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43 minutes ago, mrflynn03 said:

I wonder too if there is an instinctual component. I've always gravitated toward whatever side posed the most risks. 

I've just never understood how men can abuse women and children. It has always felt instinctual to me to be protective also. I can be in any store and not hear a thing going on around me, until a child starts crying. Then I'm looking to see what's happening.

2 hours ago, 5fouls said:

My wife, daughter, and I attended a Kentucky Derby Festival event this morning (Great Balloon Race).  After the event ended, we're walking with the crowd back to our car, which was probably 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile away.  A significant part of that journey was walking on the edge of a road with no sidewalks.  The vehicles going up and down the road contained not only event traffic, but normal Saturday morning traffic from people going other places.  It was not bumper to bumper by any means, and traffic was moving along about 25 miles an hour.

The event brought in a lot of families with small children.  Parents that were walking with their children (ages 2-7 range) were doing a good job of holding the child's hand.  My issue is this.  More than half of the parents had it set up where their child was the closest person to the road.  And, when I say closest, I mean in many cases the child is actually walking on pavement, on the line.  

My parents didn't make it a point to tell me what to do when walking along the road with a child when I was growing up.  Common sense tells me that the adult should be closer to the road than a small child.  Where is the common sense from the new generations of parents?  It sure was not on display today.

 

 

Not just with kids, in the old days guys always took the street side when walking with women. 

33 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

Growing up, where I came from, giving someone the 'clap' was not a good thing.

So you grew up around the Purdue athletic department.

1 hour ago, Madison22 said:

In a 1988 promotion, Al Unser Jr was supposed to take the Wienermobile for a few easy laps at the Indy Motor Speedway.  Take it slow, wave to the crowd, pose for pictures. 

Instead, he blasted it to a maxed-out 110 miles an hour, just to see what it could do.  That was, and remains, the all-time Wienermobile world speed record.

It is still unknown if he had permission for that.

I wonder if he was sober at the time? Sounds exactly like something he would do.

2 hours ago, SawatchHoosier said:

It's been over 30 minutes and no one has the balls to ask the question so I guess I'm falling on the sword of derailment. What are the requirements for driving a "Weiner mobile"?

I'm not sure what the requirements are, but I remember listening to a radio broadcast many years ago where Al Unser, Jr. was going to drive for some promotion. Glad to see it's still around.

I'll take Galloway on the wing and add a backup guard and wing and let's play. He's earned the spot. I also think we are way underestimating what we already have on the roster. Let's see what Banks and Gunn bring after a summer of development. These kids are not that much different than the Greg Graham's of years past. I don't know how we ever build a program if we are constantly trying to recruit over the young kids already on the team.

On 4/17/2023 at 4:28 PM, FKIM01 said:

Joey Hart out at Linton.  At least it sounds like he's addressing his drinking issue.

I hope he can continue down the road to sobriety. No matter how long it's been since the last drink,you are always an alcoholic. I view as suicide, one shot at a time.

11 minutes ago, kycarter88 said:

Yea I can’t even understand what that tweet means. I mean I’m 34, think I’m pretty savvy on technology levels and lingo, but what am I missing here?

I'm 74 and I don't have a clue. I wait for someone to translate it for me.

16 minutes ago, Joe_Hoopsier said:

Was he in the sampson years? I checked out the day he was hired and back in the day he was fired.

Yes he was....and rumored to have some other endeavors besides basketball.

Love these granddaughter pics. I have four ranging in age from 6 to 25. Enjoy them because they grow up so fast.

3 hours ago, Seeking6 said:

That's my thinking.....or maybe still in shell shock from the largest upset in NCAA tourney history. Just my two cents but nothing admirable coming out of West Lafayette right now. 

Edit-Maybe I should say it this way. That program has it's most important offseason in a long time this summer. Painter and the crew. Good kids, good guy,etc....but what happened in tourney can't ever happen. Need to evaluate either the way they play or the way they recruit. Running the same again next year would be definition of insanity.

When you are invested in what you are doing, you are sometimes blinded to the faults.

15 minutes ago, Purdue7 said:

Anyone else scared to click…

1.  10 seconds to love -Crue

2.  Love Gun. -KISS 

3.  Alice’s Restaurant -Arlo Guthrie 

4.  Theme from an Italian restaurant 

"Alice's Restaurant", man that takes me back. 

I love the under dog who over achieves. Who doesn't. Kinda like sticking it to the man. But this is looking like a UCon natty.

If we ever get quantum computers worked out, we will really be in trouble. I love tech as much as the next guy but it can get out of control and once it's out, there's no going back.

I have to believe that going against XJ and possibly Love in practice every day will speed up Cupps development quite a bit.

In the mid 1970's I had a Porsche 356 SC for a couple of years. It had a broken piston ring so I rebuilt the engine. I had already rebuilt a couple of he's and the process was pretty much the same. It had the European license plates still on it and, of course, the speedometer was in kph not mph. It was a lot of fun.

49 minutes ago, NotIThatLives said:

Oh trust me, I deal with this society on a hands on basis, daily.  We are screwed.  We spends billions or trillions,  IDK on education but yet we still have devolved.  We have oodles of information at our fingertips and yet so dumb. And the mental make up of this living generation is saturated with greed and selfishness, celebrated actually,  and we wonder what went wrong.  

I have said forever that our greed keeps us from dealing with any of the hard problems we have as a society. If money can't be made off of a problem, then no one has any interest in solving it. The same thing goes for medical research. If you have a rare cancer you are screwed. No one is spending research money to treat that. No return on investment. Common cancers get the research money because there is a profit to be made. It's never about people, only about profits.

I'm not and will never be a gun owner. It's my individual choice. I'm also not about to tell anyone else what he or she should do. Guns are currently the tool of choice for the disturbed individuals who feel the need to express themselves by killing innocent people. The problem to me has always been the perpetrators. We, as a nation, always make these incidents political and go for an easy, visible, grandstanding solution. As jarring as school shootings are, I am as appalled by the daily stories right here in Indianapolis of teenage young men killing each other. Something is broken in our society and we had better figure out how to address it pretty soon. Whatever the social problem is, I guarantee the fix won't come from politicians.

2 minutes ago, btownqb said:

Payton trying to get a Kilroys NIL deal with this message!?!?! haha 

Or already has one.

Maybe CMW wants to lock down the roster early and spend the summer playing golf with Scott May.

40 minutes ago, Madison22 said:

Gabe Cupps named Ohio's Division 1 Player of the Year.  By PGC Basketball.

I don't know who PGC Basketball is, but I'm sure they're more legit than the Helms Committee was in the 1930's.

Gabe also Tweeted for people to vote for Trayce Jackson-Davis for player of the year, and Gabe is at Flory Bidunga's game tonight (thanks to DC2345 for that last bit of info).

This kid is awesome.

I'll take two, please. Thank you.

12 minutes ago, IUCrazy2 said:

Oh yeah, it always came into play but it was something that you couldn't be that blatant about.  Even the most egregious payments we knew about in the under the table pay for play days amounted to $250,000? tops and that was for guys who likely would have gone straight to the pros if not for the NBA rules.  Pack got paid $400k this year as the 3rd or 4th best player on his team and likely a very slim shot at playing in the NBA.

Just looking at thia from a non-sports fan perspective, we have a huge student loan debt issue in this country and the institutions that basically cause a large portion of this debt are setting up schemes to get millions of dollars a year into the pockets of people whose endeavors are being subsidized (through school fees at most institutions) by people who end up saddled with this debt.  And at the end of the day they aren't offering much more value to the school because everything they generate gets fed back into them.

Big time college basketball and football programs are now minor league teams.  There has been a blurry line that was maintained for a long time with the whole "amateur" thing.  I think the line is gone so now the question becomes, what value do these add to the educational mission of the school and at what point are they detracting from that.  And I also agree with Swarbrick that many of these NIL collectives are fraudulent.  People are deducting "charitable" donations to fund their local minor league sports team.  That isn't real charity.

Well said!! 

Purdue had a really good team this year. They were the best in our conference. They lost again in an embarrassing fashion. My thoughts are that they didn't have a lot of talent beyond Edey who was a really good college big. Unfortunately for them, they are playing a game that no longer exists at the elite level of college basketball. I hate Purdue but like CMP and think he is doing the best he can with the resources available to him.

33 minutes ago, Sea Turtle said:

This team hasn't been able to shoot in 6 years.

 

And that's important. The goal is to shoot th ball into the basket.

If you shoot the ball from beyond the arc and mak it, they will even give you another point!

Brilliant analysis.

I know everyone is mad, but do we still get a participation trophy?