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12 minutes ago, rico said:

Wichita St. should just join the Big East.  But I am with ya...if the Big 12 is to expand it will probably come from the AAC. 

Size and athletics fit, and they'd be a geographic rival for Creighton, but it'd be a matter if the Big East wanted to admit a public school into a conference of 10 private schools. 

1 minute ago, rico said:

New Mexico St. and BYU?  

Either or.  The AAC and B10 combined have 21 football playing members.  Wichita State makes 22 for most major sports other than football, so to keep things balanced, absorb a current FBS Independent for football only. 

Here's a wacky suggestion: merge the AAC and B12. 

Scholarship grid, HTML version.  Won't require new images to be uploaded. 

Luke Walton to Sacramento. That didn't take long.

Just now, rico said:

I guess my timeline is messed up.  I thought the B1G picked Nebraska over Mizzou.  

Can't remember that instance. May have. If they did, I'm assuming it was for Nebraska football.

3 minutes ago, rico said:

I stand corrected.  I always thought that was the reason they weren't invited?

Even factoring in St. Louis and KC, it's nowhere near as good a media market as Baltimore/DC or NY/NJ.

Would have been a natural fit geographically and due to the existing rivalry with UI.

In the post-Nebraska Era, from a "pure" perspective, the natural fits were Mizzou and Kansas. KU wasn't available, due to the Kansas legislature wanting to keep KU and K-State in the same conference. But from a media/money perspective, Maryland and Rutgers win.

1 hour ago, rico said:

Mizzou did't/doesn't measure up academically.  A lot of people forget about AAU...

https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Missouri is in the AAU.

15 minutes ago, Steubenhoosier said:

Nebraska is not an AAU member 

They were when their membership was approved.

1 hour ago, KDB said:

Luke Walton and the Lakers mutually agree to part ways.

Now let's see just how long a lifetime is for Teflon John.

21 minutes ago, rico said:

Well, the ACC doesn't have Notre Dame for football.  And my gut tells me Rutgers ain't leaving the B1G.

They do and they don't.  They're not officially listed as an ACC football member, but 5 out of their 12 games each year are committed to ACC teams. 

3 minutes ago, 5fouls said:

I'm sure the ACC is excited about swapping Notre Dame for Rutgers.  

That's the way I want to see them.  Never said it was realistic. 

9 minutes ago, rico said:

And may I ask what you did with Rutgers?

Oops, supposed to be in the ACC. 

2 divisions of either 7 or 8 schools.  Football scheduling would be every team in a school's division, 3 from the opposite division and 2 or 3 OOC. 

B10: Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Maryland, Missouri, Notre Dame

SEC: Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Mississippi State, LSU, Auburn, Alabama, Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis, West Virginia, Arkansas

ACC: Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami, Pitt, Boston College, Syracuse, UConn, Temple

B12: Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, TCU, SMU, Houston, Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, UNLV

P12: UCLA, Cal, Stanford, USC, Fresno State, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Utah, Boise State, BYU

Is anything even broadcast in 8K?

12 minutes ago, Leathernecks said:

I was able to find a way to get a lot of my tools for "free."  I have a Discover card and get cash back with it, and then with the cash back you can buy a $100 Lowes gift card for $90.  Then go on Ebay and buy a 10% off at Lowes for a buck or two.  I was able to get a Dewalt table saw, and a Dewalt drill set only using the cash back.

I completely gutted an old house, and added a full basement underneath it, so I've needed all the tools I can get.

As far as my DIY projects, gutted it myself, put up walls, ran all the electrical (64 can lights was a bad choice!), painted, and laid luxury vinyl tile throughout the kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry room, and 2 bathrooms.  Did a lot of other smaller jobs along the way too.

The previous lady who owned it was old and had been in a nursing home for the last few years, and we literally couldn't walk through the back yard because it was so overgrown. I don't really have any grass, so my next big project is to rent a trencher and run irrigation lines in the yard.  Never done it before, but all the videos I've seen look like it would be pretty easy to do.  Completely unnecessary to do, but it was such a piece of crap house and yard that I just want it to be over the top.  The advantages of being a bachelor lol.

Did the trencher/irrigation thing a few years ago. Was tired of the gutter runoff eroding my yard away. I did pay for the backyard to be filled/levelled before, but did the trenching and designed/placed the irrigation myself. Have all the gutter downspouts integrated, 4 additional drains in the yard at low points, all running to the neighborhood's drainage ditch.

One piece of advice, put access points in for cleaning. I only put two in, and wish I had about 6.

And our credit card cash back is already allocated. I run all our normal monthly expenses through one card, transfer the cash back into a high yield savings monthly, and once a year, that becomes our vacation "fun" money.

Edit: and yeah, 64 can lights....you're out of your mind lol.

13 minutes ago, milehiiu said:

IMHO.... All the Roku devices are excellent, and very affordable.  I have several. Including a Roku Ultra, which is the most expensive, at just under $100.  The devices simply plug into the tv.  Roku even has devices for those that have old, old tv's that don't have HMDI connections.  And for those that have their tv's close to their routers, there is an ethernet connection, which is said to be the best. I don't use an ethernet.  But I do advise using the highest power wifi connection from your provider.

One thing I love, is that when I add a channel on any device... it automatically adds the channel to every device. 

Needless to say.  I love Roku.

 Roku Tutorial: The Basics of Roku. What is a Roku? 

 

 

 

I have both a Roku3 and a RokuTV, sales pitch not needed...lol.

Was asking about your particular connection because wifi will degrade resolution faster (exponentially faster) than ethernet, as will the length of the cable connecting the Roku to the TV. If the Ultra directly connects, all the better.

The fact that you notice a difference in the resolution between the Roku and the internal app is interesting. Never did a side by side comparison.

I go slightly overboard when it comes to my home network (and by slightly overboard, I mean using a nuclear missile to kill a mosquito levels). 4 TVs in my house, none use wifi. I have one dedicated coax in to my modem, one directly to the living room TiVo, and one going to an amplified splitter to serve the other 3 TVs. Network wise, I have Cat6 cable drops in every room all connected back to a gigabit switch. My old router is basically reduced to being a wireless access point. Only things that connect via wifi are phones/tablets,and occasionally laptops.

I have zero bandwidth issues, needless to say.. Lol.

20 minutes ago, milehiiu said:

Yeah.  I have two smart tv's. One is a 4KHDTV. And frankly, I get a  better picture when I go through Roku than the smart app on the tv, outside of a Roku.  I also have a Chromecast Ultra hooked up to that tv, along with a Roku. And have to say the Roku outperforms the Chromecast.  As long as Roku is doing the great job they currently are doing...I highly doubt I will ever buy another  non Roku smart  tv. Making sure is is a TCL. 

Drroogh.... a Roku smart tv is the way I would go... as my son has already done. The TCL Roku is a fabulous TV.... at an unbelieveably affordable cost.

How is the Roku connected compared to the TV itself? Both wifi, both hardwired or split?

Roku is a device, not a streaming service. Think of it as an internet-connected cable box. It plugs in to your TV, which displays the programming sent to it. Hulu is a subscription service you can access through a Roku device.

There are TVs now that have the Roku hardware integrated, so you don't need the separate device.

You could use a cell phone as a connection to the Roku if your phone was able to be used as a wifi hot spot.

That said, "smart tvs" skip the Roku step entirely and have the Hulu/Netflix/Amazon/etc software pre-loaded so you don't need a separate device, just an internet connection.

14 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

In England I was on my laptop, tried two different VPN services ExpressVPN and TORVPN, every US location I tried was blocked. Even a couple of the somewhat secret servers. But like I said when I went to the ESPN site they let me sign on using my HULU account and I was able to watch the game on ESPN.

Shared logins like that often don't do a full authentication. Just simple password verification through the "host" service. Any additional blocks/verifications are still on the secondary site's end.

6 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

Not sure about YouTube but I know HULU is VERY aggressive about blocking VPN servers. Found that out much to my dismay when I tried to connect while I was in England. Luckily ESPN was not so aggressive!

Will Hulu let you stream via browser on a tablet, or do they force everything to the app?

Never tried spoofing an IP, but assuming it's possible on a rooted device.

Just now, Drroogh said:

Sorry, but Android is also Google! Not going there!

Can't access your personal information if theres none on the device, and it can't assess your location.

Oh, VPN. Forgot the VPN.

3 minutes ago, Drroogh said:

It all depends on your particular situation and what is available to you. For Zline cutting the cord makes no sense, for me where the ONLY DSL was actually slower than my cell service, going cellular makes sense. In terms of streaming, again it depends on your needs and inclinations, for instance I refuse to use YouTube because it is owned by Google. I actually read the Google Terms and Conditions and avoid them like the plague!! Short answer there is no one size fits all answer!

Separate Android line/device for streaming. Rooted. Location services disabled. Spoof GPS locator installed. Set geocoordinates to Manitoba or Barbados.

Google account name: random character string. Name: "Bob **ckyougoogle"

YouTube app disabled. Firefox browser. Adblock Plus.

Enjoy YouTube.

I'll normally jump in on tech discussions, but this is something I've never investigated.  The city I live in actually has cable tv/internet available as a part of our utilities.  I get 100-some odd channels, plus HBO for about $45 a month, and after the first 12 months, no contract.  No BTN, but I wind up listening to the TuneIn radio stream more often than not anyway. 

To me, not worth the hassle for $45 a month.  If it was $150-200 a month just for the TV portion like I've seen, then yes, absolutely.