Since everybody is throwing everything around here, and we're talking about adding, mergers, etc. I really like the 10 team league for football. I think it's awesome. That said, since I like that so much, wouldn't it make sense to add enough PAC schools to get to 20 teams now? Just have 2 divisions of 10, and then the winners of those divisions play in the Big 12 championship? It'd be like old school baseball where the AL and NL didn't play until the championship. I'll hang up and listen.

Here is a Google Sheets document that I quickly made, sorry it's so rudimentary, to see what it would be like if College Football had a promotion/relegation system like European soccer leagues use. I made two models to see which would work better, I'm personally torn on which one would be better for the players. Also just of note, I used Bill Connelly's SP+ for the rankings. And if anyone is confused on how to read the table I'll work on clearing things up to make it more legible.

10 Leagues 13 teams each:

• Six home games, six road games
• Minimum 12 games, maximum 15 games
• Four team playoff (top four teams in the top league make the playoff)
• Bottom two teams in each league (besides the lowest league) automatically move down to the next lower league
• Top two teams in each league (besides the top league) automatically move up to the next higher league
• 11th ranked team plays the 3rd ranked team in the league below them, winner stays in the higher league (Notre Dame vs Utah)

Nine Leagues 15 teams each:

• Seven home games, seven road games
• Minimum 14 games, maximum 17 games
• Eight team playoff (top eight teams in the top league make the playoff)
• Bottom three teams in each league (besides the lowest league) automatically move down to the next lower league
• Top three teams in each league (besides the top league) automatically move up to the next higher league
• 12th ranked team plays the 4th ranked team in the league below them, winner stays in the higher league (Oklahoma St vs Iowa St)
• Needed to add 5 teams from FCS, added the top 5 FCS teams from last season to the lowest league

Going on an Italy/Greek Island cruise in early September and while the cruise offers a bunch of excursions for each stop, we kind of want to look at options to do on our own.

Our stops are: Rome > Santorini > Rhodes > Mykonos > Naples

Curious who has been to any of these places and any suggestions on 'must do' while there? Any thoughts much appreciated!

NOTE: All of the stops are around 10 hours total each day

Enjoy.

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My quarterly mini-roundup of notable comments and quips from Cyclone Fanatic, April-June 2022.

Merely a sample of amusements I encountered and documented during the 3-month period. If anyone recalls a nugget I missed, add to thread. Feel free to quote favorites from the list.

Extra challenge: Can you spot the fabricated comment? (no prizes involved, bragging rights only ).

Some entries have been edited for clarity, brevity, spelling and proper use of apostrophes.

KEY: Bold is thread title (or summary of it) ... "***" indicates a break in narrative flow.


I’ll have to do this in two segments, due to character count.

• In case you missed it: Notable Posts Q1 2022

PART 1

Mark Emmert stepping down
(Nominee for Notable Posts Hall of Fame)
@Mr Janny: Emmert didn't do anything that the universities that make up that'd be great. We were hot dogs. Walmart why is this? It's just not boiling NCAA didn't want him to do.
@clonehenge: I'm going to need a translator for this...
@Trick: This belongs in the Autocorrect Hall of Fame.
Mr Janny: Wow. Remind me to not use text-to-speech when my wife is placing a pick-up order.

Friday OT: Help You Find Your Talent
@20eyes: Galaga is the video game God intended.

Cyclones get 4th commitment, Jack Sadowsky
@heitclone: Kid has Jake Knott written all over him.
@VeloClone: Kids these days get the strangest tattoos.

Why Won’t Jamie Pollard Schedule Any P5 Schools Other Than Iowa?
@Rabbuk: So, who are we pissed at in here?

Excerpts: ‘Corner 3: Interview with Aljaz Kunc’
Jaz: My teammates aren’t hard to guard. Just ask Isaiah. I’d lock his a** up right now!
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Jaz: I don’t want to seem cocky, but I definitely have the most diverse music taste on the team.
@JStanz51: Who has the worst music taste (on the team)?
Jaz: Caleb Grill … put that in the headline, actually: ‘Caleb Grill has the worst music taste on the team.’
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Scotty (regarding player-transfer message cards): “My heart will always be here” … No, it won’t! Your butt’s gonna be on a bus or a plane, and your heart’s gonna be somewhere else.”

Student Section Moving (JTS)
@SECyclone: Looks like JP is moving the student section in 2022, for safety reasons.
@3TrueFans: I feel safer already.

Mike Tyson punches man in face on plane
@PSYclone22: Guy had it coming … he was chewing his ear off.

The ‘We Will’ Collective
@Gunnerclone: I’ll need to see who the organizers and leaders of this organization are.
@Jeremy: You won’t be disappointed.
@Lexclone: Are you not familiar with Gunnerclone’s body of work?
@CyCrazy: I wouldn’t call it a “body of work,” more like a gelatinous blob of stupid takes and getting stoned. (I am fine with getting stoned.)
Gunnerclone: Please point out these stupid takes.
@nfrine: Gunner, there is a word limit....

Tyrese Hunter entering transfer portal
@Gunnerclone: When I see Marcus Smart on TV, it always makes him look much smaller than he is.
@qwerty: You need a bigger TV, so the players are life-size.
@cynpost: Get a Smart TV.
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@mynameisjonas: If the 1992 Dream Team found a way to conceive a baby together, it would be named Tyrese Hunter.
@CloneGuy8: He’s a combo of Hakeem Olajuwon and Bill Wennington.

Charlies Weis read KU football message boards
@GTO: "Have you considered the premium board?" is the CF equivalent of “We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.”

2022 NFL Draft Thread
@Remo Gaggi: Will someone please get past security and punch Reese Davis in the nuts?

All Newly Declared Jets Fans
@Cyientist: My 6-year-old randomly checked out a school library book about the N.Y. Jets this week. I’m thinking of giving him access to the Draft Kings account.
@HFCS: I think it’s hilarious there is a physical book about the Jets in a school library.

JTS Improvements: Want More
@Aclone: Underground tunnel in a flood plain. Seems legit.
@Cyclones_R_GR8: Direct the Hawkeye band that way.
@JM4CY: That whole debacle never stops being crazy to me, that it ever happened in the first place.
@BillBrasky4Cy: You mess with the sousaphones, you get the horns.

Dead bird in toilet bowl
(@CycloneRulzzz nominee for “Clonies Thread of the Year”)
@CoachHines3: I went down stairs and, to my surprise, there is a big-ass black starling dead in our terlet.
@BCClone: Not a way to go. Drowning and then having a woman pee on you.
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CoachHines3: My b-hole is for entry only, not exit.
Full thread here: bit.ly/3y69DDh

AJ Green in the Portal
@Statefan10: UNI1ISU2, don’t dumb my posts. Only @CoachHines3 is allowed to that.
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@carvers4math: It’s weird how I had never heard of this guy before TJ hired his dad, and now, reading CF, it’s like my life will lose all meaning if he doesn’t spend one year as a Cyclone.
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@ruflosn: I’m hearing commitment soon.
@MeanDean: If we don't sign him, some of these posters are going to need to be committed.
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@BWRhasnoAC: Oh snap … thread went from cougars, raptors and fat-shaming blue whales to old-man piss-fights about coaches.
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@t-noah: I have it on good authority that the conclusion will conclude sometime in the near future.

As a farm kid living next to a RR, I always envisioned some type of contraption to pedal on the rail road tracks. How much better it would be than the loose gravel. Now, at a bit older age, I have to wonder what could possibly go wrong with letting teen age kids loose on this 150' high viaduct?

USC and UCLA officially into the Big10. Rumors swirling about ASU, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Oregon State and potentially Oregon to Big12. Could add a couple more wrestling schools.

Vote for four.

Because we all deserve a laugh

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I have a question about HSAs.

Here's my situation: A company is recruiting me to join. Their health insurance plan reads like a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), but isn't called that in their documents. $4,000 individual and $8,000 family deductibles. I've read the IRS rules for definition of a High Deductible Plan, but can't tell how it works, exactly. To me, that's an HDHP plan and I could set my own HSA with my bank. But maybe I'm wrong?

Here's the basic question: Does the provider need to define the plan as a High Deductible Plan to establish in HSA? Are there plans that qualify for an HSA, where you have to set up your own account with a bank?

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Wow, don't think I've seen this before:
https://www.algonaradio.com/2022/06/30/bishop-garrigan-forfeits-conference-baseball-title/

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Let's Go! This class is really good!!

Only 2 official visits, good guys and TOE.

@ChrisMWilliams, @JStanz51 , @Conner_Ferguson,
I think that a good way to improve the site, would be to eliminate any record / or ability of an "ignored" person, to give an emoji comment (dumb, dislike, etc.) on a person's post who is "ignoring" them.
Perhaps, if you can't eliminate or change that, you could cap the number of 'dumbs' a person can do / make in a day or a weak. Or something similar. Maybe I am not the only person who feels this way.

I regret not doing it in 2020 when the market took a huge dip.

Odd to say the least. Looks like a glowing ball with a ring inside of it.

Practice officially starts 40 days before the first game. What are they doing now?

I have been watching Air Warriors on the Smithsonian channel recently. Got me thinking about my favorite military aircraft. Was wondering what other aviation enthusiasts might have to say on the topic. Mine is the A10 Thunderbolt. AKA the warthog or hog. Not sleek, not sexy but what a bad a$$ airplane. Built by Fairchild Republic in early 70's it was designed to provide close combat ground support and tank killing capabilities. A 30mm, 60 rounds a second cannon, capable of carrying16,000 pounds of mixed ordinance, straight wing, high engine design What's not to love. Pic below says it all



I was able to see one up close and personal with my son at an air exposition at the Des Moines airport. Was an air national guard anniversary. I am thinking around 1991. Was a ground display but also performed aerial maneuvers. Quite impressive.

The funniest account I've seen: https://twitter.com/RadioShack?s=20&t=Thn3-zdnaK5ogDC5V89YAw

Lots of tweets from a former player and it appears other players are starting to come to his defense.
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Sounds like he had a near perfect day - interesting that I never found a broadcast link because I feel like I watched some when Lazard was out there, but I'll post a link if I come across one.

I'd hit it

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Long, athletic basketball player type. Will probably need a little time to add muscle.

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