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Another tied up meaningless bowl game.

Alfords hiring by the U of Nevada as their head coach appears imminent.
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Not a bad deal

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Assuming Lil Debbie holds on, they're now 1-7 with the only win being Syracuse over the Wazzou JV squad who was missing most of their coaching staff and 2 dozen players.

From @CBBAnalytics:

Here are the only players with:

• 25 or more PTS/40
• A Usage Rate > 25.0
• A True Shooting Percentage > 55.0%

(among P5 & KenPom top 75 teams)

Well, now I can divulge that this was the other visitor I knew of this weekend.

Big add up front for the Iowa DL.

STORY:

Caught up with the Cedar Falls forward to talk about his recruitment, what the Hawkeyes like about him and dropped an evaluation of his game,

STORY:

Couldn't find any.

I guess no one wants to talk or answer questions.

Brings up the question: Are you okay with a non-citizen receiving this honor? He’s been a Miami resident since well before he signed with Miami. He was cited for his charity work with UNICEF, his Messi Foundation, and community programs in Miami. Kind of surprised MAGA hasn’t whined about this South American on a work visa. 😉

I saw a guy running on the shoulder of I380 today just south of CR. I pulled over and asked if he needed help. He told me he was just "out for a jog." WTF? I told him that I think that's illegal. He definitely had some sort of issues. Very strange. As I drove away I called 911. Hope he's ok.

Holy Moly, this is an A+ movie.

Got dusty a couple of times at the Bruno’s

Shocker, I'm back on the road today through tomorrow evening.

Heading to Missouri for my last family Christmas event this weekend (yay, divorced parents and having to schedule around a bowl game lmao). Gonna be on the road the next few hours, and then again on Saturday evening.

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We’ve established our NIL is piss poor. 10% talent fee, like Tennessee is implementing, will raise about $600k per home game for NIL. We can whine and bitch about not having deep pockets until we are in the basement of the league which is where we’re heading without more NIL. Not putting in a talent fee on all tickets is malpractice by the Administration and all should be fired.

Update after Iowa's 27-24 loss to Missouri in the Music City Bowl:

You can change your vote, if needed.

As we have been discussing in this thread since September 2023, one of the stipulations for the College Football Hall of Fame is you have to have won 60% of your games.

Assuming Kirk gets to 60% next season (which he currently is just below) and stays there, what say you?

Kirk has now been the head coach in 361 games. He's won 59.83% of those games.

To be at 60.00% (or better) at the end of the 2025 season, assuming a 13 game season, Kirk needs to go 9-4 (or better), which would put him at 225-149 (60.16%).

Kirk's current record:

.......12-21 (36.4%):...............3 years at Maine..........(1990-92)
204-124 (62.2%):...........26 seasons at Iowa (1999-present)
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216-145 (59.83%) Overall Record
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When Kirk hit win #200 he became the 24th Division I coach to reach that milestone.

Keep in mind that KF never had a 60% season until his 7th year as a head coach when Iowa went 11-2 in 2002.

Kirk's first 6 years as a head coach:

12-21 (36.4%.......3 years at Maine)
...1-10 (9.1%...........Year 1 at IOWA)
...3-9 (25.0%.......Year 2 at IOWA)
....7-5 (58.3%.......Year 3 at IOWA)
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23-45 (33.8%) Record
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Regarding the Aug 31, 2024 season opener vs Illinois State (40-0 Iowa win):


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Browns at Ravens
Bengals at Steelers

Booo....

Pretty cool

DER went from 93 to 129. lol

Dropped to 46 on Torvik, DER went from 89 to 123.

Now THAT is an historic ass whooping.

Make one food thing have basically the same dietary luggage as a glass of water. What would it be?

I’d have to think long and hard on this but currently Uncrustables are leading the way.

Shortly before Mike Johnson was sworn in as House speaker on Friday, he stood in front of the incoming members of Congress and offered what he said was “a prayer for the nation” that was said every day Thomas Jefferson was in the White House and “and every day thereafter until his death.”



Johnson attributed that detail to a program distributed at a bipartisan interfaith church service where he spoke earlier that day.
Johnson told the lawmakers, it is “quite familiar to historians and probably many of us.”
“Endow with Thy spirit of wisdom those whom in Thy name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that through obedience to Thy law, we may show forth Thy praise among the nations of the earth,” Johnson said, reading from a piece of paper.

Historians do know the quote — because it has been falsely attributed to Jefferson for years. There is no proof Jefferson ever said it, according to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which has a page on its website dedicated to correcting this notion, a Voice of America reporter noted on X.

“We have no evidence that this prayer was written or delivered by Thomas Jefferson. It appears in the 1928 United States Book of Common Prayer, and was first suggested for inclusion in a report published in 1919,” the foundation writes.
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Furthermore, the organization said reciting a prayer like this is not something Jefferson would have ever done.
“Ultimately, it seems unlikely that Jefferson would have composed or delivered a public prayer of this sort,” the organization said. “He considered religion a private matter, and when asked to recommend a national day of fasting and prayer, wrote, ‘I consider the government of the US. as interdicted by the constitution from intermedling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.’”

Emails seeking comment sent to a spokesperson for Johnson and the group that organized the interfaith prayer service were not returned.

On Saturday, Rep. Jared Huffman (D-California) wrote on X that the House speaker’s misrepresentation of a Founding Father was part of a wider problem.
“To be clear, I object to his false attribution of the prayer to Jefferson — part of the endless Christian nationalist campaign to remake Jefferson into a devout Christian when he was actually an enlightenment era freethinker who thought religion should remain private and out of government,” the congressman said in reply to a reporter who cited his first post.