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    Iose...BOOM!!!

    As an aside, a kid from nearby Clear Creek Amana has thrown over 190 in discus this year, and he is out around 65' in shot (he won Drake). He just committed to Iowa T&F. Another cool wrinkle of his story is that he was throwing in the 30s as a freshman...he has added 30 feet to this shot put in...
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    Penn swimming in hot water???

    At the time, NCAA allowed transgender women to compete as long as they had completed at least 1 year of hormone replacement therapy (Thomas had completed more than 2 before competing as a woman). Rules have since changed. Different sporting bodies have different rules, but most either ban...
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    ISU Athletics

    So, we start meme-coins marketed toward all other B1G programs, and ISU for good measure. Their fans jump in, we dump and run, and we put all of the profits into Hawkeye Swarm. Sounds like a foolproof scam...I mean strategy.
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    ISU Athletics

    Seriously, we should get to work planning this thing. Unprecedented times call for radical ideas.
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    ISU Athletics

    Maybe some high-rise condos can replace the residential units, and now instead of a 100-year old home they get a penthouse on the 10th story with a view of Kinnick? Sounds like an upgrade, to me.
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    ISU Athletics

    Maybe we need to wipe out University Heights, and replace it with HawkTown? I am sure we can get some eminent domain going to support that.
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    ISU Athletics

    What I really want them to copy is CyTown, but geographically, not sure how you do that. Maybe with a new BB arena somewhere out on west Melrose?
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    ISU Athletics

    Gotta tip your cap to them, they have built something over there.
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    Tariffs

    Billions, perhaps? I was just listening to last week's John Stewart podcast with Rory Stewart, and the point was raised that for all of our failures post 1989 (Middle East, most notably), there were plenty of success stories from the globalized, rules based international order we helped create...
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    Tariffs

    And that turned out to be the fundamental flaw of the gloablists' argument: it was thought that introduction into the global market would liberalize and democratize China, and that her populace would no longer put up with the iron fist. I still think long term, that is probably true, but how...
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    Álvaro Folgueira

    I don't know...I think a poll of our fanbase would reveal a lot of positivity. I feel a lot better about this roster than last year's, but then again, I always thought Freeman was a bit overrated, and I didn't think Harding's game fit well with modern basketball offenses. I did like Dix a lot...
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    You just won millions in the lottery

    3? Not sure if this is a law of diminishing returns sort of thing... I feel inadequate enough trying to satisfy 1, no need to jump to the big leagues when I am scuffling at single A.
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    Basketball Portal Question?

    The 2025 Sweet 16 would beg to differ. I think the NIL era has really elevated the SEC in BB.
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    You just won millions in the lottery

    Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars? Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. [Peter laughs and then notices Lawrence's dead serious expression] Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same...
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    Lady Hawks add a highly ranked point guard from the portal

    Well, she was ranked slightly higher, and she played more minutes last year for a team that was comparable to Iowa. She scored roughly the same as Guyton on a per minute basis, but she had 50% more assists per minute, and she had fewer than half as many TOs per minute. Wright also had more than...
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    Álvaro Folgueira

    Last year, Women's season tickets were $210 for adults, and $115 for youth. Men's season tickets were about $350 ($325-$375, depending on location), and there was also a required per-seat contribution (not sure what this was), and there was no discount for youth tickets. So, for my family (2...
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    Álvaro Folgueira

    The Athletic has Iowa as one of the "winners" in the transfer portal circus: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6299944/2025/04/23/college-basketball-transfer-portal-winners-losers-2/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983&userId=2586988&source=dailyemail
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    Odds of societal collapse in US...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
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    Odds of societal collapse in US...

    That is where the terrascaping comes in! If you are into Sci Fi, and you haven't yet, check out Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Interesting from a sci fi perspective, but also from a sociological perspective (the issues that lead to the dooming of the Earth and the seeking of refuge on Mars...
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    Odds of societal collapse in US...

    I agree that over a broad time period, these advancements make things better. But over a shorter time scale, there can be massive disruptions. We have to survive the short-term disruptions to realize the long-term advancement.


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