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AlwysATgr
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
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| Biography: | Christian, Married, 3 children |
| Interests: | Jesus, Home, Bible, Golf |
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| Number of Posts: | 20337 |
| Registered on: | 4/8/2008 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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could we not send an unmanned test flight to do the same thing this flight is doing? Has this been done with the new rockets?
Artemis 1 was unmanned. It did a lot of things this mission will do but Artemis 2 will do more.
I think Artemis 2 will take humans farther from earth than ever before. Doesn't Apollo 13 currently hold the record?
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Wherever Brian Kelly is, i hope he is embarrassed
Mega dittoes and up votes for this sentiment.
re: Tim Walz makes direct appeal to Trump "Let's turn the temperature down"
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/15/26 at 11:29 am to The Pirate King
Nuts
re: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/13/26 at 7:02 pm to DaleGribblesMower
Was: FOREVER LSU!
Now: TONIGHT LSU!
Now: TONIGHT LSU!
I bet viewership for CFB will be even more in '26.
re: How many coaches have been at more than one SEC school?
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/13/26 at 4:51 pm to Missouri Waltz
Only one at 3 SEC schools (while an SEC member).
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College football was doing fine for about a century before you got interested. It's growing even now
The CFB game of the last century, as you put it, did not mature using the current (NIL/portal) model. That posters are incapable of accounting for this betrays a shortsightedness. IOW, you don't even know what you're talking about.
re: Feel good video of the day
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/13/26 at 12:21 am to Robin Masters
Is this real?
That left hand was busy.
That left hand was busy.
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First to act like what was happening back then and now is the same is a false equivalency and disingenuous.
I know (at a distance) a handful of major college football players from late 70s (RD), early 80s (PC and JW), 90s (CD), and mid-2000s from LSU, Ole MIss, Bama, and UF. All starters and some played NFL but to my knowledge, none of them got anything lucrative from their schools. One (all-SEC) after UF days wanted to open a Dairy Queen on Cocoa Beach for income. Another lives in a simple house in rural MS.
Not saying no one got paid but I think a lot of this talk about players always getting paid 'back then' is overstated. Getting paid back then usually meant getting a summer job somewhere. Heck, I think Risher worked on a highway construction crew for a summer job.
And not a few name programs were hammered with probation for this kind of stuff (SMU - death penalty, Bama, Auburn, OU).
But what's is happening now with NIL is a new specie.
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Explain it to me like I'm 5 years old.
When posters reply with snarky comments ("Now you're a mind reader" or "don't watch" or "You should fish on Saturdays in the fall" or "Ill call you a dumbass" or "grow up") to a sincere sentiment, I just decide to return serve.
If all the CFB / LSU fans say over 40 heeded the advice and walked away, is that good for the game? That would likely be what 30-40% of the fans. And there are knuckleheads who advocate for that?
The things that made CFB the greatest sport on terra firma are now just throwaway relics of a bygone era. Things like traditions, rivalries, and continuum between school-players-team. We used to tell our children 'we are Tigers and everyone else is Tiger-bait.' Now, wait a year it's the opposite.
Then, once-a-Tiger, always a Tiger. And once Tiger bait, always Tiger bait. Now we have players transferring to Ole Miss and theirs to us. Something's wrong in this picture. Really, really wrong.
So when I ask sarcastically "Is this why MiLB is exploding in popularity?," it's because that is what CFB is morphing into. It'll take some time. CFB still has a lot momentum and the expanded playoffs will generate some spikes in interest. But over time on this course, it will become MiNFL.
And the people telling us not to watch, I doubt they're buying lots of season tickets to see the Lugnuts.
re: LSU Comes in at #2 in D1 Baseball preseason rankings.
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 10:58 pm to Jim Hopper
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Curiel would’ve started anywhere in arky’s outfield, but since we’re talking LF, most arky fans probably would’ve taken Curiel over Davalan considering one crumble under pressure while the other thrived. And Eyanson would’ve been the ace of arky staff so it’s not a maybe he had better numbers than root across the board.
Agree on Eyanson. And if we want to move players around (to Sammy's point), then Curiel was better than their CF. But (and this is key) on paper, the only position player in our lineup better than their respective Arky counterpart was Jared at 1B.
That was the best Arky team in their history and we dusted them off 4 of 5 because we peaked with they face-planted and we were clutch when they choked. Those things don't always show up in box scores and stats.
So at this point, it doesn't bother me that UCLA is "better" than us on paper. Come post-season, we just need to peak.
re: LSU Comes in at #2 in D1 Baseball preseason rankings.
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 8:02 pm to SammyTiger
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SammyTiger
Curiel was second team all conference, second team all american
And his Arky counterpart was first team.
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How does this have anything to do with what I said?
You're smart. You'll figure it out.
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Not as good as the 2019 transfers but they still say hello
There was portal in 2019? And NIL? And how many transfers were on the roster then vs now?
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Then you are saying you would rather not compete for national championships. So just say that.
Is this why MiLB is exploding in popularity?
re: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 7:31 pm to BornAndRaised_LA
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Yes, let’s go 7-5 but love our good old hometown 2-stars…
Last year something like 60% of our team was from Louisiana, you just didn’t realize it because those high priced transfers were playing…because they were better.
What was our record with those better high priced transfers?
re: Hard to get excited about any player coming when they're only there for the money, not LSU
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 7:26 pm to OldManRiver
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The problem with your premise is your idea that pre portal/NIL, it was all "for the love of the game"
I think his premise was that there was an era when players chose to come LSU because they loved LSU, e.g., Kevin Faulk. Not for a generic 'love for the game '
Kevin could've gone anywhere (and UF recruited him hard when Spurrier was at the top of his game) but chose to come here. There are traces of that in Kayshon's recent interview.
re: LSU Comes in at #2 in D1 Baseball preseason rankings.
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 7:16 pm to Jim Hopper
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Curiel, Dickinson, and Eyanson.
Eyanson maybe. But their LF and 2B had better numbers than Curiel and Dickinson.
FTR, I wouldn't trade any of our players for theirs.
re: Mayor Frey thinks arresting ICE agents isn’t a 0% chance
Posted by AlwysATgr on 1/12/26 at 6:42 pm to GoCrazyAuburn
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So, to combat ICE agents doing their legal job in arresting illegal immigrants, he wants to arrest US citizens for legally doing their job?
Great way to put it.
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Or talked to her like a human being.
There was nothing wrong or out of place with the way she was addressed. Nothing.
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Maybe if they had asked her instead of rushing her car and trying to yank her out, she would have.
Rushing? Nobody rushed her car.
Guess they should have said 'pretty please?'
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