Freshwater Spartan

Just finished. A couple thoughts. Overall liked it. Second best season after the magical first season. Appreciated the setting and creepy vibes. Solid acting and characters. Not thrilled with the reveal on who killed scientists or rather our "true" detectives not pursuing THAT case. A real true detective would put those murderers away and not back down to mob justice. Of course our two detectives were revealed to be quite comprised so no real heroes in this one. Virtue noir is very clever term. I see a lot of similarities between this and the stupid morality we see in most recent Quentin Tarantino movies. Hope we get a season 5. (Seems likely). Really do love the anthology big budget crime series as an idea. Alan Moore is cool. Watchman show was cool too. Jerusalem was a great book. Remember if a tv show does everything you hope it would do there isnt much point in watching it.

I think the critics are right and you guys are wrong on this one. This is great crime drama, well shot, well written and well acted. Like all things in art and entertainment not everything is meant for everyone. If this one is not to your taste check out Monsieur Spade on AMC. Another great crime drama that started about the same time as Night Country. For myself I'm tickled pink that there are two great tv shows already and its only January. And Fargo just finished up which was fantastic as well. I am TV heaven right now.

Another great season. Right up there with season 2. So much fun to watch this being a Midwesterner. Hopefully we get a 6th season but I have a feeling this is it. One of my top ten shows for sure.

Hopefully they can beat Louisville without Brown. Would love to see them get to the playoffs. Edit: Overlooked Florida. That's two games they gotta adjust. Looks like the backup did ok against the cupcake so there's that.

Rumor its Urban to TA&M

There are a few Texas and Florida schools that are AAU members, not sure if any are itching to leave . Miami U is most likely perhaps.

From what I understand the Big Ten will not have divisions next year. The will be scrapped in favor of a nine game conference schedule that rotates so that everyone plays each other at least once ever three(?) years. More details here https://bigten.org/news/2023/10/4/big-ten-conference-announces-future-football-schedule-formats-for-2024-28.aspx

This is funny Iowa Northwestern scored fewer points than 6 Cubs games In other news it looks like two of the Big-Tens strongest teams USC and Washington have a good one cooking.

I think the ultimatum placed on Brian Ferentz that he must score 25 points a game this year or be fired has made for the best must see NCAA football this year.

They hired private investigators to prove we are cheating therefore it doesn't count as cheating!!!!!

The best thing about mass paperbacks is that they would spawn used book stores that had huge stacks of ....you guessed it..... Mass Paperbacks! Take your cheap mass paperbacks and go to the local used book store. Sell them for a couple of bucks and walk out with an armload of MOARR paperbacks!!!!! Pure 1990s grooviness.

I think the real issue is that they had all signals for all opponents (probably not TCU) in the last three years. It's a clear violation of fair play. It's the equivalent of playing poker where Michigan gets to keep their cards secret while everyone else is playing open hand. You can't say it didn't help. Look at Harbaugh's middling record prior to 2021 before the sign stealing began. The rule exists for two reasons equity and player safety. 1. While all Big Ten and SEC schools could afford to pay scouts, many of the have-not schools cannot. 2. If the defense knows exactly where the ball goes they can hit the player with greater force increasing the chance of injury. Privately most head coaches (especially big schools) would want to adopt NFL style helmet communications. This was considered cost prohibitive for most schools back in 1994 when the no scouting or recording of signs rule was implemented. No idea if that is still true.

Trouble in Ann Arbor https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38727023/u-m-staffer-bought-tickets-11-schools

Easy there cowboy. Just some light hearted banter. You're right early in the season blah blah blah. Still think Big Tenn blows and has for a few years now. Just thought it was kinda cool that the PAC 12 was doing well in their swan song season. Wish the Big ten was better at winning national champions in football and basketball than they were at decimating other conferences for money. Go blue huh? CMU grad or Eastern? Or perhaps Macomb CC?

BIG Ten is awful this year. If OSU is the best team yikes. Indiana earns a 4OT win over Akron!!!!. My Spartans are braving new frontiers of bad. Iowa's O.C is back below 25pts per game. Lethargic performances all around. in the Big Ten. PSU looks good but Franklin is good for a loss or two. PAC12 looks great. In a more just world where winning mattered and not money, they would be raiding the BIG for teams to forge super conference.