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Obama bombed 7 countries that we know of. How may forever wars did you accuse him of starting?

i'm sure that performance at JR Trials changed things.

Soooo. I’m supposed to understand Iowa will pay millions for athletes via some elaborate poaching scheme but they won’t buy a few plane tickets (for the best recruit ever) or get one of the Iowa wrestlers to house one of them or simply rent an apartment in Iowa city for a few k a month. got it. Ok.

sorry, just seeing this thread. but the answer is 'yes'. Melvin is an Iowa lock.

Other than terrorism how many FOREVER wars are we currently in?

Could ira lubert do the same or only nichols?

True. Can't argue with that. We shall see soon enough. Hope it's not another forever war in the making - that'd be bad all the way around.

As a fancy boy trying to give me homework... look it up yourself. Here's a link: Merriam-Webster: America's Most Trusted Dictionary

Ya. Let’s see what happens if they don’t

You mean if they don't actually engage in a cease fire? That choice? I do believe they easily have that one (among others.)

As a wokester libtardo please tell us what a man is why don’t ya??

No matter how bad you are, you'll always try to pass yourself off as being good. But you'll only fool the foolish.

Nah it’s part of the HOA fee at my part time home. I’m usually not there when they plow for me.

Well, la-di-da, aren't you a fancy boy. Don't get your hands dirty, or risk getting a blister. Real manual labor can do that to a man. You might break a nail.

They have no choice but to “play along”

Agreed. Which is, I suspect, Ma and Pa Bassett's point. It's also why it's hard for me to have a whole lot of sympathy for Iowa here, even if they were in the right. Everyone knows if there's someone Tom wants (or, or that matter, someone Nicolls wants), and money's an object, then Tom/Nicolls will have a little chat, and Nicolls will make it happen. The Bassetts know that too. It isn't always something that goes through Iowa's compliance department, because Iowa can't stop Nicolls from doing what Nicolls wants to do. If Iowa had a squeaky-clean image, then I doubt this would have happened. But once you're known for your willingness to bend the rules, then you attract recruits who like that you're morally flexible. And then when you suddenly won't bend the rules for them, it's a slap in the face. To be clear, I'm not going to defend the Bassetts insisting on getting their kids' flights to Iowa paid for, if that's what happened. Nor am I going to criticize Brands for holding the line there, if that's what happened. But I can't help but think this is the kind of blowback that foreseeable when you have a history of suspect recruiting practices and financial shenanigans. I also wonder if papa Bassett missed the memo on how this works, and the need for the HC to be able to claim ignorance. Had he waited another couple days for Tom/Nicolls to confer after Tom said "no can do, don't tell me how to run my program," he might've gotten a call from an unknown number on Nicolls' burner phone, saying "Don't tell Tom, but I hear you need some plane fare..."

It might be a good thing if it wasn't just another Trump lie. This time Trump is desperately trying to spin the fact that he just stepped into giant pile of poo. He was manipulated like a child by real world leaders. Not a peep from either Israel or Iran. They aren't playing along.

Kinda of a salty biatch

Yep. I do. I can afford it.

It doesn't matter if they attacked industrial areas or not. You'd be mad if somebody bombed your home country. Most probably wouldn't take action, but there's always a chance that there's those few who would take it seriously.

My two cents, if Bo wants to be the best version of himself as a wrestler there are two clear choices. One at PSU & mat time with Zain and the other is at Iowa State with Metcalf. I know the cyclones aren't in his final 3 but can't claim you want to be the best when there is a coach out there that compliments your style so well

Wait... you "have someone clear your driveway of snow". WTF!? Are both your arms and legs broke? Here I thought little 'JimmySpanks' was at least half a man. Disappointing.

Telling off a recruit's mother is never the right thing. Iowa fans are spinning the best case scenario but there's a lot going on. Bassett and company were part of a large contingent to train at HWC before Vegas. They were treated like red-headed stepchildren. You'd think you'd roll out the red carpet when you can legally talk to kids like Mario Hutcherson. One doesn't have to corner a wrestler to provide support, encouragement or even cheer from the sidelines and a kind word after a loss goes a long way.

We have all said or heard the quote “parents are the worst”. As it pertains to kids sports. Now it’s not historically true that there is $0 money in sports for kids ….. I.e. the statistical probability to make the nba or mlb or nfl or whatever is very small. That is true. But the awful parents were a thing trying to get their kids to that level of impossible. Nil. Colleges paying $$$ etc is going to make that phrase 10000x worse because the $ available now is statistically much higher than the past. i am not arguing don’t pay the kids but we don’t even grasp yet how bad this will get