We're Not Saying It's Happening Right Now, but Something Might Be Happening Right Now
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 4:28 PM CST
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That is a private plane from Pennsylvania, scheduled to depart from Cedar Rapids to University Park at 4:40. It wasn't on the schedule this morning.
We're not saying #KOK4PSU is happening. We're just saying.
UPDATE #1: The plane's departure has been pushed to early tomorrow morning.
UPDATE #2 (we could really use that SB Nation Storystream thing right about now): Ken O'Keefe spent the day in Arizona scouting practice facilities for the bowl trip, per intrepid reader twsmith23. Kirk Ferentz was reportedly making in-home visits this week to recruits (landed a big one tonight, in fact; details tomorrow), and reportedly spent the day in Kansas City. Obviously, that makes it highly unlikely he's getting on a plane to Pennsylvania tomorrow morning, unless he was recruiting for a school he knows he's not going to coach or a school he doesn't yet coach. There is still a possibility, I suppose, but it looks awfully remote at this point.
The other possibility, broached in the comments by Lukateake, is that the plane isn't carrying someone from Iowa to PSU, but rather from PSU to Iowa. Namely, one of the bevy of assistant coaches with decades of experience under Paterno that are about to lose their jobs.
Or it's a research assistant picking up some stuff.
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It's not KOK that has us worried.
It’s his boss.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
That was my first thought, too.
What if it’s not for KOK at all, rather for KF?
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Saw the flight aware post
Did I see a plane headed the opposite direction yesterday?
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 4:36 PM CST up reply actions
It did.
Came from Pennsylvania yesterday morning.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
I have my theories, which I will keep to myself
The drama, however, makes me tingle!
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 4:41 PM CST up reply actions
C'mon, this it the de facto Hamsterdam thread for the night.
// not sure if I can unilaterally make that statement
Make with your scuttlebutt, nopants.
No, I have no inside info
Just a tinfoil hat
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 4:43 PM CST up reply actions
I'm no conspiracy theorist...
… I once had the same 200-ft roll of Reynolds Wrap at six different apartments.
Oh, wait, that was Cling Wrap! (poppity)
Dick LeBeau new Iowa DC?
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 4:43 PM CST up reply actions
Shit, yes
That guy is in his 70s, but looks like he’s got another 10 good years in him.
Low key, but great with the media, known as high character guy.
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 4:56 PM CST up reply actions
LeBeau
may be the only guy I’d support firing Norm, to get.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:31 PM CST up reply actions
Not sure if it's just conjecture/joking but Norm wouldn't get fired.
I have to think he’d retire, although potentially at the secret request of Kirk. But honestly our defense has been great, except for the last two years (using the statistics of my foggy memory). Although maybe his increasing absence from the sideline/I assume less participation in practice likely plays a part in it.
If we could get a good defensive coordinator, I’d probably be okay with replacing Norm. Although I’d want him to be some kind of coach/special assistant. Not sure who else could come up with some of the great quotes he has had.
by TwistConePlease on Dec 7, 2011 8:32 PM CST up reply actions
I was making a joke,
but if you could get LeBeau as a coordinator, you pull that trigger.
I realize it would never happen, and I realize that whoever our next DC is, it will be because Norm retired.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:36 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah... that's what I figured.
Actually though, a few days back when people were saying Mike Stoops would have his pick of big ten schools, I actually kind of thought he might work. I really hate his angry tomato face, but he would bring some excitement to the sidelines. Also, my hope is that KF would make him temper it a little bit. That way he’d freak out only when it was legitimate, and not every time a ref blew a whistle.
That being said though, I’m completely happy with Norm. I just wish he could get some bionic legs or something to keep him on the sidelines to talk to the players throughout the game.
by TwistConePlease on Dec 7, 2011 8:49 PM CST up reply actions
I'd be suprised if he left
but is it possible to be indifferent to the idea? Because that’s what I am.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
IF Kirk left us, who would we want? Who could we get?
We could afford Chris Peterson but I would be surprised if we could get him.
Rhodes?
I don't feel like Rhoads has proven enough yet, despite his success at ISU.
Do we need to stick to guys with ties to U of I? That seemed like a determining factor when BoBo hired Ferentz.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:58 PM CST up reply actions
It doesn't hurt
you figure if the guy comes back to town he likes it here and has a better idea of what he’s getting into. But you can’t let that be the most important factor.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I don't think I would want Rhoads just so we won't have to hear
“Iowa is a failure of a program so they have to steal from us because we are so awesome”
There is no way that Paki rushes for nine yards. -KenOKeefeIfuckinghateyou.
I don't want anybody who coached at ISU
I just don’t.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Gable was such a slouch
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 10:23 PM CST up reply actions
Gable never coached at ISU, right?
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:26 PM CST up reply actions
He was an assistant there.
And he obviously wrestled there.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
I don't think he was ever an assistant there, actually.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think so. He ended up at Iowa because ISU was dragging their feet on offering him an assistant coach position.
You're right.
Gable joined the Iowa coaching staff for the 1972-73 season, assisting head coach and Hall of Famer Gary Kurdelmeier, until taking over the program for the 1976-77 season.
http://www.hawkeyesports.com/sports/m-wrestl/mtt/gable_dan00.html
I’m not sure why I was so sure he had assisted at ISU.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:36 PM CST up reply actions
I wasn't sure, honestly.
I thought it was possible he might have done some grad assistanting or something while he was training for the Olympics, but I’ve never read anything about that.
More importantly, he went to West high in waterloo which is 4 blocks from where I grew up
And means I am somehow cooler than everybody else. Also, I know the people who bought John Wayne Gacy’s old house in Waterloo.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:44 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Well, then Philbin of the Packers would be a popular choice.
I’m struggling to think of too many other guys under Ferentz or Fry that are still on an up-swing in their career, and who have done things well enough to justify hiring them for Iowa.
If you expand the search to guys without Iowa ties, then the question becomes whether or not we are willing to pay Ferentz-level-money to a new guy. Everyone seems to be after the guy at Cincy (Butch Jones?)
I’m guessing that some Oregon and LSU assistants will become popular soon. Alabama and Oklahoma assistants seem to be all the rage right now.
I don’t really see any assistants in the Big Ten that I’d be willing to give the Iowa head coaching position to right now, except Mattison (Michigan DC). But I’m not sure if he wants to be a head coach, as he’s been a coordinator at some big schools (Notre Dame, Florida, Michigan).
I suppose the young Stoops brother (Mark), who is DC at FSU, might be another possibility. I haven’t been wowed by his work at FSU, but he would have some Florida recruiting connections, and he played at and was a GA at Iowa.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:11 PM CST up reply actions
I used to be in favor in Philbin
actually, I still am. But I don’t think he takes the job. He’s too respected in the pros and is probably 1-2 seasons, at most, from a head coaching gig in the NFL. And I think he’s more of an NFLer now
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Wha??? Iowa hire ISU's football coach?!??
Hahahhahhhaha WTF?!???
Holy shit. It is the holiday season but I see no reason to become completely whimsical.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 9:25 PM CST up reply actions
Ooh, that's interesting.
A little Russian Reversal there. I like your thinking, sir.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Plus one for use of "Russian Reversal"
But what if they were picking up Bloodpunch to become the new PSU AD?
/kidding of course
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 9:39 PM CST up reply actions
Oh god please yes
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 4:39 PM CST up reply actions
I sooooo 4 hours late
but if that happened, I TOTALLY FUCKING CALLED IT, kind of.
Ross might remember.
Although my reasoning which I didn’t explain at the time was that Tom Bradley is a really normal name, and KF would hire him for that reason alone.
Also, and bear in mind that I haven’t read much of anything in this thread, if someone from IC was going to PSU, the plane would only be on the ground in CR for a short time. If it was bringing somebody in for an interview though……….
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
This is ridiculously plausible, by the way.
He knows he’s not getting the PSU job. If Norm retired, Kirk would be wise to look into hiring Bradley.
by Chris Grovich on Dec 7, 2011 10:00 PM CST up reply actions
Why is he out for the PSU job?
Bad blood is clearing house of the entire last staff?
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 10:24 PM CST up reply actions
Gotcha. Thanks.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 12:16 AM CST up reply actions
Iowa chartered the plane
Bradley met with our assistant coaches; no need for Kirk to be present as he knows TB from time immemorial.
Speculation of Norm’s retirement was confirmed when he won coaching award last week.
In other news, horrendous UNI BB game officiating was an inside job. Hawks fans demand home-and-home be shelved indefinitely. War of popular opinion won in elegant coup.
/ smirking Bloodpunch
// larger smirking Bloodpunch
by Lukateake on Dec 8, 2011 12:02 AM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
I was thinking more along the line of our most beloved CB's dad.
Juan Castillio
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Dec 8, 2011 11:38 AM CST up reply actions
Wow...
This is like action/thriller movie shit.
I said I have a DRINKING PROBLEM!!
by bornofclay on Dec 7, 2011 4:34 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Interim PSU President Rodney Erickson is
Michael Scarn?
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/polls/228000/228638_1240974686076_full.jpg
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:35 PM CST up reply actions
I still think PSU was just getting some of those squeaky cheese curds from the Amana Colonies.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
We make our own squeaky cheese, thank you.
Now I have a hankerin’ for some Ox Yoke Inn. Thanks. Jerkface.
I’ll tell you why. Because we’re talking about Joe Freaking Paterno here.
-Jitterbug
YOUR A JERKFACE
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Dec 7, 2011 9:38 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
is there someone at the airport to watch?
damn boys and girls, we need action
Her noblesse exceeded her oblige
Somehow, that seems even more likely, to me.
As “job-negotiating-y” as KF has been, I’d like to think he wouldn’t bail before a bowl game.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:36 PM CST up reply actions
Interesting thought...
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:37 PM CST up reply actions
Oops, I made a comment above about that
but wrote it off as a joke, as I didn’t want to sound crazy.
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 9:41 PM CST up reply actions
Whittlin' ain't eazy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:37 PM CST up reply actions
he would know if it was a communist conspiracy
or if it terry thomas aka the mouse that roared
Her noblesse exceeded her oblige
Couldn't be
Considering that Penn State is in it’s current mess due to a guy who liked boys a little too much, they’re not gonna hire someone who likes to come visit little kids while they’re sleeping.
by SWRT on Dec 7, 2011 5:39 PM CST up reply actions 8 recs
He actually is our best recruiter, so I would not like to lose him there
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Really? I thought our best recruiter was wilson.
That’s what Dochterman and Morehouse are always saying.
Wilson is our best one, but Erb is right up there
And he’s killing it this year in the Chicago area. I don’t know why anyone would want to get rid of him.
As a coach? I tend to side with Hoya
As a recruiter? He and Wilson can stay here on this recruiting-deprived staff for as long as possible.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 8, 2011 12:13 AM CST up reply actions
That's pretty much his whole job though
“running backs coach” is basically a dumb made up position that means “recruiter”
And really we’ve had pretty good running backs when they’re not being devoured by locusts.
plague of locusts?
I thought AIRBHG was taking the first-born sons of all RB-producing families.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 12:26 AM CST up reply actions
Don't let AIRBHG know
about a certain #23’s absolutely adorable son!
by Captain n Diet Coker on Dec 8, 2011 8:58 AM CST up reply actions
I bet Gary Ream is super fun to go bowling with.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 4:57 PM CST up reply actions
If they did grab someone from our staff
The internet is eerily quiet…
Of course, if there’s anyone that could keep his mouth shut on something like this it would be Ferentz. So who do we replace Kirk with, if he’s on that plane?
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
We could just pretend that the last 10 years never happened
And reboot him with a younger version of himself. But that might require Norm to go back in time and meet his younger self as well, which would be kinda sweet. Some great conversations, I’m sure.
I'll banhammer you.
God damn it, don’t tempt me.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
very clever. I liked it.
by GuttedSnowBird on Dec 7, 2011 7:29 PM CST via iPhone app up reply actions
Bob Stoops
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 5:01 PM CST up reply actions
Can't wait to see what he does to get this Iowa team ready for the Insight Bowl.
by The Mexican't on Dec 7, 2011 6:55 PM CST up reply actions
He's probably got a lot of take on Oklahoma.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 6:56 PM CST up reply actions
Also, tape.
Dammit.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 6:57 PM CST up reply actions
Personally, I won't believe that KF is gone
until Joe Schad comes on ESPN and assures everyone that Ferentz is staying at Iowa
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 5:01 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
That's the ticket.
But that joke needs more Mortenson.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:38 PM CST up reply actions
Mortenson only covers the NFL
OMG!!! Kirk Ferentz to the Eagles!!!!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 6:45 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Anybody else read "The Strain"?
Peeping on Flight Aware makes me think of it.
Seal off the plane! Burn it to the ground! Kill anything that tries to escape!
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 4:59 PM CST reply actions
Well, it will be on the ground in PA in a little over an hour...
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:01 PM CST up reply actions
If he is
I’m quite certain I’ll be able to hear the tearing of the last shred of Chazz’s faith in people all the way here in Virginia.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
It would be totally characteristic of Ferentz to deny it
And then walk off that plane like nothing ever happened.
He has never ever rhetorically closed the door on leaving. Again, though, we’ll know soon enough. It may be nothing.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:05 PM CST up reply actions
Completely
It would be totally characteristic of Ferentz to deny it
And then walk off that plane like nothing ever happened.
Except the exact opposite of that.
Snort.
Pfffft.
Something, something, DJK incident already did that, something.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:39 PM CST up reply actions
I see the cynicism is growing in you, young Chazz
Soon you’ll be as dead inside as the rest of us!
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 6:47 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I've probably been that way for awhile.
Now, I’m just embracing the emptiness.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:48 PM CST up reply actions
Is that like the movie Contagion?
Cause,
by Captain n Diet Coker on Dec 7, 2011 5:03 PM CST up reply actions
Um, that's supposed to be "shudders"
but not in quotes—in the less than/greater than signs.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Dec 7, 2011 5:04 PM CST up reply actions
I loved that movie.
EVERYONE DIES (almost) AND EVERYTHING IS FUCKED
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 5:05 PM CST up reply actions
Yes, but the disease is vampirism
Love me some Guillermo del Toro.
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 7, 2011 5:09 PM CST up reply actions
That's BENICIO del Toro.
/that’s HERBIE Hancock’d
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:41 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I really hope some reporters go to the airport
and some random family walks off the plane like happened in Kansas.
seriously?
Yes.
That would be awesome. Or Gary Ream, even.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 5:06 PM CST up reply actions
It's Brands
turning heel and joining Sanderson
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
YOU
BASTARD!!!!
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:41 PM CST up reply actions
It's Brands
taking care of Sanderson himself.
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 7, 2011 6:00 PM CST up reply actions 10 recs
If Kirk is leaving (which I doubt greatly)
I vote the Florida State DC Stoops as HC w/ his now fired from Arizona brother as DC. I think that would make for an at least ok replacement. Also, which is mark and which is mike?
I ain't been droppin no eaves, sir
Mark is at Florida State now.
Mike was the HC at Arizona and is currently rumored for basically every single open DC job (and some not actually open, like Iowa’s).
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Thanks for clearing that up for me
I ain't been droppin no eaves, sir
by Cornfedhawkbred on Dec 7, 2011 5:13 PM CST up reply actions
Those two are such rising stars in coaching,
that you don’t know which is which?
Also, which is mark and which is mike?
I bet you’re the guy who asks “which Pelini brother is the dickhead?” To which, others reply “Yes.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:43 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Regardless, if Kirk or Ken is on the plane, this can't stay quiet for very long...
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
i already have three dozen votive candles
lit in front of a pic of KOK
Her noblesse exceeded her oblige
Careful with your O2 tank, bud
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:27 PM CST up reply actions
Ah. Vigils away, then!
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:28 PM CST up reply actions
Fireballs are awesome!
My friends and the 13 year old version of me used the little tubes of Binaca for flame throwing.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:33 PM CST up reply actions
I bet It's Brands going to tell
Sanderson, “your one and done son.”
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
by StoopsMyAss on Dec 7, 2011 5:12 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
The plane's been delayed until tomorrow morning.
Read into that what you will.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
did look to be some nasty weather.
but who knows?
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by HawkeyeBoiler on Dec 7, 2011 5:14 PM CST up reply actions
Ohh I'll try
it’s snowing.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
And some crash in the Andes
And then everyone on board eats each other.
"I know you're from Middle America, and sometimes you feel like you're representing more than just a school or a conference, maybe an entire group of American citizens out there."
by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 7, 2011 5:23 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
but after watching air alaska
or wahtever its called
you can understand why i ahve not flown sin 1989
Her noblesse exceeded her oblige
If its a prop, they won't fly in heavy winds, rain or snow
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:24 PM CST up reply actions
wtf, turbo props can rock out any weather
It’s why the coast guard use C-130’s not lear jets…….
If anything the props do better.
Now if it’s a shitty boxer engine dual prop that’s another story.
To sum up, turbo props rock, all else sucks balls.
#TURBOPROPS4EVA
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 7, 2011 11:21 PM CST up reply actions
#MADPROPS4TURBOPROPS
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 8, 2011 12:14 AM CST up reply actions 4 recs
Yeah, but if it's not urgent
and can be done tomorrow morning, why risk it? State College’s airport is tiny, as I’d expect the plane to be.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
what's the nearest major airport?
I can check the field conditions
seriously?
by PSD on Dec 7, 2011 5:28 PM CST up reply actions
Not very informative
Pittsburgh is 120 or so miles away and I’m not sure part of the same weather front.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
snow in the area
and you’re probably right but the airport is still taking arrivals
seriously?
by PSD on Dec 7, 2011 5:32 PM CST up reply actions
here is the airports latest weather conditions
http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KUNV/weather
light freezing rain/snow with zero visability
seriously?
by PSD on Dec 7, 2011 5:33 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah
I’m about 60 miles away from State College and it’s been coming down for about 4-5 hours. And a little foggy.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
It's nasty here in Richmond
Heavy rains and really strong winds. Power is out in parts of the city. Think it is part of the same storm as hitting PA, only up there there is a chance that it is snow, not rain
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 6:55 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Weather Channel says
Heavy snow and wind in University Park right now… and tonight…
Not exactly great flygin condtions…
http://www.weather.com/weather/today/University+Park+PA+USPA1687
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:32 PM CST up reply actions
For SEC types perhaps
but this is the Big Ten!
by Brock Sampson on Dec 7, 2011 5:35 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
That's what Buddy Holly said
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
If it's KF who is PSU's object of desire
Then he’s on the flight as scheduled for tomorrow.
If it’s KOK who is PSU’s object of desire, then they’re crafting a clever disguise where they fly the plane to State College tomorrow, but with no one on board except the pilot. Meanwhile, they’re going to kidnap KOK in his hotel room, drug and blindfold him and put him in a shipping crate bound for Hong Kong where they’ll sell him to the local football lord who is in need of an offensive wizard to lead his loose band of island misfits to glory on the gridiron.
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by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 7, 2011 5:18 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
If it's KOK, he would run the plane fake from Cedar Rapids
and fly into University Park on an end around from Maryland or something.
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by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 5:19 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
His flight would land 200 miles short of University Park.
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by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 5:21 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
But not before he switched planes on an end around
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by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Dec 7, 2011 7:33 PM CST up reply actions
I believe
I’ll read into that with reckless and baseless speculation. Which is to say, the place was for KOK, but upon further thought, PSU has decided to hire Bloodpunch, KF and KOK.
Also, the earlier plane was a group from PSU with a proposal to paint the watertower blue and white.
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by chitownhawkeye on Dec 7, 2011 6:12 PM CST up reply actions
Disgruntled ex-spec ops soldiers
Have taken control of the airport in an elaborate plot to free s cruel and corrupt Latin American dictator?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 6:51 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Then they're lucky Stanzi, Clayborn and J. Leman aren't on that private jet.
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 6:53 PM CST up reply actions
I've seen this movie.
It doesn’t end well for “El Presidente.”
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:54 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Honest question - do the mods know something we don't...
But aren’t in a position to share it yet?
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I dont think anyone knows
If the people involved dont want it to get it out, they can make sure it doesnt.
Laziness is the key to leaks. Or people angling for praise.
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by HawkeyeBoiler on Dec 7, 2011 5:29 PM CST up reply actions
I kind of thought the same thing.
Becuase why the hell else are any of them, or anybody for that matter looking at flight trackers? ha
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 5:31 PM CST up reply actions
Because Penn State people have been watching
and probably tipped them off.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
I'd be shocked
if someone in PA media (a newspaper or TV station) wasn’t following flightaware to see anyone who MIGHT be departing and arriving at State College/U Park/anywhere near there.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:47 PM CST up reply actions
This part I can answer
I’ve become a little obsessed with the PSU coaching search. Been watching for 3 or 4 days.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Well, if it isn't Kirk
I’ll be surprised because I thought the way in which he answered the “are you staying here?” question this time, plus his complete silence on Penn State, spoke volumes. I think he’s definitely interested, I don’t think the money matters, but he’s not going to want to fuck up his position at Iowa if they couldn’t come to terms.
I don’t think the Iowa fanbase is going to be all that sorry to see him go…
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:47 PM CST up reply actions
So you're "The Iowa Fanbase" now?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 6:36 PM CST up reply actions 6 recs
I'm speaking generically
I am not the only Iowa fan I know that’s not a KF fan…
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 7:04 PM CST up reply actions
The problem is youre really trying to say the fan base is not going to be sorry.
Which I would consider at least 50% based on your generalization
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 7:09 PM CST up reply actions
You thought of Jim Carrey and obsession and didn't go Number 23?
(pretty crappy movie)
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:50 PM CST up reply actions
It is a sick, sick affliction
My father has never seen anything like it. Literally. Penn State hasn’t had a “coaching search” since at least 1950 (Paterno was an assistant and his interview was basically “do you want to be the head coach”).
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
Wow.
Penn State hasn’t had a “coaching search” since at least 1950…
I guess you guys really don’t give a fuck about the hoops.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:50 PM CST up reply actions
Oh yeah.
"We gon' get down. We gon' do the do. I'm going to hit these mother****ers" - Dock Ellis, May 1, 1974.
Just for discussion
Say they interview Mullan, Shaw (from Stanford) and Ferentz, and all 3 seem interested in taking the job. Who gets the actual offer?
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cage match of course
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:57 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Are we talking octagon or WWE-style cage match?
"There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy." -Mark Rippetoe
Of those three,
do you really want Shaw? Guy might be a genius, or he might be riding a year’s worth of Harbaugh coat-tails.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:38 PM CST up reply actions
Mullan, Ferentz, Shaw
They would mostly be interested in Ferentz because of his solid rep and his somewhat “gravitas.”
The people who care more about winning would want Mullen.
I wouldn't say we know anything
Personally, I think there’s a far greater mutual interest than most. Ferentz is in a spot where his kids are leaving the house for good and he can move without moving his children, and he’s been pretty open about his affinity for the program. As for PSU, there’s built-in fanbase respect for Kirk from him kicking their ass so frequently and the right sort of PR image for a program attempting to correct its public image.
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Well said.
As a coach, with recruiting season coming up, he’s going to be on the road a lot anyway, his youngest is about out of high school, yeah, he wouldn’t be coaching his son at Iowa if he left, but… if he’s going to leave, now IS a great time. He’s not trying to escape being fired and the PSU job is a step up from Iowa, even with the current crap swirling around the program. Kirk is in fact so damned stubborn he’s probably one of the few coaches out there that could step into PSU and ignore all the flak. I think he honestly does not care what anyone else thinks.
OTOH, that make him an awful lot like a younger clone of Joe Pa. Is that what PSU wants?
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:50 PM CST up reply actions
That depends on your definition of "PSU"
If PSU = the regular fans, no, probably not. If PSU = the trustees and administration, you can’t do much better.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
That was my thinking
He won’t be the flashy coach they want, OTOH…
We get Ken O’Keefe as head coach! Woo Hoo!
(don’t say it couldn’t happen)
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:54 PM CST up reply actions
I disagree
I think a fair amount of fans would like an almost JoePa-clone, whereas the BOT would like to go in the opposite direction of Joe (though, with a sheen of morality, as they’ve proven these past few weeks they’re more into style and perception than substance)
Fire Dan Snyder
Well,
if they get KF, it will “only” be for, at best, a decade or so. I don’t see KF teaching as long as Paterno did.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:52 PM CST up reply actions
this
How awkward would it be though if he does get the job when we play them….? I personally would look forward to it!!!
I'm a big Ferentz supporter,
but I think I could tolerate that scenario.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:12 PM CST up reply actions
I shudder to think
what Petersen is going to do when he decides to take over a big time program. Some fanbase is going to be very, very happy.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I wonder what he's waiting for.
It seems like he’s turned down a bunch of big offers out west. Maybe he’s waiting for USC to get through sanctions and until Kiffin falls upward again. I guess he was an assistant at Oregon, so maybe he might take that if it opened up?
I’m not sure if Peterson would be a good fit anywhere in the midwest or out east, unless maybe Florida or FSU (because you should be able to recruit well right away).
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:17 PM CST up reply actions
I keep hearing his family has some health issues
and he wants to stay in Boise for that reason (and, presumably, for not having to deal with life in columbus, etc)
I've heard one of his kids has a long-term medical condition and they're reluctant to leave the doctors in that area.
Obviously there are good doctors all over the country, so it’s probably a comfort issue.
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I know when my dad had leukemia
I heard the UI was in the top 3, FWIW
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I'm not discounting that, I know they are very good
and Hershey may not be as good, but they are very good as well.
Fire Dan Snyder
I don't think quality of care is the biggest concern.
Obviously, UIHC has great doctors. I’m sure there are good docs near PSU, too. For that matter, if he wanted to go to UCLA, there are obviously excellent doctors down there.
The Petersens might just be very comfortable with the current doctors and not want to uproot their family.
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I don't think Petersen considers Boise to be a mid-level job.
No one says “I wonder what Mark Richt is waiting for.” Or even, “I wonder what Ferentz is waiting for.” I think he’s found a program that he loves and he’s content to become a legend in Boise. He’s only lost, what, 7 games during his run at Boise? Now that they’re a BigEast-West school he’ll get his AQ status and he’s got nothing left to reach for.
by The Mexican't on Dec 8, 2011 9:12 AM CST up reply actions
Unless the powers that be rip AQ status from the Big East
I don’t know think its likely, but outside of Boise, what is the real difference in quality between Big East and Boise’s old conference.
I’m not wearing underwear…what if I pre my pants?
by three and out the kok story on Dec 8, 2011 2:17 PM CST up reply actions
As you pointed out, the big difference is that they'll be an AQ team.
They’ve been locked out of the BCS for 2 straight years as a result of 1 loss. They go 11-1 next year and they’re headed to a BCS bowl without worry.
The other difference is bigger money. I can’t imagine the MWC having a contract as good as the Big East’s, despite the massive amount of suck that is the Big East.
by The Mexican't on Dec 8, 2011 2:37 PM CST up reply actions
AQ status is going to go away in a year or three
The new BCS contract will be very, very different.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I'm sure it will, and Boise may be hurt by that.
Maybe. Of course, if they go to 2 or three consecutive BCS bowls as the Big East champion, or a Big East at-large team, then maybe they’ve got some evidence to point to when the AQ goes away and bowls are looking for teams that will fill seats.
As it currently stands all they can say is “We earned it by going 11-1”, instead of saying, “Put us in your game and watch these idiots in Boise blue flood your stadium”
by The Mexican't on Dec 8, 2011 3:00 PM CST up reply actions
Ferentz isn't going to Penn State
Zero chance.
by H I McDonnough on Dec 8, 2011 8:25 AM CST up reply actions
Do we know the tail number of any University planes and if this is it for sure?
I guess I don’t really know how it works, but I figured there was one or maybe a couple jets that the university bigwigs booked time on. Also figured it would just depart from the IC airport.
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:30 PM CST reply actions
Yep, you beat me to it.
I just saw most of its records are PA area, so it must be PSU sending their plane here. Still, wouldn’t it use the IC airport to pick up a university employee?
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:38 PM CST up reply actions
If its Barta, O'Keefe or Kirk
They may be trying to get out of IC quietly without the press noticing…
Of course, I expect Morehouse et al to be camped at the airport tomorrow to see who shows up… but there’s no way they’ll keep a lid on this for long – tOSU couldn’t on Meyer.
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:39 PM CST up reply actions
It's not Barta.
He’s in New York City.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Ah, OK
Well, I’m guessing if it is Kirk or Ken, we’ll know by in the morning because there’s no way they can keep a lid on it…
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:43 PM CST up reply actions
This we know.
There are two PSU planes. This is not one of them. Two things, though:
(1) This is a plane that is readily available in central PA and has been used by PSU in the past.
(2) With the advent of FlightAware, teams don’t use their own planes to pick up coaches. For instance, Michigan flew around in their own jet and sent a private plane for Brady Hoke last fall. Same for Bloodpunch and Fran McCaffery, where Iowa borrowed a jet from someone close to the program.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Ah, thanks for the explanation
That’s a lotta subterfuge!
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:41 PM CST up reply actions
This plane's route.
Allentown (KABE) to Blair County (KAOO) to Cedar Rapids.
That way you can stop and pick up PSU officials just outside State College w/o arousing suspicions. So who came on the plane, and why has it been here two days (soon to be three)?
You interview an existing head coach in place and for that long.
Before that, it was in Baltimore, where KF worked for a while!
DUNDUNDUNNNNN
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:46 PM CST up reply actions
Tanger. Outlet. Mall.
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by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 9:56 PM CST up reply actions 6 recs
Needs rec'ing.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:59 PM CST up reply actions
This is making me
nervous/anxious/giddy and making work much more interesting this afternoon. Someone get out there tomorrow and ask what the H is going on! I’m sure the airport won’t mind people snooping around out on the tarmac…
I wanted Leach if Kirk left
Now I’m fucked. I guess I’dl settle for Billy Beane.
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Maybe Kirk doesn't want to play Stoops LOL
Of course, if they have hired Kirk… that does give us a chance to make a pitch to Bobby, doesn’t it? :-p
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:42 PM CST up reply actions
Pitch to Bobby? You can't pitch to Bobby! I'm Bobby!
/Little Giants’d
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 8:20 PM CST up reply actions
As long as Leach wasn't coaching we had a chance. Now we have nothing.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
why
would Penn State want KOK? It HAS to be Ferentz right?
I honestly think the Barta-to-PSU theory might be more likely.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:55 PM CST up reply actions
Barta is in NYC right now - re: Vint
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
Now that's an intriguing possibility - until Vint tells us Sally is in NYC with Barta :-p
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:54 PM CST up reply actions
Grixxly, that comment just made me totally respect and admire you.
Well done, good sir.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:54 PM CST up reply actions
This is unlikely
The hiring process for a school president is far more open than that for a coach. Generally, a list of three or four is distributed to trustees (making it a public record subject to FOI Act) and faculty. A secret interview with a presidential candidate would be almost unheard of.
Also, by almost any ranking, moving from Iowa to PSU is a lateral move. At best.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
What are you talking about?
The Iowa Board of Regents is usually quite happy to let key decisions be made without meddling in…
BWAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAAAHHAHAHAHHA!
I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t say it without laughing.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:05 PM CST up reply actions
Okay
But wouldn’t poaching a president from a fellow conference member might be more stealthy then normal?
Yeah, possibly.
It’s not how Michigan handled it when they took Coleman, but maybe.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Especially since this would be the 2nd time its happened to Iowa in recent history?
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 7:04 PM CST up reply actions
mary sue the fire dr tom in heaven there is no berr mary sue
may she rot in maize in blue
Her noblesse exceeded her oblige
by OhioHawk on Dec 7, 2011 8:04 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
REC'D
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by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 9:30 PM CST up reply actions
Also, PSU said the current president is president
Rather than interim. I don’t think they’re interested in hiring a president right now.
Weren't they looking at Tom Ridge?
I haven’t been following that all that closely for a couple weeks, but I thought they wanted someone super-serious about enforcing the rules to clean house. And Mason’s handling of our own assault case would seem to be a red flag to me.
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 6:06 PM CST up reply actions
That would be a big "get."
From the looks of Ridge’s wiki page, he’s gotta be pulling down a ton of cash from his security consulting firm and his corporate board memberships.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:12 PM CST up reply actions
PSU fans are about to get VERY upset about their stupid tailgating crackdown
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 2:18 PM CST up reply actions
Meh, honest to god im ok with either one
i think Iowa would get a good coach with the amount of scratch the university is willing to spend.
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by justsomehawkeyefan on Dec 7, 2011 5:51 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
Wow.
Can’t Alec Baldwin just play some Words With Friends without you sonsofbitches bothering him every 10 minutes?
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:54 PM CST reply actions 6 recs
Ok now I am not overly knowledgable but if KF left, would Stoops even consider it?
I mean Kirk has built up the program to a point where Stoops could probably do good things with it. I mean OU makes a lot of BCS games but would he ever consider it? OU fans I have heard are starting to get a little frustrated with him? Once again I may sound ridiculous, just a thought. Trying to stir the pot maybe.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 5:54 PM CST reply actions
I really doubt it.
Doesn’t Bob Stoops still have some kids who are young-ish? Like two boys in grade school or junior high (according to Wikipedia)?
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
I doubt he would solely base it on that, especially if they are young enough.
It would be a better time. Because if they are like 10 or so, if Stoops is only at OU 5 more years(hypothetical) then they would be moving at a less convenient time.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 5:58 PM CST up reply actions
If Stoops is a parent concerned about his children's well being,
he should get them the HELL out of Oklahoma right now, before it’s too late.
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by HawkOnRails on Dec 7, 2011 6:49 PM CST up reply actions 7 recs
Good point.
and Rec’d
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:50 PM CST up reply actions
I'm not knowledgable either
but I bet there’s enough big money donors with respect for Bob that we’d at least be able to drive a dump truck of money down to OU and make him refuse it…
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by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 5:57 PM CST up reply actions
hasn't he been stated as saying
“been there, done that”…? I doubt he’d be interested, but with the amount of cake we could throw at him who knows.
So devils advocate
Ferentz rushes off to PSU, who do we get.
Long Shot Dreams would be Stoops and the BSU or TCU coaches, but who are the realistic choices?
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by justsomehawkeyefan on Dec 7, 2011 5:56 PM CST reply actions
KEN O' KEEFE
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 5:56 PM CST up reply actions
For some reason i love the idea
Everything about it says “no no no” but if you keep him in check off the field, he could get us a national title.
fuck it, go big or go home right?
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by justsomehawkeyefan on Dec 7, 2011 5:58 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, I was mostly joking because I know it will never happen.
But yeah, I wouldn’t complain.
by 99FormationsButFourWideAin'tOne on Dec 7, 2011 5:59 PM CST up reply actions
What about Douche Numero Uno
Bret… wait for it… Bielema… There I said it!
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 6:25 PM CST reply actions 2 recs
Kirk to PSU, Brian to Iowa
I could live with that.
Do Not Want!
Even if he could bring Shonn back, with him.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:33 PM CST up reply actions
The last name alone will get you into the postseason
Unfortunately, the last name alone will insure that you don’t win any games there too.
by mikjones24 on Dec 7, 2011 6:35 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Well played.
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 6:36 PM CST up reply actions
Brian Ferentz!!
Iowa alum, tight ends coach for New England…the TEs there seem to have prospered this year with him under a pretty innovative scheme.
That idea is terrible
Just turrible!
/Charles Barkley’d
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by HoyaGoon on Dec 7, 2011 7:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Is it possible PSU needs some positive PR relative to their situation and are therefore hiring
Chris Doyle…
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
Sorry, everybody,
but Steve Batterson has scooped us.
He writes that after KF tebow’d about the matter, he will not be at PSU next season.
Either that, or Batterson has written about a quote that is 2 to 3 days old. Nah, couldn’t be.
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You mean this quote?
http://thegazette.com/2011/12/05/ferentz-definitely-not-going-to-penn-state/
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Old news, and about worth the paper its mostly not printed on
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by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:12 PM CST up reply actions
I've been to the Hlog and to thebirdcult.net
70,000 pig farmers, really? I know who I consider reliable.
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by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 9:33 PM CST up reply actions
Nick Saban also said in a presser that "I'm not going to be the Alabama coach."
Then 10 days later was introduced as Alabama’s coach. I don’t trust a word any coach says about any potential job.
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by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 7, 2011 6:53 PM CST up reply actions
For selfish reasons contained only to my satisfaction derived from reading this site
Ron Zook and Tim Brewster.
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by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 7, 2011 6:44 PM CST reply actions
Giving the camera the stink fingers?
"I know you're from Middle America, and sometimes you feel like you're representing more than just a school or a conference, maybe an entire group of American citizens out there."
by Twin Cities Hawk on Dec 7, 2011 6:46 PM CST up reply actions
I can't help but think that this picture is part of a set.
One of the set has to be a handheld naked shot in a mirror.
by TwistConePlease on Dec 7, 2011 8:53 PM CST up reply actions
Seriously
What the fuck is Ron Zook doing in this picture?
Fixed
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 8:55 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
If you got those two as co-HCs, you could recruit anyone to come to Iowa
They’d suck once they got here, but they’d come
There's this:
yes, the source is a turd
@SPORTSbyBROOKS I was told by Penn St athletic dept official tonight that Joe Paterno’s health is in rapid decline
seriously?
When he was fired,
I worried that he might pass away within a year. And that was before I knew he had lung cancer.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 7:15 PM CST up reply actions
I had the same thought
it’s a little morbid, but you have to think football was keeping him going. Also, I thought he had implied, if not flat out said, that Bryant dying shortly after retiring was a factor in him wanting to keep coaching.
The media circus can’t be helping him either
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 7, 2011 7:24 PM CST up reply actions
I remember reading something similar
in re Paterno and Bryant
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Maybe they are flying people in to pay respects.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Wow.
That would be sad, weird, and kind of classy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:31 PM CST up reply actions
If it were the case,
then I hope it is a weather delay keeping that plane in IC (and not going back to PA).
Because it would suck if Ferentz kept something like that waiting.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:13 PM CST up reply actions
So they're bringing in UIHC docs?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Could be.
Do we have renowned lung cancer experts at UIHC?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 7:24 PM CST up reply actions
So they went to Altoona first?
My bet is they are getting Paul Rhoads, and just coming to IC to party for the night, because let’s be honest, Ames blows.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 7:24 PM CST reply actions 5 recs
If you're at Altoona, the party's at Adventureland!
They have a “resort” with water slides that’s open year round!
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 7, 2011 7:30 PM CST up reply actions
How am I supposed to study for my legislative process final tomorrow
with all this excitement going on?? The amount of eye candy at the library is not helping either
seems closer to 75%
which is lower than it’ll be next week. I have a chance at an A in the class too
When I was in law school...
…we got a notice from the student bar association that we were NOT to have sex in the library, and if we were found by the custodial staff having sex in the library, we NOT to ask them to come back later, but rather to discontinue said activity, and repair to a more private locale.
I have to wonder how often this situation played out before somebody decided an official policy statement was merited.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:22 PM CST up reply actions
Knows in the Biblical sense?
Because that would be apropos
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
wait, this is a class?
Please tell me the final exam is translating a straightfoward summary paragraph into statutory language.
by nhradar on Dec 7, 2011 8:01 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Why speculate about PSU and Ferentz stuff when
an elite Bob Stoops coached team will be playing Iowa in a premier Bowl match-up. I would like to know if Stoops has any Hawkeye connections.
"Make it tasteful, but dongier" - Blackheartnopants
by Kluginator on Dec 7, 2011 8:18 PM CST reply actions 6 recs
THANK YOU
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 7, 2011 11:27 PM CST up reply actions
It's absolute Bizarroworld here in Tempe
ASU backs out of the Kevin Sumlin derby saying it cost too much. Then, with things so much wrapped up that June Jones told his staff they’re going to ASU, they pulled the plug on the deal. ASU sources mentioned something about a big buyout, which, um, maybe they should have known about early, but the supposed real reason is boosters going bonkers in objection to the hire, and raising issues about Jones’ conduct at Hawaii. The word “laughingstock” is being bandied about. Leigh Steinberg, the agent , is dumbfounded. and the locals are getting surly.
FOUR. THREE. COVER. TWO.
Weird.
Maybe if they wait long enough, they can get Larry Coker or Randy Shannon.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:34 PM CST up reply actions
Fairly sure Coker is invested at UTSA and won't leave. Ever.
He’s literally building the program from the ground up. They’ll be in the FBS next year…keep in mind that this was their first year playing football.
I said that just because
Erickson once coached Miami FL. As did Coker. As did Shannon.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:37 PM CST up reply actions
OT, because if this is the de facto Hamsterdam thread of the night
I want to say something.
I would like to make a proposal. Conference USA and the Big East need to switch names, effective immediately with their new additions, as the Big East is now far, far more USA and less East than Conference USA.
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 7, 2011 8:30 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
But C-USA and the MW will merge, too. And then they won't be East either
I think the BIG East needs to let the basketball schools keep the name and use something else
I saw yesterday (I think) that San Diego State was thinking about joining the Big East.
WTF?
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 10:06 PM CST up reply actions
They are jealous of USD getting to play at Marist.
Seriously, the Pioneer league is hilarious. Especially given the stadium sizes. But it’s possible that it’s shown folks that it’s possible to have a national conference.
The real problem comes from SDState being two years removed from the Long debacle….they aren’t getting legitimate programs, just more programs.
Don't even get me started
on the clusterfuck the Big East has become
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Hey guys, anything going on tonight?
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Dec 7, 2011 8:37 PM CST reply actions
I take pleasure in knowing that it's probably very cold where you are right now
after rubbing it in like that
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 8:38 PM CST up reply actions
We're just trying to see how this
coaching carousel shakes out.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 8:43 PM CST up reply actions
That's not funny.
And Catnuts, it’s just fine in my living room.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Dec 7, 2011 8:45 PM CST up reply actions
Can I sleep on your couch?
It’s cold in here.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Blogbucks can't be exchanged for heating?
That sucks, bro.
Twitterz: @EnergizerHawk
by EnergizerHawk on Dec 7, 2011 10:05 PM CST up reply actions
(Shh.)
(It’s not actually cold, I just want to sneak into his house and try to steal Floyd back. I’m told it’s rotating between all 12 Gopher fans for the next ten months.)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Dec 7, 2011 10:18 PM CST up reply actions 6 recs
I heard it rotating
underneath them.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 11:33 PM CST up reply actions
ookie cookie? gross.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 2:21 PM CST up reply actions
The pic reminds of
the scene in Coneheads where Dan Ackroyd bites the umbilical cord to cut it.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 8:47 PM CST up reply actions
Be nice to British MP Jerald Killington of Minneapolis-Upon-Avon
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 7, 2011 11:31 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I don't think they had toothbrushes back in biblical times
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 8, 2011 10:10 AM CST up reply actions
St. Bonaventure is leading @ Illinois
on ESPN 2, almost halftime.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
With 8 minutes left in the game,
Bonaventure leading, 34-29.
Illinois has scored 5 points in the first 12 minutes of the second half. Have shot 2-16 on FGs
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:38 PM CST up reply actions
Illinois looks kinda shitty,
and I still fear they will beat us by 20 in February at the other Assembly Hall.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:49 PM CST up reply actions
Illini have tied it up, with 2 minutes to go.
ESPN 2
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by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:52 PM CST up reply actions
COUGS
RT @BTNBrentYarina: Former #Hawkeyes Brennan Cougill posted 6 points and 7 rebounds in Green Bay’s loss at #Badgers tonight.
seriously?
I'd rather have him than Archie.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Or Jughead, for that matter
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Jughead has an underrated low post game, but yeah.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Time for Moonshiners Part II
Off with the shirt. And enunciation.
by GaryDolphinSafeTuna on Dec 7, 2011 9:02 PM CST via mobile reply actions
So long as you recognize that all of those shows are turrible stereotypes, amplified
I don’t have a problem with it.
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 10:09 PM CST up reply actions
Well yeah, but that's just because of the nuclear waste and hair gel.
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 10:19 PM CST up reply actions
Yea, but that's true
"There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy." -Mark Rippetoe
Naw. Just ask
“6 Seconds of Hell”
They really are like that.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:11 PM CST up reply actions
I don't think Kirk would go.
He just said that he will be here for year 14. Pretty straightforward. Ferentz seems like kind of guy to keep his word about this sort of thing.
There is no way that Paki rushes for nine yards. -KenOKeefeIfuckinghateyou.
KOK is in Phoenix right now
For what it’s worth. I met and spoke with him this morning. He was in Cleveland yesterday according to him. In Phoenix till tomorrow, then I’m not sure.
Also for what it’s worth, he was a really nice guy when I introduced myself to him.
'They are who we thought they were!'
Well, that blows the KOK theory...
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:08 PM CST up reply actions
I think DiNardo would be a blast
to have as a member of the family. The nutty uncle everybody loves.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Ha ha ha
Trust me, I have plenty of issues with KOK and his play calling also. Just saying, he was more than nice to me. Not all coaches are that way.
'They are who we thought they were!'
Curiously, that Learjet sitting in CID was in Cleveland yesterday, too
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:24 PM CST up reply actions
Penn State's hiring Mike Holmgren?
Shiiiiiit.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
A four star
sweet. Welcome aboard young man.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
And 275 pounds.
I bet he at least rotates in some, next year.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:19 PM CST up reply actions
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=8&c=1&nid=4932107
He had offers from about 20 schools, including Michigan, MSU, Nebby, Oregon, PSU, Stanford, and Wisky.
Seems like a big get for us.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:22 PM CST up reply actions
And he has a real good shot at immediate PT next year
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:23 PM CST up reply actions
Not at DT
That’s a man’s position.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 10:34 PM CST up reply actions
That's because he is.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I browsed the page (his story about committing) and it was a little offputting, but it may have just been an awkward way of giving props to the teams he didn't pick. Who knows?
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 10:16 PM CST up reply actions
I thought the same
But was talked off the ledge (read down a bit)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 10:17 PM CST up reply actions
We said that about Cooper this year, though
We’ll see
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Watch him decommit if Kirk is really leaving
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:19 PM CST up reply actions
Fairly sure Kirk visited with him in the past 48 hours
Highly doubt he’d get him to commit while he’s chartering a flight to PA.
Well, Illinois IS on the way to PA.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:22 PM CST up reply actions
I really don't think Kirk is leaving
The next coach at PSU will follow a beloved legend AND have to deal with cleaning up the mess left behind. For an up and comer, it could be worth it, but for somebody who has sort of “been there, done that” and doesn’t want to put with all that……
I just don’t see it happening.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Yep.
To get an established guy, they’d have to pay up (I’m thinking $5 million or more a year). I’m sure that type of contract will be awesome with those who thought the football program has too much power.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:24 PM CST up reply actions
Had offers from BC, GT, and Northwestern so he is smart.
If you go to that website he wrote a long bio, seems intelligent.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 9:23 PM CST up reply actions
he didn't qualify at NW
missed the gpa by .2
(per his scout journal)
seriously?
by PSD on Dec 7, 2011 9:26 PM CST up reply actions
Who wouldn't like to see
video of Fitzy when he got the news.
Gold. Pure gold.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
How bothered should I be that he basically lost out on
His top 2 (Oregon & jNW) due to need being filled & a very slightly too low GPA & was talked out of his 3rd by his family.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 9:27 PM CST up reply actions
Awesome
Kinda new at caring creepily
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 9:52 PM CST up reply actions
Makes sense
I tend toward the more naive ‘Iowa just rocks’ reasoning. As I said, still kinda new to this part of my UI football obsession.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 10:16 PM CST up reply actions
Kirk will shut that down pronto or no PT
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:28 PM CST up reply actions
Strait Bullshit
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:36 PM CST up reply actions 7 recs
Rec'd
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:39 PM CST up reply actions
He's from Canada?
Sounds like homesickness shouldn’t be an issue- yay!!!
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 9:39 PM CST up reply actions
Incredibly mature
Both in the way he presents himself & his decisions & in the decisions he has made- I certainly wasn’t thinking that concretely about my future as I entered high school.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 9:51 PM CST up reply actions
nice pick up
Now if we can get that Tommy Schutt kid to make the switch the d-line would look pretty solid for the next four years.
Now here's a good question, if KOK was in PHX today, where was Kirk?
In IC, or out on the recruiting trail?
The plane, again, may be nothing….
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
In my backyard
See above ^^^^^^^
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 9:20 PM CST up reply actions
I have a lot of energy, yes
Even tho I’m an old guy
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:26 PM CST up reply actions
It's all that exercise
I sometimes find myself hopping up and down for no reason……
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Its hard to get up and run when its cold like now though
35 and dark, even though its dry, is no fun
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:29 PM CST up reply actions
In fact, every time I think of moving back East
To either be closer to my kids (if I lived in CT I’d be fighting with the ex 24/7/365 about everything though – NYC would be far enough away that I could see them anytime I wanted without having to put up with her BS on a daily basis), when it gets cold like this I realize just how much I still hate cold weather.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:31 PM CST up reply actions
OTOH, the pervasive gang banger culture in California and high taxes gets old - fast.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:32 PM CST up reply actions
Treadmill
I know it’s not the same, but I’m near Chicago. Also there are very few streetlights in my neighborhood and I have trouble seeing in the dark.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I used to belong to the Y when I lived in Jackson, MS
And treadmills are a fantastic training tool… you can force yourself to run faster intervals than you would do on your own.
I have a stationary bike trainer I use as well; its a fluid trainer that simulates the resistance of the road – the harder you pedal, the more it fights you.
Sacramento can get really cold at night in the winter. Temps in the 30s are pretty much the normal, low 50s during the day. It can kiss 60 but not for long… you go up into the Sierras and the temps drop into the single digits at night, at Lake Tahoe they’re usually in the low teens this time of year.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:34 PM CST up reply actions
"Really cold ... temps in the 30s"
Sounds balmy. 21 for a high here tomorrow and we’re not even really to winter yet.
by Puntin' it Works on Dec 8, 2011 3:56 PM CST up reply actions
Lifting heavy shit - far more productive, and can be done anywhere
"There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy." -Mark Rippetoe
I do that too
only I tend to use heavy pieces of ferrous material.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Dec 8, 2011 2:48 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Whatever it takes
"There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy." -Mark Rippetoe
NEW UPDATE AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Smells like Soup?
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 9:46 PM CST up reply actions
Where are you getting that from?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:51 PM CST up reply actions
UNI bball's Basketball directory - its online bro.
I’m only speculating here… But KF seems the type who would have room for an assistant from PSU that just months ago he never thought would be available.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 9:58 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, I thought you were talking about Soup Campbell.
Possibly going to PSU?
I’m confused.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:00 PM CST up reply actions
Until Lloyd Carr was fired I doubt KF ever realistically thought E. Campbell could possibly be on his staff.
…these events at PSU may have presented a new opportunity for the Iowa staff to en-awesome further.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:05 PM CST up reply actions
Yep, my thoughts exactly.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 10:11 PM CST up reply actions
/I'm quasi smug! Fuck You!
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:13 PM CST up reply actions
Not Soup!
We better be drowning that guy in money. If I had my way, he’d be our OC beginning next year.
Kansas City?
There’s a coach that may be on his way out there, too.
Seriously, though…looks like he’s staying.
Since we are using this as a kind of Hamsterdam tonight
BRING ME THAT FLOATING FAT MAN, THE BARON
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
Is that from City of Lost Children?
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 7, 2011 9:48 PM CST up reply actions
Dune. That's the Baron Harkonnen
That said, its screaming for a Bielema photoshop…
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:52 PM CST up reply actions
So Sting will be replacing Doyel on this staff?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 11:40 PM CST up reply actions
Good one.
But as we know, Muad D’hib no longer needs the weirding module.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:43 PM CST up reply actions
Kirk's Gom Jabbar could kill with a word
and that word is “Punting”.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 11:47 PM CST up reply actions
So, Mangino's our next coach?
Or is that Phil Fulmer?
by Brock Sampson on Dec 7, 2011 9:50 PM CST up reply actions
I really could see Ferentz taking a couple of Penn State's good assistants
Just because he likes and respects Penn State and Paterno so much.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 9:51 PM CST reply actions
Or one anyway, because I only see Parker leaving, nobody else.
by clay-born to party on Dec 7, 2011 9:53 PM CST up reply actions
Bradley may be poison as HC just for being there
Would love him to replace Norm.
I ain't been droppin no eaves, sir
by Cornfedhawkbred on Dec 7, 2011 9:54 PM CST up reply actions
This.
Everything I read about Bradley just seems good, or very much Ferentz’s style.
That said, I have to wonder what he knew about Sandusky and that whole mess. Bradley has worked there thirty years, you’d have to think he at least heard rumors about a guy who was directly above him in the coaching hierarchy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 9:57 PM CST up reply actions
Larry Johnson for DC? Hell fucking yeah.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
OH SHIT
That makes all the sense in the world, actually. He’s their DC recruiter, after all.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
Yeah.
He’s been on the cusp of a DC job for a while now. And he’s an awesome recruiter.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
And as much as Kirk prefers to win with defense
Why not get a new DC that’s a hell of a recruiter?
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 9:59 PM CST up reply actions
But... but... what about the fans who HATE Kirk Ferentz?
Huh?
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:12 PM CST up reply actions
Barta is making KF hire his own replacement?
Bizarre. Very bizarre.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:13 PM CST up reply actions
A newfound path from the birdcult; one that accepts this Kirk Ferentz character?
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:16 PM CST up reply actions
Oh don't start going Yoda on me
I don’t hate Ferentz. As I’ve said before, I would love for him to learn to um, use the Force more.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 10:28 PM CST up reply actions
Derp Alert!
ive said some things on this website that are crazy, I admit. But you stated you are and always have been in “the anyone other than Ferentz camp”.
basic college football knowledge would enlighten you, Yoda is light years away.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 10:36 PM CST up reply actions
That would be awesome.
Younger, great recruiter, less tainted than others on the staff from the Sandusky mess, great recruiter.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 7, 2011 10:01 PM CST up reply actions
I seem to have a negative connotation regarding Larry Sr.
I guess just because Larry Jr. was a knucklehead, doesn’t mean his dad was.
Did Larry Sr. get his job at PSU by sending his boys there?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:05 PM CST up reply actions
After looking it up,
Larry Sr. got the job before his boys played at PSU.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:12 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah, long before
And there have been some minor rumblings there, mostly for the glass ceiling of Paterno/Bradley preventing anyone from moving up. But overall, he’s well liked and respected.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
Larry Johnson Sr. has been PSU's primary recruiter in the DC area, I believe.
He’s also been a key reason why they’ve had so many beastly defensive linemen over the years.
He’s really good.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
He has also done special teams
not that ours need any help or anything. Don’t mean to change what ain’t broken!
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Our special teams are special! We don't need a coordinator for them!
"There are few things graven in stone, except that you have to squat or you're a pussy." -Mark Rippetoe
Also a great recruiter.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 10:11 PM CST up reply actions
A great recruiter would be great for recruiting.
Especially if he’s a great recruiter like this guy, who is a great recruiter when it comes to recruiting.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 6:16 AM CST up reply actions
There are many factors that go into being a great recruiter
one of them is being great at recruiting.
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Dec 9, 2011 10:30 AM CST up reply actions
The only problem we have with replacing Norm is we may lose some of the talented (yes they are) defensive assistants
Who, I’m sure, have been waiting for their opportunity to move up once he leaves.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
This was my thought as I was falling asleep last night.
I still think Mas Casa & Doc are right, and that KF will promote from within, with likely candidates being Phil Parker & Darrell Wilson. Who are some of PSU’s other assistants? Maybe one of our current assistants is leaving (Rick K?), opening the door for a Larry Johnson (who is a great recruiter, I’m told). Or maybe Wilson is being promoted & Johnson is coming in to take over LBs. Or maybe [some other plausible scenario].
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 6:22 AM CST up reply actions
He's currently co-DC
and my gut says that he’ll be a full DC somewhere next fall.
And seriously, I think if you’re talking about most assistant coaching spots, they’re flying ’em in commercial. Charter jets are expensive and draw too much attention.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Hmm.
Yeah, I don’t see him taking a demotion in title/level.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 8:41 AM CST up reply actions
Norm's replacement is what makes sense
Whether it’s Bradley, Johnson or somebody else. I think the new PSU coach will be under orders to clean house. I think their staff knows that and are looking for jobs starting now.
If it does happen, it may cause a little shuffle on the staff, but that’s not always a bad thing. KF put together a pretty good staff the first time and I’m betting he can hire one or two top notch guys now.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Yeah.
Or there might already be some shuffling going on with our current staff (e.g., Parker or Wilson have already been contacted & accepted DC gigs elsewhere), thus opening the door for Johnson as DC.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 9:04 AM CST up reply actions
As I was falling asleep last night I was thinking
“whoever said not to take sleeping pills with alcohol is stupid; this is awesome!”
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 8, 2011 4:59 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
But were you operating a vehicle or heavy equipment?
That is totally awesome.
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Dec 9, 2011 10:33 AM CST up reply actions
Honestly?
Four hours after doing so. Really.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 9, 2011 6:56 PM CST up reply actions
I think the Bradley scenario is more likely.
LJ’s always been rumored to devote his post-coaching life to his church (he’s way into that stuff). But hey, who knows.
Honestly, if you’re going down that road, what about Ron Vanderlinden? Our LB coach, former DC at jNW in the mid-90’s, head coach at Maryland for a short time. Good recruiter. Very familiar with Midwest. Excellent coach.
by Chris Grovich on Dec 7, 2011 10:07 PM CST up reply actions
All your assistant coaches belong to us?
(Somebody ’shop Bradley into this pic)
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:10 PM CST up reply actions
I only see . . .
Winners in this pic.
This is Iowa’s Iwo Jima.
"I always like it better when the clowns seem to try to be happy."
by MarcMorehouse on Dec 8, 2011 12:27 AM CST up reply actions 9 recs
The only question is
who among us is demented enough to make that sacrilegious image happen via photoshop?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 8, 2011 3:21 AM CST up reply actions
I would if I had PS.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 6:22 AM CST up reply actions
Wow.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 9:05 AM CST up reply actions
Kick ass!
Thanks!
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 9:05 AM CST up reply actions
Damn right it is...
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 8, 2011 10:13 AM CST up reply actions
It could domino
If Parker retires and all the right people don’t get the promotions they believe they’ve earned (i.e., Ferentz hires from the outside), there tends to be a housecleaning as people get pissed that they’ve paid their dues and been snubbed, and they move on other jobs.
That said, I really expect us to replace Norm from within.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
From what tonight's commit (Ekakitie) wrote,
we probably need to keep Coach Kaz. Also, that D-Line over the last three or four years seems to be evidence of his value (even if this year’s was disappointing).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
This year's was (1) hurt and (2) young
Next year’s will hopefully just be young. But anyway like I said, I expect Norm to be replaced by an internal hire, and I expect little turnover. If nothing else has characterized Iowa football in my life time, it has been low staff turnover. We go through coaches like we go through governors.
VERY. CAREFULLY.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:33 PM CST up reply actions
The same cannot be said here in IL
On either count.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 10:34 PM CST up reply actions
I know, I'm licensed in Illinois
I practice law in St. Louis, and every time I drive into Illinois, I feel like I’ve done something wrong the minute I get there. Something about the state encourages malfeasance.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:38 PM CST up reply actions
It does have a weird feeling.
Strange.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:38 PM CST up reply actions
Whereas I feel drunk the minute I drive into Wisconsin
Don’t ask me how I feel when I drive into Nebraska.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:39 PM CST up reply actions
have you ever driven to Colorado?
I take 80 to Cheyenne and head south to Loveland.
Oh. My. God. The desolation…
You start to get a little silly at Lincoln.
By the time you hit Kearney, you need some horse tranquilizers.
North Platte is the point of no return. When you blow past Ogallala, you’re full on batshit insane.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:53 PM CST up reply actions
I drove across Nebraska when I was 16 with my parents
On a lonnng road trip to California… there’s a whole lot of nuthin’ there. I think I’ve blanked out that portion of the trip.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:45 PM CST up reply actions
Cocaine + mixtapes = I-80 Nebraska
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 8, 2011 9:56 PM CST up reply actions
You have to go full on Hunter Thompson on I-80 in Nebraska.
Full cocktail of drugs so you don’t know which way is up.
This is especially true if you are on a Grayhound bus and are stopping at every… single… tiny… podunk shithole… all the way across the fucking state.
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 8, 2011 10:01 PM CST up reply actions
I'd be less worried about that in your neck of the woods
Than if you were in Springfield or Chicago. God we have a lot of self-important idiots in those to areas.
(not a political comment- they’re equal opportunity idiots)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 10:44 PM CST up reply actions
I drove to Springfield to be sworn into the IL bar...
It was not fun. Me and another attorney tried to hit the local grocery store to pick up some beers to get us through the ceremony, only to discover that you can’t buy beer at a grocery store in Illinois.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:54 PM CST up reply actions
When was that? You can up this way
& I’ve been here since 1997.
Maybe it was a local thing? Some of the ‘burbs have funky ordinances & it wouldn’t shock me to hear Springfield falls into that category.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 10:56 PM CST up reply actions
It was about a year ago
Maybe the guy at the store lied to make us go away. It was like 10:00am after all. When two guys in slick suits waltz in at 10:00am on a Tuesday and angrily demand beer, it might make sense to pretend you don’t have any.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 11:00 PM CST up reply actions
Huh
Now I’d’ve gone the other way- pointed you TO the beer, made the sale & moved you right along before you could do any real damage.
I ran a pharmacy in Evanston for awhile (in a Jewel-Osco grocery store) that was right on the border of Chicago. Oh the arguments we used to have with shoppers who were absolutely insistent that they were in Chicago &, thus, the liquor section should not be under lock & key at 9am on a Sunday. (Not sure the ordinance exists now- that was over 10 years ago)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 7, 2011 11:13 PM CST up reply actions
I've got a co-worker that keeps trying to convince me to take a transfer to our office in Springfield, IL
I keep telling Springfield is not exactly where a single 50 year old guy wants to me. I would imagine the dating pool is incredibly small… and very shallow.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:47 PM CST up reply actions
What did you do to this coworker?
Bang his wife? Bang his dog?
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Dec 7, 2011 11:48 PM CST up reply actions
Nothing. He's a nice guy, just very weird
He grew up on an Indian reservation in Montana but he’s not Indian… so he has very weird opinions on a lot of things.
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:55 PM CST up reply actions
There is a "no running" sign posted very obviously above said pool.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 11:49 PM CST up reply actions 5 recs
Rec'd
You’re on fire dude
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:54 PM CST up reply actions
I've been in Jewel
and heard “customers” having that argument at 10 AM. In my way of thinking, you’re a terrible, or at least non-functional, drunk if you don’t know what the liquor laws are where you live and haven’t planned ahead enough to get you through the morning.
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 8, 2011 7:49 AM CST up reply actions
Well, to their credit,
They were completely on point with their knowledge of Chicago liquor laws- unfortunately, Chicago was across the street. & we all know Evanston ain’t Chicago.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Dec 8, 2011 8:37 AM CST up reply actions
I'm in the Chicago burbs
and you can buy beer at the grocery stores. Wal Mart stocks Jack Daniels.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
That is probably the only thing I like about Chicago/Schaumburg is that I can get Grey Goose at 7-11
And most of the time I wouldn’t want to drink Goose, but it is far more convenient than going to a liquor store. And after 10 years in DC, that is the only positive comparison I have for living here now.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
West Chicago was like that in '99.
Fox Park and St. Charles, too. IIRC. It’s been a while.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Dec 7, 2011 11:02 PM CST up reply actions
I sell alcohol in Illinois
and can tell you it’s highly localized. For example, you can buy a 24 liquor license for a bar if you’d like (and places do) in Chicago but you cannot sell alcohol at a retail establishment between the hours of 2AM and 11AM on Sunday. Oak Park was a dry town other than what you bought in restaurants for years as was Wheaton. It just depends specifically where you are.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 7, 2011 11:54 PM CST up reply actions
I thought liquor licenses in Chicago could be purchased for 2 AM or 4 AM closing
and the 4 AM was only if you passed stringent guidelines or, far more likely, knew somebody.
I love it when the the narrative-chasing intuition monkeys get involved.
-Brian Burke, Advanced NFL Stats
Are you kidding?
You can purchase anything in Illinois if you’re willing to pay enough. 14 years in prison, for example.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 8, 2011 3:23 AM CST up reply actions
You're awake?
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 8, 2011 3:26 AM CST up reply actions
Headed to work.
Daddy earns his paycheck.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 8, 2011 3:32 AM CST up reply actions
The sun never sets on the BHGP empire.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 8, 2011 3:32 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
YOUR excuse on the other hand, I have no idea...
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Dec 8, 2011 3:33 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, I'm heading to bed for a few hours now.
Just decided to check the board one last time. I do work some wacky hours sometimes as I can do my best writing at night if I can cut out distractions. Maybe I get 4-5 hours of sleep per night during the week, then sometimes I can sneak home for an early afternoon nap to catch up. Otherwise I catch up with 10-12 hours on the weekends. Healthy? Probably not.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 8, 2011 3:40 AM CST up reply actions
Voltaire never slept.
Of course, by his own estimate he had over 100K cups of coffee — and not that gas station swill piss, either.
When will your Candide be published?
He's probably pissed that cocaine wasn't around
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
Now we know why Voltaire was a little, um, wacky
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 8, 2011 11:32 AM CST up reply actions
Jesus.
That was Balzac, not Voltaire. C’mon.
Logic, grammar and punctuation: much preferred!
by I_am_Querulous_Yellow on Dec 8, 2011 12:53 PM CST up reply actions
nerd fight!
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 1:47 PM CST up reply actions
You've made a powerful enemy, Yellow.
A minimum of 50 cups a day for Voltaire. One of many links on the subject.
We Never Sleep
We See Everything
Das Stochern gewinnt.
by Blackheartnopants on Dec 8, 2011 10:16 AM CST up reply actions
And here we used to go to East Dubuque after 2:00am
Now we go to East St. Louis.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 8, 2011 11:13 AM CST up reply actions
Oooo, my liver just had a flashback.
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 11:50 AM CST up reply actions
Are you driving to Sauget or Brooklyn?
by GaryDolphinSafeTuna on Dec 7, 2011 11:08 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Last time I went, I was going to SIU
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 11:09 PM CST up reply actions
I'm actually kind of excited by the
talent at DL, albeit very young.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:37 PM CST up reply actions
Kacz is probably the only defensive assistant
who doesn’t immediately jump ship if a new DC comes from the outside as he is still relatively young
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Doubtful
They’ve all got a good gig and have established their lives in IC. It’s no small thing to jump back into the coaching world. I’m not saying nobody would leave, but there will not be a mass exodus.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
In order of likelihood of leaving (most to least), assuming a new DC from outside the staff
Phil Parker
Darrell Wilson
Kacz – though I could see his decision to stay as temporary until he got the chance to move up to a DC spot of his own (2-3 years hence, maybe?)
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I'm not real sure on that.
If we bring in a new DC, I could see all of them hanging around for a year or two. Maybe more. Good money, a loyal head coach, an AD who appears sane. You could jump to another Big Ten school like Illinois and be fired in two or three years.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 8, 2011 10:25 PM CST up reply actions
A donor organ flew to UIHC
nice murdercycle hills in that part of PA.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 10:50 PM CST up reply actions
The plane would have been long gone by now. It's seriously in and out.
by The Final Gun on Dec 7, 2011 10:52 PM CST up reply actions
Thought so. Just spitballin
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 10:55 PM CST up reply actions
Ahem.
Donorcycle would be a more sensitive term.
Hey Dolph, you look like I need a beer.
by Give Eddie a Beer on Dec 7, 2011 11:02 PM CST up reply actions
How about this one?
Heinz is considering buying Quaker
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 11:04 PM CST up reply actions
Ok, the iTunes store recommendations are really super fucked up
Its telling to buy NIGHT RANGER? WTF?
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
No no.
That actually sounds about right.
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 8, 2011 10:08 PM CST up reply actions 4 recs
GREEN
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 9, 2011 12:26 AM CST up reply actions
I won't rest until something I say or do is mentioned in a podcast
I don’t say or do much that’s interesting, though.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:31 PM CST up reply actions
Sigh, bloggerchasers.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 7, 2011 11:43 PM CST up reply actions
Question on update #2
Why would PSU pay to bring their coach out here? I’m not seeing the logic in that. If we are looking at a PSU coach wouldn’t that be an Iowa jet parked in IC waiting to take him back?
It's not an official PSU jet
It’s a “PSU jet”, a charter that’s typically stored closeby. Anyone could charter it: PSU, Iowa, a booster who likes one of the coaches and wants him to be gainfully employed, etc.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 10:20 PM CST up reply actions
okay
I’ll buy that. Sorry, things have not been going well with my Dad and I’ve been self-medicating to deal with it (I know, not a good idea) so the later it gets the harder it gets to process things. :)
No problem
And sorry about things with your dad. Best of luck, sir.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 7, 2011 10:27 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Sympathies on your father
I completely understand how you feel man
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 10:29 PM CST up reply actions
I could see
PSU big-wigs (donors?) saying “Sorry, Tom, they’re not bringing you back next year, but we’ll help you out a little by making travel to a job interview easier.”
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:33 PM CST up reply actions
I love how this thread has done a total 180
From OMG WHO’S LEAVING to ZOMG WHO’S COMING
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
watching the news tonight...
Saw a clip of ISU basketball. What the shit!! I had better production quality with my fisher price cassette tape video recorder! Daaaamn!
(I can’t recall if fisher price is correct but I don’t want to leave the page and retype all this)
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 10:44 PM CST via mobile reply actions
PXL 2000
I need to see if this is still at my parent’s house or if my mom sold it at a garage sale.
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 10:51 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Tabbed browsers for the win
Leave your half-finished comment here, open another tab and do your research, then come back and hey presto!
It's a scam!
Verizon set my DROID to reload all webpages when I momentarily leave the page, even when I don’t close the page but kinda flip over and flip back. Makes it killer to try and read a game thread while texting or if there’s a gif on the page.
And sometimes it let’s me do all of the above without reloading. Its a pain in the ass and a scam because if you don’t have unlimited data, you better bend over and let them put their sperms in you.
Dear Verizon,
I have unlimited data. Fuck you.
Love, Me
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 11:02 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Verizon: STRAIT BULLSHIT
Twitterz: @EnergizerHawk
by EnergizerHawk on Dec 7, 2011 11:03 PM CST up reply actions
I take it all back
The mobile browsing experience leaves much to be desired. And echoing EnergizerHawk, Verizon=strait bullshit indeed.
I use the Opera Mini Browser.
Much faster and I notice that it does not reload the page each time I come back to it.
by KirksGumInHaydensStas on Dec 7, 2011 11:14 PM CST up reply actions
my blackberry does not play nice with Opera. Frustrating
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 11:18 PM CST up reply actions
i believe i read about opera
In Popular Science or Discover. Do you wholeheartedly endorse it?
When is BHGP App coming for DROID?
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 11:28 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
There is only one thing that bother's me about Opera.
It won’t let me log into blackboard for class. Other than that. Yes I do endorse it. It is great.
by KirksGumInHaydensStas on Dec 7, 2011 11:29 PM CST up reply actions
Two theories that haven't been mentioned:
1) Penn State coaches are coming in to consult with our Defensive Coaching staff about how to beat Houston. They might have asked for the favor given the shake-up they experienced. They might also think that this is a way to get on friendlier terms with Iowa’s Athletic Department given that they’ll be on the market in a few months.
2) A second level of subterfuge has been added to the airplane game. Last year universities started using private charters (rather than university planes). This year maybe Penn State hired a plane leaving from campus to come and sit at Iowa’s tarmac for a few days while the real interview (with someone completely unrelated to Iowa) was taking place at a conference room in Tallahassee or something. I could imagine Kirk absolutely LOVING screwing with bloggers and media like that.
Great ideas.
I’m not sure why they’d ask us to tell them how to beat Houston? I know we do okay against the spread, and the option, but somehow, I think there’d be other places they’d ask?
KF’s complicity in a scheme to mess with the media would be funny.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 10:50 PM CST up reply actions
I don't think they'd ask, except for the close connections between our schools, our staff's success in game planning for odd situations (GTech), and the evisceration of leadership in their coaching ranks.
Can you imagine the confusion?
by The Final Gun on Dec 7, 2011 10:54 PM CST up reply actions
Yeah.
I guess they did lose JoePa and McQ.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 11:11 PM CST up reply actions
That would be hilarious.
So, we run cover 3
COVER TWO
BULLSHIT COVER THREE
SHUT UP YOU ASSHOLES IT’S COVER TWO OR NOTHING
I HOPE YOU ALL DIE IN A FIRE COVER THREE FOREVER /makes 4ever hand signal
TWO
THREE
TWO
THREE
…and then someone has a trident
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Dec 8, 2011 12:22 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
#TEAM43COVER2
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 8, 2011 12:43 AM CST up reply actions
So, St. Pierre tore his ACL?
And the fight with Diaz is officially off.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
My brother forwarded this to me this morning and I just had to share
A friend of mine sent this to me this morning. I guess a friend of his is an iron worker and posted this on Facebook. Classic!
>
> “Can’t believe I am building stuff for Iowa state I hate Iowa state….oh well at least every piece of steel going up on thier campus says go hawks somewhere on it…..”
I love it when the the narrative-chasing intuition monkeys get involved.
-Brian Burke, Advanced NFL Stats
One thing I'll say for Iowa State
The average graduate can spell “their” correctly.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 10:56 PM CST up reply actions
And also the average grad can tell you how to say "no" in sheep-talk.
Twitterz: @EnergizerHawk
by EnergizerHawk on Dec 7, 2011 10:57 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Not that hearing "no" stops them
I love it when the the narrative-chasing intuition monkeys get involved.
-Brian Burke, Advanced NFL Stats
ISU was actually my first choice out of high school
I liked the campus and wanted to do engineering. My old man was an Iowa grad, I’m sure that burned his ass. But then Marquette offered me a scholarship, so I went there and promptly lost it, only to come crawling back to Iowa and beg them to let me into the English program, which they graciously did.
However, my sister married a Clone. He’s a good guy regardless.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 11:04 PM CST up reply actions
I'm going to be graduating in May from ISU.
It’s the best decision I have ever made.
by KirksGumInHaydensStas on Dec 7, 2011 11:13 PM CST up reply actions
We don't judge.
But, fuck Hilton this Friday!!
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 11:16 PM CST up reply actions
Oh, don't get me wrong.
Fuck Hilton. I don’t go a single week without some other student calling me out for being decked out in Hawkeye gear. One week it’s about football and how Paul Rhoads is the next Les Miles and watch out. The next is how Royce White will lead them to the final four.
Just because I go to school here and support the education does not mean I have to support/cheer/wear Iowa State Shit.
by KirksGumInHaydensStas on Dec 7, 2011 11:24 PM CST up reply actions
My brother goes to ISU for the engineering program.
Still a hawkeye. Wears hawkeye stuff all the time. Will root for them most of the time, but not against Iowa. He secretly wanted ISU to lose to Oklahoma last week to get everyone to shut up about how good they were, though. Got his wish.
I almost went to ISU for grad school
In urban planning, but decided to go back to Iowa City although my GRE math score sucks so I was on probation first semester, made it through the program no problem. But Id probably still be working in the Midwest if I’d graduated from ISU; they do a better job of placing their people in the Midwest…
Never *question* Bruce Dickinson!
http://www.thebirdcult.net
by The Bird Cult on Dec 7, 2011 11:59 PM CST up reply actions
That's like getting a job offer from Satan to dredge the shit river in hell
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 8, 2011 11:16 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Great school, indeed.
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 11:28 PM CST up reply actions
to graduate and leave?
that IS a great decision!
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 11:18 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
BHGP needs to collect and catalog the realCatsnut career advice
Rec’d
"GO HAWKS!" - only cure for Hawkeye Envy
by BentNotBroken on Dec 7, 2011 11:32 PM CST up reply actions
Pandora is tuned to MGMT radio
And “gangster tripping’” by Fatboy Slim just inexplicably came up in the playlist. Even more inexplicable is that I’m listening to it.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
Braunschweiger and egg nog
Lord please let this delicious delicacy materialize in front of me tomorrow.
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 11:16 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Lord please let RH’s Bookie not materialize in front of me tomorrow.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Dec 7, 2011 11:19 PM CST up reply actions
That is truly gross.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 7, 2011 11:19 PM CST up reply actions
Silence!
Although I’ll allow that these two consumables, in concert, may not be delicious, they are independently delicious.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 7, 2011 11:31 PM CST up reply actions
Yep.
I don’t think I’d like them together. But braunschweiger on toast is very good. And most egg nogs are good, sometimes cut it with a little milk.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 11:44 PM CST up reply actions
I did that Saturday.
The next day, I couldn’t talk (sinus infection).
But yes, rum works, too. I used Kraken.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 7, 2011 11:47 PM CST up reply actions
Dad always used Bacardi of some flavor.
I don’t generally spike the nog myself.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Dec 7, 2011 11:48 PM CST up reply actions
Me either.
I won’t adulterate my alcohol with non-alcoholic beverages.
A man may leave Iowa, but Iowa never leaves a man.
by hawkeyeinstl on Dec 8, 2011 11:16 AM CST up reply actions
Merry Hamsterdam to all!
And to all, liver-y and nog-y dreams!
I’m out.
by RH's Bookie on Dec 7, 2011 11:49 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Maybe the Braunschweiger would renew my liver
To when I was 17. I may pick up some tomorrow.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Dec 7, 2011 11:53 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I know some of you guys like Childish Gambino
I don’t really care for him, so I have to admit that his poor review on Pitchfork made me smile a little, even though I generally hate all album reviews and, therefore, hate Pitchfork.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
I like Community
but I don’t get the appeal Donald Glover. He seems like a nice, normal guy, so maybe that’s what people like about him.
He’s just not funny to me at all, and after hearing about half of his album on Spotify, I can’t stand his music. Just horrible. Definite Kanye rip-off as the Pitchfork review points out. I can’t wait for the end of hashtag rap.
by Boschee4three on Dec 8, 2011 12:30 AM CST up reply actions
I tried to listen to some Gambino,
and the only time I really laughed and enjoyed it was with the video/montage that the BHGP authors made for Marchifornication last year.
http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2011/2/23/2009882/marchifornication-trailer
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Dec 8, 2011 10:33 PM CST up reply actions
I love that the initial post was making fun of the whole flight aware obsession
And then was immediately followed by a bunch of people earnestly speculating about who it could be like this actually means anything.
No, the original post before the updates was as curious as the comments were
Vint noted somewhere here that he’s been clued into FlightAware so much because he’s obsessed with the PSU hiring process lately.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 12:24 AM CST up reply actions
OMG I'M WATCHING HULU AND THERE IS AN IOWA STATE COMMERCIAL
This commercial is not relevant to me.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
I have an ex-girlfriend who goes there.
I always clicked it, just to spite her.
But now I click it in concert with BHGP and Hamsterdam.
I feel a little better.
check that
was scheduled to leave, doesn’t show in flight
seriously?
by PSD on Dec 8, 2011 6:47 AM CST up reply actions
It has a cloaking device?
"Pursue happiness... with diligence."
by Bucketochicken on Dec 8, 2011 7:35 AM CST up reply actions
ZOMG FERENTZ TO COACH 4 TEH ROMULANS
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 8, 2011 2:03 PM CST up reply actions 2 recs
The Klingons are going to be pissed.
Twitterz: @EnergizerHawk
by EnergizerHawk on Dec 9, 2011 11:45 AM CST up reply actions
It departed at 7:14.
Someone hit the snooze button too many times this morning after an evening in Iowa City.
It was delayed due to extreme Hawkeye Vodka hangover.
Hey Dolph, you look like I need a beer.
by Give Eddie a Beer on Dec 8, 2011 9:30 AM CST up reply actions
I miss one night on this site
And you guys rent a charter to fly PSU’s coaches in to replace the current regime. That’ll teach me to have a life.
But "disappointing" is not a synonym for "crappy." - Jacob Peterson
"We are Iowans, for the most part if you tell us to do something we’ll do it. It’s not like we are from South Carolina." - Carfino'sWay
by 6 seconds of hell on Dec 8, 2011 7:47 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
Seriously.
I haven’t had internet at home this season and I feel like I’ve missed out completely on game threads and Hamsterdams.
BORK BORK BORK
Completely OT
But this dude can jump
But "disappointing" is not a synonym for "crappy." - Jacob Peterson
"We are Iowans, for the most part if you tell us to do something we’ll do it. It’s not like we are from South Carolina." - Carfino'sWay
by 6 seconds of hell on Dec 8, 2011 7:51 AM CST up reply actions
Holy crap!
Dude looks about as athletic as John Lickliter (that’s probably the black socks and T-shirt combo), but he’s way above the rim.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Dec 8, 2011 2:02 PM CST up reply actions
Ya know...
Iowa does have some pretty goddamn good cancer docs at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at UIHC. Think PSU would fly one of them out there to do a consult or 2nd/3rd opinion on JoePa’s lung cancer?
There’s also some speculation that JoePa’s condition has deteriorated significantly. Any info on that?
There are a lot of good cancer docs all over
and a lot closer to PSU that IC. I’ve never had cancer but if JoePa is on chemo, that is supposed to be a miserable experience, so at his age it would take quite a toll.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
"Boy, this plane sure is nice." --@NotKirkFerentz
LOHL
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
Sorry everyone - but the plane is mine
I just needed some of that yummy PSU ice cream.
by the_iowa_hawkeye on Dec 8, 2011 9:08 AM CST reply actions
When I am inevitably a billionaire
I am going to buy a private jet and just fly from random college towns to other college towns where their are coaching openings, just to fuck with the crazy flightaware people on the internet.
by NorseHawk on Dec 8, 2011 10:40 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
That's after you eradicate the world of other NorseHawk impostors, right?
Twitterz: @EnergizerHawk
by EnergizerHawk on Dec 8, 2011 10:43 AM CST up reply actions
NorseHawk = T. Boone Pickens
It’s already happening.
"Let me finish or I will hammerpunch your clavicle." -Steve Youngblood
by SomeJerkPoster on Dec 8, 2011 10:49 AM CST up reply actions
If you're just burning money
and want mayhem, why not actually fly coaches out there for lunch. Ones you know the fanbase will freak about
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." - Lewis Caroll, Alice Through the Looking Glass
by chitownhawkeye on Dec 8, 2011 11:38 AM CST up reply actions
I would totally fly back and forth from Richmond to CR once a week
simply for Zoey’s pizza
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Auburn boosters already have you beat on this one
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/sports/ncaafootball/03roberts.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&position
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Would it make sense for a PSU plane
or at least one often chartered by PSU to bring someone to Iowa City to interview (Bradley or Larry Johnson)? Wouldn’t it be more likely that an Iowa plane (or oft-chartered Iowa plane) would be used. I can’t imagine PSU footing the bill for a soon-to-be-fired assistant coach to fly around and interview
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Yes, it makes the entire affair a mystery.
Probably just some business trip for a Hershey or Heinz exec in the end, but the speculation has sure been fun.
I spent half my life's earnings on wine, women & song. The other half I wasted.
by therealCatnuts on Dec 8, 2011 11:33 AM CST up reply actions
I think it makes sense
Iowa doesn’t want to waste money flying a local plane to University Park, back to IC, back to UP, and then back again. It makes more sense to charter a plane from a local company near UP so it’s just one round trip. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they called Penn St. and asked them for a suggestion on a plane charter, and therefore ended up with a company that PSU often uses. Just a thought.
by DJK's bongwater on Dec 8, 2011 11:44 AM CST up reply actions
Who says PSU chartered it
UI could have done it. It’s cheaper to fly a guy in, put the crew up overnight and fly the guy back than it is to dead head to pick him up, bring him in, take him home, and dead head back. There are also issues of aircraft availability.
According to this site, a Lear 35 runs $1,262 per hour. So those two dead head trips will run you about 5k.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
oops
I forgot the link nobody will click on anyway.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Now I want to click it dammit,
I wont do it!
by clay-born to party on Dec 8, 2011 12:04 PM CST up reply actions
It think it makes perfet sense.
If you charter a plane from Iowa, it has to leave from IC and pick up our new D coordinator in Pennsylvania, fly them to IC, then fly them back to Pennsylvania, and then return to its “home” in IC. Or you could get a plane from Pennsylvania (whose owner and pilot apparently has a good rep with the school over there) to take our new coach here and back. Half the trips, half the cost?
So wait.
Per the BSD dudes, Penn State is doing their head coach interviews in New York.
Gary Barta is in New York. #HEADCOACHBLOODPUNCH4PSU
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 8, 2011 12:24 PM CST reply actions
Dateline: New York
Penn State Univeristy announced earlier today that they hired Iowa AD Gary Barta as their head football coach. Upon hearing the news, Nebraska filed to rejoin the Big 12, Ohio State and Michigan broke off tof to form their conference called “The Big Two”, Indiana, Purdue, Northwestern, and Minnesota dissolved their football teams, Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema was seen huddled in a corner, sobbing and asking for someone to bring him a chiken sandwhich, Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz twirled his fingers, clapped and said “Fuck it, I’m out” and nobody cared about Michigan State. When the Illinois University President was called for comment he replied “What? Wait, do we have a football team?”
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Dec 8, 2011 1:00 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Update: Bloodpunch hires Paul Chryst as Offensive Coordinator
and Mike Leach as More Offensive Coordinator. Because Bloodpunch doesn’t believe in wasting time on defense. He just plays more offense.
by Third Generation Hawk on Dec 8, 2011 3:44 PM CST up reply actions
I would love to see a defense line up in an exact mirror formation to what the offense is running, complete with a linebacker under nosetackle calling a cadence.
Cause I bet that if you time it just right, a jinx cadence could really throw a QB off
"Gophers are filthy digging rats"
-one of HFMR's many amazing tags
"It's Northwestern," he explained. "A smart school."
-TMart on jNW reading signals
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Dec 8, 2011 10:27 PM CST up reply actions
Close, but
I think Bret would go around randomly beating skinny college kids yelling “NERDS!”
I’m not wearing underwear…what if I pre my pants?
by three and out the kok story on Dec 8, 2011 2:22 PM CST reply actions
Reply fail, but you get my point.
I’m not wearing underwear…what if I pre my pants?
by three and out the kok story on Dec 8, 2011 2:22 PM CST up reply actions
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