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Antisemitic attack at campus corner. What kind of yay-hoos still do this?

We’ve Lived on Borrowed Time

It’s rather amazing that we’ve won as many games as we have over the past 10-15 years. We’ve won many games with less talent than our opponents.
Our coaching and conditioning program gets a lot of credit.

We’ve been exposed this season in a big way. Having the 55th most talent in the country doesn’t help. Most teams on our schedule have more 4 star players than we do. The results of that are obvious. We can’t run the ball. Out oline is overhyped. We have little or no depth at critical positions.
Our dline is average at best. With Oliver gone, it’s now below average.

How we managed to start the game three and out is beyond me. We averaged less than 90 seconds per offensive posession. Our defense was on the field for 42 minutes and the offense for 17 minutes. We averaged 3 yards per rush. No team can win a game like that. We missed a boatload of tackles because they were on the field all afternoon because the offense couldn’t sustain first downs.


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Just Curious

Has anyone ever said why IOS is having problems with Rivals site. It was mentioned a week or so ago but never saw a reason or fix. It’s really getting annoying to have to reset the app after a few minutes to cure the “glitches” that it’s having on IPhone.

[P-DAN], Mea Culpa, conditional or I'm weary of pablum

[P-DAN], I will be the 2nd to admit that our discourse over the last several weeks has not been at a diplomatic level and I will take responsibility for my fervor addressing my frustrations with your positions particular to a certain political/population that I believe could behave better in all respects. I hold 2nd place to my wife that has finally thrown down the gauntlet about our conversations/rhetoric. I’ve been married to her for 40-years and know when the fuse is near the powder.

I’ve related to this board that I had an aunt in the UN that for 30+ years served the economic projects of the leaders of the dregs of the planet. You go look these posts up, I won’t belabor them here. Combine that with the extensive travels I endured for my profession that encompassed, with the exception of Western Europe, nearly every upstream oil & gas producing country on the planet. There are more than you can imagine. Regardless of how large they are in revenues they all required the technology & services that my companies & teams provided.

Face it, most of the planet is a pile of $hit. Even the civilized Eastern Europeans & Asians weren’t like they are now in the ‘90’s. I cannot even recall the countless hours I spent with company HR and hired HR consultants in how to deal with, negotiate and not pi$$ off national officials & ministers of these “oil producing countries”. Not to mention the weeks of FCPA (foreign corrupt practices act) training had to endure. Many times, I had to bite my tongue until it bled. Thank God for single malt scotch, paperback novels and later, the internet.

Anyway, you claim to have, and I paraphrase from your own post, “have been in Japan and a couple of other Asian countries.” If you had travelled more and listened to your pi$$ant internet personalities with 50k subscribers, you might have a different perspective. You dismiss my actual experience on the ground in these countries with a wave. WHATEVER.

I will offer a conditional olive branch to you if you want me to respect you. That has a single requirement based upon your one-minded focus on the enemies of the civilized portion of Israel. I’m not talking about Netanyahu and his criminal enterprise. If you cannot separate the decent citizens of Israel from him and his thugs, the deal is off.

Lastly, as an internet warrior I expect you to at least investigate those $20 words you use to fabricate your $0.10 logic. If we can agree, we can start over. If not, it doesn’t matter because with your post history you will never be able to travel to Israel and return to the states.

What say you?

If you pull a Custer, all bets are off. If you have any doubts about this gesture use your friendly search site and look up the true Australian interpretation of fairdinkem.

Also, don't deign to suggest that I don't understand what I am posting.

To my conservative brothers & sisters on this site, maybe I was a little harsh, maybe not but I do enjoy being married to my great wife. Savvy?

Strange world we live in, for your safety…

I know someone who went to a security seminar. Talked about impact of AI. They said they can steal
 the recorded personalized message on your voice mail and use that for fraudulent purposes. That is all they need to duplicate your voice in AI.

For example, a spouse calls and says I have been kidnapped and they want a ransom of X in 2 hours wired to their account or they will kill me. They said you need to come up with a verbal code between your spouses, family members, etc… To know if a very serious situation is authentic.

They recommend going to a field somewhere with zero devices on you; IPhone or watch, when you determine that verbal code. Sounds pretty radical but the sad reality is the technology exists to do this and it is probably coming.

Some of you can just use your S & M safe word. 😂

Big 12 made it hard for OSU but Cowboys can seize control if they survive next three weeks

Big 12 made it hard for OSU but Cowboys can seize control if they survive next three weeks​

  • Sep 18, 2024 Updated 5 hrs ago

Tyler Waldrep

OSU Sports Writer

STILLWATER — When Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy first saw the team’s conference schedule, he had the same thought most Cowboy fans probably had regarding back-to-back games with Utah and Kansas State.

Gundy also realized he probably needs to update his Christmas shopping list.

“I thought they were trying to make it hard on us, to be honest with you,” Gundy said. “The commissioner is my buddy but he doesn’t do the scheduling. I sent the wrong guy pecans at Christmas. I should have sent the scheduling guy pecans at Christmas.”

There’s a strong case to be made that No. 14 Oklahoma State actually got the worst end of the stick when the Big 12 schedule got released.

For most of the offseason, Utah, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Kansas and Arizona were discussed as the Big 12’s top championship contenders in 2024.

The Cowboys and the No. 12 Utes are the only top teams to play back-to-back games against other contenders this fall, and all three games come in the next two weekends.

After Saturday’s game in Boone Pickens Stadium, Oklahoma State travels to No. 13 Kansas State while Utah hosts Arizona. Actually, the Wildcats (2-1) will be coming off a bye after getting blown out 31-7 at Kansas State.

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“I’m sure they set this up on success over an extended period of time and on what they thought were games that could determine what happens at the end of the year,” Gundy said on Oklahoma State’s upcoming back-to-back games. “Their job is create games that are going to draw viewership. I’m going to guess that is what they had in mind when they scheduled these games.”

If either Oklahoma State or Utah can survive that gauntlet, they will likely be a sizable favorite to lock up a spot in the Big 12 Championship game. However, Utah will get to enjoy a bye week after that.

Meanwhile, the Cowboys must host a West Virginia team coming off its own bye.

In fact, Oklahoma State is one of only five teams in the Big 12 to face two conference opponents this season who have an extra week of rest ahead of the meeting. The Cowboys’ other opponent with a rest advantage is homecoming foe Arizona State, whose 3-0 record might be the biggest early-season surprise in the Big 12.

No one got more unlucky with bye weeks than the Cowboys. Meanwhile, Kansas State, TCU, Baylor, Cincinnati, and Houston never find themselves at a rest disadvantage greater than two days.

“The teams in this league are going to beat each other up,” Gundy said. “It is going to be week-to-week. That is good for television. That is good for everything. At some point, it might make it a little different when the committee starts picking teams. You just have to live week-to-week.”

Other scheduling quirks include:
Colorado and Arizona State are the only teams in the conference to play all five preseason contenders. Colorado actually faces Utah, Kansas and Oklahoma State in a 13-day stretch to finish the season.
Iowa State ends the season against Utah and Kansas State in back-to-back weeks, giving the Cyclones perhaps the most significant ability to impact the conference standings down the stretch.
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