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Am I the only one who didn’t know that Notre Dame and PU play for this thing? The Jeweled Shillelagh! Are you kidding me? That’s the worst trophy I’ve ever seen.

That’s quite a stunner. I don’t know if the guy fits a clinical definition of sociopath but if you look at his public life I’m not sure how it diverges.

Watched the Pace Game tonight along with 1 from a couple of weeks ago against Eastside. The kid’s in the 110 range by 247? No, that’s not gonna be right. That’s pretty low. He’s a 6’6”ish absolutely elite athlete who shows court vision and quick mental processing, some facilitation chops, plays defense hard and while his shot has some funk to it, it just kept going in in both games. Has a little bit of a VJ Edgecombe thing going on. Will be a fun kid to track. If 247’s offer list is correct and right now he just has offers from IU, FSU and some local MM’s, that’s probably really good because he’s an obvious candidate to blow up and if the staff is serious about this one getting something done early would he good here.

Got to say, if Kiffin takes the LSU gig while pushing to coach in the playoffs and Ole Miss tells him to F off and rolls with an interim they will immediately leap to 2nd in my personal rooting order. My loathing for Kiffin outstrips my loathing for the SEC.

Caught that too. That was cold.

The Texas narrative right now is pi$$ing me off to no end. “Oh, if they hadn’t had the ball$ to play OSU early they’d be in after A&M. So they really should be anyway and not penalized for it.” Stop it. If they hadn’t lost to a 3 win team with no HC and scored a late one so it didn’t look so bad and then gotten straight beat down by UGA they’d be in. Here’s my solution: if you lose 3 games, 25% of your schedule, you should be ineligible for the playoff. Period. No exceptions. If you’ve lost 1/4 of your games you don’t get to pray that you get on a heater late and compete with teams who’ve made it happen all year. If they get in I don’t even know what to say.

He’s a sort of Yogi-like small PG going to West Virginia. Good player.

That explains the volume of the booing. IU fans booing PU and PU fans booing…..PU.

My choices today: 1) Dig into Curry, or 2) shovel 8 inches of snow. Gonna be an expert on him by tonight.

Really annoying that I have to do some work today. UConn/Illinois is obviously the headliner but St Mary’s/Vandy is gonna be a really nice game.

Could very well be. Could also be that he’s playing with 2 perimeter kids who really, really like to score, though the rebounding numbers may well point to your thought. Will be interested to see Pike play.

Drink’s agent is The Man. This is the 4th extension in his 6 years based on 2 very good years, 1 ok year and 3 thoroughly unremarkable ones. And he also pulled one of the all time agent okey dokes by convincing the Mizzou money guys that Drink was THIS CLOSE to taking the LSU gig in ‘21 when anyone with enough sense to get out of the rain knew that was nuts. I imagine he was able to leverage Penn St the same way.

In the annals of terrible coaching hires at the highest of high majors, football or basketball, is this the worst? I mean, short of a Kelvin Sampson/IUBB sort of situation. They hired a total cultural misfit who was already 60. The previous 4 years they went 36-15 and won a Natty. In his time they were 34-14 and never finished top 10. They paid the dude NINETY MILLION DOLLARS to get no better and look like utter freaking buffoons at the end of it. Are you kidding me? And you knew it was never going to. At least when Woodward hired Fisher at A&M you could understand the fit. But Brian Kelly and LSU football was absurd on its face. I mean, Jesus.

Yeah there’s a fair bit of that, though it looks different because Wabbington looks like an athlete and Queen looks like Queen. But a lot of what’s getting done is pretty similar. Side note: this game speaks to what a phenom Koa Peat was in HS. He won either 2 or 3 state championships there and 1st year without him they lost this one at home by 30 and Sunnyslope pulled their starters in the 3rd.

This one was so surprising to hear and I never thought was a thing that I was forced to break out Wabbington’s game from last night against Perry HS, Koa Peat’s old school. Not that you didn’t know he was good, but he’s a really fun watch. Strong frame, particularly lower body. Not very vertically explosive but otherwise a very good athlete. Really fluid. Can move his feet and change direction like a smaller kid. As a scorer he plays a pretty traditional post game with the exception that he can really pass. I mean, really pass. Made 1 where he caught it with his back to the basket in the right mid post, felt a double coming from the top, spun to the baseline and fired a laser to the left corner for a 3. Not many HS bigs making that one. Watched it a couple of times. Found a couple of cutters in very small windows. Looks like a very quick processor for a big kid. Will definitely keep paying attention.

That is legitimately as good as you can reasonably do it.

I’m pretty shocked that they didn’t. Saw that thing from the AD about Pittman not having adequate resources to compete in the SEC and couldn’t really fathom that.

Well that’s a pretty good line

Ok, help an old dude out. I looked at 1 Diego Pavia for the Heisman thread on Sunday and made the mistake of replying. Elon’s algo took over and now my timeline is just a tsunami of all things Vandy football. I wouldn’t even mind it all that much except that they are straight up exceptionally whiney bitche$. Actually worse than most SEC fanbases. How do I get out of this?

Think someone might have mentioned to Conerway a couple of times this week that Haggerty is supposed to be a Guy?

IU 45 PU 6

God, the ticket prices for tonight are killing me. If I was maybe an hour closer I’d probably pull the trigger. Just a hair out of range.

Holloway beating Will Wade does the old heart a world of good.

How did Najai Hines look? Liked that kid so much last summer.

Under the heading of making lemons into lemonade, looks like I may need to get a knee replaced. Trying my level best to arrange to get it done the last week of the regular season and then taking a leave through Championship week and the tournament. Textbook best case scenario.