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It's a lip sync act. She doesn't really know any different. Suffice it say I'm glad it's not my style of music. I guess if you like dance routines and pre-recorded music that people pretend to perform, you like this. It wasn't lip synced, actually. There was a part where she was dancing around on some faux bleacher things and lost her balance. The lyrics quit as she pulled the mic away to catch her balance. If it was lip synced, then whoever was piping in the lyrics gets a freaking raise for cutting it off at the right moment. Maybe that part wasn't but I think you're the first person in America I've seen suggest that it was not lip synced.
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Do you have Romo in the hall of fame? Whaaaaa?
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I'm still not sure how Haith has made this much of a difference. I know Ernie Nestor(former HC at George Mason and Elon) is supposed to really help with X's and O's, but you'd think there'd have been some hint that Haith was capable of this at Miami. I know he doesn't try and cram players into a particular scheme, so he must have just struck gold with the 4 guards thing. Their spacing is remarkable. It reminds me a lot of the 1987 Iowa team. I wasn't old enough to know anything at the time but they were honored this weekend and of course I've heard and read a lot about them. After Lute Olsen left, George Raveling recruited some really good talent but was questioned as a coach. Iowa finished 5th and 6th in the Big Ten his last two years and lost in the 1st round of the tournament. They hired Tom Davis who had a 58-59 overall record at Stanford and was 25-47 in the Pac Ten. He comes in, changes the style up a bit and gets a lot more out of some of the players than anyone expected. They start the year 18-0, are ranked #1 for a couple of weeks and ended up finishing 30-5 with a loss to UNLV in the Elite 8 (a game they led by 18 early in the second half). The talent that was already there was just a perfect mix for him and he got the most out of them.
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I really enjoy watching Missouri basketball.
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Which ones?
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That was fun. Get out to a 15-3 lead with 11 minutes left in the first half then fall apart and let them go 40-20 to take a 10 point lead at 45-35. Then go on a 9-0 run, then back and forth, then they get up 5 with 2:30 to go and Iowa ends on a 9-0 run. They really needed that one. Now get PSU at home Saturday and you have winnable road games with Northwestern and PSU next week.
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It shouldn't count if you can't score 45 [expletive] points. Illinois could be a good/fun team if Fran McCaffery was allowed to coach them when they got possession of the ball and Weber coached them when the other team got it. Actually let's just combine teams and have that coaching setup. It would be almost all Illinois but Marble could be PG and Gatens, White and McCabe could have a role.
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Hate the rule, not the call.
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The 192 points combined were the most in a non-overtime B1G conference game since 1995.
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No one from Iowa had more than 3 rebounds. No one had more than 2 defensive rebounds. Of the 3 guys who got more than 1 defensive board, two were guards.
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Iowa shot 80% in the second half and only outscored IU by 3. In the last 27:30, Iowa only got back-to-back stops on two occasions.
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The Eastern Conference All-Star team laughed at Iowa's defense. We scored 89 points and lost by 14. We scored 1.23 points per possession and weren't in the game. We shot 67% from 2 and 53% from 3 for a 70.4% eFG. They got 57% of their misses. Never seen anything like that.
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No idea what will happen in this Iowa/IU game. Fran is shaking up the starting lineup, putting Cartwright in at point (which moves Marble to the wing in May's spot) and White for Basabe. So essentially it means we have a 6'7 inside/out 4 man as our "center" who would guard Zeller in man. It's a much better offensive lineup but could get absolutely shredded defensively. Hopefully it lights some kind of fire under Basabe's ass to wake him up.
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He's awesome. The McDonough, Bilas, Raftery crew might be the best in sports.
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He's not a total bum but I think that's been more due to the talent he had. With the Eagles he had McNabb in his prime and Andy Reid was the play caller. With the Vikings he was given the best RB in the game, a very good OL that forced 8 in the box as much as any team in the league. The QB play was poor because he wanted to fit a round peg into a square hole (Tarvaris) with over the hill journeymen as the competition. In '09 Favre was pure magic and he had Adrian in his prime. He made Rice a top 5 WR, Shiancoe a top 5 TE. He can get some credit for that but he and Brett constantly butted heads and he hated Favre calling audibles and freelancing which usually worked. Don't think that would be a good fit for Cutler. Also don't think his offense fits Cutler's strengths. Not sure how their running game/passing game thing will work but Tice sure as hell knows how to build a quality running game.
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good hire, wish the bears had him. Trust me, you don't. hmm, well, maybe not. what was the big deal with him, is he a czar like martz? Incredibly rigid with his system like Martz. Wouldn't adjust and made Tarvaris Jackson (who was his pet) become a west coast QB despite not being an accurate passer. Jackson's strengths were his mobility and big arm and his footwork always fell apart in the pocket but that was ignored. Even when he often had 8 in the box due to Adrian. Play calling was incredibly bland and predictable until he had #4 who freelanced. Insisted on zone blocking scheme which wasn't a good fit for the huge maulers he brought in on the line. He probably won't have any personnel say as a coordinator but he was Dusty Bakereque in that regard. Stuck with a lot of "his veteran guys" who sucked even when younger guys showed promise.
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good hire, wish the bears had him. Trust me, you don't.
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Nebraska scored on 15 of their final 16 possessions and got 32 points on those 16 possessions. That's really all that needs to be said.
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Damn that was fun.
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I don't even care, the talent level difference is great again in this game. Yet again we are content playing at a pace they dictate. I dare anyone to name a worse coach in America right now than Bruce Weber. I'm going with Travis Ford. No way, does Travis have 9 top 150 kids on his roster? Well 8 now, since we ran Crandall off. In his last 3 classes he's signed 8 top 150 kids. I'm not sure if they're all there though because he's had some attrition. And they're 9-10.
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He was a football coach, not a messiah (which yes, I know some PSU people would have you believe). What happened sucked but really? He didn't rape kids and it's hard to put yourself in that kinda situation and say you would have acted immaculately. Do you really think people are upset just because he didn't act "immaculately"?
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That was an awesome day of basketball yesterday. PSU is throwing up all over themselves this half.
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Wait, Meyers Leonard is dating Rebecca Black? WTF?
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LOL. Doc Sadler was just high-fiving the fans who were surrounding him on the court. Then while everyone was just standing he started jumping up and down.
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To be slightly less embarrassing, he missed the first few games. Gotcha. Hulls should have just gone into the shot blocker's chest and stayed with his right hand instead of getting rejected by the bottom of the rim.
