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Not sure what the jails are like but I believe Singapore has a very expansive view on which crimes warrant life in prison / death penalty.
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ou should take a look at what Indiana is returning/upgraded via portal. If the QB from TCU works out, they could easily repeat


Average age of Indiana’s starters / rotational contributors is going to be like 3 years less this year. That difference, taken for what it is, could just as easily attributed to the age gaps between certain nfl teams and college teams.

They’ve got a coward’s schedule so not saying they’re gonna fall off and go 6-6, but to say that they’ll have a better team (or even a team of substantially similar quality) is frankly stupid.
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makes energy cheap


Come again?

Also everything in OP’s post is just Altman-ese for “we are once again nearly out of money.”
I’m sure this applies everywhere, but you see a lot of folks moving to Denver / Salt Lake City who think this way. Massive trucks (clean wheels) driving 30 over and running red lights. Ultimately they’re all man-babies who watched too much Yellowstone and ignore several stages of reality in order to have a lifestyle that doesn’t actually fit their true scenario. Reality: don’t buy a “dream mountain getaway” when you still need to drive an hour+ to a job in order to afford it. The fact that you still need that job means you couldn’t “afford it” by all conventional measures. If you insist on doing that, don’t saddle everyone else with the realities of your decision by driving like a maniac every day. Just leave earlier, and be okay getting home later. If you can’t leave earlier or get home on time because of family / child obligations, again, you could not in fact afford the lifestyle.


Oh and doing all the above in a 2025 F-150 doesn’t make it look more legitimate, it just makes it easier for everyone else to tell that you’re going through a mid-life crisis.

re: "Would Indiana beat 2019 LSU?"

Posted by buckRogers on 7/10/26 at 4:50 am to
Seems reasonable. Average age of indianas starters would have been like 4 years older than LSU’s.
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No way Coach K was clean.


Anyone who thinks that coach k didn’t pay players (or even that he wasn’t aware of it) owns the The Blind Side on dvd, saying that it is a great and historically accurate film
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Tom Izzo has built a lot more equity in college basketball than Will Wade.


This summarizes the hate for wade since day 1. It was fine for Coach K, Rick Pitino, et.al. to pay players, but it wasn’t okay for Wade to do so. Why, because “equity”? Get outta here. it was dumb when that wine-drunk bastard dick vitale went on his campaign, and it’s MUCH dumber now in the NIL era.
Unique advantage - his teammates on the raiders will be about the same age as his IU teammates, maybe younger in some spots. So culture adjustment may not be too hard.
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How does that make you feel?


It makes me feel like you need something better to do with your day sir.
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Would you like me to frame Miami, ole Miss, and Oregon as well?


No thanks. Anyone with a working understand of the sport knows Indiana had an unusually old roster this year. It’s fine, no (normal) person thinks that takes anything away from anyone, it’s just an observation. In any case, all this screeching about it online is largely fueled by people who are going to journey back to soccer and F1 when there’s no inspirational underdog in the sport next year.
The amount of statistical framing and reframing I’m seeing on this topic reminds me of people zooming in and out of world temperature graphs when arguing about global warming lmao.
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That’s a lie and outright one at that.


What I like is that, even if it isn’t, as soon as one thinks about it for a few seconds, that number still implies a really really old roster lmao.
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The average age of Indiana's starters (not roster, starters) was 22.4. That means they are mostly normal college seniors/RS seniors.


Hang on. I mean that average value also suggests that there’s a handful of players who are like 24 years old lmao. Unless the starters are all hovering around 22-23 years in age, which is also striking me as a very old roster. This also needs to be considered in light of today’s roster turnover at 99% of programs. This isn’t 2005.

Idk I feel like it’s a valid point that they had a very, very senior roster. And theres a lot of nuance to defining an “old” roster, like how long they’ve been playing together, relevancy of the ages for bench players who rotate in frequently as opposed to the irrelevancy of the ones who don’t, etc.

It’s a very Reddit, “I just started watching football 3 months ago because Go Hoosiers and screw Bama lol,” thing to just pull a random stat and say “see the roster wasn’t that old.” Most unbiased voices in the sport all agree it’s a very old roster, but who cares. Again, it’s dumb Reddit-tier fans who need to have their cake, and eat it too, and show it to all their friends and family without anyone saying a word against it.

re: Best Team in CFP era

Posted by buckRogers on 1/21/26 at 10:26 am to
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Indiana arguably has to be the best team in the CFP era.


Perhaps top 10, although one would want to properly credit JMU and CAL for properly aging the players to a ripe 25 and promptly turning them over to fill out the entire roster. Lest we forget, it takes a village.
To the extent one imports a slew of 25-year olds and a viable one-year quarterback from California, I would think that one. Same probably goes for any conference though.
Fair point, Joby doesn’t seem as much of a scam.
The issue with this field is the players themselves. Look up Archer, Uber Elevate, etc. It’s a bunch of tech bros who are great at raising money, terrible at bringing an actual product to market. This has been around for years and none of these companies have an actual working prototype that is anywhere close to passing FAA regulations. I guess it’s a pretty huge leap in technology so maybe one shouldn’t be so cynical, but it’s tough not to be when all the people behind it are just venture-capital grifters.

re: Legal THC going away

Posted by buckRogers on 11/11/25 at 4:18 am to
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mom and pop hemp shops.


I don’t agree with the bill, but the commercial space is entirely occupied by overseas distributors with a dash of trust fund tools who get to larp as “entrepreneurs” because it’s impossible to screw the business model up if you have half a million to blow on marketing. The only real victims here are the end-consumers


Edit - I’m obviously neglecting the retailer side, which does include “mom and pop shops” as it were. Even still, having a hard time conjuring a sympathetic image there.
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I like Pavia more than Lea


Vanderbilt’s recruiting is trending upwards, but they’re still about the same talent level as Kentucky or Mississippi state overall. The reason Vanderbilt has won the games they have, and were competitive against bama and Texas, is because they invariably show up as the team that is much more disciplined and much better coached top to bottom. Put another way, they haven’t played a game this year where they didnt have a significant advantage in terms of coaching.

Pavia certainly adds some juice but if you swap him out with Sellers at South Carolina I don’t think south Carolina’s record is much different. Point is, Lea is the “secret ingredient” for Vanderbilt, not Pavia.
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You keep saying this with no real objective data to back it up other than “trust me bro”


^ This needs to go on a billboard in Palo Alto. Welcome to the “tech” industry and the world of smooth-brained day-traders lol