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re: Buzz gone to Maryland
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/25 at 1:19 pm
Seems odd that Buzz would choose to go to Maryland when Wiilard publicly complained about NIL support when bailing for Villanova?
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re: Home prices are dropping...still nobody buying.
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/25 at 12:08 pm
Ahh, overspeculation.
re: Home prices are dropping...still nobody buying.
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/25 at 12:03 pm
Why do the states everyone was supposedly fleeing have the lower inventories of houses for sale compared to 6 years ago?
re: Cheap Hawaiian shirts?
Posted by wm72 on 4/1/25 at 11:56 am
Side by side threads about the need to boost American manufacturing and buying cheap Chinese "Hawaiian" shirts.
:lol:
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re: Nate Oats the front runner for Maryland job?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 11:49 am
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Program status: For Rent
It's true but it's working out well for Auburn just like Alabana. Pearl has created the support that's obviously gotten the necessary NIL support to pay the transfers and recruits he wants to maintain a top program instead of having to go to Kentucky.
re: Nate Oats the front runner for Maryland job?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 11:38 am
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BYU is paying out the wazoo now too.
If they keep doing that and their coach pans out he will have a perennial Top 10 program there too.
re: Nate Oats the front runner for Maryland job?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 11:33 am
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in the SEC, I agree it’s a top 10 job currently. Top 10 in America, no.
What's more important is that Oats has made Alabama a current Top 10 program.
re: Nate Oats the front runner for Maryland job?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 11:11 am
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Now, if you want to say that, in the new world of NIL, transfers, and TV, Alabama will BECOME a top 15 programs, it’s a defensible claim.
Yeah, it's obviously a different world now. And, ranking jobs doesn't make much sense when we don't know the most important criteria: how much NIL support is currently there.
You have people saying Maryland is a better job than Alabama based on past history when the reason the Maryland job is open seems to be their previous coach being unhappy with NIL support.
There are certainly some programs where historical success has led to tons of current financial support but it also seems NIL era has meant tradition is less important than creating a frenzy of support at any major athletic department at a sports crazed school such as what Pearl has done at Auburn or Oats at Alabama.
re: What the heck is going on with USPS?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 10:53 am
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Why didn’t Biden fire him?
There was a huge campaign to get Biden to step in and replace him as many saw his appointment as an attempt to sabotage USPS with an eye to garnering support for its eventual privatization.
However, the President can not legally fire the Postmaster before a 7 year term is served. It can only be done through a unanimous decision of USPS directors which is a bipartisan committee.
re: Any of you baws ever work in manufacturing?
Posted by wm72 on 3/31/25 at 10:43 am
The hype about manufacturing jobs isn't that they are always the most wonderful jobs but that many provide the type salary that allows one to take care of their families well, set there kids up to be better educated and have a little extra spending money that circulates through the non-major city communities they live in.
Americans were hoodwinked into believing that "cutting costs" helps the overall economic welfare of the country when it usually just means concentration of wealth into fewer hands and a few major cities.
The current government efficiency craze is a good example. The waste that's bad for everyday people is not as much 5 government employees making a good salary in Pascagoula as it is a sweetheart deal with a company providing fuel sensors for military equipment being manufactured overseas.
Even if those Pascagoula jobs are not the most efficient they still circulate that money back through a local economy instead of our taxes just getting sucked into bank accounts of a handful of billionaire investors in NYC and not helping decaying smaller towns.
The hype about US manufacturing is about circulating capital on more local and minute levels, though I'm skeptical that anyone in any position of influence actually wants that to really happen.
Americans were hoodwinked into believing that "cutting costs" helps the overall economic welfare of the country when it usually just means concentration of wealth into fewer hands and a few major cities.
The current government efficiency craze is a good example. The waste that's bad for everyday people is not as much 5 government employees making a good salary in Pascagoula as it is a sweetheart deal with a company providing fuel sensors for military equipment being manufactured overseas.
Even if those Pascagoula jobs are not the most efficient they still circulate that money back through a local economy instead of our taxes just getting sucked into bank accounts of a handful of billionaire investors in NYC and not helping decaying smaller towns.
The hype about US manufacturing is about circulating capital on more local and minute levels, though I'm skeptical that anyone in any position of influence actually wants that to really happen.
re: According to a new survey, only 16% of Christians believe in the doctrine of the Trinity
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/25 at 7:23 pm
My brother and his wife go to church and say they're Christians but seem to believe the Bible and most of the theology are jiust metaphors with some goodexamples for life.
They live in a small town and not being Christian wouldn't be good for social and business relations but that' seems to be about as deep as their interest is.
I imagine they're are a lot of people that feel this way.
They live in a small town and not being Christian wouldn't be good for social and business relations but that' seems to be about as deep as their interest is.
I imagine they're are a lot of people that feel this way.
re: Where you live, when you wake up and go outside 1st thing in morning…
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/25 at 3:25 pm
A bunch of chatty Pratt art college students in line for a pre-class coffee and croissant.
re: What the heck is going on with USPS?
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/25 at 1:25 pm
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For the latest issues that started in earnest in roughly October you have a single individual to blame: the PMG Louis DeJoy. I have owned part of a company several cousins inherited about 25 years ago. One of the cousins quit his job and runs the company and the rest of us do nothing with the day to day but each has an area of responsibility we spend some time managing. My area is shipping. We ship about 10,000 small parts packages a year to support out customers. I shifted our small parts shipping to USPS within the first couple of months. It was far cheaper and we still had daily pickups. I have over 24 years of data for well over 2 million packages shipped by USPS and they did a remarkably good job until the last ~5 months. I used to get a handful of flags per YEAR now half the packages flag as being late, though they haven't lost any we did have to reship 16 packages in that time to appease customers and both packages usually arrived on almost the same day. DeJoy slowed down service on purpose and had more plans to slow it down further and to really screw things up his plans to switch over to more modern sorting machines was a colossal failure due to poor or no planning. We should have a new PMG soon and hopefully will revamp the "Delivering for America" plan with an eye toward returning to better and quicker service.
I hope so. USPS is crucial for so many American small businesses.
In talking to the local postmasters, it seems their opinion of DeLay's "program" tends more toward intentional sabotage than just simple incompetence.
re: Does anyone beat Duke?
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/25 at 12:14 pm
Duke's good. So many young players that it was a mystery how much they'd improved over the season with their conference schedule.
That said, I think any team left could beat them even if Duke would probably be favorites.
They're just a very bad matchup for Alabama -- like Florida -- since Alabama's injuries (Wrightsell, Mallett and the hobbled Derrion Reid) were specifically to the longer perimeter players you count on in those matchups.
That said, I think any team left could beat them even if Duke would probably be favorites.
They're just a very bad matchup for Alabama -- like Florida -- since Alabama's injuries (Wrightsell, Mallett and the hobbled Derrion Reid) were specifically to the longer perimeter players you count on in those matchups.
re: Tide Hoops | Recruiting
Posted by wm72 on 3/30/25 at 12:06 pm
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This season showed we need bigger guards and tougher inside players. Those teams that beat us possessed those type players.
True but it was a bit more by injury luck than design.
Mallette and Wrightsell -- who would have likely been our 2 better defensive guards -- were out for the year. And, Derrion Reid was injured most of the season.
On another note, people forget Jarin Stephenson just turned 19 years old at the start of the season, a year younger than Aiden Sherrell I believe. I definitely hope he stays.
re: Alabama @ Duke - TBS 7:49 CDT
Posted by wm72 on 3/29/25 at 8:35 pm
We're bothered and confused by their defense.
Getting torched on defense.
Nit a good combo so far.
Getting torched on defense.
Nit a good combo so far.
re: NCAA Tournament - Elite 8 - Sunday, March 30
Posted by wm72 on 3/29/25 at 7:14 pm
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What was Martin doing there with the shot clock expiring?
Huge possession and it seemed like they had no idea at all what they were doing with 8 seconds on the clock.
re: Michigan is not good
Posted by wm72 on 3/29/25 at 9:59 am
There are 6 teams which just seem a level above anyone else this year -- AU, Florida, Duke, Tenn, Bama and Houston.
No surprise they're all still around until they face each other.
After that, the next 20 or so good teams seemed fairly interchangeable.
No surprise they're all still around until they face each other.
After that, the next 20 or so good teams seemed fairly interchangeable.
re: NCAA Men's Basketball Championships - Sweet 16 - March 27
Posted by wm72 on 3/27/25 at 11:19 pm
Uncanny. The 2nd half score difference in both of these games has been almost identicle.
re: BYU @ Alabama - CBS 6:09 CDT
Posted by wm72 on 3/27/25 at 7:30 pm
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Surely they’re going to stop packing the paint second half though. There’s no way they’re going to let us shoot 60 3’s of mostly clean looks
We'll see. They started pushing out a little more late in the half.
But, they obviously don't think they can contend with our rim game that well without numbers or they wouldn't have tried this defense.
It's as packed-in D as I've seen anyone play against us since Oats arrived.
They may try to wait it out with just a little more pressure and hope we miss 4 or 5 in a row.
I'm sure they feel like an 11 point deficit in this game = 5 in most games.
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