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  5. 2024 Flory Bidunga Commits to Kansas

    in Basketball Recruiting

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    17 hours ago, cbranhamuc said:

    That's a pretty odd take. I would argue UC and the city of Cincinnati has 10x more to offer to a college kid than Bloomington Indiana. Cincys population is north of 300,000, Bloomington is around 85k. And IU may not think about UC much, but I assure you, we don't think about IU at all-neither program has won anything in what seems like forever-but hey, keep trying in football!

    It says a lot about your city when the best place to hang out is the Kentucky town across the river...

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  7. Stories That Make You Shake Your Head At The World

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    53 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

    Ghost guns, 3-D printers. Guns manufactured by people buying individual parts and assembling them. If someone wants a weapon that isn't registered and can't be traced, they are gonna find a way to get it.

    Single point of entry should be mandated at every school in the country. Either an armed, trained security guard, or extra layers of identification should be required before that door is ever opened. I like the idea of hiring veterans or retired police as a work force to handle security.

    The mental health aspect is difficult. Until it becomes destigmatized, people are going to shy from seeking help. Unfortunately, labels stick with people causing difficulties obtaining employment, among other things. There should be multiple times the amount of money devoted to mental health treatment as is being spent on gun control. 

    Most importantly,  a small community has been devastated. Outreach to the families, friends, and co-workers, and classmates  of the victims should be paramount. The young people who saw their school mates die are going to require an immense amount of help to heal. May God be with them all.

     

    Other countries have access to ghost guns and 3-D printers. Other countries have mental health issues (US  maybe at a slightly higher clip but not much)...

    Why are gun deaths, mass shootings (using whatever definition you choose), suicides, etc. significantly higher than any other country?

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  8. Stories That Make You Shake Your Head At The World

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    31 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

    We ask for thousands of 18 year olds to handle semi automatic weapons in the military every day...can't very well do that and then infringe on the very rights they are sworn to preserve, protect, and defend...

    We have to focus on the mental health aspect here...

    While the US does seem to have a higher rate of mental health (at least diagnosed) than other countries, it is disproportionate to the rate of gun deaths compared to those same countries.

    If we are looking at the data, the gun death problem is a unique one to our country alone.

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  16. I cut the cable. Now I need help.

    in Colonial Crester's Corner

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    Here is a great resource for those looking into getting rid of their cable TV/dish but still desire live TV:

    https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/directv-now-vs-youtube-tv-vs-philo-vs-playstation-vue-vs-sling-tv-vs-fubotv-vs-watch-tv-vs-hulu-updated-february-2019/

    I've tried most of these and am the biggest fan of Youtube TV (even though the price is going up to $50/month)

    Hulu Live TV is one that I haven't tried but sounds like Mile really loves it.

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  19. NBA Thread

    in General Basketball Discussion

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    10 minutes ago, Hoosierhoopster said:

    ^^ And then there's the point that the college model, with the NCAA tourney one-and-out tourney, and the NBA model, with 7-game series in which the better team SHOULD win, are simply different. 

    If your focus in on upsets, then college ball will be more appealing. 

    For me, there is much to love in both (the level of basketball in the NBA is so much higher than college ball, it's close to the difference between high school and college ball), and there's much to complain about in both (the level of cheating in college ball, the impact of agents, the dirty college programs -- the same programs that often win it all, e.g., UNC, and in the NBA, the level of control star players have, the ridiculously bad and sometimes blatantly obvious favoratist officiating, etc. 

    To each his own, it's a matter of preference

    This. It's basic math.

    And you could take it even farther and say that, in reality, because the sample size is larger, whoever ends the regular season with the best record is the best team.

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