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Your only contribution so far has been to try to stir up emotion. Why don't you just not participate at all?

Ray. I [expletive] hate Ian. Me too. WHAT [expletive] IAN GUY Yes

Ray. I [expletive] hate Ian. Me too.

Crist would likely excel in that offense again. He played it in HS and Weis targeted him hard even right after landing Clausen. I actually hope that's where he lands bc he seems like a good kid and it'd be a good "low-pressure" shot to redeem himself.

Keep an eye out for this headline in January: Dayne Crist to transfer to KU.

Florida's offense was pretty hampered by inexperience at QB and lack of depth at RB. My concern with Weis as HC is you better hope he hires a good DC that can run that side of the field. Maybe without the ND pressure he won't jump around so much, but those 3 years of going 4/3, 3/4, 4/3 really destroyed both recruiting for the front 7 and development of the entire defense. He'll work hard in recruiting though. No question about that. Who knows if he can sell it as well when it's KU instead of ND or Florida.

Getting Wilson at a reasonable rate makes the pujols deal more manageable and increases their chances of extra bank from playoff home games. I don't care about the pujols deal; I didn't want to pay him that much that long. But I'd have paid Wilson at least this contract. Sounds like he took less than he could have made to play in LA.

I've done it quite a bit and had no problem. Me too. Though my favorite is doing 80-90 mph bumper to bumper heading W on the Eisenhower. I was younger and hopefully dumber when I did that every couple weeks for 2 years.

Did I mention that I hate the angels?

driving sucks in chicago fixed I love driving in Chicago

2 HOURS AFTER THE POST DIRECTLY ABOVE YOURS?

We need to lock up Barney! WTF happened to ramirez?

I would think 15-20 from the time they turn 18. It's not reasonable to expect a 12 year old victim to press charges by the time he's 25, or whatever the hell needed to happen to make this stick. So effectively 25+ years from any alleged incident? I know it sounds good here. Any time there's a crime, the SOL seems like it should extend to whenever a charge is brought. But 25 years is a long time for witnesses to remember stuff and evidence to sit around.

What's a reasonable alternative time?

Well, his leverage is if his cost to value is better than his replacement, it may make sense to give him a raise.

Hey, any guy off the street would get the same treatment. His connection to PSU isn't doing him any favors.

Really? I sure didn't watch every game but I didn't notice the cliff dive. I'm not even so much arguing, just honestly wondering if others share that view.

Kyle, your surprise at a player's future value has no impact upon that value. You have no idea what we can get in 7 or 9 months. Dumping him "no matter what" if we aren't a playoff team next year makes no sense unless you think we can't contend in 2013 either and can't sign Garza to a reasonable extension.

And every game that he pitches, every week that you hold on to him during the regular season, another bit of his value as a cost-controlled player gets spent. Once you spend it, there's no getting it back. Short-term asset. knew it couldn't last I know. It was fun while it lasted, but eventually people couldn't resist going back to pointlessly dismissive statements. Which part are you disagreeing with, exactly? 1) A significant part of Garza's value is in his relatively low salary because of his cost-controlled status, which lasts for two more seasons. 2) As time goes on, that value diminishes. 1.5 seasons of cost-controlled Garza is not as valuable as two seasons of cost-controlled Garza. 3) At this point, Garza is only under team control for the 2012 and 2013 seasons. That makes him a "short-term" asset. The only one that's remotely controversial is point 3, because some people will want to include a hypothetical extension into his value to the Cubs, which I think is absurd. You mineaswell include other teams' free agents that you want in assessing the state of the team, if we are just going to assume we can sign players we want. I'm not saying the Cubs absolutely have to trade Garza because he's a short-term asset. There's nothing wrong with spending his value in 2012 on him actually pitching in 2012. But the reason the Cubs are apparently looking into a trade is because there is a chance to turn that 2012 value into a longer-term asset, and I don't have a problem with that either if the price is right. I wouldn't say it was fun. But we're back to setting up the world thru Kyle-colored glasses and being incredibly stubborn about it. Forcing your phrase of the day into every post about 6 times until folks want to punch their computer screen is a habit I was hoping wouldn't return. Garza is here for 2 years unless he's traded, extended, dies or whatever. Defining it as you like and being adamant that everyone agree with your definition is pointless. Garza is also valuable bc he's a good pitcher. He may even be undervalued in the market bc he played with a crappy infield defense last year (who knows what sorts of offers Jebadore have received). His value is increased by his cost-controlled status but not entirely dependent upon it. He could easily be much more valuable as a trade piece at the deadline next year or after the season when he led the cubs to the WS.

And every game that he pitches, every week that you hold on to him during the regular season, another bit of his value as a cost-controlled player gets spent. Once you spend it, there's no getting it back. Short-term asset. knew it couldn't last

No wonder he let ARam walk. /blinded by white

Don't massacre her fantastic work like this.

The last two ND assistants to get hired into the MAC were 1) a domestic-abusing wackjob and 2) a train wreck. So we'll see. I'm not a huge fan of Molnar. Are you talking about a guy with brain damage as a whack job?

Ok. Fun is only good if it's funny.

UMass appears to have hired ND's OC/QB coach Charley Molnar.