Fran should be fired tonight.

He's mentally checked out.

Let Matt Gatens coach the team the rest of way (he earned it from his time as a player).

Start putting out feelers and getting ready to find the next coach.

I'm sure the usual "be grateful because Fran is better than Lickliter" crowd will still make the same tired arguments.

It's probably the same people who wanted to keep Brian Ferentz because the team was winning against an atrocious Big Ten West (they won in spite of Brian).

It's over. Let's start tonight.

The high for Iowa City today will be six, the low minus 13. It wouldn't surprise me if they had less than 3,000 people . . . I mean those are brutal temps for a game featuring, perhaps, the two worst teams in the BIG. Even if Iowa were to win, so what? The turnaround required to make something of this season doesn't seem likely. Stay warm and stay safe.

….How soon we forget about all these non-conference wins against the likes of: East Texas A&M, Southern, South Dakota, Washington State, Rider, USC Upstate, New Orleans, Utah, and New Hampshire. I mean do we not expect these wins against this elite schedule to pay dividends come March?!?!? 😊🤔

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It's going to get warm again

....starting it now because I may be indisposed the next few days....

Looking at the remaining schedule I only see one definite loss on the schedule. Honestly at Minnesota, Michigan State and Nebraska isn't intimidating. Playing Wisconsin, Washington UCLA and Purdue doesn't instill any fear. So realistically Kirk will get close to ten wins with a putrid offense. The defense will come together playing offenses like Illinois or Minnesota and Kirk will get lauded as doing more with less.

Only difference is he won't get to the CCG to get an extra blowout. The narrative more with less is a bit deceiving. If Iowa had to play Oregon, USC, Penn State, Michigan and Ohio State yearly plus a tough OOC game like Wisconsin, Ohio State and Michigan do every year and win even half of those I would agree. But Iowa plays teams like Northwestern. Kirk purposely makes younger more talented guys sit behind older players that have earned his respect.

Meanwhile Nebraska is starting a true freshman that has put life into that program. Ohio State has their 100th freshman WR phenom making plays and Florida learned their lesson by putting in their highly touted QB freshman because if they didn't that coach would be gone. Florida also has a meat grinder of a schedule so it likely won't matter, but it's the expectations.

Iowa under a coach with a fire under his butt would've kicked the tires on Kyle McCord, Cam Ward or Will Howard. But the program under Kirk is stable and while everyone is upset now, things will go back to normal after Iowa beats all the teams they should. Kirk will get his ten wins and ride into next year. His backers will point to his tenure as the most impressive thing ever.

Wash, Rinse and Repeat. The beat goes on.

And one COSTLY offseason move turned out to be with what they did at the QB position.

In the offseason, Ryan Day showed starting QB Kyle McCord the door in the favor of a transfer portal option that turned out to be Kansas State QB Will Howard.

McCord landed at Syracuse.

Yesterday, as Will Howard struggled in a loss to Michigan, throwing two costly interceptions, McCord was up in Syracuse out-dueling the nation's best quarterback, Cam Ward, in a thrilling comeback 42-38 win over #6 Miami.

Down 21-0 early in the second quarter, McCord erupted for 380 yards and three touchdowns on 26 of 36 passes.

When asked after the game about beating Miami while his former school Ohio State lost to Michigan yet again, McCord had the perfect response.

"Everything comes full circle," McCord said.

This season McCord passed for 4,326 yards, completed 66% of his passes, and had 29 TDs and 12 INTs for the Orange (9-3).

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Current B1G Standings:​

I don’t want to be blamed for them being forced to vote for Trump and his enablers anymore. How do we go about steering them away from their OBVIOUS reality and into the left wing fake one?

Do we nicely point out Trump’s lies? Let them figure it out for themselves when everything turns to shit? 🤷🏻‍♂️

We know it's coming.

Link below
did trump not put his hand on the bible

Can you imagine the Republican/Christian outrage if a Democratic president did not put his hand on the Bible?

added edit: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-inauguration-hand-bible-swearing-in/story?id=117897715

He was a decent pitcher that benefitted by playing for a couple of pretty good teams that scored a ton of runs in support. Career ERA of 3.74. 1 Cy Young. 6 all stars in 19 seasons. I guess the writers liked him though. I'd put him in the "Hall of Pretty Good Pitchers"

Trad ain't going to be happy.

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Trump Cancels Construction of One of America's Largest Wind Farms​

Donald Trump halted construction on what was set to be the largest wind farm in the U.S. on his first day in office.

The president stopped building work on over 100,000 acres of clean energy infrastructure at the Lava Ridge Wind Project in Idaho via an executive order on Tuesday.

Newsweek contacted the White House and developers Magic Valley Energy for more information on the order, the decision and the implications for those involved in the project via email. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) declined to comment when approached by Newsweek.
The move is part of a series of day-one promises that Trump pledged to fulfill once he was sworn in.

In his inauguration speech, Trump said that the U.S. would "drill, baby, drill," and expand oil and gas initiatives at the expense of renewable energy projects. This order, along with his removal of the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, symbolizes Trump's move towards traditional fuel sources.

The Lava Ridge Wind Project would have been a 104,000-acre wind farm in Lava Ridge, Idaho, with over 271 turbines planned by developers Magic Valley Energy.

This would have made Lava Ridge the largest wind farm in the U.S. by area, beating out the 100,000-acre titleholder in Roscoe, Texas.

However, because of the project's scale, it was met with skepticism by local campaigners, including Republican Idaho Senator Jim Risch. In 2023, Idaho lawmakers issued a statement with concerns over how the project was being managed by the BLM.

Local campaign groups, such as the Friends of Minidoka, were concerned that the construction would impact the Minidoka National Historic Site, which was the location of an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.

Trump signed the executive order, which was co-written by Risch, on Monday, with Risch saying: "By prioritizing this executive action on his first day in office, President Trump further cements his legacy as a leader in the revolution commonsense that governs by the people and for the people."

Risch said in a statement on the order: "I made a promise to Idahoans that I would not rest until the Lava Ridge Wind Project was terminated. On day one, President Donald Trump took action to keep that promise.

"Lava Ridge has been the embodiment of liberals' disregard for the voices of Idahoans and rural America. Despite intense and widespread opposition from Idaho and the Japanese American community, the previous administration remained dead set on pushing this unwanted project across the finish line."

Trump is very busy in his first week back in the Oval Office, issuing executive orders on a wide range of issues.

It isn't yet clear whether the project has been canceled altogether and whether there will be any challenges to the decision

His words.


I guess I can go down to the local federal building and do whatever I want. What an idiot.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...r&cvid=8ad36ac384bc4cc3810ee2994db36fa0&ei=43

Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media website, that he had spoken to Ulbricht's mother on his first full day in office.

“It was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross,” he wrote. “The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.”

Trump called Ulbricht's prison sentence “ridiculous.”

Incredible.

@Moral , can you start the GoFundMe so we can hear what Fran thinks?

Because, as we all know, officiating is what cost Iowa this game. Not.

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When Trump blatantly lies about pretty much everything? When he signed the EO looking to end birthright citizenship he told everyone that the U.S. was the only country in the world that did this.

He's stating an easily proven lie and yet no one even questioned the piece of shit. I have birthright citizenship from Canada.

Is it the next .com bubble? Talk amongst yourselves.