SHUSA said:

the DNC isn't exactly the smartest group. see hillary 2016. but theyre in charge of putting their best foot forward

at this point trumps only move has been to rage on social media and people are tired of it. trump is beating trump.

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This I agree with you on. If Biden was "hopped up" on something, then he must be comatose now.

donnie_baseball said:

We can all rest easy knowing that ShoreGuy is at least getting 2 squares a day again.

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If i do subs i go to jersey mikes

ed odowd said:

Hey she hasn’t worked in 30 years and a lot if people would vote for her for president.Shows that celebrity outranks substance for a lot of voters.

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lmao donald trump was an actual celebrity with no experience in politics .... shows how you really see things clearly with this comment.

catholicman said:

The exit fees arent high enough. Anyway, I tend to think UConn basketball is going to suffer from this move, just as Syracuse, Louisville, et al. did when they joined the ACC.

However, if a couple of superconferences break with the NCAA, then the college basketball landscape will be radically altered and potentially destroyed forever. If UConn still stinks at football upon entering the Big 12, then they could once again be left out of the new superconferences.

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Hope so.

donnie_baseball said:

The entire DNC disagreed with you. 2024 Biden was going to lose.

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the DNC isn't exactly the smartest group. see hillary 2016. but theyre in charge of putting their best foot forward

at this point trumps only move has been to rage on social media and people are tired of it. trump is beating trump.

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That's the third reference you've made to that. You know nothing about amphetamines, and less about who is and isn't using them.

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i know a bit. i also know this board called out biden for being hopped on his cocktail of drugs but no such issue from you?

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Corny T. said:

He’s not your friend. Go visit their realignment board to get a clearer picture about how he feels about us. He spends half his time trying to convince other UConn fans they have to leave and how crappy this conference is for them.

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Agree; can't accept the fact that a good portion of the NY-NJ area UConn fans are cretins, either.

Someone sent me this link along the lines of Uconn's importance to the league (Big East 2024 TV ratings across each game): https://lookerstudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/9815f157-ea60-478f-a481-2dc93fae6ca8/page/tWDGB.

I don't know how to digest all these numbers or what they mean in the grand scheme, but a few takeaways:

-Uconn was first in TV viewership by several million (17.3 million). Marquette the only other team that was close with approx. 15 million. After that you have Creighton, St. John's and Nova all in the 10m viewership range, in that order. No on else close to that 10 million mark in TV viewership, including us, Gtown, Providence etc. So there was a real drop off once you got past Uconn (king of the hill), Marquette, Creighton, St. John's and Nova.

-No coincidence, the common thread among the top 10 most watched games is either Uconn, Marquette or St. John's.

- The top 5 rated Fox games were the two times Uconn played Marquette and the 3 times they played St John's.

-Uconn is basically at the top of every most watched FS1, Fox and CBS game

- Our game v. Uconn was the second most watched Big East-related game on CBS, trailing only Uconn v. North Carolina, and slightly ahead of Creighton v. St. John's on CBS.

“UCONN is one of the most heavily subsidized public FBS athletic programs in the country.” Hmmm, sounds like that’s not going down too well with a number of B12 ADs/presidents.

We can all rest easy knowing that ShoreGuy is at least getting 2 squares a day again.

He's going to be an interesting study to see how he performs over the life of his long contract. I'll say Shohei is the most valuable because he pitches too, but Judge is the most complete outfielder we've seen since Ken Griffey Jr was healthy and Barry Bonds wasn't doing steroids.

Went last week and saw #48. Yesterday he got his 1000th hit.

cernjSHU said:

Here are a couple articles for you about Republicans coming after Michelle Obama.

Conservatives dig into Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign

Conservatives dig into Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign

www.latimes.com

Michelle Obama hits GOP over school lunch plan

First lady criticizes a Republican plan to allow exceptions to new nutrition rules.

www.usatoday.com

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You act like the Obama's gave into conservatives. If they did there wouldn't have been the Affordable Care Act. Since neither one of us were in the room, let's take our best guesses. The Obama's gave into conservatives or lobbyists?

The first article says she should practice what she preaches. Not saying it was a bad idea but don't be dining on ribs and mandating I need to eat berries. Very similar to Newsome going to out eat during covid, while his state is locked down. The second article you link the hit is on what it would costs and even says if it gets passed by the Republican House, it would probably fail with the Democratic Senate. She said we need to fight Congress, not the Republicans and not the Democrats. Then she stopped fighting. I wonder why? I think the links I posted answer why.

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SHUSA said:

hopped on as many anphetamines too.

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That's the third reference you've made to that. You know nothing about amphetamines, and less about who is and isn't using them.

SHUSA said:

i said biden would have won and still believe that. trump is unhinged. whats your point here? last time i check Biden only has a W vs trump. age was the one thing that trump was gaining ground with and now that's another L for him too.

why are you up trumps ass so much?

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The entire DNC disagreed with you. 2024 Biden was going to lose.

silkcitypirate said:

Adam Kinzinger was very good on how he explained how trump is not a real Republican nor a true conservative . On Fox they did not even show the speech but rather had talking heads babbling about something else. Did not mention his speech at all AND how about trump saying last night he would cut all energy costs in half including gas . Wow what is he drinking or smoking . The more he talks the more he buries himself. Who is advising him Hannibal Lecter.

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No, Dr. Lecter is Biden's personal physician. Kinzinger should tell us something we don't know; even if a true Republican/conservative was running, you'd still be killing them.

SHUHoopsFan said:

How Big Food Corporations Watered Down Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign

archive.thinkprogress.org

Let's Move Campaign gives up on healthy diets for kids? - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

In what Obama Foodorama calls “a fundamental shift in the Let’s Move campaign” Michelle Obama announced in a speech last week that she will now focus on getting kids to be more active. Apparently, she has given up on encouraging food companies to make healthier products and stop marketing junk...

www.foodpolitics.com

Ok Hillary it was a vast right wing conspiracy. Nobody was taking away freedoms just an attempt to add transparency. Eat what you want but companies be transparent of what you’re eating.

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Here are a couple articles for you about Republicans coming after Michelle Obama.

SHUSA said:

it's for moderate voters. im not sure who the debate will expose. im not sure trump even cares about being president anymore

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Moderate voters will decide the election, most likely.

Robot_Man said:

This is great reporting. Wow, another "conservative" who turns out to be anything but. I'm shocked.

Another feather in the cap of Florida governor Ron DeSantis for offering the job to Sasse after a job search that he personally ensured would have little to no transparency. Sounds like the defiling of the state institution went precisely to the plan.

Nate Monroe: The plundering of the University of Florida

A UF search committee did not explain how its "exhaustive" search for the school's next president landed on an unqualified politician, Sen. Ben Sasse.

www.jacksonville.com

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But, hey, it's not "Red Team" versus "Blue Team." Right?

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TrueBlue1989 said:

CL82,

Assuming it plays out per the article, how does UConn sustain massive deficits for the next 7 years and maintain football facilities? What will its brand be after another 7 years of irrelevance or worse. Once it plays football in the B12, how can it fund $22mm per year for NIL? How long after 2031 will it earn a full payout. This can’t be a good financial deal for the University or State. Thanks

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Football's current deficit is about 14 million. The Connecticut governor has indicated his support for both the football program and the university. I believe that Connecticut currently has a budget surplus so the money is there. They've committed to $100 million in renovations to Gampel, 125 million, I think, in renovations to the XL center, and additionally are planning 175 million in renovations to Rentschler field. That's 400 million right there. I don't think the annual $14 million football deficit is particularly daunting to them.

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I just do not get them thinking they can be a big time football program . Their problem is that they invested big money in the program and they are stuck with it . Instead of eating their losses they are continuing to put good money into a bad product hoping that going into a football conference will help build their program. They will take the money and run . Good luck with that. Remember when anybody says it's not about the money IT ALWAYS IS !!!

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Like it or not, and I don't particularly like it, football is where the money is. UConn's most recent athletic department deficit is $35 million, if I recall correctly. A full share in the big 12 would pay it off so we would essentially be breakeven. Of course that doesn't take into account the additional travel cost, which been estimated at about 2 million a year and other additional costs of membership in that conference. Of course it also doesn't take into account that a full share of college football playoff money is an additional $15 million.

At this point, especially given the considerable amount of money Connecticut has already invested in football, it would be dumb not to chase full membership in a P4 conference.

Again, because I'm a basketball first fan, I don't love it, but not loving it doesn't mean I don't recognize that, for the time being, the future of college athletics is closely linked to big-time football.

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The taxpayer Put

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Yep. Without the taxpayers footing the bill, there's no way we could compete at this level. Since I'm a New Jersey resident, I don't pay it, but, on the other hand, both of us paid to subsidize Rutgers.

It is what it is.