What’s In the Bag? ***GOLF EQUIPMENT THREAD***

Driver: Ping G400 or Titleist TS3 both set to 9.5 degrees
PXG 0311 3H driving iron
3 wood - Cleveland Launcher - 15 degree
Hybrid 4 - Callaway Apex - 21 degree

Irons - TM M6 - 5-PW - steel shaft (also have the “A” gapper but don’t normally carry it)
Wedges - Vokey’s SM5 & SM6 - 54 & 58 & 60
Putter - Ping Anser 1 - Traxion Pistol Grip
Balls - TM TP5 (just switched from Pro V1’s last season)

Williams & Blum: SEC’s Sankey goes off, Big 12 transfer portal shuffles

Chris Williams and Brent Blum react to Greg Sankey’s comments about the future of college football before diving into the latest in Big 12 transfer portal news and a few mailbag questions. Presented by Mechdyne.


Memorial Day - not just for barbeques

This thread is a thoughtful read, but it presents a much better understanding of Memorial Day than the all-caps "Happy Memorial Day" tweet posted earlier.

2025 MBB Coaching Carousel

Not shocked at this. Big Ten could have quite a few openings after this year. Possible or likely:

Indiana
Minnesota
Iowa

Put Together an Album

Using the “10 shows” thread started by @dahliaclone as inspiration, build an album of 10-15ish songs with some kind of theme. I’ll start with these I like to listen to when I want to wind down. There are likely a million songs that would be as good or better for this purpose, but my “Sleep” album:

1. Champagne - 311
2. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) - The Talking Heads
3. Riders on the Storm - The Doors
4. Santeria - Sublime
5. Althea - Greatful Dead
6. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
7. Dirty Work - Steely Dan
8. Ripple - Greatful Dead
9. Officer - Slightly Stoopid
10. Fearless - Pink Floyd
11. Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
12. Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
13. West LA Fadeaway - Greatful Dead
14. The End - The Doors

It is imperative that this fan base understand this...

If Hali can get the Cers to the NBA Finals, a Cyclone will have LED his team to both a Super Bowl and an NBA title game over the span of three years.

Seriously. Read that again.

Y'all, we are in our golden years.

So why bring this up? Seems like a pretty obvious piece of trivia...

Because, new fans, there was a time when recruits LITERALLY didn't know who we were. I remember reading the athletic department rebrand document that led to our current I STATE logo (reserve that discussion for another thread) and the primary motivation for the change was that recruits DID NOT KNOW WHO WE WERE.

If you're a doomsayer in these forums, I have one, genuine piece of advice: stop and enjoy the ride. When I was a kid, we were nothing. We weren't even a joke because that would mean that people had even freaking heard of us at all.

Do yourself a favor and enjoy the ride. Good programs dream of runs like this, and we built this era on character and grit. There is literally no hyperbole for our success story, and if you refuse to see that, you're going to regret it for a long, long time.

Seacrest out.

Memorial Day Weekend Cooking/Grilling/Smoking

We've got a large crew here this weekend. Started it off grilling burgers and brats last night. Going to smoke some ribs today with potato casserole, baked beans and slaw. Tomorrow with the weather being crappy going to do pasta, italian sausage cavatelli, and chicken alfredo with garlic bread. Everyone will leave mid-day Monday, so it may be leftovers if we have them, otherwise I'll grill some steaks and baked potatoes.
What's your plan for the weekend?

Movie you didn't think was that good, but sticks with you longer than it should (spoilers)

I just finished watching The Six Triple Eight on Netflix. For the most part, I thought it was a rip off of Tuskegee Airmen only with women and not nearly as compelling a plot. I mean, come on. Mail sorting during World War II? And let's face it, it's not like they had any great impact on the war. I mean, after all, they didn't start sorting the mail until February of 1945. That's after the Battle of Bulge, when the war was all over except for the shouting (and some shooting), but Germany had already shot its last shot at turning the tide of war and it was all downhill from there. So they had less than a month or so (after they figured out what they were doing in the first three months) to actually deliver the mail while there were still bullets flying. Minimal impact.

But for some reason, I can't stop thinking about this very mediocre movie. I watched it last night and laid in bed thinking about it after that, and it's the first thing I thought of this morning and I've been thinking about it all day. Frankly, I'm shocked I didn't forget it as soon as I finished watching it.

Are there movies like that for anyone else? Movies that were bad, but you can't stop thinking about them and the thoughts are not necessarily how bad the movie was?

*** Cyclone Fanatic Cartoon Tournament: Sweet Sixteen ***

Voting is open for the Sweet Sixteen of the Cyclone Fanatic Cartoon Tournament


How to vote (this will apply to all rounds):
To select the favorite (the show seeded highest), choose the Heart emoji.
To select the underdog, choose the Rainbow emoji.
No other emojis will be counted.

Deadline to vote: Now through Thursday at 10 PM

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