I need your thoughts...please.

We are a family of 5 looking for recommendations for a vacation towards the end of the year / early next year. Probably five days...would like to stay in the states. Time frame would be after Christmas through first week of January - one is in college.

Family enjoys warmer climate (we have made several trips to Caribbean in the past), and we are all 18+.

Thank you for any helpful advice.

Despite recent results, ISU is #28 in the RPI:

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The team was basically non-competitive in the first two sets at OU on Saturday. Did manage to win the 3rd set by two points and then got blitzed in the 4th set. To not finish 3rd or higher in the conference this season would be disappointing and to miss the NCAAs for the second straight season would be even more disappointing.

Schuler is only player I am aware that may have injury issues impacting her recent PT and performance. Outside of the two MBs, I am guessing all other starting/rotation positions will be up for grabs this week during practice until the next match on Saturday against KSU in Ames. Holthaus' front row spot should remain secure, but the number of REs she has been recently accumulating may end her spot on the back row.

Are special teams part of the "process"? If not, I hope it is not too late to include them.

Sorry this is now a few days old. I was on vacation last week. Has anyone been here and had "The P.T."?
https://www.iowapork.org/new-hampton-pub-wins-2019-breaded-tenderloin-contest/

Taking a family trip to Nassau in November. have a group of 16 ranging form 20-60 year olds.
Looking for entertainment and or dining recommendations. ( Or best places to buy fresh seafood.)

We will be staying west of downtown between Cable Beach and SanyPort Beach. Thanks.

The season kicks off tomorrow (10/22) and we have more guys to follow than in recent memory, albeit not a lot of expected impact players. I'll try to post clips and guys' lines on here. Last year, we had quite a bit of discussion on Monte, who remains the hot bet to get the most PT of ex ISU guys. Here's where they are, with my thoughts on their expected impact on the team to start the season (I don't claim to be an expert).

Monte Morris - Denver Nuggets. Established himself last year as a solid role-player off the bench, with his usual ball security and reliability to go with an improving shot. Denver has a LOT of depth; we'll see how this impacts Big Game.

Georges Niang - Utah Jazz. From what I can take from pre-season, Georges will have some work to do to get up to a, say, 10-minute guy on a nightly basis. He didn't shoot well in pre-season and the Jazz have need shooting. He did have a good run for them in playoffs so I think they trust him on the court; I'm just not sure if Q. Snyder thinks they NEED him with the additions they've made.

Abdel Nader & Deonte Burton - OKC Thunder. It feels to me like Nader still has the advantage over DB for playing time; I think he'll get rotation minutes. Both will be impacted by Andre Roberson's expected return though. I'd hope that Nader will shoot the deep ball more consistently and that Deonte can be more consistent overall (his shooting, too, needs to improve).

Matt Thomas - Toronto Raptors. From NIck Nurse's recent press conference, it seems like he feels like Matt can help on the offensive end but is not yet confident in his D being NBA-level. No surprise there. Hopefully, Matty Ice can work his way into a specialist role as a shooter but I'm guessing minutes will be sparing early on.

Talen Horton-Tucker - LA Lakers - Talen's health is the first issue to deal with. He still has an injured foot and was held out of pre-season. When he makes it back, he'll be behind the curve in conditioning and the speed of NBA play so I wonder if we'll see him with some G-League time. My expectations aren't high for much of an impact in his first season.

Marial Shayok - 2-way contract Philadelphia 76ers - I think that the 76ers are hopeful that Shayok can contribute some in the next few years. He got some pre-season PT and did OK. He has the size to guard multiple positions and be a 3-and-D guy.

Naz Mitrou-Long - 2-way contract Indiana Pacers - Naz is older than most 2-way guys from what I can tell. I wonder if he's kind of an insurance policy. There haven't really been a lot of indications from Indiana that they're looking for contributions from him but I guess sometimes it comes down to doing well when there is a chance brought on by roster moves or injuries or something. He didn't get much PT in pre-season games so I assume he'll mostly be at Ft. Wayne with their G-League club.

Lindell Wigginton - Iowa Wolves (I think). 3 Canadians in a row. It seems official that he'll play in Des Moines this year.

Bubu Palo - Sioux F. Skyforce - It seems he's coming back for - what? - his 6th year or so in the G- League. Might be time to try to get paid overseas a little as he hasn't seen an NBA regular season game yet.

Did I miss anyone? (I don't count Wes Johnson).

ESPN has us going to the Camping World Bowl in Orlando, FL. It is a DEC 28th bowl. Who would go and do you think ISU fans would show up like the always do?

I never read the graphic novel stuff. Never saw the 2009 movie. No clue what it's about.

But watched first episode of Watchmen on HBO tonight and I have no idea what I was watching but I'm all in.

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I do not get NFL Sunday Night games on YouTube TV. Is that part of not getting WHO and only the national NBC or is there something I need to do?

Saw this in the news. Commissioner Manfred posted this along with the Des Moines Register. He had a blood clot and it seemed he was doing better but then took a turn for the worse.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...r-dies-at-52-had-worked-yankees-vs-twins-alds

He just did the ALDS yankees twins series.

Everyone survived week 7.

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Joe Yeager writes for Tech on 247 Sports, wrote this after yesterday's game:
"Outside of Oklahoma, this was the best offensive line Tech has seen this season."
So that would include Arizona, Okie State and Baylor that they have played previously. He was frustrated that they didn't sack Purdy at all yesterday.

I don't know, maybe our line is better this year than what we amateurs think we see. I did notice some times yesterday when Hall would go out around the edge and there was no one there. It looked like the blocking did that on purpose.

I know that this is a bit premature since ISU is in the middle of conference play, but I have a question about the 2020 O-Line.

We graduate 4 seniors this year (JGJ, Meeker, Knipfel and Olson) and I’m wondering who the line will be for next year.

Newell and Downing are definitely locks. Ramos, especially how he looked in the few plays yesterday, is basically a lock, too. I’m guessing Ramos and Downing play on the left side.

Who plays on the right? I’m guessing Hudson at guard, but I have no idea about tackle. What do you guys think?

https://www.trackwrestling.com/tw/P...wSessionId=ztqbluwtaalodbr&videoId=1690989132

What a great guy. It's hard to keep down my excitement for the coming season.

Down to 17. @Tailg8er extended his overall tiebreaker lead by a 1 point.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26th

11:00 AM Oklahoma @ Kansas State
2:30 PM Oklahoma State @ Iowa State
2:30 PM Texas @ TCU
6:00 PM Texas Tech @ Kansas

30 down to 19 after Wisconsin getting upset to Illinois

Should have a decent chance to move back into the Top 25.

Losers in the Top 25 this week:

#6 Wisconsin lost to Illinois (probably drop to 10-15)
#16 Michigan lost to #7 Penn State (probably drop to around 20)
#22 Missouri lost to Vanderbilt (will drop out)
#25 Washington lost to #12 Oregon (played them real close but will still drop out)
#14 Boise State currently losing to 2-4 BYU (if they lose this they should drop out, BYU is not good).

Dependent how harshly the voters treat Washington and potentially Boise State ISU should be in. Cal, Temple and Tulane also were in the 26-30 range and lost. Wake and Virginia won.

His qb just fumbled in the end zone resulting in a 100 yard Alabama TD. The Tennessee coach (who has been screaming like a mad man all game) grabbed the qb by the face mask and verbally undressed him. Pruitt has an anger management issue and needs to be suspended.

i was watching the replay tonight. I highly recommend going back and rewatching the hit Soehner put on their jump ball guy near the sideline on Tech’s onside kick in Q4. Not too often you see somebody 6.5’+ with their feet over their head. Wow!

I still don’t know what happened to Mike Rose about that time.

The debut of the new overtime rule happened today. Virginia tech and unc went to 6 OT. Starting in OT5 teams take turns attempting 2 point conversions.

What does everyone think of this change? It's something that wont happen much, but in the rare instance it does, is it a good thing?

Probably shaved well over half an hour off this game.

I didn't get to see the whole game, but Baylor seemed to be ripping off chunks of yardage when I was watching. I see Brewer was 13 of 17 for 312 yards. That is 24 per completion. Somehow he only had one TD pass.

Is this really happening!?!?

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Just got ours in the mail this past week. This year I got johnny passes as the wife fell in love with going to meets. Will be fun to do some socializing ahead of duals instead of shopping!

Just seeing who all got there’s? Got me excited for the season!!!