Georgia remains favored by a field goal in tonight's Sugar Bowl matchup with Baylor, in spite of suiting up 15 fewer players than in their final regular season game, including 6 starters. It will be the Big XII's 6th and final bowl game of an unglamorous 2019/2020 bowl season. The good news for Baylor is that Charlie Brewer will be in the line-up ... so we're sayin' there's a chance!

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Georgia seeks redemption after last year's Sugar Bowl whoopin' vs the Texas Longhorns, as was foreshadowed by the undercard: Uga vs Bevo:

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Baylor's record last 3 seasons:
2017: 1-11
2018: 7-6
2019: 11-3 or 12-2

Iowa State's record last 3 seasons:
2017: 8-5
2018: 8-5
2019: 7-6

What was it that allowed Baylor to take the steps that ISU couldn't, but was expected to by many pundits before the year started? One aspect that makes me salty about this is, Baylor copied Heacock's defense, but did it better.

Just curious about others thoughts on the subject. It might of been discussed in other threads.

Was it?
Better players
Execution
Coaching
Schedule
Etcetera

I have started seriously considering retiring in a country where my dollars go much further and where healthcare is excellent and not out of control cost-wise.

Running some numbers through a retirement calculator shows that I might be able to retire much earlier overseas as well. I am only 47, but may be able to retire at 60 in Panama, which is our choice as of now.

Anyone have any experience, thoughts, or advice on this? Here is an article that shows some of the pros:

https://nypost.com/2019/12/28/here-are-the-12-best-countries-to-retire-in/

Headed skiing in a couple weeks and have a few set of skis I’d like to get edged and waxed. Anyone know of any place in central Iowa to have that done. Would rather get it done before we leave instead of trying to get it done while in CO.

Other option would be to just finally learn to do it myself.

Lots of debate happening these days. It always helps to have a common set of facts to work off of, so with that in mind ...

It has been 25 full seasons since Johnny Orr exited the stage. Since then, no ISU coach has stayed longer than five seasons for various reasons. I had some extra time today and decided to sum up the total losses at Hilton per coach, etc.


GAMES LOST AT HILTON PER SEASON

Tim Floyd (4 seasons) = 3.75 losses per season (3, 3, 3, 6)

Larry Eustachy (5 seasons) = 2.8 losses per season (3, 0, 0, 6, 5)

Wayne Morgan (3 seasons) = 3.33 losses per season (1, 3, 6)

Greg McDermott (4 seasons) = 6 losses per season (5, 6, 6, 7)

Fred Hoiberg (5 seasons) = 2.2 losses per season (6, 2, 1, 1, 1)

Steve Prohm (4 full seasons so far) = 4 losses per season (2, 3, 7, 4)


If Prohm wins the rest of his home games this season, his average will be 3.6 losses per season. If he has another season similar to two years ago with 7 losses, his average will be 4.6 losses per season after five full years.

Perhaps someone else can do something similar with average finish in conference and average results in the NCAA? (BTW--I don't put much stock in Big 12 Tournament Titles. Fun but nearly meaningless, IMO.)

Really the only thing I can think of is bragging rights and internet supremacy over other ISU fans, but there has to be something else?

Is this possible? I’d like to just be able to see off topic/politics/other non-sports forums. TIA.

???

Id think this fanbase needs one badly from last night..

We lost to FAMU? What the hell is wrong with this program?!

bsaltyman said:

To be fair to Prohm, his best recruits from the last two recruiting classes left early for the NBA. That definitely makes it hard to build a team when you lose players early. Still, he needs to manage the remaining team much better.

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bsaltyman makes a fair point here. The problem is, we didn't have a good recruiting class for this season. As bad as this team is, two of the recruits couldn't compete on this team and requested immediate transfers. Not transfers at the end of the season, as it goes with most players, but immediate transfers. So we didn't have talent coming in to replace what we lost. Losing those players to the NBA wasn't on Prohm, but having a partial-bust of a recruiting class IS on Prohm.

So what happened to this class? How did we miss-evaluate two players so badly that they couldn't even play one season?

Ummm, if what I am hearing is true, the bad just got worse. Not that it makes a difference but the “Decision” was made before tonight’s sh** show.

Any truth to this?

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Happy New Thread!

Prohms had great teams that he had no control over. The Morris teams for example. The reason those guys were good is because that team LOVED each other, I’m pretty sure they coached the team. Lindell and tucker gotta do step back threes and act like they were the man on campus. Sickening to watch. Prohm has to go. Ban me for it. The dudes making like 2 mill a year to lose to 1-9 team lmao. Think about that.

Football team falls on their faces the last game and the bowl game.

WBB team is struggling, and lost to everyone else in the state

MBB has what might be the worst loss in Hilton for 20 years after getting embarrassed to Iowa

According to FAMU, its win over Iowa State tonight is the first victory over a Power 5 opponent in school history.

I think we need something to distract us from the awfulness that we experienced this evening.

I came accross an article posing this question and at first glance I said of course. But a little thinking and I can see the argument saying that 2020 is the 10th year of the decade. What do you people think?

Not the best New Year's Eve, to put it mildly ... https://cyclonefanatic.com/2019/12/...ck-tuesday-to-florida-a-m-at-hilton-coliseum/

Here’s an update to the poll from after the Iowa game.

For your consideration

Read the replies. He (Frank Boal) retweeted it with an EMAW. LOL

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Maybe there is already a thread on this but shouldn’t we fire this up?

I hate rooting against a Big 12 team in a bowl game, but I'm rooting against K State right now. They're trailing Navy 10-7 early in 2nd quarter.

I have 2 "entry level" drones and thought it would be a good idea to have a few more batteries so I can keep flying. I had no clue that each and every budget drone "invented" it's own battery which you can't find anywhere. Connectors are goofy, sizes are goofy while the basic stuff - voltage, amperage are "standard".

Drone hobbyists - are power sources easier to find and more consistent as you move up? I'd love to do some aerial photography so also curious about recommendations for a next level machine.