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Chuck Taylor

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  1. I don't think the order of these allegations (emphasis on allegations) is coincidental: 40. ASHLEY believed, correctly, that others were aware of something inappropriate going on between her and LOVE. She did not know how to stop the situation. She continued to fear that WILLIAMS would blame ASHLEY for WILLIAMS’ Associate Head Coach initiating this relationship. She feared that WILLIAMS would retaliate against her. She was also concerned that WILLIAMS’ husband, who was a personal friend of LOVE, was posting suggestive emojis on ASHLEY’s social media account. 41. LOVE began to pressure ASHLEY to participate in a sexual “threesome” with him and an undisclosed second man. She refused.
  2. Actually, the kids they ran off are better: AJ Storr at Wisconsin, Butler's starting pg, Memphis' leading scorer, starters at 3 other schools with better records.
  3. I recorded the selection committee's top 16 seed reveal and watched this morning. Wisconsin's inclusion as 4 seed once again showed that: 1. Bids aren't decided on the basis of NET. Wisconsin got a 4 seed with a 20 NET, while 9 NET BYU and 14 NET St. Mary's weren't in the top 16, or among the 3 mentioned as just missing. So neither was among the top 19 seeds. The NET is used to sort and compare teams' wins and losses. 2. All games are evaluated the same, regardless of when they occur, so Wisky's recent woes didn't matter. They had accumulated enough wins before that. (The loss to Iowa later in the day probably would have dropped them out of the top 16, though.) The committee chair specifically addressed that. CBS bracketologist Jerry Palm had us last 4 in and reference our lack of road wins. Colorado, also one of the last 4 in, won at USC last night, for whatever that's worth.
  4. I thought there was a question of who touched the ball last before it went out of bounds, and they decided they weren't sure. But with Jeffrey Anderson, there's always a little theater involved.
  5. Just a little history: Jumbo Stiehm could be called the father of Husker football. His "Stiehm Rollers" dominated the Missouri Valley conference in the 19teens and won 34 straight games at one point. A rabid fan base is born from that kind of dominance. Bob Devaney didn't invent Husker football, he resurrected it. I think he also won Nebraska's only unshared conference basketball title, maybe in about 1915. "Unshared" isn't the right word, but I haven't finished my coffee.
  6. Count me as one of "some" who think otherwise. The people on the committee have to be able to defend their selections. They're not looking for storylines, or else a team that made the national title game in 2022 would have gotten the benefit of the doubt last year. They also had POY candidate Armando Bacot. However, North Carolina stayed home. Here's the Heels' resume: They also finished 43 in KenPom and 46 in NET. Plus they had zero Q3 or Q4 losses and a 4-7 road record. There was easily enough story line to twist that record into an NCAA berth, if that actually was done.
  7. Most likely coming back USC (Enfield): Really bad year, but coming off 3 NCAA bids 50/50 Oregon (Altman): might leave with the wolves at the door UCLA (Cronin): high-pressure job, might want to go back to Midwest Most likely out Washington (Hopkins): No tournament since 2019
  8. Down to an 11 seed in Bracketville, got passed by several teams that logged big wins. Seems like for the rest of the way, it might be more a matter of what other teams are doing, rather than what we do, since we don't have any top teams left on the schedule. For now, root against: Wash State, Nevada, Ole Miss, Utah, Wake Forest, Cincinnati, Gonzaga, Providence
  9. Team A has a win over the No. 2 team in NET, but a 1-5 record on the road. Team B has a 7-3 record in Q1/Q2 games and a 5-2 record on the road, but hasn't beaten a top 25 team and has 2 Q3 losses. Team A higher, although both teams are in as of this writing..
  10. Spiro Agnew came up with the term "nattering nabobs of negativism." He reportedly was reading one of our game threads during a loss.
  11. I've seen some grumbling about him not getting over the hump (no BIG title or deep NCAA run), but he's really done a good job, better than most of us would like to admit. He'd have 5 straight tourney bids if not for Covid, plus a BIG tourney title and great players in Garza and the Murray twins. He has a better talent base than we do, but nothing like Michigan, Illinois, Ohio or Indiana. Main downside is his personality, but his players seem to like him.
  12. Our offense is now 24 in KenPom. It was 179 in 20-21 with Teddy Allen, Delano Banton, Derrick Walker, Trey McGowens and Kobe Webster. Sum of the parts > individual parts.
  13. OK, I'm going to admit it. I've reffed games, although just junior high level. You can't see everything, and you learn to call games a certain way. For example, a defender reaching across to swat at a ball often will get called for a foul. The ref can't see if there's contact or not, but players aren't supposed to "reach" so they get called. Same thing with post defenders swatting down on the ball. They's supposed to be vertical. So it always get me when somebody says, "He got all ball!" Well, maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but that's the call. Same thing for "over the back," which often is somebody outjumping from behind against an opponent to didn't block out. If you don't block out, 9.9 times out of 10, you don't get the call. Dozens of other examples. The refs can't see everything, but they learn to call the game a certain way. Many are incompetent, but I've never known a ref who was "biased." However, I know plenty of fans who are.
  14. I saw Chicago at Pershing, before they turned into a soft-rock band. Those guys could cook.
  15. Fwiw, our offense is 28 in KenPom, our defense 95.
  16. Now 2-3 in Q1, 1-1 in Q2. Improvement by Indiana and K-State would help.
  17. Gotta think Howard's gone after this year. What a mess.
  18. So this could be the antithesis of the "I'm Done" thread?
  19. I read she wants to play beach volleyball as well as indoor, so that rules out PSU and PU (Omaha team).
  20. Watching Boston College, about to post that Kobe Webster had been granted an 8th year, but I guess it's a different guy.
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