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    MLB Draft Saturday

    Sounds like we’re basically watching 5-6 different HS commits plus Teel and Milewski (I feel like Milewski is probably gone or else we probably don’t go get the Oregon catcher).
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    Imagine if you will, Larry Templeton is still MSU's athletics director in 2026....

    We haven’t played in Jackson in almost 40 years now.
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    MBB Playing at Greenbrier in West Virginia

    A little worried we may wander into the wrong ballroom after halftime and spend the second half at a sales convention.
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    Imagine if you will, Larry Templeton is still MSU's athletics director in 2026....

    There is no way an SEC team is playing a football game in Jackson in the year of our Lord 2026. The high school state championships aren’t even played in Jackson anymore.
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    OT: Soccer fans, who do you follow?

    I’m a very casual Arsenal fan but the WC may encourage me to follow them closer. My reasoning is kinda silly, but I bought one of the FIFA video games when I was in college and they were really fun to play as at the time, so I just kinda adopted them as my real life team circa 2013.
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    Soccer and the "our best athletes play something else" opinion

    I think we’ve made some slow progress in recent years with some of these academies that have popped up, but it’s extremely slow progress and the same youth level problems we’ve had for decades still exist for the most part. I think it took way too long for us to realize that you can’t develop...
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    Soccer and the "our best athletes play something else" opinion

    I’ve always viewed a goal as the equivalent of a TD in American football. I.e. If Monday night were an American football game we got beat by 3 TD’s.
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    Now that kickball is over….,

    The best player in the world for the last 15+ years has been a 5 foot 7 160 pound Argentinian. There is a whole lot more to it than athleticism. We probably had our most athletic team ever this cycle. But our players don’t have the technical skill that the elite countries do. Certainly we don’t...
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    Now that we're eliminated, who you pulling for in the WC?

    Norway first. Then Colombia.
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    Fill in the blanks….

    I don’t think it’s an athleticism thing, many of the best players in the world are like 5-8 and 160 pounds. We just are way behind in our development of young players. These European academies are identifying kids before they hit puberty. And have been doing so for decades. We just were really...
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    Soccer Prediction Thread - USA vs Belgium

    Yeah he’s probably got another World Cup in him. Seen several 40 year old keepers in this year’s tourney.
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    Soccer Prediction Thread - USA vs Belgium

    I realize the stakes were way lower but hard for me to overlook that they beat us 5-2 in a friendly in late March. Both teams subbed a lot in the second half but it was largely our A team that played against them and we gave up a ton of goals. I don’t think it’ll be like that again, but I have...
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    Cape Verde!!!!!!

    Cape Verde was awesome in this tournament. One of the most fun Cinderella stories in the WC in a while. Argentina isn’t winning it this year. I’m not totally sure they are getting past Colombia in the QF. Heck. Egypt may be able to give them fits in their next game.
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    Per Vegas, USA is still a narrow favorite over Belgium

    I’d feel much better about it if Balogun was playing.
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    No comments on the Dutch going down to.

    I don’t think they’ll really be threatened until Morocco in the QF, and maybe not even then. The bracket seems to be building toward a France vs Spain semifinal, the winner of that will probably win the WC.
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