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It feels like everything good with Hawkeye football died with LJ Scott’s reach across the goalline

Stoopsbrother
IowaHawk1994 said:
Ya that toilet bow was special a terrible USC team with a soon to be fired coach and a high schooler playing qb
vs a team that could only execute a qb sneak
memorable
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weren't Amon Ra St. Brown, Drake London & Michael Pittman Jr. playing for USC that day?
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So it begins

Aardvark86
gohawks50 said:
ZME Science is based in Romania so it's not Americans trying to convince themselves.


I actually posted the article/study as a joke in response to your comments. I think Republicans and Democrats both have their share of intellectuals and people with lesser education. The biggest differences are probably their priorities. I think Republicans are more concerned with financial issues and traditional norms while Democrats are more concerned with inclusion and looking toward the future. Both have their strengths and weaknesses, although with the devotion to Trump by the Republican party is concerning to me since he often represents the opposite of what Republicans have traditionally valued.
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indeed, as i've said before (channeling SP Huntington), american politics is just an ongoing conversation about the appropriate balance at a given time among core values that are inherently intension with each other (eg, liberty v equality, limited government v security, etc.) Neither side's emphasis is wrong, or right, it's just their particular cocktail mix. And, just as you note a legit fear that perhaps modern R's increasingly don't recognize the legitimacy of 'equality' as a core value, so too i worry that D's aren't too big on liberty any more. In both cases, it's a huge long term problem, as the consensus over the universe of values is pretty much the only thing that defines an american.
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So it begins

gohawks50
Aardvark86 said:
so what? why do we care about the organizational aspect? they're legislators; they can chop of oversight however htey want. Certainly no worse than environmental permitting in real estate development.

either way, as a legisltive body, if THEY get out over their skis the public can throw the bums out.
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This passage makes it sound like the committee's goal is political not educational:


“In his first term, (Rep.) Collins led efforts to dismantle the DEI bureaucracies at the regent institutions and remove political bias from the university presidential selection process,” Grassley said. “I’m eager to see the work he will continue to do as chair of this new committee. A comprehensive review of Iowa’s entire higher education system is long overdue.”

Collins, in the news release, also called for “reforming Iowa’s higher education system.”

“We have a tremendous amount of work to do in restoring Iowans’ confidence in our institutions, controlling costs, and returning the focus of our higher education system away from ideological agendas, and back to the pursuit of academic excellence,” Collins said.
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A new GOP House proposal is set to ban trans women from women's bathrooms at the capitol building to target first trans Rep, Sarah McBride

Joes Place
Bulldogs1974 said:
tom, I agree with you a lot.
This issue is a killer for democrats. The over reach by the left of trans issues is one of the main reasons trumps wins in 24.
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Only, they didn't run on it.

They ran in inclusivity and other issues.
Rightwing media made you think this was their main platform, but it was not.
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If we want to compete, our ONLY option is to add $10 to each ticket to go towards NIL.

Mister Plow
I believe that the original poster is talking about something different than NIL. NIL is name-image-likeness. The other issue is the House settlement where athletes will be paid and it'll come from the university. I believe that it is tied to the 105 limit.

And I agree with the original poster that it's a good idea.
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Trump Cabinet Poll

Finance85
jneffer said:
the people cheering a lot of these trump picks don't realize that you need to know about a bureaucracy if you want to reform it...for this reason, not too concerned RFK and hegseth. They'll probably say some embarrassing things and institute some dumb policies, but trump and his minions have never shown the patience required to achieve real legislative change or reform

Tulsi though, if she gets her hands on the wrong piece of paper ...
I'd assume there are significant firewalls being put up by the intelligence community
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What do you think Tulsi will do if she has access to all information?
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So it begins

H
IACub said:
I'm so happy I got a world class education in Iowa in the 80's and early 90's before the State GOP had a chance to dismantle public schools.
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You mean Jimmy Carter's Department of Education. I believe that is who started the Washington meddling in Iowa education. Prior to that we had about a hundred years of republican control in Iowa, minus a couple of years of dem governors.
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A new GOP House proposal is set to ban trans women from women's bathrooms at the capitol building to target first trans Rep, Sarah McBride

Joes Place
lucas80 said:
This is her entire act. She makes no attempt at being a productive member of Congress. She's a performance artist. Her entire schtick is riling up the rubes and bigots in order to get on TV, or to get clicks.
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This is who they elect, nowadays.

And why the GOP cannot govern.
They have a staunch minority of representatives who can actually govern. The rest are grifters and performance artists.
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Trump Cabinet Poll

Stoopsbrother
binsfeldcyhawk2 said:
Two biggest issues for SecDef IMO are recruiting/retention and preparing for possible a China conflict. On that front the Secretary of the Navy is gonna be a extremely important pick.

I like what I've heard from him on both BUT I think he might have just too much personal baggage. The confirmation hearings will be lively to put it mildly.
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the personal baggage is what gave me pause after seeing the nomination.
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And the new AG nominee is

J
binsfeldcyhawk2 said:
True on the low bar.

Her "issues" shouldn't be a problem getting her confirmed.
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so she accepted a donation from a person she was considering investigating for fraud, and then immediately decided not to pursue the investigation

seems like perfectly reasonable thing for our country's top prosecutor to be on record as having done
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Cedar Rapids casino...

beanerhawk
IAFB2021Champs said:
Are they having to reinvest every time they make a pitch because this is at least the third time that I can remember. I assume some of that investment money has to be used in their pitch. People need to get paid somehow.
Also, why did they invest in the first place when the iowa gaming commission said it wouldn’t pass and local casinos were against one being built in CR.
Can’t say I feel bad for them one bit.
If they have to much money, I’m sure I could give them some shitty sales pitch and take their money.
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I couldn't tell you why they invested. Yes every time it comes up they need investors to back it. No I don't feel bad for millionares that make investments either. Just stating it wasn't as easy as just walking away so Riverside could build a playground for CR.
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It feels like everything good with Hawkeye football died with LJ Scott’s reach across the goalline

bulletproof90
The “everything good” was obviously an exaggeration.

And I didn’t necessarily intend for this thread to be a rebuke of the program as a whole.

But if you’re being honest with yourself you have to admit that the sustained highs as a fan of this team have just not been there since that moment.

Even with as amazing as the beatdown of OSU in 2017 was, for example, we followed that up the next week with that embarrassment in Madison when he had like 50 yards of total offense.

There has not been a season since that has felt like we accomplished something great. I can appreciate that we’re not the trainwreck that a lot of other programs are, and there is a lot to be said for that, but our seemingly current peak of reaching near the top 15 twice in a decade is woefully disappointing for a team that was inches away from making a 4 team CFP in 2015 and used to actually challenge for big ten championships and top 10 or better finishes.

I’m sort of an optimist at least as it relates to my Hawkeye fandom and I always until the last couple years felt like we just needed a few things to break our way and we had the potential to get back to a moment as big as the one in December 2015. I’ve felt the sting of disappointment too consistently, too many years in a row to genuinely believe that anymore.

Again, I’m not even really meaning to criticize the program; I just felt like commiserating with my fellow Hawkeye brothers who I know still feel just as wistful about what we once were as I do. And I still haven’t reached the acceptance stage with how that game ended.
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