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Braun Eliminates DEI

Well, I hope y’all enjoy making America great again by removing DEI and continue to hire whites than hire unqualified sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters. Continue to help them cheat on exams and whatnot.

Getting rid of DEI will set civil rights back almost 60 years.
Here’s a solution for you. Why don’t some blacks form their own companies and hire whoever they want. Bezos started Amazon selling a few books out of the garage. Apple was the same way. Don’t have to be rich to build a mega company.

Opra and Jordan are billionaires. They could get behind this if you believe funding would be an issue. Plenty of wealthy black people are in society today.

So again why haven’t some blacks opened up a large company to hire their choice of employees?
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Updated KenPom B1G standings projection

Noted....
Two of best players from Indiana and CMP lands and coaches them. Well done CMP .

Small? Thought he was from AZ? Didn't know he was also from Indiana. (SB and Franklin Central.). How did he get away??

Shows again Indiana the hotbed of basketball lol

I consider myself a pretty decent and informed CBB fan. I have never heard of Small, let alone that he is from Indiana. Wild.

Braun Eliminates DEI

I would prefer to have the best doctor available regardless of skin color. I don’t believe that makes me a racist, but I have no doubt that you’ll judge and I don’t care what you label me.

BTW, I’ve had a woman general practitioner as my family doctor and now have a Pakistani GP, so I back up my statement above, but go ahead and blow your whistle Hillary.
There up go again assume that DEI only hires non-qualified blacks and minorities. Just like the old Sanford & Son episode. Fred assume thy the black dentist got his degree from correspondence school and the white dentist was professionally trained. So he chose the white dentist. The white dentist was actually the least qualified bd coil not do the procedure. The professionally trained black dentist had to come in.

Before DEI how many white folks have jacked stuff up throughout the years. Yeah I know it’s hard to believe. No one says anything about that.

Updated KenPom B1G standings projection

Thanks for posting this breakdown.

MSU - ILL is a huge game. ILL winning would prove theory that MSU has played overall weak schedule and isn't really a contender. With that being said I think I want MSU to win and give ILL another loss for the conference race. I still think MSU has several losses coming once they hit meat of schedule. We'll see....

Purdue - Oregon very important too. With that Penn State loss growing sour by the week, Purdue needs to steal a tough road game they're not favored in to make up for it. Oregon needs some losses now since that last 7 looks so easy too. Really do not want them winning B1G basketball and football their first regular season, lol.

Side note - OSU looked really bad last night. How did they beat Kentucky? Offense is just iso and jack a contested jumper. They have no post game either. Their 5s make Zed Key look like Hakeem Olajuwon.

I really hope Woodson turns the IU ship around too. They looked great! Keep it up Mike! That is how the best coaches get their teams to respond!
I agree with all your takes. I’m also not a believer in MSU, yet.

Updated KenPom B1G standings projection

Hard to imagine it doesn't come down to the final Friday night in Champaign.
Back part of the conference schedule is really interesting, not just for Purdue, which has to be all-hands-on-deck mentality.

Similarly to 2019, Michigan and Michigan State play twice toward the end. Michigan State plays Michigan twice, @ Illinois and hosts Purdue among its last seven games. Oregon looks to have the most favorable (on paper).....you never know for sure, but there definitely are some potential really good match-ups down the stretch.

Long, long way to go before that, and other teams could fight their way into the mix.

Last 7 games:

Purdue - @ Michigan, Wisconsin, @ Michigan State, @ Indiana, UCLA, Rutgers, @ Illinois (pack your hard hat)

Illinois - @ Minnesota, UCLA, Michigan State, @ Wisconsin, Iowa, @ Michigan, Purdue

Michigan State - @ Illinois, Purdue, @ Michigan, @ Maryland, Wisconsin, @ Iowa, Michigan

Michigan - @ Ohio State, Michigan State, @ Nebraska, Rutgers, Illinois, Maryland, @ Michigan State

Oregon - Northwestern, Rutgers, @ Iowa, @ Wisconsin, USC, Indiana, @ Washington

Thanks for posting this breakdown.

MSU - ILL is a huge game. ILL winning would prove theory that MSU has played overall weak schedule and isn't really a contender. With that being said I think I want MSU to win and give ILL another loss for the conference race. I still think MSU has several losses coming once they hit meat of schedule. We'll see....

Purdue - Oregon very important too. With that Penn State loss growing sour by the week, Purdue needs to steal a tough road game they're not favored in to make up for it. Oregon needs some losses now since that last 7 looks so easy too. Really do not want them winning B1G basketball and football their first regular season, lol.

Side note - OSU looked really bad last night. How did they beat Kentucky? Offense is just iso and jack a contested jumper. They have no post game either. Their 5s make Zed Key look like Hakeem Olajuwon.

I really hope Woodson turns the IU ship around too. They looked great! Keep it up Mike! That is how the best coaches get their teams to respond!

Lost members

Heller has been gone for a while now but I got to know him personally a bit.. some have migrated to the other site and stayed, but yeah we've lost some along way.

The "split" really did a number on our fanbase IMO.
Heller once called free users "freeloaders" Forget about ad revenue I guess, really showed his age not understanding how the internet works, and can generate income.
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Braun Eliminates DEI

By you calling that "Winning", you sir are a racist. You and others that support that MAGA anti-DEI BS all want white men to control everything regardless of qualifications. You and other supporters of this crap should be ashamed.

That is one of the dumbest moves possible. This is why this MAGA cult is BS. Getting rid of Office of Chief Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity does not make America great. What makes America great is embracing diversity in the workplace and schools. Mike Braun is an idiot. Even though Holcomb was republican, he seemed to be a decent dude. Non-MAGA for the most part. He made quite a few trips up to the "Da Region" from time to time. I bet in four years, Braun won't make it up to my area once. Red states like FL and others have done the same but Holcomb never succumbed to that BS of getting rid of DEI programs in the state unless I missed something.
I would prefer to have the best doctor available regardless of skin color. I don’t believe that makes me a racist, but I have no doubt that you’ll judge and I don’t care what you label me.

BTW, I’ve had a woman general practitioner as my family doctor and now have a Pakistani GP, so I back up my statement above, but go ahead and blow your whistle Hillary.

Any idea who Coach Painter is talking about?

Sure it's a good roster. That doesn't make it a final four roster. I agree we should add more. A day like today when the opponent provides almost no resistance shows this team has a very high skill level, no doubt.

Other games have showed we struggle when other teams have athletic guards that get into you.

The truth is in the middle, which still makes this a good team, but it could use another Jones like addition.
And some help up front someone mean

Any idea who Coach Painter is talking about?

Personal shots? Where? You posted as if Jones was the 1st transfer Painter has taken. I assume you don't know that he has a long history o accepting transfers, JUCOs, and now portal players to fill his perceived needs . I don't know you, but you simply came across as a new fan unaware of the history.
LMAO. Dude we've had interactions going back years on here. And nothing I posted remotely suggested Jones was the first transfer he has taken considering in the very same posts I literally said he'd done it two years in a row and literally named Jenkins.

Do you read every other word or what?

Listen man, I'm gonna let you have the last word and then I'm going to look at interaction with you as unnecessary and probably uninteresting to the rest of the board and stop responding to you. Feel free to do the same, or not, doesn't really matter.

Smith

NBA just doesn't want to take short players unless they are crazy athletic.

I think he'd have a second round shot although more likely he'd be a free agent pickup who's get his shot in the summer leagues.

If we were just talking skill (or if he were 6-3), then he'd be first round this year. Otherwise, I don't see it.

Before folks get upset, I'm in no way saying Smith couldn't possibly play in the NBA. I am saying NBA scouts and GMs are going to see 6 foot and not super athletic (for the NBA) as giant red flags that no amount of skill is likely to make them want to invest a first round pick in him.

Now, nothing prevents him from taking the summer league and forcing them to eat crow, but he can't control that bias that seems to be pretty evident in the NBA against shorter guards.
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Any idea who Coach Painter is talking about?

Lol so much wasted energy you put into personal shots I just laugh at. Keep doing you but it's really a waste of time.
Personal shots? Where? You posted as if Jones was the 1st transfer Painter has taken. I assume you don't know that he has a long history o accepting transfers, JUCOs, and now portal players to fill his perceived needs . I don't know you, but you simply came across as a new fan unaware of the history.

Smith

I actually agree with their take on having a bad game plan in the first half. We were clearly caught off guard with their crazy hard hedge and it killed our rhythm without a counter in the first half.
Haven’t watched Washington all year but do they normally hard hedge? If so, then sure I’ll agree.

But Also, we missed shots we hit and they hit shots they usually miss.
Great adjustments made in 2nd half tho.

2026 Recruit…

I tried to see what was left of them (sister I think) a couple of years ago outside and it was flirting with a thunderstorm and we left. I still remember when Sly got married on TV. ;) So much pertinent history from us will be lost as the clicks for today will bury the old on the Internet...
Saw my first concert at Purdue when I was 16. Those were the glory years of concerts on campus.

Tom Allen bolts psu for Clemson

Maybe they can teach him the courage to maintain outside leverage and properly seal the edge, instead of ineffectively shooting inside on every play, leaving the perimeter totally un-defended over and over again…
In the scheme, he was taught/told/coached to do that.

The MLB was supposed to then contain the outside. While Walters was here the LBs were either too slow or not talented enough to execute on that making the OLBs look worse than they actually were.

You could see the dilemma in his eyes late in the year. Hop inside like he’s coached to do and let a big run go past or react to the play, set the edge himself and get benched by his coach for not running the scheme.

There were a few games at the end of the year where he made the right read, made the right play but got his butt Sat down by Walters because he did t do what he was told.

That was Walters tenure here in a Nutshell!

Tom Allen bolts psu for Clemson

“Camera ready” and “on” sound pretty damn good to me!

I’d LOVE to be bitching about another 10-win season, another top 10 ranking, and a frustrating collapse in the CFP final four….

Other than the 2000 Rose Bowl ( and maybe the Tyler Trent OSU miracle) , I’m hard pressed to name any Purdue game in 50 years that has even approached the level of “hugeness” that Franklin has routinely gotten Penn State to.

As to the “cost” what are you referring to? I haven’t heard anything slimy attributed to Franklin, other than that he rubs certain people the wrong way.
See above. He’s a slimeball
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