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@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 Also, that’s a bonafided P5 bball conference. You add Nevada and UNM along with Zags & GCU, that conference gets minimum 5 bids per year, & up to 7 on high side

@travasu008 @JoeInOregon_87 So you would have done exactly what the Pac tried to do... got it. Utah St is statistically one of the better schools in the entire MWC. And has been for a handful of years. Texas St is essentially a promising kid who hasn't had the resources to thrive yet. Why not?

I listened to the entire Gloria Nevarez interview she did recently, and some things really jumped out at me with what she said. I went back and took quotes from her on these particular items, some make sense, and some are head scratchers come down the rabbit hole with me 🧵:

@1BroncoBeliever What are your thoughts on Madsen?. I haven’t watched him enough to know

I like SD and I want him to remain our coach while he proves himself and earns his opportunity but this seem hasty and poorly timed. If things don’t work out we will be headed for another Avalos type scenario in a program where budgets are already stretched tight. Just think he should have had to earn it first after a year that was only successful because of Jeanty and to a certain extent Koetter which was immediately followed by one of the worst seasons in modern Boise State history once he didn’t have either of them which was coupled with several head scratching decisions when it came to player and coaching management. At Boise State, everything should be 100% merit based and 100% earned and it just doesn’t feel like that has occurred here. Hoping he earns this on the back-end but regardless of the results after the fact, there isn’t anything outside of recruiting that justifies this move in the present.

@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 No what they did was strictly ego driven: I would’ve: Invited top 9 MW schools: Boise, SDSU, FSU, UNLV, AF, CSU, USU, UNR, & UNM Added Gonzaga & GCU Pay ZERO in Exit/Poaching fees. Avoid having to add Tx st & another G5 school (TBD) Also USU 8 losing seasons in last 10 🤣

@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 I’d rather work with the combo of the best of Group A/B, which would’ve been PAC2, BSU/FSU/SDSU + UNLV/AF. Tx St/USU isn’t best combo. You also eliminate Group B as competition by adding 2 more teams, & you forgo 6 years of your salary in fees to be in not the best combo

@travasu008 @JoeInOregon_87 Let's say you go to work with a group. Would you rather have: A: Get paid $150K a year to work in a team of 10, and everyone gets along just fine Or B: Get paid $120K a year to work in a team of 16 with 4 of them underporming, and you dont get along with them.

@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 Meant “could’ve had”

@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 Correction, WSU/OSU couldn’t had top 9 MW schools for zero cost & ended MW (Navarez wanted to merge!) but their EGOS didn’t want to take on UNM & Nevada bc it was “beneath” them, but ended up taking on Tx St anyway Make it make sense

@CollinRugg Wait til the end of the season to tell her it’s a volcano. Between that & all the water, PNW going to be a hard no for her

NEW: Seattle Storm WNBA player Natisha Hiedeman says she "didn't know what was going on" when she saw a mountain (Mount Rainier) from her balcony. Mount Rainier is 14,410 feet high and is visible from Seattle. "I was just sitting on my balcony and I sat on my balcony like mad times. I had never seen it, so I didn't know like what was going on." Hiedeman joined the team about a week ago but says she never realized there was a mountain despite spending "mad times" on her balcony. Lmao.

@RicksFalconRev @AF_Football Finally! Am AF guy coming on here to state some facts. Do you know PAC fans been calling for a New Mexico invite bc they had one good year? It’s blasphemous 🤣. Under any metric AF had been a top for 4 program in any era of the MW

Have I ever mentioned I'd love doing this? Remember our History! Okay this is for the diehards out there and this is part one of a two-part "Remember our History". Since beginning to play the sport Air Force Football @AF_Football has gone to 30 football post-regular season Bowl games. During that period our first bowl win was the 1982 Hall of Fame Classic (36-28 over Vanderbilt). The most appearances have been in the Armed Forces Bowl (7 times) and Liberty Bowl (4 times). Two of our biggest wins for me ( and I think it surprised the nation) were: -Texas 1985 Bluebonnet Bowl -Ohio 1990 Liberty Bowl. So Part-One: The first half of our Bowl wins, 15 games, came in a span of 40 years of teams between 1958 - 1998. Of course the most surprising, actually played on January 1st 1959, was our Cotton Bowl tie with TCU. It took me a minute or two but here are video recaps of every single one of those games. What are your thoughts or memories that you want to share? Standby for the remaining 15 Bowl games. GO FALCONS -Rick'77 @RicksFalconRev 1959 Cotton Bowl youtu.be/g3K3378XV20?si… 1963 Gater Bowl youtu.be/C4HVo9SHbfI?si… 1971 Sugar Bowl youtu.be/XGS4HI_Ovdk?si… 1982 Hall of Fame Classic Bowl 1982 youtu.be/-4lHEg8GPws?si… 1983 Independence Bowl youtu.be/K1uIwasM4Jk?si… 1984 Independence Bowl youtu.be/0bktD6BorOc?si… 1985 Bluebonnet Bowl youtu.be/DRNNNOk_aCU?si… 1987 Freedom Bowl youtu.be/DRNNNOk_aCU?si… 1989 Liberty Bowl youtu.be/y3Ml43gqIMM?si… 1990 Liberty Bowl youtu.be/15L_F79VkCE?si… 1991 Liberty Bowl youtu.be/dzOuwO0pj-w?si… 1992 Liberty Bowl youtu.be/M4frztLR7YA?si… 1985 Copper Bowl youtu.be/Ims7PT7OkHU?si… 1997 Las Vegas Bowl youtu.be/D6WGaNjOpuE?si… 1998 Oahu Bowl youtu.be/pks3s4DffPI?si… @CoachTCalhoun @AF_Falcons @AFA_LW @PSeanU1 @MWCConnection

@Tate34257353 @JoeInOregon_87 Well it should be noted there’s a couple OSU guys that are cool. But idk why PAC ppl are persistent about dunking on a conference THEY poached from, it’s like they’re mad the MW was able to survive/thrive, & their bitter. Should’ve we be thr bitter ones,

@travasu008 @JoeInOregon_87 Notes: -losing $30M a year and consistent scheduling will result in that with the current system. -Their basketball is just fine. Both men's and women's put up good fights against Gonzaga (a national brand) late in conference tournaments. -Every fan base has people like that.

@nextmajorgenre @DecodingFoxNews Dominion had reports that showed all of the votes. Than had Fox’s attorneys choose any 10 ppl out of the 81 million, only to confirm with those 10 ppl that they did vote Biden. It’s almost like they had good good evidence where Fox was willing to settle for just under $1B 🤣

@DecodingFoxNews You believe Joe Biden got 81 million votes? How do you decode that I received in 2020 five mail-in ballots with names I did not recognize? Never happened before, or since.

Greg Gutfeld claimed that Trump won the 2020 election. He then demanded that Jessica Tarlov explain court cases that proved Trump didn't win in 30 seconds. I provide examples directly from the $787.5 million defamation settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.

@DecodingFoxNews @paulcshipley

@paulcshipley Fox claims they won’t settle either which means their top on air talent will testify in court which would include Tucker Carlson a former employee who has gone rogue. He’s all over the Dominion suit.

@wilnerhotline @mike_aztec24258 Based on the 2024 results, 100%! PAC2 went 0-6 vs AF, UNM, UNR, WY, & UNLV. But I’d wait til 2027 once MW turns Exit fees into NIL $ Nothing would make me happier than watching a $1M QB transfer on a “bottom feeder” team like Wyoming drop 40 in Corvallis for breaking up the MW

Should former Pac-12 schools schedule each other in non-conference games? Well, sure. But the details are challenging. That and loads more in the latest Hotline mailbag -->

@patobonato Femine + No tats = 🤌

🇦🇷 Selección Argentina de Hockey femenino Qué notan?

@Bliskcaj @SoccerGuyUS @usmntonly Not sure about insufferable, but ignorant cunts, yes. Insufferable is when a guy scores a banger but is called back by VAR bc the #9’s pinky is offside For gods sake what’s so difficult about not letting a guy get behind you, that it needs to be referee’d lol.

@SoccerGuyUS @travasu008 @usmntonly You yanks are insufferable 😂😂

This assist from Brenden Aaronson for Leeds United was pure class 🇺🇸🔥

@MomsPostingLs You had me at accountability. When can we go to the Maldives, lol

Men vs women, the stats

@golz_tv Hot take: Based on form he should start over Pulisic at the WC. Also, I hope Pulisic does get into form & prices me wrong

Brenden Aaronson hears the critics that say the USMNT players don’t care on the field, and he has a response 🗣️ “There’s a stigma that people don't think we care and stuff like that, but we do care. I think we care a lot,” Aaronson told ESPN. “It’s difficult when we go into games and we lose games. I think the Belgium game was a bit hard done by because I thought we were the better team for most of that game.” “And, you know, it's moments for us right now. I think we're a bit unlucky with the national team. I think, you know, there's just little moments that don't go our way, and then they get the goal, and we're a bit more spread out. We're trying to go for it, and then they score another one.” “This camp, I saw that everybody was super focused. I saw a great group of guys that, you know, want to make the country proud, want to make everybody proud.” “And, you know, this is now up to us. We have two more games going into the World Cup to do what we can and the coach is giving us all the right things that we can do.” “So, man, it's just up to us. You know, it's up to us to make the final thing. And I think everybody's ready to go for it and ready to give their all.” How far will the USMNT go in the World Cup? 👀

@EmilySm43 We’re the ones that provide for the gifts for everyone else. If we want something, we go buy it. Also were the protectors, it’s not about us is about taking care of the tribe.

Be brutally honest 🤔

@LegalChico @PeteButtigieg Whose the GOP going to put up against him? Can’t wait til we get to the debates, should be fun watching him stuff them in lockers

@PeteButtigieg Write this down with your No. 2 pencil. Pete Buttigieg will NEVER be POTUS.

However you've lined up politically in the past, if you're worried about where our country is headed, you belong in this conversation. Here are my full opening remarks from last night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Thankful to the people of Oklahoma for such a warm welcome back.

@melton4iowa @rogertansey There was another guy who graduated cum laude from Harvard who was also brilliant & good communicator…Obama. I’d argue being black is a harder ceiling to break through than a white gay guy who served. But Obama was able to do it bc he was an exceptional outlier. So is Pete

@melton4iowa @rogertansey Being gay is tough, but based on the fact he served, & hes from the Midwest bodes well for swing states. The “he’s a good communicator” minimizes him a bit. Hes an exceptional speaker & he resonates with ppl. And the guy is brilliant. Msgna cum laude at Harvard + Rhodes scholars

Pete Buttigieg is obviously very talented. He wouldn’t probably ever be my first choice in a presidential primary, but he’s clearly a special communicator. I went down a rabbit hole on his polling and commentary on why he wouldn’t ever be elected president. A lot of the commentary refers to his being gay. That same commentary ties that to the desire for many to have a masculine president and that he can’t be masculine because he’s gay. Obviously one’s definition of masculinity is somewhat subjective but he seems plenty masculine to me. He served in the military (though that’s not reserved just for men, of course), he’s a father, he’s led a huge department (though again that’s not just reserved for men, obviously, but many definitions of “masculinity” include leadership). It’s ultimately up to him to get to the root of what would hold him back in a presidential primary and proceed accordingly, but this gay men can’t be masculine stuff is dumb.