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******UNI vs Iowa Game Thread******

To their credit, UNI has played a difficult schedule with these losses:

1 - Creighton
2 - at SDSU (as discussed elsewhere, SDSU is really good)
3 - Ball State (the one bad loss but the game they lost Grace B. (they’re second best player and best big) in 2nd quarter and couldn’t adapt / adjust mid-game)
4 - Auburn by 1 point, neutral
5 - Kansas by 3 points, neutral
6 - at Iowa by 6 points.

Wins versus major conference opponents in ISU and Pitt.

They have a good shot at the MVC automatic NCAA tournament bid I believe.
This is truth. UNI is a pretty good team. Credit to them for making this contest a close battle.

Our portal game is downright pathetic. Only team worse in the conf is Purdue. Our AD must get big corporate donors or add NIL fee to tickets.

Beth has proven to be less than worthless. My dog could have gotten rid of BF and without CC our women’s BB is what it is. Yawn ass athletic department.
I'm pretty sure you're an idiot and have no idea how this stuff works. Or you wouldn't say stupid sh!t like this.

TNR: In sabotaging Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy

Status quo is good for corporate interests but clearly isn't working for the average person. One party recognized that and one party didn't.

Of course Republicans have no real interest in helping the average person but when the other side pretends there's no problem it forces people's hands.
You’re not working period. Nobody is coming to save you.

TNR: In sabotaging Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy

AOC is a moron and is just as terrifying as the worst republicans. She’s truly a dipshit.

But hilarious that the democrats continue to go back to their geriatric walking memes.

The elderly are not too old to govern.
Actually, I think they are. Old people don’t have a damn clue and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. Sure there are sharp old people, but most of these people are well past their cognitive prime

TNR: In sabotaging Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy

Both parties are run by corporatists. There’s really no “winning” in that. The party isn’t going to start really winning until they stop being Republican Lite.
You’re not going to amount to anything in life until you stop supporting people like Che Guevara.

Party City is going out of business

Main St stores are dependent on Main St economy and $$ circulating through the communities.

There has been a continual erosion of the $$ for Main St for decades now.
The Wall St businesses have been finding ways to scrape more and more money out of the middle class and remove the money from Main St.

Examples:
  • Online betting; 10% of everything bet online leaves Main St and goes to rich Wall St companies, and overseas.
  • Junk fees; those are all going to big corporations and big banks
  • Gift cards (a huge holiday business); they take 5% or so of what you buy as "convenience fees"; all of that goes to big banks, so 90-95% of what you actually buy is what goes to the person you gifted for
  • Credit cards; eat 2%+ of everything you buy that goes to banks; Main St has to pay that

Less capital available on Main St means economic downturn over the long haul. Most of what I'd listed above did not exist much prior to the 80s and 90s (credit cards were nowhere near as prevalent). You add all those up, and it is a constant drain of the pool of money to circulate through Main St. Look up the Velocity of Money if you want to understand how taking that money supply out of flyover country impacts flyover country...

TNR: In sabotaging Ocasio-Cortez’s bid for leadership of Oversight Committee, party elders have doubled down on a failed strategy

Both parties are run by corporatists. There’s really no “winning” in that. The party isn’t going to start really winning until they stop being Republican Lite.

Status quo is good for corporate interests but clearly isn't working for the average person. One party recognized that and one party didn't.

Of course Republicans have no real interest in helping the average person but when the other side pretends there's no problem it forces people's hands.

Line play

Too lazy to do it, but I wonder if win percentage with vs without Doyle is very different
I can promise you it’s not.

Doyle was there from 2011-2014 when Iowa went 26-25. OL play has not been dominant or good since the 2000s.

Yes, the OL has been trash since Doyle left, but correlation doesn’t mean causation. The truth is Iowa has put out a bunch of guys (like Plumb) who have no business being on a P5 roster let alone starting. I would also add OL really began regressing after Brian Ferentz stopped being the OL coach. When you factor in how much stronger and faster the defense has been since Doyle left, I don’t think there’s any real cause and effect here as it relates to Doyle.

Yes, Doyle was good. That doesn’t mean S&C completely went to shit after he left. The truth is there have been too many awful weak links on the OL forced into the starting lineup while being taught by a coach (Barnett) whom I am still perplexed by in terms of why he still has a job at the University of Iowa.
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