Russian war is the last stand for the deep state. They are being outed each day with how corrupt and how many tentacles they have gotten their hooks in.

With a war with Russia they get to deflect from
All the corruption: All the deaths with the shots , The coverup, the DOJ and FBI Criminally conservatives and looking away at leftist the brining in mass numbers of illegal young men in the middle of the night,the stolen election, attack on free speech, defund the police, open border et al.

IMO they are going to use thisTo deflect
From Everything else. "Noooo the deep state wouldn't do that just to get their way"......damn sure would and not think twice.

Again Blackrock, vanguard and 4 others own ALL the news - nothing goes out on the news that doesn't get permission- book it Dano

this dude angry man

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As hard as is it, I think we need to cheer for Iowa to bring Penn State back down to earth after that Michigan beat down.

There should be plenty of fireworks and stall calls.

Any chance Iowa gets Chuck Yagla to ref the match?

Yikes. At what point will the left abandon virtue signaling in favor of good policy and common sense.

For Florida. Prayers sent to the gatuhs

Anyone have any clue as to who we wrestle at 197 this weekend. My immediate thought was that Geer would move to 197 just for this weekend the only two possibilities I see at 184 would be Haas or Taco. However, you would not want to waste a redshirt for either for two matches and also I do not have any information on how Taco is physically. I know we will not forfeit a weight but the only other scenario I see is moving Stika up to 184 and Geer to 197.

Looking forward to the Iowa match. It will be off site and most likely a massive venue.

The way I see it, we need 4 current members of the roster to not be on the roster next season.

Currently, we have 14 scholarship players. We need to add at least 1 PG and 1 guy who can shoot the 3.

BW will be gone: Down to 13 scholarship players.
Rumor is that Ice will not return: 12 scholarship players.
NCAA punishment means that 12 is probably our realistic limit next season.

To add a PG and a shooter, 2 guys need to leave via the portal. It might be ideal for 3 guys (not including Ice/BW) to depart so we can add 2 PG and a shooter or 1 PG and 2 shooters.

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Jimmy isn’t very good either way but that’s a stark difference

Pretty much a microcosm of what these idiot liberal fools will do further down the road with more political power. Glad no one was killed, but this is absolutely neglect piled on top of ignorance. Now the libcomdems want to blame this on the R no votes for the infrastructure deal that makes up about 42% of real infrastructure spending. Makes sense to me....NOT!

Someone told me he used the n word on the air today. Anyone hear anything?

… sees stark comparisons of early Nazi Germany (1931-1933) to today's America (2020-2022), sounds the alarm and begs us to awaken from the fog that has etherized us. Is anybody listening? Does anybody care? The German people didn’t in the early 1930’s. Will we today?

Fellow leftist Caitlin Johnstone wrote this one specifically for you:

These are hideous. Worst I've seen in 15ish years following the league closely

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In doing so they have used Biden's own words to request the transcript. This, after a staffer described the call between Biden and Zelensky as "it didn't go well". Since then the WH and Zelensky has denied that.

We are about to see what Dems did for four years get used against them. This should be interesting. I wonder if the call was "Perfect"?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...lease-of-biden-zelensky-transcript/ar-AATeDeI

I don’t get it. The country is going to hell with liberal policies and some on this forum will defend if to the end when failure is full front and center. Trump ran his mouth but Biden can’t spell mouth and we know where Kamala’s….I call a spade a spade on both sides. The leftists on here are priceless with their stupidity. Put your country before party as it is going to shit under your watch.

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This is pretty awesome.

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'We’ve got reservations all over the place': How Mike Boynton & Erik Pastrana flew up the coaching ladder together​

Jacob Unruh
Oklahoman

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STILLWATER — Nine years ago, Erik Pastrana had a lot on his mind.

What his new job as an assistant coach at Stephen F. Austin would be like. How far Nacogdoches, Texas, was from Florida. What the differences in recruiting rules are from the junior-college level to Division I.
The thought of where he stayed on recruiting trips was low priority. It never mattered as a junior-college assistant.
Until he learned otherwise.
Mike Boynton — also hired by Brad Underwood at Stephen F. Austin in 2013 — was Pastrana’s answer key. And his first mission was to make sure Pastrana knew the key to travel.
Marriott Rewards.

Boynton urged Pastrana to sign up quickly for the traveling treasure.
“I knew about Marriotts, but I didn’t fully understand,” Pastrana said.
But Boynton did.

“He was pretty green about a lot of this stuff when he got in,” Boynton said with a smile at the memory. “So, that's what I try to do. I feel like my time here on Earth, however long it is, is best spent helping as many people as I can.”

That was the beginning of a beautiful partnership between two coaches with one another — and the coaches with a hotel chain.

“Now me and him are Marriott experts,” Pastrana said. “We’ve got reservations all over the place.”

Their friendship was forever sealed that day.

Boynton and Pastrana vacation together and they talk often. They’re sounding boards for one another.

Spending five years together as coaches — at Stephen F. Austin and Oklahoma State — brought them closer on and off the court.

That’s what makes Saturday so difficult.

On a day Oklahoma State heads to Florida for the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge, the game has more meaning than just non-conference bragging rights. Boynton will be on one bench. Pastrana on the other.

Boynton, in his fifth year as OSU’s head coach, is tasked with beating his dear friend, now an assistant with the Gators.

“I hate playing against friends, because I always want my friends to have success and on Saturday I can't want him to win,” Boynton said. “But he's truly one of my best friends. We still talk pretty often, and so I'll be happy to see him.

“I won't be happy to coach against him.”

Joining forces at Stephen F. Austin​

Boynton was trying to figure out what was next in his career. So was Pastrana.

That’s how they wound up at Stephen F. Austin together in 2013 and instantly connected.

Boynton, the young, experienced assistant, and Pastrana, the young, junior-college coach, were kindred spirits.

“We just found a bond that we had a passion for helping kids,” Boynton said.

“And then we had a lot of things in common. We care about people. We love helping guys develop. Player development has always been something we’ve both been passionate about.”

In three years, they helped Stephen F. Austin win 89 games. They also grew together.

Pastrana studied Boynton’s ability to scout opponents.

“Even back then he was super, super polished just as a coach, scouting, presenting, making it more than basketball,” Pastrana said. “He was really, really good, where I was like when my scout was up I was like, ‘Sh--, I gotta bring my A game.’

“Every scouting report was like a story that he was telling the guys. I’ve taken that with me, even to now.”

In 2016, the duo split.

Pastrana went to Florida International. Boynton joined Underwood at OSU. A year later, Boynton was promoted to head coach as Pastrana took over Daytona State College in Florida. A year later, Pastrana became an assistant at Florida Atlantic.

The two still remained close.

If Pastrana spotted a Florida-area recruit capable of playing in the Big 12, he alerted Boynton.

They talked at least once every two weeks on the phone. They often talked in a group text that included Patrick Schulte, OSU’s former video coordinator.

Pastrana sometimes reminded Boynton that he would be a valuable asset in Stillwater if needed. But Pastrana wanted it to be genuine, not because of the friendship.

After a tumultuous 2018-19 season that left the Cowboys with seven scholarship players, Boynton called Pastrana with a different tone in his voice.

“Is this dude going to offer me a job?” Pastrana thought.

There was a job waiting. It just wasn’t that simple.

Pastrana was happy with his life. Boca Raton, Florida, was just 25 minutes from Miami, where he grew up. FAU was improving, too.

But after some thought, it was time.

“Mike was probably the only person I would have left FAU for, and it was specifically because I felt like I could help him at that point,” Pastrana said.

“I wanted to help my dude.”

Pastrana believes Boynton needed a coach willing to be brutally honest. Boynton also knew the potential in his friend.

“He's going to be a head coach sooner than later,” Boynton said. “He's somebody that I think understands the work that it takes to become good and he's willing to do all the things. Most people want the opportunity to be on TV, and he wants to do the work and not necessarily look for the glamor in it. And because of that service mindset will serve well as he goes along in his career.”

Reuniting in Big 12/SEC Challenge​

Pastrana’s phone lit up just moments after the Big 12/SEC announcement in June. OSU was headed to Florida.

Isaac Likekele had to FaceTime his former coach.

“I’m pulling for you,” OSU’s senior said, “but January 29 we’re coming.”

There was no reason to expect nothing less from a group of players Pastrana knows so well.

For two seasons, Pastrana helped shape the Cowboys. In turn, they molded him. He was a key assistant and the recruiting coordinator.

As the Cowboys improved each season, he helped stabilize the program.

Pastrana was instrumental in recruiting Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe. He played a part in landing Cade Cunningham, too. Pastrana also recruited and coached Bryce Williams at Daytona State.

“He took a lot of notes and learned how to build a winner and what it takes to have success in this league,” Boynton said. “And so he was a great asset to me, not only from a recruiting standpoint, but from a coaching standpoint, development, playing style, he had great ideas in terms of schematics.”

With the roster stabilized, it made leaving in the offseason easier when Florida coach Mike White called.

“I felt comfortable walking away towards a place like Florida where I can help this program as well and be closer to family,” Pastrana said. “I think if Mike (Boynton) hadn’t been in a really stable place with a great roster and a great future ahead, it would have been a lot harder for me to leave.”

That doesn’t make this weekend any easier, though.

Pastrana is in charge of the scouting report for the Cowboys. He’s watched nearly every game with a rooting interest this season anyway, so it’s natural he developed the plan.

But he once built up the players on OSU’s roster and tried to fix their faults. Now, he’s trying to get the upper hand.

“Now, you almost kinda feel bad, like you’re trying to expose a weakness,” he said Wednesday from his hotel in Knoxville, Tennessee, ahead of the Gators’ 78-71 loss to Tennessee.

“It’s definitely different for sure. You gotta find the ways you can take advantage. I know Mike’s going to do the same thing.”

Friendship is important. So are wins.

Both will be true Saturday.

“I love the dude,” Boynton said. “It's one of those more difficult moments you go through, because, like I said, somebody's gotta lose and certainly don't want to be you, but you don't want your friends to not have success either.”

Pretty much what's already been talked about on this board. Tampering and smaller programs becoming farm systems.

Secrets of the college football transfer portal: ‘There’s definitely tampering going on’​

David Ubben Jan 27, 2022 152

The standout running back from a Group of 5 program got an unsolicited call from a coach at a Power 5 program.
The coach made a promise: Come here, and we can make sure you make the most of your name, image and likeness.
And he put a number on it: $200,000.
The problem? This particular running back wasn’t one of the more than 1,000 FBS scholarship football players who entered his name in the transfer portal during the past year.
“It’s a reality,” a Group of 5 assistant coach told The Athletic this month. “(Tampering) is going on right now.”
Roster management never has been more difficult in college sports. In April, the NCAA eliminated the requirement for first-time transfers to sit out a season before resuming their playing career. Three months later, athletes were allowed to monetize their name, image and likeness for the first time.
The power balance in college athletics has shifted, and college football is in the midst of a never-before-seen roster turnover tornado.
None of the coaches The Athletic spoke with on the condition of anonymity for this story oppose free transfers or NIL, but the two seismic rule changes have combined to create an environment they feel is untenable and, on the issue of transfers specifically, could end up hurting the careers of more players than it helps.
Like it or not, it’s the new reality in the sport. Every coaching staff is wrestling with how to answer one question: How do we keep our players out of the portal?
“That’s the golden question right there,” a Group of 5 head coach said.

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The portal launched Michigan State running back Kenneth Walker III’s career into the stratosphere after he left Wake Forest, and it turned Alabama wide receiver Jameson Williams into one of the sport’s biggest stars after he left Ohio State. At Kentucky, Wan’Dale Robinson’s production in 2021 surpassed what he did in two seasons at Nebraska combined.
But the portal isn’t a fairy tale for everyone.
As semesters begin across college campuses, just more than 50 percent of players who have entered the portal have announced new homes. The longer a player is stuck in the portal, the more questions coaches have about why, like when a house is stuck on the market for months on end.
“The portal was invented for Joe Burrow-type guys. It’s not a bad thing,” a Group of 5 assistant said. “It’s just like anything. We have to educate our players about the tool and if it’s best for them.”
And the tampering issues have become more commonplace, pulling players into the portal often with promises that may not be fulfilled. With just six months of data on NIL money, both sides of the equation are still guessing what’s to come.
“It’s been going on awhile, but it used to just be grad transfers. I had a player at (his previous school) and people called his mom, they called his coach and called everybody to try and get him to transfer, but he ended up staying,” the Group of 5 assistant said.
Now, however, with nearly every team’s entire roster having the ability to leave for another school and play immediately, those calls are happening more often than ever.
“Some guys getting these deals in the SEC are making good money. There’s definitely tampering going on,” a Group of 5 coordinator said. “But I don’t think anybody knows the rules. The NCAA’s loose approach with it is good and bad. They’re trying to not get caught up where they’re making a bunch of decisions of what is right and wrong, but at the same time, the reality is even if the NCAA came down on schools for tampering, they’d just go through a high school coach or handler or whatever to make deals.
“Guys are seeing comparable type players get in the portal and get better offers. They feel like the grass is greener, and it’s risky for some guys. It’s paid off for some.”
At the American Football Coaches Association’s national convention this month in San Antonio, representatives from the NCAA attended a meeting of the FBS assistant coaches’ committee, and tampering with players not in the portal was one of the most contentious issues.
“The NCAA basically said there’s not a whole lot we can do about it, unless we restrict a player’s ability to do something,” a Group of 5 assistant said. “They’re caught between a rock and a hard place, and they don’t have a lot of good solutions. This is my 19th year in coaching, and this is the most uncertain and uneasy I’ve ever felt about the direction we’re headed.”
One suggestion the committee pitched to calm some of the transfer chaos: Giving players a two-month window after the regular season and after the spring semester to enter the portal, which would better allow coaches to project their numbers and fill them through recruiting or backfilling in the portal. In the sport’s current state, an entire position group could depart for any reason and leave a gaping hole in any roster.
Another possible solution: Keeping the scholarship count at 85 but requiring two-thirds of those scholarships be players the program signed out of high school.
“Those sound great, but what the NCAA is concerned about more than anything else is they don’t want to restrict players’ ability to do anything because of the Supreme Court decision,” a Group of 5 assistant said.
One Power 5 assistant said he hoped the sport would have some kind of collective bargaining agreement in the future.
“If we’re going to be like the pros, we’ve gotta have something in there that’s beneficial on both sides,” he said.

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Player decisions aren’t the only reason for the overflowing portal. Some barely have a choice.
More than a few of the flood of players who entered the portal were given a push from their coaching staffs, either to free valuable, needed scholarships or by making it clear their path to the field was narrow to nonexistent.
“This is also occurring now: ‘Hey, you don’t fit our new system anymore. We think you should enter the transfer portal. Compliance is two doors down. We’re going to have our operations director walk you over there,’” a Group of 5 assistant said. “It definitely works both ways.”
But keeping players a coaching staff wants to keep is harder than ever.
For Power 5 programs, the challenge usually lies in retaining players who are still developing and might contribute as upperclassmen.
“The level of discontent among the athletes in college football is at an all-time high,” a veteran Power 5 assistant said. “We gotta kind of coddle them, baby them. I’m just telling you. We try not to, but man (pause), it’s terrible, actually. You try to keep kids happy, but you can’t. There’s 22 starters, but there’s 80 guys on your team who aren’t starting, and even the guys who are starting aren’t getting enough sacks or catches or carries and they’re unhappy.”
At the lower levels, the greater challenge is holding on to players who blossom into stars, but it can even become an issue for more modest Power 5 programs. This offseason, All-ACC running back Jahmyr Gibbs left Georgia Tech and landed a coveted spot on Alabama’s roster, one of just three transfers the Crimson Tide gave a scholarship so far this offseason.
But Albany edge rusher Jared Verse parlayed a breakout season for the FCS Great Danes into a spot at Florida State. Tackle Miles Frazier jumped from Florida International to LSU, and offensive lineman O’Cyrus Torrence left Louisiana and followed his head coach Billy Napier to Florida.
“We feel like we’re a farm system,” a Group of 5 coordinator said. “Then they go up to the major leagues to get paid.”
In some cases, players have traded being exploited by an unjust system for being manipulated by lofty promises or bad advice from someone who cares for them but lacks the big-picture perspective and a firm grasp on the sometimes harsh reality the portal can deliver.
“Is the risk for every kid worth the reward?” a Power 5 head coach asked. “A lot of kids that reached out to us from (his previous school); they’re having trouble getting FCS offers because it’s so unknown. When they glorify so many guys that hit it, there’s so many more that won’t.”
One Group of 5 assistant coach said a study conducted by his staff found that in the last year, 62 percent of players who entered the transfer portal left it with less scholarship money than they had at a previous school. And so far, the payoff of moving up is minimal, beyond the experience of playing big-time college football. Last year, 43 players outside of the Power 5 and BYU/Notre Dame were drafted. Only three players moved up from the Group of 5 or lower to a Power 5 roster and were drafted.
“If you’re truly an NFL prospect, they’ll find you,” a Group of 5 assistant said. “The NFL spends billions of dollars evaluating talent. Let them do their job.”

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I always love the families of these criminals saying what a great person the criminal was. Guy is breaking into other people's homes, stealing their possessions and the family thinks he's a good guy Sorry but the fact of the matter is the criminal was a low life POS that deserves absolutely zero compassion.

What kind of sick fvck supports this shit? @my_2cents @davidallen @Syskatine @ClintonDavidScott