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Not necessarily. If I have more than a couple drinks or feel impaired in the slightest bit, I call a cab. Basically I call a cab anytime I go out. But after using a sample breathalyzer, I am sure there have been many times where I unwittingly drove right around a .08-.10. Studies have been extremely inconclusive at best when it comes to that range. I mean 1 stronger than expected margarita with a Mexican meal and you're at that level. Most likely you do not feel much impairment. If you want to steepen drunk driving penalties for habitual offenders, I'm with you. If you want to steepen them on general principle, I want to know what you plan to do for people caught talking on cell phones, eating, texting, applying makeup, etc... The "I can handle it" defense is incredibly weak. Clearly you are an habitual offender. The fact that you haven't been caught doesn't change it. Quit being such a selfish bastard and stop driving when you drink. Right, because that's precisely what I was saying. You completely missed the point. The only times I ever drive after drinking are if I've had 2 or less normal sized beers with a meal or one beer after golf with an associate/client. If I'm a selfish bastard and habitual offender for thinking I can handle 1 beer without being impaired at 6'3, 205 then so be it. But as someone who drinks, you should know that 1 stinking beer is not an impairment. Nor are two beers for someone my size in a period longer than an hour, with a meal. However depending on how it is metabolized there is a very short period where it could cause me to blow .08 and then back down to .06 minutes later. Now perhaps with the blood test at the station it could be waived, but not always. The point wasn't about me, it's about where the legal levels are set. Every day in America there are probably 100 people arrested who blow between .08-.10 and in many cases just because they blow in the wrong 5-10 minute period. Look at what the studies and research show the impairment is at that level. The only reason it was lowered was because of politicians who caved to M.A.D.D. If you have zero tolerance for anyone who consumes the slightest bit of alcohol and chooses to drive, great. If you want to steepen the penalties for all cases, I just want to know what you have planned for people who make the conscious choice to do other tasks while driving with cause even more impairment. For people in that extreme low range of the legal limit, they have tested to shown no more impairment than cell phone talkers or eaters. LESS impairment than drivers applying makeup, texting or driving on very little sleep. I've been hired to drink beer, do other tasks and test drive simulators at the National Advanced Driving Simulator at UI (yes, NADS). I'm not pulling this stuff out of nowhere and not trying to say drunk driving is no problem.

Not necessarily. If I have more than a couple drinks or feel impaired in the slightest bit, I call a cab. Basically I call a cab anytime I go out. But after using a sample breathalyzer, I am sure there have been many times where I unwittingly drove right around a .08-.10. Studies have been extremely inconclusive at best when it comes to that range. I mean 1 stronger than expected margarita with a Mexican meal and you're at that level. Most likely you do not feel much impairment. If you want to steepen drunk driving penalties for habitual offenders, I'm with you. If you want to steepen them on general principle, I want to know what you plan to do for people caught talking on cell phones, eating, texting, applying makeup, etc...

Would someone please tell me why the eff Eric Devendorf thinks he can leave early and play in the NBA?

probably gonna have to run someone off. Unless sherron and cole go pro. Per the Phog Appleton and Quintrell are transfering. i gotta be honest, that kind of bums me out, even though it means we have room for a difference maker. College sports can be pretty nasty. A kid like Appleton could have gotten a ton of minutes and been a difference maker at ISU (whom I think was a finalist). When you join Kansas at the stage in which he joined them, it shouldn't be surprising if you get recruited over. I understand it's an ego thing and all the peeps around them say they're the man. It just comes down to whether you want to play for an average/below average team or never play for a really good team. A kid like Isaiah Dahlman was down to Iowa and Michigan State when Alford was still here and was ranked right around 100 nationally. He probably would have had a really prominent role (especially in Lickliter's offense) at Iowa and helped win some more games. Instead he's basically never played a meaningful minute in 3 years. Maybe he would still do that again, I just don't get it sometimes.

J Hood and Tim Doyle could be interesting. Doyle is a goof but I kind of liked him on the BTN. Have no idea what he would be like discussing anything outside of college basketball. J Hood would piss me off routinely but could be really good at times.

There are a lot of ways to look at that. When you're under .10 there have been a lot of conflicting studies as to how impaired you truly are. Generally can fall in the same line with those eating while driving or talking a cell phone. Even less than people who are driving on very little sleep willingly. How do we punish all of those people? What about cell phone related accidents? Accidents caused by someone texting while driving? Do all of these people lose their license for a year? There's quite a difference between a habitual offender or someone driving at .18+ and someone who had 3 beers with a meal and is right at/slightly above the legal limit.

Eh, he claimed he didn't want the circus of playing against his brother and wanted to get out of the Big Ten and carve his own niche. I wanted to land him and it would have been good pr, but many seem to think Payne is the better player.

About the only positive I can muster out of this from the Vikings perspective is that this deal could hurt them in other spots long-term. As has been discussed the o-line is questionable at least after the next year or so, the WR's are shaky and the defense is no longer great and is aging. The 2 firsts and a 3rd will hurt their ability to add those young pieces in those spots. Plus by 2011 Cutler is likely to have a huge cap number that could restrict them some when combined with the draft picks. With all that said, last week I felt pretty confident that the Vikings would take the North next year with the Packers being the toughest competition and the Bears third. Now, who knows. Everything changes when you add what looks like a 25 year old franchise QB. Yahoo kept reporting that the Vikings were in the original 3-way deal that would have sent Cassel to the Broncos, Cutler to the Vikings and draft picks to the Patriots. They reported the deal fell through when multiple members of the Vikigns coaching staff and front office weren't sold on Cutler and had questions about him mentally and how he fits on a team. Ugh

I can't find the rationale for expecting the bullpen to be terrible and starting staff to be below average.

That has been the rumor out there and rationale for his name being included every time a "name" school has an opening. For whatever reason he supposedly feels he and their program's success are taken for granted and not appreciated.

Iowa has offered Marcus Jordan. Stanford has also offered. We'll be at the bottom of the league next year but I'm not as close to the cliff as I was two days ago. We look to be in pretty good shape to land Malcolm Armstead who was likely to beat Peterson for the PG spot next year. The problem is that Pete would have been a very good backup PG and now we have none. Davis and Palmer weren't getting minutes and were both seniors next year. Jake is the killer and what sets us back a year. We'll see if they can land the recruits to get the ship headed in the right direction.

If only Carlton Reed could get another medical redshirt year we would have former Hawkeyes at 4 MVC schools. That is assuming Peterson goes to Missouri State. Jake is going to tear up the MVC. I don't know what else Indiana State has but if they can put anything around him he should turn them around in his two years. Remember '06 when we had a great season and were a 3 seed? And then got bounced in the first round on a buzzer beater after a sickening collapse? And on top of that we got to watch a former Hawkeye (and top 50-75 recruit) Marcellus Sommerville lead Bradley to the Sweet 16 as a 13 seed while we were at home? The guy (him or Pierre Pierce) who could have been the one athlete/missing piece that may have made that a Final 4 caliber team? Remember that? Yeah that's probably going to happen again. Except this time we'll be watching from home in the NIT thinking Jake was the guy who would have gotten us in the tournament. I'm gonna go dig a hole, sit in it and cry now.

Yeah at this point I think Iowa needs to go after Seth Curry and Marcus Jordan hard. Granted, neither are obviously great players or they would have/have had better options. Curry played in a terrible conference but his numbers are still impressive and Jordan looked pretty good to me (at least offensively) in the state tournament. If nothing else we need something to get people a tiny bit excited.

Yeah except that has nothing to do with the current situation. We haven't gotten good players from Chicago in decades anyways. And if Coach Ping is such a nut that he influences other coaches to freeze out Iowa because they were honest about one of his former player's role then he can go eff himself. Seriously. I loved Tony as a player but he wanted it to be the Tony show. He wanted to do his own thing, not stay within the offense or help younger guys. They told him he needed to buy in and work within the system or his playing time would drop. He took his ball and went home. If that gets you locked out of Chicago then Chicago basketball can go eff itself. You don't cater to the demands of a slightly above-average Big Ten player to the detriment of your own coaching staff just so some senile old man who wants to be powerful doesn't speak bad about your program. And yeah I would rather suck than have a spineless coach who would sell his soul and let some clowns 4 hours away run his program because they MAY give us some recruits at some point. He didn't have to run him off. He's still the coach bench him if he doesn't see things your way. It would still behoove(sp?) Iowa to have an in with Chicago. It makes is much easier to win in the midwest when you can recruit that market. He didn't run him off. He told him he would have to adapt his attitude and approach or he would see reduced minutes and a reduced role. Tony didn't want to change and left. I see nothing wrong with that from either side. And if that risks you losing players from Chicago that you never really got to begin with, so be it. I have a lot of questions about Lick but that's not one of them. Like I said I'd rather have a coach who is honest and at least trying to implement his system and vision than be held hostage by some clowns in Chicago who never really sent us players.

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Yeah except that has nothing to do with the current situation. We haven't gotten good players from Chicago in decades anyways. And if Coach Ping is such a nut that he influences other coaches to freeze out Iowa because they were honest about one of his former player's role then he can go eff himself. Seriously. I loved Tony as a player but he wanted it to be the Tony show. He wanted to do his own thing, not stay within the offense or help younger guys. They told him he needed to buy in and work within the system or his playing time would drop. He took his ball and went home. If that gets you locked out of Chicago then Chicago basketball can go eff itself. You don't cater to the demands of a slightly above-average Big Ten player to the detriment of your own coaching staff just so some senile old man who wants to be powerful doesn't speak bad about your program. And yeah I would rather suck than have a spineless coach who would sell his soul and let some clowns 4 hours away run his program because they MAY give us some recruits at some point.

Stop. It's too painful. Well here's the most optimistic viewpoint possible and most spin I can conjure up: Davis and Palmer were not likely to contribute much at all next year so no real loss there. I was never really high on Peterson and if they land the JC PG Armstead who they've been relentlessly going after for a long time, he was expected to have a very good shot at starting PG next year anyways. So he can effectively replace Peterson and has 3 years left instead of 2. Gatens, Tucker and Fuller look like a solid trio of sophomores and good core along with Cole. Kelly is the major loss. He was our best player easily. Ah who am I kidding. This sucks. We would have to get super-lucky with our next coaching hire. The job is no longer as desirable as it was 10 years ago when we were a middle of the pack Big Ten team and regular in the tournament.

Prior to today everything was basically give him next year to be in the NIT maybe contend for the bubble and by Year 4 you've got to be in the tournament or else. Now that's not realistic and I'm not sure what the hell you do to sell tickets or raise money to get a practice facility. The problem is we're left with a depleted roster in April. The only thing you can find at this point are JUCO's who usually come with some baggage. He's a long-term build guy, not a quick fix guy. The only thing he can do at this point is patch a few spots for this year and go insane for the '10 class. Except he's not going to be able to bring in top 100 players. He has to be wondering why the hell he left Butler. We're completely effed. This sucks. I kind of miss Alford right now. Sort of but the drama that he had in his first few years (well whole tenure) was crazy also. No it was time for Alford to go and I defended him quite a bit. There was too much damage done and the fans were never going to warm up to him enough as a whole. I thought Lickliter was an excellent hire. But now we're looking at year 4 before we can even think of the NCAA's.

Prior to today everything was basically give him next year to be in the NIT maybe contend for the bubble and by Year 4 you've got to be in the tournament or else. Now that's not realistic and I'm not sure what the hell you do to sell tickets or raise money to get a practice facility. The problem is we're left with a depleted roster in April. The only thing you can find at this point are JUCO's who usually come with some baggage. He's a long-term build guy, not a quick fix guy. The only thing he can do at this point is patch a few spots for this year and go insane for the '10 class. Except he's not going to be able to bring in top 100 players. He has to be wondering why the hell he left Butler. We're completely effed. This sucks.

So the wheels have completely come off the Iowa basketball program. As has been rumored, Jake Kelly is transferring back home to Indiana State. His mom had moved to Iowa City to be around during his college years but died in a plane crash last summer. He obviously had a hard time with it and is moving to Terre Haute where all of his family lives. Also Jermain Davis a backup PG who was a JC transfer has been reportedly kicked off the team and starting PG Jeff Peterson is also said to be transferring. 1 or 2 others may also be leaving. This is nuts.

What an incredibly stupid play by Carroll though. You're up 4 with 3 seconds left, get the hell away from a shooter. It's the only way they can tie you up dummy.

But Tiller is a better free throw shooter than English.

Mizzou getting hosed

And thank God we got that Syracuse/Arizona State game in it's own timeslot. Wouldn't have wanted any of the Pitt, Missouri, Michigan State or even Louisville games on at the same time so they could switch.

Mike Anderson is pretty impressive. To make the jump he did in year 3 is one thing. To do it without an abundance of great talent is another. But to have a team play as fast as they do, press the way they do without giving up a bunch of easy baskets and turn it over as infrequently as they do takes it up another level.