This NIL shit is making me pine for the simpler days of giving recruits whores and hundred-dollar handshakes.
Remember when “runners” were one step above child molesters to college basketball fans?
This NIL shit is making me pine for the simpler days of giving recruits whores and hundred-dollar handshakes.
Hank, don't beat around the bush. Tell us how you really feel.How much more talent do you need than having future NBA players as reserves for 15 years?
Calipari's fall at Kentucky is really the stuff of Greek tragedy. In February of 2014, he looked like he was coming after K as the preeminent coach of the next ten years. Now he's at Arkansas getting a money bukkake from Jerry Jones and the chicken guy to go recruit tons of talent and achieve mediocre results.
I always thought the dementia speculation was bush league, tbh, and wish people wouldn't do it but it sure looks like *something* is up with the guy and he changed and is no longer the superstar he was.
John Calipari was posed to be the unquestioned king of college basketball's future and now he's a joke. Honestly, it is just really sad. And that's all I'm going to say about his time at Kentucky for quite a while. I hope we beat him by a billion every game and we all wear Earned Not Given t-shirts.
Your family will be put on our GOD KNOWS LIST, praying for your family 3One week out of the hospital:
- So my son never actually got *sick*. We noticed in the last month or two that he had started eating more than normal and drinking a lot of water/peeing. I chalked it up to a growth spurt of a 4 and 1/2 year old, my wife was quietly concerned about it. While we were in Augusta he stayed with my MIL and she made a comment noticing the same thing and while we were on the way back she said he peed the bed, which hasn’t happened in 2+ years.
- At that point wife is convinced he’s diabetic the whole way home and I’m trying to remain optimistic. We get home, unpack, I run to pick up our daughter from school and my wife runs him to the pediatrician. We were in the ER by 5 pm and his blood sugar was 500+ after not eating since lunch.
- We were in the hospital from about midnight Tuesday night until after lunch Friday, so the entire time we were without a basketball coach. I attempted to keep up with everything during the down time but between the emotional swings and all of the information that was being thrown at us it was impossible.
- @krazykats I just want to say that your post was the first beacon of hope I had. Someone with the experience telling me it would be better was what I needed was the most important thing because at the time it felt impossible. Since then we've had a number of other people reach out to us too that we never know were diabetic.
- The only thing I knew coming in about diabetics is you get lots of shots. Thankfully the technology for blood sugar and insulin has come a long way and before long we'll just put readers/pumps on his every few days but for right now were going through 11 needles a day.
- What I didn't realize is how much math goes into insulin. Every single carb he eats has to be accounted for and basically has to be placed into an algebra problem along with his blood sugar level before he eats.
- Doctors told us to let him eat whatever he wants for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and just correct it with insulin but go ZERO carbs for his snacks to avoid unneeded shots. Something I've learned during this week is that leaves you very limited, zero sugar and zero net carbs does not mean zero carbs. Snacks now consist of string cheese, cheddar pork rinds, turkey, and zero sugar jell-o. Zero sugar whipped cream has also been a God send when he wants something sweet.
- I've been blessed enough with a job and a boss that has let me stay home and work when I need to from home these first couple weeks to get life back to normal. My wife only worked part time so we made the decision for her to leave her job, at least until he started Kindergarten in August, to take care of him and not place everything on her mother but when she went to tender her resignation her boss told her to bring home a computer and printer and work as many or as little hours as she wants because even a little bit helped them. We were blown away.
- Tuesday after an emotional day of friends and family blessing us waaaaay more than we deserve I got in insurance letter stating that my our stay in the hospital wasn't going to be covered because it wasn't "medically necessary" and I probably hit rock bottom worse than any point in my life. Ultimately after talking to the hospital it seems like its a paperwork issue and everything would be covered like normal but some lady at BC&BS got to hear me yell at her a lot. Baffling they would send out a letter like that that quickly though.
- Life is somewhat back to normal again but it's basically like bringing home a newborn again. Scheduled feedings, waking up in the middle of the night to check him, making sure you have a bag of stuff every time you leave the house, etc.
Sorry for the wall of text but it's cathartic to get it all out. If you read everything you're probably a better person than I am.
Now lets start actually fielding a basketball team.
KKKKKRUZ
Pump the brakes
Somewhere in middle America?I wanna go to Omaha.
5 minute highlight version.For pure 90s basketball nostalgia, I give you this. In retrospect, Angola was not as bad as I remembered. Also, if you watch at 22:35, Magic does a 360 spin move to toss an over the head / no look pass to Bird for a 3, which of course he made. Just a thing of absolute beauty.
So, yeah, bring on some denim, pagers, and no effing internet. This old boy is 100% down.
Elly is top 10 in MLB in OPS, Slugging, Homers, Runs, and Stolen Bases. He’s only 22.
Is that good?
(fyi he’s *not* top 10 in Ks)
Elly's 4 for 9 in his last 3 games?Fyi...he's 7th in K's in NL.
He was 2-17 with 8 K's before last night. Great game, which he seems to have once a week and in between his awful performances. So yeah, until he shows consistent numbers, you need to pump the brakes. Hurting the team 8 out of 10 games isn't good, contrary to your woefully terrible baseball knowledge.
Big picture. Learn it.
Great game, which he seems to have once a week and in between his awful performances. So yeah, until he shows consistent numbers, you need to pump the brakes. Hurting the team 8 out of 10 games isn't good, contrary to your woefully terrible baseball knowledge.
And you’ve got one single redneck dipshit getting smacked in the face with evidence he’s a star but just refuses to believe his own lying eyes, despite the fact he’s the best player on his favorite team. What a worthless prick. He’d truly rather be RIGHT, and Elly suck, then be wrong and have him and his “favorite team” succeed.
Meh... Trout has had umpteen opportunities to get the F away from that dogshit franchise and he hasn't done it. At some point if you're an adult and in a bad situation it's your responsibility to get yourself out of it.Mike Trout has NO ONE around him on the Angels. It’s a little sad, honestly.