After a year at Western Michigan, Anterio Thompson is back in the portal.
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Isnt this the plan now due to some court cases? Are we talking single or double digits of thousands of dollars?

Are all the football players getting the same amount?

Not bad. Definitely not as bad as the reviews made it sound. I liked it.

Good players are landing everywhere except Iowa. We need beef on the OL and DL; receivers, TE, CB and a good RB. If we have all this NIL, we should be standing on more than just a back qb at this point.

Dammit!

Other entries this year include Dirty Dancing, Spy Kids, and Beverly Hills Cop. Plus, some artsy fartsy stuff.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/16/nx-s...h-of-khan-added-to-the-national-film-registry

How much should you spend on your teenage kids for Christmas?

It was a lot more fun Christmas shopping for them when they were little & still wanted toys, now everything they want is $100 or more.

We used to cap each kid at $500 that's seems impossible at this age.


Thoughts

Sources have said UCF has contacted Scott Frost and gauged interest from the Lincoln Riley camp as possible replacements for Gus Malzahn.

Imagine Frost getting UCF into the playoffs before Rhule gets Nebraska there. The Big 12 is a cluster right now. ASU and ISU are playing for a spot this Saturday. Meanwhile the B1G has Oregon, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana and Michigan operating at a higher level right now. Heck Illinois and Iowa are good for at least 8 wins. Much tougher sledding.

Edit: It's a done deal! The "2017 National Championship" coach is back baby!!!" They can have that parade and Frost can say "I'm going to Disney World".

Trump's fourth in a row:

Getting a clunk when I accelerate - any of you know how I can tell the difference?

Thanks in advance

Also, the chase for more devastating "stuff". Workload may be down, but max effort is creating the rise in injuries per the study.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43026688/mlb-study-identifies-factors-rise-pitching-injuries

Went in there to get a printer. Kind of a ghost town in there. I don't know how they stay in business. Used to be well stocked. Kind of an upscale better version of a radio shack minus all the resistors and wiring.

It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Posted this in the regular forum now posting this here as well.

We don't do transfer portal FutureCasts at Rivals, but if we did, I'd plug one in today.

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Just finished “Rolling Thunder”. Holy hell. Great movie. William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.

Next two that I’ve been meaning to see for a while are “Sorcerer” and “Silent Partner”.

His announced lawsuit vs. Ann Selzer/The Register should probably be dismissed by the Courts as a nuisance lawsuit……under normal legal circumstances. But we all know the “transactional” attitude of the President-elect and I’m thinking if Trump can find a Judge who gives this case consideration, there is a reward in the near future for that justice.
I can’t believe how soft America has become when it comes to fighting for its Constitutionally guaranteed rights but in the current wave of creeping corporatism and the rise of American oligarchy, who knows?
Meanwhile, like the frog sitting in the pot do slowly boiling water, “we the people” are asking, “I wonder what’s for dinner?”

With the transfer portal, injuries, sit outs, opt outs, I think many programs are going to switch to playing two QBs.

This man's career was nipped in the bud when he was writing some of his best stuff. What might have been?

So sad.

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The highest paid clowns in the State produces the worse schools.
For the 2023-24 school year, 12 Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) scored within the lowest 5% of Title I schools in the state.
The Des Moines schools on the list are:

• Brubaker Elementary School
• East High School
• Goodrell Middle School
• Harding Middle School
• Hiatt Middle School
• Hoyt Middle School
• King Elementary School
• Lincoln High School
• North High School
• Studebaker Elementary School
• Virtual Campus
• Weeks Middle School

The report illustrates that 377 Iowa schools were in need of targeted support and improvement schools for the 2023-24 school year, compared to 271 the year before. The state has 1,282 schools in total, at all levels.


Check out some of the salary and benefit pacakages for past and current public school superintendents in Iowa. Some exceeding $300,000 annually and that doesn't include some really nice benefits.

Here's how much money Tom Ahart is getting after he leaves Des Moines Public Schools​

Des Moines Superintendent Tom Ahart resigned and is leaving his position in June with a remaining year of salary and benefits to be paid to him.
www.desmoinesregister.com

Des Moines Public Schools approves extension, raise for superintendent​

The head of Des Moines Public Schools is getting a pay raise and contract extension.

Black and Graves are big but Nebby, UCLA, and a few other big teams had some really large, athletic, heavy DTackles this year and in recent years. Do we like our DTackles in the 29-310 lb range for mobility and pass rush rather than run stuffing?

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston dodged a response to President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan saying he would jail the mayor if he does not comply with federal deportation orders of illegal immigrants.

Johnston, a Democrat, has been one of a few officials who have picked a fight with Homan over the incoming Trump administration's plans for mass deportations. The Denver mayor was asked directly about if he would go to jail to block some deportations on CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront Tuesday, to which he instead said that he would work with the administration on deporting violent criminals.

"You know, I think there are thoughtful ways to solve this problem if they want to focus on violent criminals, we would be happy to help support pursuing, arresting, and deporting them. We've helped past administrations. We do that again," Johnston said. "If they want to focus on adding more judicial capacity, so folks with asylum claims can have those cases heard more quickly, we would support that."

Johnston also said he would not use his law enforcement to resist deportation orders, but instead predicted that citizens of the city would intervene to block federal officials.

"Yeah, we won't use our law enforcement and we don't think we need to. That's not what we're after. I think America is not after another conflict on this issue. They're after a way to find pragmatic solutions to this problem," Johnston said.

"If they are going to send the U.S. Army or the Navy Seals into Denver to pursue folks to pull them off the job at hotels or restaurants where they're working or pull kids off the soccer field, I think we will see Denverites and folks around the country who will nonviolently resist that, because I think that doesn't represent our values and doesn't represent the Constitution," he added.

Homan, who is expected to be Trump's chief hawk on border issues and immigration as the designated border czar, said on Fox News's Hannity on Monday that Johnston defying proposed deportations would be a violation of federal law and that "the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing: He’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.”

The incoming border czar has also received pushback from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, with Homan saying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not need cooperation from local law enforcement to carry out deportations of illegal immigrants.