bsaltyman said:

To be fair to Prohm, his best recruits from the last two recruiting classes left early for the NBA. That definitely makes it hard to build a team when you lose players early. Still, he needs to manage the remaining team much better.

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bsaltyman makes a fair point here. The problem is, we didn't have a good recruiting class for this season. As bad as this team is, two of the recruits couldn't compete on this team and requested immediate transfers. Not transfers at the end of the season, as it goes with most players, but immediate transfers. So we didn't have talent coming in to replace what we lost. Losing those players to the NBA wasn't on Prohm, but having a partial-bust of a recruiting class IS on Prohm.

So what happened to this class? How did we miss-evaluate two players so badly that they couldn't even play one season?

Because when it rains, it pours! (Please hold for applause.)

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I love state wrestling. It is a week long holiday for me!

We have a couple of signed guys wrestling.

3A-145
Ben Monroe (36-2) place is unknown and scored 2.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Ben Monroe (Ankeny Centennial) 36-2 won by decision over Logan Adamson (Bettendorf) 24-5 (Dec 6-5)

2A-220
Cody Fisher (49-0) place is unknown and scored 4.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Cody Fisher (Woodward Granger) 49-0 won by fall over Jordan Mundy (Chariton) 27-10 (Fall 1:04)

Unsure of other guys we have interest in, but I believe the following have been on visits:

3A-285
Gabriel Greenlee (38-1) place is unknown and scored 2.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Gabriel Greenlee (Ames) 38-1 won in the ultimate tie breaker over Charlie Nank (Dowling Catholic - Wdm) 23-12 (UTB 4-3)

3A-120
Drake Ayala (42-0) place is unknown and scored 3.5 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Drake Ayala (Fort Dodge) 42-0 won by tech fall over Donovan Card (Norwalk) 30-10 (TF-1.5 3:16 (20-5))

2A-195
Wyatt Voelker (35-1) place is unknown and scored 2.0 team points.

• Champ. Round 1 - Wyatt Voelker (West Delaware) 35-1 won by decision over Sam Chapman (Creston) 44-10 (Dec 3-1)

Buf may be able to fill in a few more.




Headed down to the greatest show on earth tonight, pumped to see old friends from all over the state.

I posted this in the refinance thread but wanted to get some advice. We're trying to get a construction loan to finance a renovation on a house that we got through an estate. The one bank that isn't totally overwhelmed right now are saying we can't get a construction loan because we already bought the house. How do people finance major renovations if they can't get construction loans?

(because I don't want to be the only one not posting a "TL is transferring" thread)

Up until last night we would hear our sump pump removing water from the pit but that was about all. Then, it seemed like out of nowhere, we would hear it run and then end with either a thud or a clanking noise. It seems to be running just fine.

We moved in last year in May so we never really heard it 'start up' for the Spring, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew what this could be or if anyone else experienced this.

Any information would be appreciated.

I have been a Prohm supporter since he has arrived in Ames. However with the amount of money he is making my expectations are that the basketball program would have more stability than what it is showing.

The concerning part for me is does he have the ability to make connections with the players he is coaching? Does anyone else have the same concerns?

Add T-Lew to the list. Good thing we have an extra month to get those donation renewals going. Gives us some time to figure out what JUCO players will be coming in.

Here's the one we all expected


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Hello OTNers and welcome to another weekly music thread posted alternately by @CycloneRulzzz, @cyclones500 and me.

A theme, searching for a theme...

We decided to lay off the St. Patrick's Day theme for this week. I just did a disease themed OTN based on the COVID-19 crisis 3 weeks ago. So I struggled to find a timely topic for this week.

Since we're mostly all hunkered down at home we decided to make the topic Houses and Homes. So any songs with titles, lyrics or by artists with "House, Home, Condo, Apartment, Trailer, Cabin, Hut, Abode, Castle, Wigwam/Tipi(TeePee), Igloo" or any other noun that is a place where people live are fair game. (Let's leave out "A Van down by the River")

Last weeks offering was "I Love My Calendar Girl" which can be found here:
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-i-love-my-calendar-girl.255306/

With no sports maybe this will get more action than a normal OTN post. Who knows?

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Saw this elsewhere and posted it in one of the CoronaVirus threads. I hope it lightens the moment.

"Just remember, our parents/grandparents were asked to fight wars. We have been asked to sit on the couch. We got this!!"

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My First Five:

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"I always wanted a real home, with flowers on the window sill."
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Carry Me Back - The Rascals "Carry me back, I been away too long, I'm goin' home where I belong"
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Per Jared Stansbury. I'm at work and can't link, if anyone can help me out with that. 6'4'' combo guard from Florida Southwestern. Stats include 40% from 3 and 80% FT this past season.

One of my best friends just happens to be a microbiologist. Dr. Matt Erdman from Iowa State joined me to discuss the craziness that is our world right now. Helped put it on my level. Enjoy.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...dman-on-covid-19/id1499179311?i=1000468855474

Just curious how many people are actually working remotely and how many are just doing their own thing. Its an anonymous poll. No shaming, I just see lots of people talking about honey-do lists, gaming, streaming, etc.

I personally am working from home, as our office is on mandatory telecommuting for everyone to the extent possible, with distancing measures for anyone that must be onsite (alternate shifts, more sure desks are 6+ feet apart, etc). I am basically a data analyst, so as long as I have my laptop and a VPN I can work anywhere.

I don't know if anyone pays a lot of attention to the other teams in our conference, but there have been a lot of players from other Big 12 teams transferring the last month or so. Although, we want to be a top contender in the conference year after year, we also need to have a strong conference. The last couple of years we have had a lot of comments made about Texas and Baylor being in a "weak conference" which doesn't help us NCAA tournament time.
*Note: I have not done my research on who has been recruited for the 2020 season yet.

Here are the transfers so far:

Kansas:
OH - Junior, Camryn Ennis to Texas A&M
OH - Sophomore, Morgon Chriton to Texas A&M
OP - Sophomore, Rachel Hickman to Northern Colorado
*Ennis is a huge loss for them as she was the main setter her freshman year, then went to the outside her sophomore year. Very versatile player.

Kansas State:
OH - Sophomore, Anna Dixon to Missouri
OP - Junior, Gloriia Mutiri to Oregon
*Dixon was on the All-Big 12 Freshman Team, although she seemed to be a spark for them, you didn't really see her full potential being used IMO.

TCU:
OH - Senior, Ashley Waggle to George Washington
OH - Junior, eLan McCall to ?
**McCall is a tough player to lose, although she has been saddled with injuries and didn't see the front row again until the end of the season this year.

West Virginia:
OH - Junior, Kristina Jordan to ? OR (listed as No Longer on Roster)
OH - Junior, Macy McElhaney to Marshall
Libero - Junior, Abby Gibbons (listed as No Longer on Roster)
Libero - Senior, Ava Richards (listed as No Longer on Roster)
*Jordan is a dynamic player ~ I hope she continues to play somewhere.

Players TRANSFERRING into the Big 12:

To Baylor:
OH - Sophomore Lauren Harrison from UNC

To Texas:
OH - Capri Davis from Nebraska

To Texas Tech:
OH - Senior, Samantha Sanders from Texas A&M

To TCU:
MB - Sophomore, McKayla Myers from Washington State

If I'm going to survive this apocalypse, I'm going to need a lot more IPA's.

Thought I would start a thread to see what the people that are staying home during this time of emergency or doing to pass the time. I have been able to keep busy in the garage. I finished this football display case today. What is everyone else doing??

I'm going to be updating this daily until this whole thing is behind us. Hope you guys enjoy and it can take your mind off of things a bit.

https://cyclonefanatic.com/2020/03/blog-chris-ongoing-quarantine-blog/

With the coronavirus fears, are you still planning on traveling for Spring break? As of today I am, however strongly considering postponing my trip. Just curious what other are planning on doing.

I've had a long held, though extremely minority opinion (as in I'm the only one) among coworkers, friends, etc, that among the Mexican fast food chains that Taco Tico reigns supreme. And I have to add that I do like Taco John's. But when going by strictly tacos, burritos, and the like, I don't think it's even close. I would go Tico, John's and as a distant third, Bell. I just wanted other people's opinions to support or destroy my opinion. Of course, if you disagree with me, you're wrong.

John Oliver on Last Week Tonight gave me this idea. He took a moment to be selfish and vent about selfish reasons why the Coronavirus is impacting your life. I fully understand that there are serious economic and health impacts that will leave longstanding damage to our world, but this is a place to take a moment to vent...

I will go first, my wife and I welcomed our first child in 2019. We were looking forward to celebrating his first birthday in April. Now this isn't going to stop us from celebrating it, but it is going to severely change the plans. We will likely shrink down the size of the group and worst of all my wife's grandma won't be able to attend he only great-grandchild's first birthday party. This just popped into my head today and it really bummed me out thinking about it.

Alright now it it your turn...what do you need to vent about?

I decided to upgrade my internet speed to 100mbps, based off the fact that my wife and I will be working form home soon. I opted for the self install, because I already have centurylink installed in my house.

Now here is the issue, my new modem requires me to connect a DSL cable to a phone jack. I don't have any phone service at my house. My existing modem has a CAT5E Ethernet cable plugged into the WAN LAN jack. This Ethernet cable runs from my modem to the exterior of my house to a box on the side of my house. I tried plugging this cable into my new modem replicating the existing set up, but it did not work. Can anyone give me some help with this? Can I convert this CAT5e cable to DSL with some kind of converter?