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re: Illinois Basketball
Posted by inadaze on 11/12/25 at 1:10 pm to RemouladeSawce
It still doesn't work because Illinois won their Sweet 16 game in 24.
One major gauge for underachievement to me is in relation to football programs. If a university has all the pieces in place to have an elite football program, then it definitely has the potential for an elite basketball program.
Both programs have really good recruiting areas. If using that as the basis for an underachievement status, maybe there's somewhat of an argument. But Underwood obviously has an affinity for European players. The game last night showed they lack toughness and physicality inside. JT Toppin had his way too much. That should improve when they get Tomislav back, though.
One major gauge for underachievement to me is in relation to football programs. If a university has all the pieces in place to have an elite football program, then it definitely has the potential for an elite basketball program.
Both programs have really good recruiting areas. If using that as the basis for an underachievement status, maybe there's somewhat of an argument. But Underwood obviously has an affinity for European players. The game last night showed they lack toughness and physicality inside. JT Toppin had his way too much. That should improve when they get Tomislav back, though.
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College basketball has Illinois and Purdue.
How exactly are you coming to that determination?
In 2024, Illinois won the Big Ten, and lost to the UConn Champions in the Elite 8.
By any metric, Illinois has outperformed LSU over the last 5, 10, 15 years. There's no reason that should be the case based on program potential. Really, I'd say LSU is one of the most underachieving programs in all of college basketball, along with Georgia, USC, Penn State, and some others.
Purdue really does not belong with the underachieving programs. They're top 10 in winning percentage over the last 10 years, with 6 deep tournament runs (Elite 8 or better). It was again that historic UConn team that ended their run in 2024.
Illinois Basketball
Posted by inadaze on 11/11/25 at 11:03 pm
The Illini have a good team. They just beat #11 Texas Tech without Tomislav Ivisic.
They're young at some spots, but they have a good mix of big guards and frontcout players. Boswell is a strong veteran player.
And with the Ivisic brothers, Stojakovic, Mirkovic, and Petrovic, they might lead the country in Slavic surnames.
They're young at some spots, but they have a good mix of big guards and frontcout players. Boswell is a strong veteran player.
And with the Ivisic brothers, Stojakovic, Mirkovic, and Petrovic, they might lead the country in Slavic surnames.
He is, but he has always been underrated. Way under the radar as a recruit in Arkansas, then undrafted. Even before this season, most people probably didn't think he could consistently be at the level he's played at.
re: CBB IS BACK
Posted by inadaze on 11/3/25 at 3:48 pm to tigerfan23333
Why are you so sure as to "hammer" when you haven't seen this version of Gators?
They return the main frontcourt players from last season, and there's a redshirt freshman on the roster listed at 7'9", 305. We'll have to see how their backcourt transfers mesh. There's a lot of potential with Fland and Lee. You don't see many Asian basketball players in the SEC. And obviously he's going to be playing against better athletes in the SEC than in the Ivy League, but he's a really skilled basketball player.
They return the main frontcourt players from last season, and there's a redshirt freshman on the roster listed at 7'9", 305. We'll have to see how their backcourt transfers mesh. There's a lot of potential with Fland and Lee. You don't see many Asian basketball players in the SEC. And obviously he's going to be playing against better athletes in the SEC than in the Ivy League, but he's a really skilled basketball player.
re: Do you find it hard to reason with staunch religious people?
Posted by inadaze on 10/30/25 at 5:21 pm to RoosterCogburn585
I'm not able to tolerate most typical church services. If it's a party like this, I might visit, but otherwise, I find "preacher delivery" too irritating.
They obviously mimic each other to the point that they have similar speech patterns. There's this range of delivery where they hit on really similar tones and inflections. Sometimes their voice will rise and become tonally (and totally) sure of themselves when they're trying to land a point of emphasis, or get an amen.
I don't know how people are able to stand listening to it because it's overwhelmingly annoying to me.
re: Do you find it hard to reason with staunch religious people?
Posted by inadaze on 10/30/25 at 3:48 pm to RoosterCogburn585
Sometimes, yes. But I rarely ever get into arguments or conversations specifically about religion with christians anymore. I became so tired of it years ago. Their viewpoints, almost always based on geographic indoctrination, are too predictable, and it becomes nails on a chalkboard while a baby cries to me.
They're not curious people. Not too into reason. Overly certain about their stories. If step 1 of their info gathering process is to attempt to confirm their preheld bias, I'm out.
I like having a meta view of the world religions. If someone wants to talk about that in a fairly unbiased way, I may do that. But if it becomes the thing in which a christian spins narratives that put down the veracity of other religions while trying to find "reasons" that their stories are the cosmic and metaphysical truth, no, I'll pass.
They're not curious people. Not too into reason. Overly certain about their stories. If step 1 of their info gathering process is to attempt to confirm their preheld bias, I'm out.
I like having a meta view of the world religions. If someone wants to talk about that in a fairly unbiased way, I may do that. But if it becomes the thing in which a christian spins narratives that put down the veracity of other religions while trying to find "reasons" that their stories are the cosmic and metaphysical truth, no, I'll pass.
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Not sure why
Because it's closely associated with "body count" in the sense of murders?
I don't like it either.
re: Hypothetical regarding Saban coaching at small university in his prime
Posted by inadaze on 8/20/25 at 10:09 pm to Mushroom1968
I'd say no at Louisiana Tech. Maybe somewhere else if there was an opportunity to get high-level athletes on defense. A lot of what made the LSU and Alabama teams so good was having corners that were good in man, then high-level big athletes along the front who could stop the run and rush QBs.
re: Oz the Mentalist on The Joe Rogan show
Posted by inadaze on 6/6/25 at 12:02 am to beaverfever
That's why it would be interesting to know more of the inner workings. Because on the surface, it does seem inexplicable/magical.
The value in Joe's style of podcast would be going deeper into some that stuff. But Joe didn't make that much of an effort. He just said he'd like to know, but he knew Oz wouldn't tell him. Instead of putting that framing on it, why not try to get him to unpack some of that process? I mean, Joe has sway. He's the pioneer of podcasting as we know it. But he didn't get Oz to open up much at all. We got a "foundational" book that Oz badly misestimated the publication date on. And he said that book wouldn't be informative anyway.
The value in Joe's style of podcast would be going deeper into some that stuff. But Joe didn't make that much of an effort. He just said he'd like to know, but he knew Oz wouldn't tell him. Instead of putting that framing on it, why not try to get him to unpack some of that process? I mean, Joe has sway. He's the pioneer of podcasting as we know it. But he didn't get Oz to open up much at all. We got a "foundational" book that Oz badly misestimated the publication date on. And he said that book wouldn't be informative anyway.
re: Oz the Mentalist on The Joe Rogan show
Posted by inadaze on 6/5/25 at 10:51 pm to Pandy Fackler
You seem to be confused about him. He's not claiming any extraordinary capacity. He's says it's all just tricks. He obvioisly has deep and refined methods that make them seem unbelievable. But he stated multiple times in the podcast that he's not claiming any special capacity.
They even talked about The Telepathy Tapes, and arranging something where he plays the role of hole puncher to what they do. He thinks they're just doing tricks as he does.
I was disappointed with this episode overall because I've seen the tricks multiple times before. What I'd be interested to hear in an almost 2.5-hour podcast is some of the inner workings of the tricks. The methods. But there wasn't much of that at all except for a few vague hints that were so general that they weren't really meaningful.
They even talked about The Telepathy Tapes, and arranging something where he plays the role of hole puncher to what they do. He thinks they're just doing tricks as he does.
I was disappointed with this episode overall because I've seen the tricks multiple times before. What I'd be interested to hear in an almost 2.5-hour podcast is some of the inner workings of the tricks. The methods. But there wasn't much of that at all except for a few vague hints that were so general that they weren't really meaningful.
Something around the range of seven (~)octillion atoms.
re: More people being run over by cars
Posted by inadaze on 5/26/25 at 3:51 pm to lsufan1971
There has been a rise in this type of car culture. Stuff like that, crazy speeding (which is partly attributable to more desolate streets during COVID, from my understanding), loud engines in general. I hate it.
re: Joe Rogan reportedly going to church
Posted by inadaze on 5/26/25 at 12:08 pm to BuckeyeWarrior
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One good quality that he has though is that he’s very open-minded and likes to analyze topics from all perspectives.
Generally true, but he does not apply that as much in this recent closer alignment with right-wing portions of his audience. And very close alignnent with Elon Musk and the Great.
I've lost some respect for him because of that. All partisan biases aside, Sam Harris has addressed some legitimate issues with Elon on a character level.
The Trouble with Elon
On the religion angle with Rogan, he has always been clear that he is not religious. I know he said that clearly in the podcast with Woody Harrelson. But he talks to enough christians or quasichristians (e.g., Jordan Peterson), that it has resulted in this game that OP is playing where people make links with Rogan and christianity as some kind of hopeful flirtation or something. But it's really nothing more than "openness" and that Rogan tends to stay quiet or say something vaguely supportive oftentimes when he talks to christians and Peterson, who he holds in undeserved high regard.
Part of what's going on here is that the open-mindedness you mentioned gets misread by some. He's a relatively open and diverse person, so he's able to relate to a wide variety of different people and find common ground. Does he hold back criticism and distancing himself because he's aware of this conservative flirtation dynamic? And because much of his newer audience is conservative and religious? Similar to the way he isn't really critical of Elon and the Great, I think that's true to some degree. I prefer the Rogan we got in the Woody Harrelson podcast, but that's just me.
There were a number of people who made solid response videos to Huff's boring episode. It would have been a good gesture openness and balance to give one of those people an episode.
re: I believe the future of AI media will cause people to value real life and experience again
Posted by inadaze on 5/21/25 at 4:04 pm to RaoulDuke504
At least you're not going the Tucker Carlson route of suggesting some kind of terrorism that's akin to book burning, but I don't know. The reactions will be varied. I'll not try say how "society" in general will react as AI progresses.
Discernment is important regardless of the source. AI has not rendered human discernment obsolete. Not even close. Perhaps you need improved discernment.
Discernment is important regardless of the source. AI has not rendered human discernment obsolete. Not even close. Perhaps you need improved discernment.
re: Caitlyn Clark with the flagrant foul on Angel Reese
Posted by inadaze on 5/21/25 at 11:46 am to Allthatfades
Did Caitlyn commit a flagrant because she's jealous that Angel has so many more Instagram followers? And/or because Angel is widely viewed as more attractive?
Quenton Nelson? I didn't watch many Our Lady games when he was playing, so I don't know if that's deserved or not. But a lot of this is just based on criteria. At his position, the impact on the game is relatively limited, so other guys would be ahead of him in overall impact. But if the criteria is more based on how effective a player was in his specific role, maybe that warrants the ranking.
There are more ways to vary the weight of the criteria. Career impact, peak season or performances, how good a player's overall team was, level of competition, etc.
Darren McFadden is in the top 10 for me.
There are more ways to vary the weight of the criteria. Career impact, peak season or performances, how good a player's overall team was, level of competition, etc.
Darren McFadden is in the top 10 for me.
I don't. It has flaws in its current form, and some people have problems with it, but I generally like it.
This is the type of thing I despise.
Having christianity as a personal experience is one, thing. Imposing it on everyone else is an annoying other thing.
From my perspective, christianity has a some fundamental similarities to rap music. The language is mostly low-level, generally irritating, mostly about power.
There are differences of course. Rappers are more overt in their egoism, while christians often masquerade it as some kind of socially acceptable piety. And there's only one real OG in christianity. The omnipotent OG who created a game in which countless conscious entities will eventually experience the worst suffering imaginable...forever.
There are a minority of christians who do their thing in a way I'm able to get into. Just as there are some rap songs I like, even though the lyrical content generally isn't good in my view.
I don't really respect the minds of people who really practice a religion that they were indoctrinated with in childhood. In these circumstances, there's usually about as much critical thought that goes into choosing christianity as a religion as goes into choosing English as a first language. I don't necessarily respect the minds of people who moved to another religion, or no religion, either. But at least in those scenarios there's some movement from childhood indoctrination.
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are we not made in the image of God
This is the type of thing I despise.
Having christianity as a personal experience is one, thing. Imposing it on everyone else is an annoying other thing.
From my perspective, christianity has a some fundamental similarities to rap music. The language is mostly low-level, generally irritating, mostly about power.
There are differences of course. Rappers are more overt in their egoism, while christians often masquerade it as some kind of socially acceptable piety. And there's only one real OG in christianity. The omnipotent OG who created a game in which countless conscious entities will eventually experience the worst suffering imaginable...forever.
There are a minority of christians who do their thing in a way I'm able to get into. Just as there are some rap songs I like, even though the lyrical content generally isn't good in my view.
I don't really respect the minds of people who really practice a religion that they were indoctrinated with in childhood. In these circumstances, there's usually about as much critical thought that goes into choosing christianity as a religion as goes into choosing English as a first language. I don't necessarily respect the minds of people who moved to another religion, or no religion, either. But at least in those scenarios there's some movement from childhood indoctrination.
The link in OP might just be political wishcasting. I'm seeing Luis Tagle and Pietro Parolin as the favorites ahead of Pizzaballa.
The history of sexual abuse deserves the condemnation it gets. I've definitely taken shots at it over the years. But there are other ways to look at it. In my view, from the outside of Catholicism, I do see more depth and sacredness among the most devout compared to other denominations. That's just my view, but I actually do admire some of it in a sense.
There's a long history of vows of chastity among the most notable figures in Catholicism. So it seems others have attempted to follow in those footsteps. But maybe that's not the life for some percentage of these people. Or maybe there are actually benefits to having a sexual life for some period of time, then taking a vow for religion/spirituality, a la St. Augustine.
The history of sexual abuse deserves the condemnation it gets. I've definitely taken shots at it over the years. But there are other ways to look at it. In my view, from the outside of Catholicism, I do see more depth and sacredness among the most devout compared to other denominations. That's just my view, but I actually do admire some of it in a sense.
There's a long history of vows of chastity among the most notable figures in Catholicism. So it seems others have attempted to follow in those footsteps. But maybe that's not the life for some percentage of these people. Or maybe there are actually benefits to having a sexual life for some period of time, then taking a vow for religion/spirituality, a la St. Augustine.
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