. No problem with it.

Budinger was an absolute Guy in HS. I believe he was the Parade National POY in volleyball and then a Burger Boy for good measure. That’s pretty good.

https://x.com/jakai_newton/status/1818083653995409826 Jakai’s response to a tweet about his supposed injury. I had to look up what this meant, but I guess he’s calling b.s. Great news if true.

Rimini is a coastal city on the Adriatic and the Emilia Romagna region of Italy has some of the best food on earth. Damn, it’s good to be Robert.

Came across this today. Apex Manor is a California band that’s only produced a couple of albums. This 1, Heartbreak City, from 2019 is really good. Sounds like what you’d probably get if Bob Mould produced an Interpol album. A lot of strong guitar work and I like the drummer a lot.

Having the teams floating down the Seine for the opening ceremony seems like an interesting idea, but it’s not really working. The distance from the crowds is pretty dampening of the energy. As in, there’s none.

https://x.com/ByDanielFlick/status/1816862086552600599 Penix continues to be an effortlessly awesome kid.

https://x.com/ClifMarshall/status/1816866411798519976 Oh, to be 22 again……

I don’t love the mercenary element here, but that kid needed to get away from OTE. That style of play and “development” was doing him no good at all. It encourages the exact stuff he needs to be coached out of.

Did I miss this rumor in the spring? I’m sure that there’s at least a nugget of truth here because it would be such an outlandish thing to assert otherwise, but I find it almost impossible to believe that it reached the point of Walsh quitting without that stuff ending up all over the place. Feels way more likely that there were some conversations that went only so far and that was the end of it. But even if it is true, those guys utterly suck for breaking the seal and bringing that thing to light now.

I think you’re mostly right here but the thing I’m curious about is if they go on, say, an Elite 8-type run, and contrary to some post a few back that suggested otherwise that’s pretty obviously within this team’s ceiling, I’m not at all sure everyone would be happy about it. I’m sure you’re right that some would suggest it was in spite of the coach, which is just bone stupid, and they have such a visceral personal dislike of the guy that his failure outweighs the team’s success. It’s not enough to be able to say at the end of the year, “Congrats on a great season, guys and thanks for the fun you gave the fans. Glad I was wrong about this team. Now let’s talk about whether this is a sustainable path forward.” They’d rather be able to shame that smug SOB out of town with his arrogant tale between his legs. Hope I’m wrong because it would suck to be a long-suffering fan of a program but not be able to bring one’s self to enjoy success. I don’t wish that on anyone.

Don’t know about Anthony’s side of it, but it’s pretty clear that the staff’s gone all in on Mullins.

Not that this hasn’t been super interesting, reading the same roughly 15 thoughts restated for 1100 pages, but I am genuinely curious about 1 thing and if it’s been discussed in any depth I must have blown by it. If you’re in or sympathetic to the camp of “I want this team to underachieve so Woody goes away for the long-term good of the program”, a defensible position, here’s my question: Do you have a Rubicon moment and if so, what is it, where you cry uncle or just get caught up and root for this team’s success? Example: Say this team competes for the B1G title down to the last weekend, gets a top 4 tourney seed and gets to the sweet 16. That’s comfortably within range of outcome. If so, Woody ain’t gettin’ fired. He’s just not. Are you the rooting for them in the Sweet Sixteen? How about the Elite 8? Doesn’t matter, is there a point when you’re rooting for them or have you made the judgement that you’re simply not rooting for this program while that guy’s here, regardless of success?

https://x.com/FanaticalIUWBB/status/1811809916841030067 Obviously a touch misleading, but this looks so cool in print.

https://x.com/adamhoward0/status/1816505310384623769 This is a better than average endorsement. Hollinger’s a smart guy. Are you listening, Malachi?