Considering all the names here, I'd think Keegan Murray should be among them...
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This is the real reason people vote for Trump.

Warning to the lefties, if you watch this right wing host, you might spontaneously combust.

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If Beth doesn’t do what she did after the Minnesota game, Kadyn Proctor wouldn’t be a Hawkeye. She keeps winning!

I hope this is a real quote! 😂 😂

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11am NBC

OSU (14-3) has loses to USC, UCLA and UM. They are expecting 18k in the stands tonight. It will be nice to have Hannah back.

Go hawks!

Not looking good for the state, if true

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Some one sided drama going on here but this actually excites me for the future work force.
Being 39, I still have plenty of years of work ahead of me and I’m excited about the younger generation wanting to get paid to not work and have all the benefits they haven’t earned.
I’m hoping it either allowed me to work a lot less in the future and get paid the same, granted cost of items will increase.
Or I will work the same amount and get paid a lot more because I will work a lot more hours and cost the company a lot less money then the new work force.

It used to be you worked at a company that didn’t pay the greatest but had good benefits or a company that paid well and had crap benefits.
I’m excited for those days to be over!

I’m sad that this woman had to adopt and ended up adopting a child that needs extra care.
I’m not sad that she was at a job for less than a year in a non remote position and expected her job allow her to work from the NICU and offer her better benefits.

Kubiak has been a name in the Iowa OC search for more than a month. Interesting approach by the Saints interviewing them as a pair for a Co-OC position.

Bodie Reeder announced that he'd be leaving the UNI offensive coordinator position on January 10. Per Ethan Petrik of the Waterloo/CF Courier, they're on track to announce a hire of their next OC, former Washington State QB Luke Falk, later today.

It took UNI less than 10 days.

A Florida bill backed by the state’s chief financial officer would create a $5 million fund to help pay for former President Donald Trump’s mounting legal fees.

State Senator Ileana Garcia, a Republican, has filed a proposal to create the “Freedom Fighters Fund,” which would provide financial support for Florida residents running for president who face legal action. Trump, who is seeking a second term, lives in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

The proposal, which still must clear multiple committees, underscores the broader fealty of Republicans to Trump as leader of the party. It comes a day after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his struggling White House campaign and endorsed the former president.

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“If we can help and support a Florida candidate for the White House, that’s just good from a dollars and cents perspective,” said Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis in an emailed statement supporting the bill.

Patronis, a former lawmaker who has served as Florida’s CFO since 2017, has led some of the state’s biggest attacks on finance, including cutting BlackRock Inc. out of some state funds because of its support for investments that consider a company’s environmental, social and corporate governance policies. He endorsed Trump less than an hour after DeSantis dropped out.

Trump faces an unprecedented legal onslaught, with 91 felony charges in four separate cases. They range from conspiring to defraud the US in his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to an adult film actress.

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The proposed $5 million for the new fund would come from the state’s public campaign-matching funds program, which would later be replenished from voluntary donations via driver’s license registrations, according to Patronis.

Haines wins 2-1 over Lewan on a stall call. I didn't like the call at the time that he made it. He could have made that call any time during the second period or early in the third period but instead waited until there's like 30 seconds left in the match to make it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is a New Hampshire primary without the frontrunner on the ballot and no delegates up for grabs still a New Hampshire primary? Depends on who you ask.

On Tuesday, voters in the Granite State will once again help kick off the presidential primary season, on the heels of the Iowa caucuses that began the nomination process on the Republican side Monday. But this year, there’s something different about the traditional first-in-the-nation primary, at least on the Democratic side.

For starters, the Democratic National Committee, which has the ultimate say in how its presidential nominee will be picked, says state party officials violated national party rules by scheduling its contest earlier than allowed. As a result, the primary will have zero delegates at stake on Tuesday. Normally, the contest would have determined how the state’s original allotment of 23 pledged delegates to the presidential nominating convention in Chicago this summer would be allocated to the various candidates.

Furthermore, President Joe Biden, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for a second term, decided to skip New Hampshire since their primary violates party rules and will not appear on the ballot. It was Biden’s idea to bump the state from its prized primary calendar slot in favor of South Carolina, which resuscitated his struggling campaign in 2020. That year, Biden placed fourth in the Iowa caucuses and fifth in New Hampshire with only 8% of the vote.

The New Hampshire Democratic Party is nevertheless proceeding with the primary — which they note state law requires to be held before any other primary – and has already started the process of selecting people to serve as national convention delegates. This earned a sharp rebuke from the DNC, which called the upcoming primary both “meaningless” and “detrimental.”

Anybody else get their season ticket renewal email today?

Sometimes too much of something can lead to problems.


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We all know Trump will win Iowa bigly but who will you vote for?

A federal judge rejected claims that detained defendants in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach are “political prisoners” or that riot participants acted out of patriotism before sentencing a Michigan man to six months in prison Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson of Washington said Karl Dresch, 41, of Calumet, Mich., was held because of his actions, not his political views, and that others who joined the attack on Congress as it met to confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election could face prison time.
“He was not a political prisoner,” Jackson said. “We are not here today because he supported former president Trump . . . He was arrested because he was an enthusiastic participant in an effort to subvert and undo the electoral process.”

In a deal with prosecutors, Dresch pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of parading, picketing or demonstrating in the Capitol after four other charges were dropped, including a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding of Congress.


Dresch has been jailed since his arrest Jan. 19, so the sentence is effectively one of time-served, and he will be released.
Jackson’s sentencing came days after four right-wing Republican members of Congress — Reps. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Louis Gohmert (R-Tex.), and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) — showed up at the D.C. jail demanding to inspect the treatment of those detained in connection with Jan. 6, whom some Trump supporters have cast as martyrs.

By contrast, in a string of plea and sentencing hearings in the riot cases, federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties condemned such claims. Some have gone further to challenge U.S. prosecutors’ acceptance of misdemeanor plea deals for individuals involved in “terrorizing members of Congress,” forcing the evacuation of lawmakers and violence that authorities have led to several deaths and assaults on nearly 140 police officers.








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“Does the government, in agreeing to the petty offense in this case, have any concern about deterrence?” Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington asked in accepting such a plea last Thursday.
In sentencing regretful Capitol protester, federal judge rebukes Republicans
In Dresch’s case, Jackson said he has the right to vote for whomever he wants, “but so does everyone else. Your vote doesn’t count any more than anyone else’s. You don’t get to cancel them out and call for a war because you don’t like the results of the election.”

The judge continued, “You called yourself and the others patriots, but that’s not patriotism. Patriotism is loyalty to country, loyalty to the Constitution, not loyalty to a single head of state. That’s the tyranny we rejected on July 4th of 1776.”
Dresch declined to address the court, and his defense’s sentencing request was not immediately unsealed.


Judges at sentencings have been delivering a cold splash of reality to defendants, including some who say they were lied to by Trump or led astray by right-wing commentators or social media. So far, about 30 of more than 550 defendants charged have pleaded guilty, and six have been sentenced. Five of the latter admitted to single misdemeanors involving no violent conduct, and three received probation, including a Northern Virginia couple, Joshua Bustle, 35, and Jessica Bustle, 36, ordered Wednesday to 30 and 60 days of conditional home confinement, respectively.

The two others — Dresch and Michael Curzio, 35, of central Florida — have been sentenced to the statutory maximum of six months in prison or time served. Neither was accused of violence on Jan. 6, but each had a criminal record and other factors that U.S. magistrate judges said posed a risk of flight, obstruction or dangerousness warranting pretrial detention.
Curzio was the only misdemeanor defendant held pretrial, but had a prior conviction for attempted murder. Dresch had a 2013 felony conviction for eluding police in a 145-mph vehicle chase that spanned two states. And despite a ban on felon possession of weapons, law enforcement searches of his Upper Peninsula home on Jan. 19 turned up a Russian SKS rifle, two shotguns, a Glock pistol and more than 100 rounds of ammunition, prosecutors said.


Unlike Curzio, Dresch was also charged with “corruptly . . . obstruct[ing]” Congress, a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors said in Facebook posts Dresch likened events on Jan. 6 beforehand to this country’s declaration of independence from British rule in 1776.
Jan. 6 riot caused $1.5 million in damage to Capitol — and U.S. prosecutors want defendants to pay
Afterward, he posted, “We the people took back our house . . . now those traitors Know who’s really in charge.”

In sentencing papers, prosecutors said in a footnote without further explanation that they dropped the felony charge “in an effort to achieve consistency” with other riot cases. Prosecutors maintained that “he knew why he was there — to interfere with the democratic process — and what he sought to achieve — the disruption of the counting of electoral votes,” but noted he was not accused of violence or destruction.


Jackson called the misdemeanor plea and sentence just and sufficient, adding that pandemic-related lockdown restrictions made his jail time harsher than it would have been otherwise.
Comments by Jackson, Dresch’s judge and a 2011 Barack Obama appointee, were seconded Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, a 1983 Ronald Reagan appointee, who sentenced the Bustles.

Hogan said he seriously considered jailing Jessica Bustle because her social media posts calling Jan. 6 participants “patriots” were “so inaccurate, so misguided.”
“Patriots are not the ones who attack the operations of Congress” or attempt to stop elected lawmakers in both parties from performing their constitutional duties, Hogan said. “That is revolution, not patriotism.”
Hogan noted authorities attributed several deaths to the riot, including responding police officers who have died by suicide.


“If you listened to the testimony on the Hill the other day, you understand the tragedy that has occurred in their lives,” Hogan said, adding that holding those responsible may require jail time for most charged defendants.

But Hogan noted neither Joshua Bustle, a real estate agent, nor Jessica Bustle, a vaccine critic and stay-at-home mother, acted violently and spent only a few minutes in the Capitol. He also acknowledged defense arguments that the couple has been punished in the court of public opinion, in Joshua Bustle’s business affairs and in their family life. The couple is relocating to South Carolina for a fresh start, their lawyers said. Both Bustles apologized, and a lawyer asserted they had purged social media from their lives.
“I’m sorry for my actions. I love our country,” Jessica Bustle said. “I [don’t] condone and do not agree with anybody who is ever violent toward anybody in life.”

I’m a novice when it comes to this stuff. I was at the liquor store tonight getting a basic education on the differences, varieties, etc.

What do you like best and why? Any recs?

Now that we know who's coming back (almost everyone) and who's going (good luck in the NFL, Coop), that makes it much easier to try and project the depth chart for 2024. Given all the returnees, the early 2024 depth chart looks a lot like the 2023 depth chart at several positions...

Up first -- OFFENSE

Tyler Barnes and the staff always kept the door open

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