Would like to buy 2 LL tickets to any weekend B12 MBB game for a Christmas gift. Willing to pay fair market price.

Section 109, Row 11
With B1 parking pass.

$225 a piece ($450 total)—This includes the parking pass which I will express mail. Need to have it sold by Saturday to get the parking pass to people. Iowa State fans only and yes I will check your posting history to confirm.

Does anyone know how to watch the volleyball ncaa match tonight?

This week we are looking for songs whose lyrics or titles include any of the following: jump, hop, skip or leap.


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Last Week: Cuts Like a Knife

It’s officially time to worry.

The move vs. renovate thread from yesterday got me thinking a bit...

We're pretty set on moving in probably 1.5 years (summer of 2022) from our first home. Our house is a 3 bedroom, 1 bath with an additional bedroom in the basement that is conforming w/ egress. I've considered adding a 2nd bathroom in the basement - nothing fancy, just a fairly simple bathroom with full size shower.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on if a project like this is worth it. Obviously it would help sell our house a bit easier once that time comes as I'm sure many people will just not even look at a 1 bedroom house, and we'd get the benefit of using the 2nd bathroom for a year or so. I just don't want to spend $10k on a bathroom if it's only going to add $5,000 to the sales price.

Thoughts? Would also appreciate hearing stories of renovations you all have done (not necessarily just bathrooms) before selling.

This morning I had to log in for the first time in years. When I clicked log in, everything was there, including the checked box for staying logged in.

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Seeing rumblings that he got hurt in practice today. Broken foot or ACL tear

It, but one helluva interview with Ech today.

Something everyone should listen to

A possible replacement for Pollard someday is getting a new job.
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Who should win vs who will win.

TX 11-1 (8-1) Sarkisian
Oklahoma St 9-3 (7-2) Gundy
OU 10-2 (7-2) Venables
WV 8-4 (6-3) Brown
ISU 7-5 (6-3) Campbell
KState 8-4 (6-3) Klieman
TTech 6-6 (5-4) McGuire
Kansas 8-4 (5-4) Leipold
UCF 6-6 (3-6) Malzahn
TCU 5-7 (3-6) Dykes
BYU 5-7 (2-7) Sitake
Baylor 3-9 (2-7) Aranda
Houston 4-8 (2-7) Holgorsen
Cincy 3-9 (1-8) Satterfield

2023 Big 12 Football Media Preseason Poll
1. Texas (41), 886
2. Kansas State (14), 858
3. Oklahoma (4), 758
4. Texas Tech (4), 729
5. TCU (3), 727
6. Baylor, 572
7. Oklahoma State (1), 470
8. UCF, 463
9. Kansas, 461
10. Iowa State, 334
11. BYU, 318
12. Houston, 215
13. Cincinnati, 202
14. West Virginia, 129

I'd probably go Brown, Campbell, Sarkisian. I think WV had the easiest path but tough to argue expectation vs finish.

Who should: Brown
Who will: Sark

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Food Bank of Iowa is rated 100/100 on charity navigator (LINK). It appears they are having a match day thanks to Corteva.



Meals from the Heartland is rated 97/100 with the only deduction coming from no 990 listing on their website (LINK)

This is unequivocally Matt Campbell's best coaching season. Lose 5 starters in August, lose a QB in the offseason, hire a bunch of new coaches on offense (coming off a bad bowl-less year), and we circle the freaking wagons to 7-5. I'll say Fiesta Bowl win year was the most successful year, but this to me is the best coaching job of CMC's tenure. Off to the game thoughts:

Offense

• It is one game, but Abu Sama is a unique RB. He does not have Breece like size but he has Breece like speed (which is not something most college players possess). I love his shifty moves, and his timing of waiting for blocks and knowing when to bolt has gotten way better. Unbelievable to see.
• OL: how can you not love this group this year? Clanton has been a home run hire. On a lot of the runs both the tackles, Bonifas, TE's and multiple OL kicked the ass of the opposing Kstate defender. That's coaching.
• Offensive Scheme - one of the things I love about watching Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers is I never feel like I know what's coming plays-wise. It is a unique balance of pass and run, and keeps the defense guessing. I see a lot of parallels to Nate S. with that, he just has the right "feel" to calling plays. Also, for any transfers or HS recruits how can you not love this offense? There are long runs, intermediate pass plays, deep bombs (like to Higgins last night). It's wonderfully balanced.
• Jaylin Noel to me gets the award for Most Improved Cyclone. He's starting to evolve into an NFL guy.
• Most underrated offensive player to me goes to Tyler Miller or Stevo Klotz. They made big lanes in the running game last half of the season
• Rocco has been lights out second half of the year and could be all big 12 next year

Defense

• Tyler Oneydim to me is the defense's MVP this year in regular season. Yes Tampa was also awesome. But all the stuff with the 3 man front: run D, eating up two OL, playing stiff against the run and pass this guy was just a rock this year. Not a ton of sacks but a dirty work guy who's just so good. If we pony up dollars to keep existing guys this guy has to be near the top of my list.
• Will Mclaughlin had a nice tackle for loss and continues to get better, hope he didn't get too injured.
• Drew Surges: he was second on the team in tackles last night. He got beat on a pass play and had a horrible PI called on him, but I was encouraged by what he did. He passes the eye test and is physical, he completely blew up a kstate RB on the sideline.
• My #1 portal want is a defensive end who can sack the QB. We missed that this year in a big way (even though the defense was strong in most all games). Maybe we need to move Zach Lovett to DE as he seems like a little big for LB, but at 250 can maybe be our speed DE. Defense was phenomenal almost the whole regular season (minus OU)

What. A. Season. So pumped for a bowl game!

Enjoy.

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Below are the rules.

Pick a team you think will win that weeks game. Pick only 1 team per week.
Don't pm me the pick, post on here you pick.
You can only pick that team ONCE the entire time you are in the game.
The goal is to advance and be the last person standing.
You have till the start of the last game of week 1 to enter.
You have up until the start time of the game you picked to switch When making a switch please edit your original pick post. If you make a second post I will take that as your switching picks.
If your team loses, you are out for the competition.
If you skip a week of picks, you are out.
You can switch as many times up until the game you have picked officially starts.
If you have questions, pm me
Post 2 of the thread will have the possible games you can pick.
Post 3 of the thread will have players left and who they have picked.

I have one ticket to sell for the Depaul MBB game on Friday in Chicago. Sec 122 Row H. Price is $25. Message if interested.

Our office Christmas party is coming up Friday night and I need to get a gift for this.

Let's hear some good ones.

I just submitted my ticket request. Who else is planning to go?

About this time each year, many of us give lots of attention to the bowl game prognosticators. But which ones deserve our attention?

Bottom lines:
- Value ESPN’s Schlabach, 24/7’s Crawford, and Athlon's Lasson.
- Ignore DRatings, Bleacher Report's Miller, and SI’s Johnson.
- CBS Palm is "meh."

Last year (2022), I did analysis of predictions (based on the latest I could find for each). If someone got one team correct, I gave 1 point. If someone got both teams correct, I gave 3 points.

#1 ESPN Schlabach – 92 points
#2 24/7 Crawford – 82 points
#3 Athlon’s Lasson – 76 points
#4 Action – 61 points
#5 Yahoo – 59 points
#6 CBS Palm – 58 points
#7 ESPN Bonagura - 48 points
#8 SN Bender – 47 points
#9 CFN Fiutak – 45 points
#10 DRatings – 30 points
#11 Bleacher Report Miller – 28 points
#12 SI’s Johnson – 18 points

Based on how many times at least one team in a bowl was predicted correctly:

#1 24/7 Crawford – 36
#2 tie ESPN Schlabach – 34
#2 tie Athlon’s Lasson – 34
#4 Action – 33
#5 tie Yahoo – 29
#5 tie CFN Fiutak – 29
#7 CBS Palm – 28
#8 SN Bender – 23
#9 ESPN Bonagura – 20
#10 Bleacher Report Miller – 16
#11 tie SI’s Johnson – 14
#11 tie DRatings – 14

But big picture is that I saw way more good than bad today and for the future. I knew all along it was going to be a nail biter.

But damn, I would have loved to get the W today.

And I have no idea what is, or isn’t, or could be, or should be, reaction time anymore and how a ref calls it. Something needs to change and soon for the good of the sport.

And Hilton was fire today. Show up for David vs Missouri if you can only get to one more. But come to them all if you can

I wrote this before the season started and just found it. Thought it would be fun to post my thoughts through 4 games (8 games left).

Best case:

Rocco is BP2 and/or Kohl is a decision-maker prodigy as a freshman
Norton is a bulldozer we hoped for
The Oline looks a lot better - Miller is a bookend, violence is seen in the run game
WR's share the load keeping defenses on their toes - Gains, Bitter, Essex make big steps forward.
TE's are the second coming of Kohler, Soehner and Allen. Dean looks like the most talented TE ever.
Coach Nate Scheelhaase is the real deal and makes the offense run like a well oiled machine

Defense is just as good as last year
Ezeogu, Onydeim and transfer all make a step forward
A surprise improvement from the young LB's
DB's are everything they're hyped to be

Special Teams coach turns a weakness into mediocrity
Kickoffs can actually reach the endzone regularly
PK turns redzone trips into points
We get positive yards on punt returns

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Clearly that hasn't happened. I had hoped we'd be 3-1 at this point.

The good:

• Rocco is the decision-maker I had hoped for
• Daniel Jackson has stepped up as a viable #2 receiver
• TE Brahmer has looked good, overall I'm relatively happy with the group as a whole
• Bacon is the surprise LB that no one saw coming
• DB's are every bit as good as we hoped, maybe even better
• Special teams are much much better

The mixed bag:

• Coach Nate Scheelhaase has looked good at times and horrible at others. Hard to tell who that's on more (him or CMC), but the trend at the moment is in the right direction. Some small things look a TON better: QB sneak, fewer false starts/substitution issues/getting the play call in issues, etc. Some play designs have been way too predictable and therefore completely unsuccessful. Other play calls are not to our strengths (e.g. zone read).
• Defensive line: Orange, Onydeim, Ezeogu etc have looked good at times, but don't consistently cause as much havoc as you'd like. Not bad/not awesome.
• The defense as a whole has been a little underwhelming overall. The talent is there in the back end and the INTs show for it. But the numbers as a whole don't look as good as you'd expect

The not so good:

• Offensive line - it all starts here and it's not pretty. There are no players that have stepped up noticeably. Probably the best thing I can say is fewer false starts and snaps have been good. James Neal and Darrel Simmons have been particularly underwhelming
• Running backs - yes, you could put it all on the line, but I'm not going to do that. While yes, there haven't been many holes to hit, when they are there, they haven't been attacked like you'd want to see. Norton seems to be at the point where he expects a hole to not be there.
• The WR room again has zero breakout players outside of Jackson. Where in the world are guys like Gains, Adams, Bitter, Essex? This is the biggest head scratcher for me. With the number of guys we have on the bench, none of them are good enough to see the field? With the run game unlikely to improve much this year, we have to identify more weapons.

Every season is a wild ride... how are we now compared to what you though we'd be at this point in the season?