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Post by Elvado on May 12, 2024 17:52:51 GMT -5
Very gutty win today.
Good to see everyone enjoying it.
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Post by Elvado on May 12, 2024 15:24:40 GMT -5
10-9. Good guys
8:31 to go.
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Post by Elvado on May 12, 2024 15:17:48 GMT -5
Down 9-8 early 4th
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Post by Elvado on May 12, 2024 6:13:11 GMT -5
And we should have fought the French Army much harder for the rights to Eric Micoud…I mean how much had Big John lost his fastball? He lost a battle to France…. In hindsight, I wondered if that was all a tall tale, given that Eric Micoud played professionally for Besancon in France the year he was said to be in the army. My post was mostly tongue in cheek.
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Post by Elvado on May 11, 2024 9:50:35 GMT -5
We should never have let David Edwards and Eric Myles transfer. And we should have fought the French Army much harder for the rights to Eric Micoud… I mean how much had Big John lost his fastball? He lost a battle to France….
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Post by Elvado on May 10, 2024 13:18:07 GMT -5
Good. Those who defy Subpoenas from Congress should be prosecuted.
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Post by Elvado on May 8, 2024 19:28:37 GMT -5
I usually echo 'vad's Dead To Me sentiment for players who leave. But I will be rooting for Ryan, an outstanding example of a student athlete who will do incredible things off the court. That Dead to Me never applies to graduates.
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Post by Elvado on May 8, 2024 13:34:10 GMT -5
Good for Ryan.
A wonderful student-athlete.
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Post by Elvado on May 8, 2024 9:20:22 GMT -5
Totally ham handed elephant gun to kill gnat reaction. No one should want to clerk for these buffoons.
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Post by Elvado on May 6, 2024 7:09:58 GMT -5
So at what point do we question the huge NIL war chest we have? Tough to view the portal season so far as an overall upgrade. Things haven’t worked out much better for St John’s w/ their HOF coach and Vitamin Water NIL funds… Bottom line is it’s not always the money (assuming it’s close). The deterioration of the program and potentially the hit Cooley’s reputation has taken, can’t be solved with money alone. Now it’s up to the staff to earn their $ by developing the kids on the roster and getting the whole to be more than the sum of the parts. Well said. Unless the money is orders of magnitude more, why does any big time talent looking for exposure join GU? We are, as currently constituted, a punchline and cautionary tale. I am willing to watch Ed Cooley rebuild us to something more and do not expect it overnight.
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Post by Elvado on May 5, 2024 4:03:39 GMT -5
Jacob Murrell breaks his MLS duck with a goal in last night’s 2-2 draw.
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Post by Elvado on May 4, 2024 18:28:54 GMT -5
11-10 OT win
Way to go boys!!!
6 straight titles.
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Post by Elvado on May 4, 2024 17:22:20 GMT -5
8-1 lead blown
8-8 at half.
Regroup boys.
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Post by Elvado on May 3, 2024 7:41:11 GMT -5
That’s not “not accurate”, that’s an outright lie. Can the media stop treating this loser with kid gloves? For whatever reason, the national media is afraid to call him tbe sociopath that he is. It insists on treating him like a normal political candidate. The media debases itself when it fails to call out politicians for serial lying. Is it cowardice? Is it avarice? Whatever it is, it is a disgrace.
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Post by Elvado on May 1, 2024 15:10:53 GMT -5
Harry made it official today.
He has decided to attend Newhouse to study Broadcast Journalism.
Wrote a nice note to Coach Wiese before he did so and got a wonderful, supportive reply from his good friend.
I am very proud of him charting his own course in life.
I did remind him that you can’t spell SUCKS without SU.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 25, 2024 12:18:05 GMT -5
This is my overall posture. Love getting better (at least on paper) but dying for some consistency, so we don’t have a whole team starting from scratch each year. I’m looking forward to seeing improvements from Epps and Fielder to next year, from having a full 7-month offseason to work with the coaching and S&C staff. Fielder looks like he’s already added about 5 lbs of muscle just since the season, and I’m sure the strength and agility improvements from a full strength and conditioning offseason will pay off. (Especially since, if he’s not limited like he was physically last summer with the knees, he’ll be able to do much more skill work at the same time). We will hopefully get consistency when we have players we don't feel we need to upgrade. But understand that even with a NIL budget larger than most (for now), there's going to be guys that leave for money or PT. And with no restrictions on sitting out, it's going to be more frequent, period. All we can do is try to create a good culture, develop players, recruit kids who perhaps understand the process and try to allocate funds as best you can. But I'm not going to be worried about transfers that seem money or PT related. What do you do? Honestly, if we had kept Styles (or even kept Brumbaugh and lost Styles), I wouldn't mind the sequence here in the offseason at all. But we were 2-19. We needed to try and upgrade. Paying all the guys who went 2-19 to stay or not recruiting better players is a terrible strategy. No one on a 2-19 team is indispensable.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 25, 2024 4:24:58 GMT -5
What's just damn frustrating is that we are stuck with NY as the first case heard. The documents case should have been first, but Trump lucked into Loose Cannon as the judge, and she's just bent on delaying the case as long as possible. Then the Supreme Court actually agreed to hear the ridiculous immunity claim, and delayed the oral arguments until tomorrow, so that decision won't come down until the end of June, resulting in interminable delays of what I choose to call the insurrection case. In a just world, the documents case would be ongoing now, followed by the insurrection case, and Trump's ass would be in jail well before the election, so he could continue to compare himself to Nelson Mandela. Agree wholeheartedly. They have him dead to rights in the documents case, and those charges (and the implications of that conduct) are really serious! Agree wholeheartedly on the documents case. That said, griping about Judicial conduct strikes me funny here.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 24, 2024 9:38:55 GMT -5
He will need to unlearn everything he has experienced growing up in Philadelphia where abject homer Phanboys are coin of the realm. But one can dream. As a Yankee fan, and someone who has watched ESPN broadcasts of Syracuse games, I have certainly been exposed to plenty of homer broadcasting. Perhaps it's inescapable. Well, if my son has proven anything over his 18 years, it is that he can defy odds… He has sworn his blood allegiance to GU soccer…
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Post by Elvado on Apr 24, 2024 7:58:40 GMT -5
Underneath the trial minutia and mounting evidence of former President Donald Trump is a raging debate about the political impact of the trial. I weighed in last week after I became very annoyed at people arguing that the trial could help Trump. How much it will hurt him and in which ways are up for discussion. Nevertheless, it is absurd to believe that being on trial for falsifying business records to cover up an extramarital affair with an adult film star would be a net positive (perhaps, I am still annoyed). In all of the discussion about how persuadable voters are consuming the allegations and would react to a hypothetical conviction, I think we are missing the forest for the trees. The political damage to Trump is not what is said in the courtroom; it’s how he looks. After spending his whole life and three presidential campaigns cultivating an image of power and strength, the first week of the trial made the former president look weak, tired, and scared. -- Dan Pfeiffer April 24, 2024 Almost like the whole enterprise is political theatre engineered for that result irrespective of substance. The Documents case on the other hand is real.
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Post by Elvado on Apr 24, 2024 6:54:51 GMT -5
Maybe, instead of rooting for their teams, he can maintain a detached neutrality to work on his approach as a future broadcaster. He will need to unlearn everything he has experienced growing up in Philadelphia where abject homer Phanboys are coin of the realm. But one can dream.
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