FJ Management is a private company that owns convenience stores, oil refineries, banks and insurance businesses. In addition to Maverik, the company co-owns Pilot Flying J, the country's largest truck stop chain. The other owners are Berkshire Hathaway and Pilot Corp.

The Nick Nurse news reminded me that it’s great to not have to spend the first 3 months of every offseason speculating on where your program leader is going to be next season.

It’s much more fun to focus on how your coach is signing the highest recruiting classes in school history, while landing its top choices of transfers.

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It doesn't have to be your only vehicle, just your first.

Rulzzz here pinch hitting for our Friday OT MVP @Angie. This week's topic was one I pitched to her but she suggested saving it for me to do.

The beautiful weather we had in Iowa last week was giving me "I want to play hooky vibes" ala Ferris Bueller.

So topic is what things would you do if you played hooky for a day from school or for most of us work?

Anybody know if there will be concessions open? If not can we bring things to drink in with us? Not beer obviously. Anything else we need to know before deciding to come up on Saturday?

Big get for this team. No. 4 in the NCAA in field goal percentage last year. Two years left.

Looking to buy C3 parking for 2023 season. PM me if interested in discussing.

In case you want to watch:

I’m certain articles like this were written about Breece last year but it still generates a question for me. I’m the type of guy that digs in deep on ISU and I’m familiar but not super clued into the rest of the Big12 but I am fairly uninformed when it comes to the rest of college football. Why is it the conversation last year was can Breece sneak into the very end of the first round vs this year I’m seeing a decent amount of mock drafts with Bijan as high as the top ten.

I’m sure team needs and draft positions is a large factor but is Bijan really viewed as that much better of an NFL prospect? The two guys almost had identical final seasons as far as production but Breece essentially did it twice. Then Breece did slightly better in the combine.

I hate to say it but is it as simple as he’s got the longhorn logo next to his name.

As we head into the spring game, I'm trying to decide what my realistic expectations are for the 2023 season. Below is the schedule.

Given that...

1. we have 5 conference road games and just 4 conference home games
2. we don't get to play against Texas Tech, West Virginia, Houston, and Central Florida
3. we're coming off a 1-8 conference record last year

... I'm already starting to temper my expectations.

The good news is that I think Matt Campbell teams tend to perform the best when expectations are not real high.

Realistically, I'm hoping we can find at least 6 wins and get to a bowl game. Ideally, though, I'm hoping we can shock the Big 12 and the nation.

What is your realistic expectation?

• Sept. 2 – UNI
• Sept. 9 – Iowa
• Sept. 16 – at Ohio
• Sept. 23 – Oklahoma State
• Sept. 30 – at Oklahoma
• Oct. 7 – TCU (Jack Trice Legacy Game)
• Oct. 14 – at Cincinnati
• Oct. 28 – at Baylor
• Nov. 4 – Kansas (Homecoming)
• Nov. 11 – at BYU
• Nov. 18 – Texas
• Nov. 25 – at Kansas State

Minnesota (3): Demarion Watson, Robert Jones, Curtis Jones

Iowa (3): Tamin Lipsey, Omaha Biliew, Cade Kelderman

Missouri (3): Keshon Gilbert, Kayden Fish, Conrad Hawley

Wisconsin (2): Milan Momcilovic, Jackson Paveletzke

Illinois (1): Jeremiah Williams

Kentucky (1): Tre King

Georgia (1): Jelani Hamilton

Barbados (1): Hason Ward

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A sad day as former Drake great Willie McCarter has passed away. There are so many stories of his ‘69 team and how they electrified the nation. This led to Maury John helping to open Hilton as head coach and he actually did pretty well before dying from cancer. Willie outlived him by many years. God Bless those people. So many stories.

A 600-pound defunct satellite is expected to crash into the Earth on Wednesday (April 19). NASA said the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft is expected to reenter the atmosphere around 9:40 p.m. ET, with an uncertainty of plus or minus three hours.

While a majority of the decommissioned satellite should burn up in the atmosphere, NASA warned that some pieces may survive reentry and crash into the surface. However, the chances of the debris harming anybody are approximately 1 in 2,467, the space agency predicted.

NASA does not know where the debris will fall and said the Department of Defense is constantly monitoring the satellite as it falls out of orbit.

RHESSI was launched in 2002 to study solar flares and coronal mass ejections. It was decommissioned in 2018 and has been in a slowly decaying orbit ever since.

"During its mission tenure, RHESSI recorded more than 100,000 X-ray events, allowing scientists to study the energetic particles in solar flares. The imager helped researchers determine the particles' frequency, location, and movement, which helped them understand where the particles were being accelerated," NASA said.

Source here.

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On the other hand, your chance of dying from a gunshot in the United States was 1 in 89 in 2021.

Source: https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/all-injuries/preventable-death-overview/odds-of-dying/

Ok farmers...have you started planting yet, what percentage are you done, and what part of the state are you in?

Beernuts has not started, probably less than 5% corn - 1% soybeans planted in Northern Iowa.

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BAYLOR
IN - Jayden Nunn, PG (6-4 - SO): 35 G, 28.5 MIN, 9.3 PTS, 2.5 REB, 1.5 AST ----- VCU
OUT - L.J. Cryer, SG (6-1 - JR): 31 G, 32.3 MIN, 15.0 PTS, 2.1 REB, 2.1 AST ----- HOUSTON
OUT - Dale Bonner, PG (6-2 - RSJR): 29 G, 19.4 MIN, 4.7 PTS, 1.2 REB, 2.7 AST ----- OHIO STATE
OUT - Zach Loveday, C (7-0 - JR): 13 G, 3.0 MIN, 0.9 PTS, 0.5 REB, 0.0 AST
OUT - Jordan Turner, SG (6-8 - RSSO): 7 G, 2.1 MIN, 0.1 PTS, 0.7 REB, 0.0 AST

BYU
IN - Aly Khalifa, C (6-11 - RSSO): 34 G, 28.6 MIN, 11.7 PTS, 6.3 REB, 2.7 AST ----- CHARLOTTE
OUT - Hao Dong, SF (6-6 - FR): 4 G, 1.8 MIN, 0.8 PTS, 0.3 REB, 0.3 AST
OUT - Braeden Moore, SF (6-8 - FR): DNP ----- ORAL ROBERTS

CINCINNATI
IN - Jamille Renolds, C (6-11 - SO): 22 G, 20.0 MIN, 10.1 PTS, 5.4 REB, 0.7 AST ----- TEMPLE
OUT - Jeremiah Davenport, SG (6-7 - JR): 36 G, 25.6 MIN, 9.1 PTS, 4.2 REB, 1.5 AST ----- ARKANSAS

HOUSTON
IN - Damian Dunn, SG (6-5 - RSSO): 31 G, 32.6 MIN, 15.3 PTS, 3.7 REB, 3.0 AST ----- TEMPLE
IN - L.J. Cryer, SG (6-1 - JR): 31 G, 32.3 MIN, 15.0 PTS, 2.1 REB, 2.1 AST ----- BAYLOR
OUT - Tramon Mark, SG (6-5, SO): 37 G, 29.5 MIN, 10.1 PTS, 4.9 REB, 1.8 AST ----- ARKANSAS
OUT - Kiyron Powell, C (6-8 - RSFR): DNP ----- SOUTHERN INDIANA
OUT - Mylik Wilson, PG (6-2 - JR): DNP

IOWA STATE
IN - Jackson Paveletzke, PG (6-3 - FR): 33 G, 32.9 MIN, 15.1 PTS, 2.7 REB, 3.7 AST ----- WOFFORD
IN - Curtis Jones, SG (6-5 - SO): 31 G, 31.5 MIN, 15.0 PTS, 4.8 REB, 3.0 AST ----- BUFFALO
IN - Keshon Gilbert, SG (6-4 - SO): 31 G, 27.5 MIN, 11.4 PTS, 3.8 REB, 3.2 AST ----- UNLV
OUT - Eli King, PG (6-3, 182): 9 G, 3.3 MIN, 1.2 PTS, 0.6 REB, 0.2 AST ----- NORTH DAKOTA

KANSAS
OUT - Joseph Yesufu, PG (6-0 - JR): 35 G, 12.7 MIN, 4.1 PTS, 1.2 REB, 0.4 AST
OUT - Bobby Pettiford, PG (6-0 - SO): 32 G, 12 MIN, 2.2 PTS, 1.2 REB, 1.3 AST ----- EAST CAROLINA
OUT - M.J. Rice, SG (6-5 - FR): 23 G, 7.6 MIN, 2.2 PTS, 1.0 REB, 0.2 AST
OUT - Zach Clemence, PF (6-10 - SO): 20 G, 5.6 MIN, 1.4 PTS, 1.3 REB, 0.1 AST
OUT - Cam Martin, PF (6-9 - RSSR): 4 G, 2.5 MIN, 1.8 PTS, 0.5 REB, 0.0 AST ----- BOISE STATE

KANSAS STATE
OUT - Ismael Massoud, PF (6-9 - JR): 32 G, 15.3 MIN, 5.4 PTS, 1.7 REB, 0.5 AST
OUT - Peyton Ackerman, PG (5-10 - FR): DNP

OKLAHOMA
OUT - Jalen Hill, SF (6-6 - JR): 32 G, 32.7 MIN, 9.7 PTS, 5.8 REB, 1.3 AST
OUT - Jacob Groves, SF (6-9 - JR): 32 G, 20.5 MIN, 6.8 PTS, 2.5 REB, 0.8 AST
OUT - Bijan Cortes, PG (6-3 - SO): 29 G, 17.2 MIN, 3.2 PTS, 1.6 REB, 2.0 AST ----- WICHITA STATE
OUT - C.J. Noland, SG (6-2 - SO): 26 G, 14.5 MIN, 3.2 PTS, 1.3 REB, 0.6 AST ----- SAINT LOUIS
OUT - Joe Bamisile, SG (6-4 - SO): 21 G, 11.5 MIN, 4.0 PTS, 2.3 REB, 0.5 AST ----- VCU
OUT - Benny Schroder, SG (6-7 - FR): 6 G, 2.3 PTS, 0.8 REB, 0.0 AST ----- GEORGE WASHINGTON

OKLAHOMA STATE
OUT - Avery Anderson, SG (6-3 - JR): 22 G, 27.9 MIN, 11.1 PTS, 3.5 REB, 3.4 AST
OUT - Moussa Cisse, C (7-1 - SO): 32 G, 22.6 MIN, 6.8 PTS, 8.0 REB, 0.6 AST
OUT - Kalib Boone, PF (6-9 - JR): 36 G, 21.3 MIN, 10.6 PTS, 4.9 REB, 1.0 AST
OUT - Woody Newton, SG (6-9 - SO): 29 G, 17.0 MIN, 4.3 PTS, 3.4 REB, 0.5 AST

TCU
IN - Jameer Nelson, PG (6-1 - RSSO): 29 G, 35.2 MIN, 20.6 PTS, 4.6 REB, 3.6 AST ----- DELAWARE
IN - Essam Mostafa, PF (6-9 - RSSO): 26 G, 28.9 MIN, 12.4 PTS, 10.0 REB, 0.9 AST ----- COASTAL CAROLINA
IN - Trey Tennyson, SG (6-4 - JR): 35 G, 28.5 MIN, 15.7 PTS, 2.3 REB, 1.2 AST ----- TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI
OUT - Eddie Lampkin. C (6-11 - SO) : 24 G, 21.8 MIN, 6.3 PTS, 5.9 REB, 1.2 AST ----- COLORADO
OUT - Shahada Wells, PG (6-0 - RSJR): 35 G, 17.3 MIN, 5.9 PTS, 2.2 REB, 2.3 AST
OUT - PJ Haggerty, PG (6-3 - FR): 6 G, 9.0 MIN, 2.8 PTS, 1.5 REB, 0.8 AST
OUT - Souleymane Doumbia, C (6-11 - RSJR): 21 G, 4.0 MIN, 0.9 PTS, 1.0 REB, 0.0 AST ----- SAM HOUSTON STATE
OUT - Michael Niemann, PG (6-2 - FR): DNP

TEXAS
OUT - Arterio Morris, SG (6-3 - FR): 38 G, 11.7 MIN, 4.6 PTS, 1.4 REB, 0.5 AST
OUT - Rowan Brumbaugh, PG (6-4 - FR): DNP ----- GEORGETOWN

TEXAS TECH
IN - Darrion Williams, PF (6-6 - FR): 33 G, 30.5 MIN, 7.6 PTS, 7.3 REB, 2.7 AST ----- NEVADA
IN - KyeRon Lindsay, SF (6-7 - FR): 10 G, 20.2 MIN, 6.2 PTS, 5.2 REB, 0.3 AST ----- GEORGIA
OUT - Jaylon Tyson, SG (6-6 - SO): 31 G, 28.9 MIN, 10.7 PTS, 6.1 REB, 1.3 AST
OUT - Fardaws Aimaq, C (6-11 - RSJR): 11 G, 27.5 MIN, 11.1 PTS, 7.9 REB, 1.5 AST ----- CALIFORNIA
OUT - Daniel Batcho, PF (6-11 - SO): 23 G, 24.4 MIN, 7.9 PTS, 5.9 REB, 1.3 AST
OUT - Elijah Fisher, SG (6-6 - FR): 28 G, 12.2 MIN, 3.3 PTS, 2.0 REB, 0.4 AST
OUT - KJ Allen, SF (6-6 - JR): 26 G, 9.3 MIN, 2.4 PTS, 2.0 REB, 0.5 AST
OUT - Ethan Duncan, PG (6-0 - SO): DNP

UCF
OUT - Brandon Suggs, SF (6-6 - JR): 32 G, 19.3 MIN, 6.6 PTS, 3.2 REB, 0.9 AST
OUT - Jayhlon Young, PG (6-2 - RSSO): 33 G, 19.2 MIN, 4.5 PTS, 2.2 REB, 2.0 AST
OUT - Lahat Thioune, C (6-10 - RSJR): 34 G, 13.4 MIN, 2.6 PTS, 3.0 REB, 0.3 AST
OUT - Tyem Freeman, SG (6-6 - RSSO): 26 G, 11.7 MIN, 3.4 PTS, 2.2 REB, 1.0 AST
OUT - P.J. Edwards, SG (6-4 - RSFR): 19 G, 6.6 MIN, 1.7 PTS, 0.9 REB, 0.4 AST ----- BOWLING GREEN

WEST VIRGINIA
IN - Jesse Edwards, C (6-11 - JR): 32 G, 32.5 MIN, 14.5 PTS, 10.3 REB, 1.6 AST ----- SYRACUSE
IN - Kerr Kriisa, PG (6-3, SO): 35 G, 31.1 MIN, 9.9 PTS, 2.4 REB, 5.1 AST ----- ARIZONA
IN - Jose Perez, SF (6-5 - RSJR): DNP ----- MANHATTAN
IN - Omar Silverio, SG (6-3 - SR): DNP ----- MANHATTAN
OUT - Jamel King, SF (6-7 - SO): 8 G, 3.6 MIN, 1.5 PTS, 0.6 REB, 0.3 AST ----- KENNESAW STATE
OUT - Josiah Davis, PG (6-3 - FR): 6 G, 1.5 MIN, 0.8 PTS, 0.3 REB, 0.2 AST

Is that corn?

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Welcome to this week's edition of On That Note. Your hosts for OTN are @cyclones500, @CycloneRulzzz, and me.

Today we're looking for songs with titles or lyrics containing one or more of the elements from the Periodic Table of Elements.

The periodic table of elements is found easily on the internet, but in addition - here they are in list form if that's easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements

Exceptions: We are NOT accepting gold or silver. Those were included in two previous OTN topics, so they’re off-limits this time. Repeat, DO NOT POST SONGS WITH ONLY GOLD OR SILVER AS THE ELEMENTS! Of course, gold or silver is OK if the song also contains other qualifying elements.

(We are allowing 'chrome' as a short version of 'chromium.')

Last week's OTN was: Faith It can be found here https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-faith.278336/

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My First Five

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Oil wasted on the ocean and upon the sea, fish full of mercury
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When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light. That split the night
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Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line
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Seriously, you should listen to this podcast before any others this week on CF or Iowa Everywhere. It is amazing.

Steph & Alisa interview Lea Nelson of the Iowa State softball team. There aren't 10 seconds in a row of this podcast that aren't compelling. I guarantee that Lea will become one of your favorite Iowa State athletes after listening to this podcast. It starts with discussion about the unique relationship that is forming between the Iowa State softball team and the West Virginia baseball team. She gives great insight into the life of a softball player, including glimpses into dugout personalities and relationships with coaches.

If Steph & Alisa gave birth to a podcast child, it would be Lea!

Got a few trips/vacations scheduled in the next 6 months and are looking for good places to stay in the above cities. Not looking to break the bank but don’t want to end up in and area of town that isn’t the safest (might be the most important). Any input would be greatly appreciated!

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Alright people, time to chime in on an online debate.

So to summarize, forgettable MLB pitcher takes to Twitter to slam United for making his 5 month pregnant wife pick up some popcorn his kids spilled during the flight. Said pregnant wife's marginally famous sister-in-law also chimed in. It's led to a decent debate on social media about picking up after your kids.

I'm always mortified by the mess my kids leave when are in public. I make them pick it up to the extent we are able without a broom, vacuum, etc. and will always leave a bigger than usual tip if I know they have extra to clean up. But I've seen quite a bit on social media about United being paid to clean the plane. Where do you land?

Disappointing! Hard to believe we don't have a place for an athletic big man. Hopefully everyone in the two deeps is better than he will turn out to be. Not at all a slight to HB.