Presuming the "89" in your screen name is the year you graduated from Iowa, that puts us a whopping two (2) years apart in age.
Are you "old"? I'm not!
I have no problem understanding all of the brain barf from the youngsters. It's the wholesale butchery of the English language that bothers me. It's emblematic of the dumbing-down of this country.
It's no surprise that we rank so low versus other developed nations in academics.
I think he is one of the best recruits so far in this class. Very underrated and good pick up for the hawks.