DwaynePurvis00 said:

For everyone 😂 😂

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In the words of MP, "ignorant".

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It's the start of another season of Purdue basketball, as the Texas A & M Corpus Christi Islanders visit Mackey Arena to take on the #14-ranked Purdue Boilermakers. It's an early tip @ 6:00 pm (Eastern time) with television coverage on the Big Ten Network and the opening game for both schools. This will be the second meeting all-time between the schools. Purdue defeated Texas A & M - Corpus Christi 79-61 back in December of 2006 in Matt Painter's second season as head coach.

Possible Starting Line-ups:

TX A & M - CC

Garry Clark, Dian Wright-Forde, Jordan Roberts, Owen Dease, and Leo Torbor

Purdue

Trey Kaufman-Renn, Will Berg, Gicarri Harris, Fletcher Loyer, and Braden Smith

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Junior Braden Smith will lead this Matt Painter coached Purdue Boilermaker team, looking to be a bigger focus of the offense with Zach Edey's departure to the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA. The other two returning starters, Trey Kaufman-Renn and Fletcher Loyer, will also be counted on to provide scoring production. Expect Purdue to have a number of players take up major minutes in the line-up either as starters or first off the bench, including returners Myles Colvin, Cam Heide, and Caleb Furst, along with newcomers C.J. Cox and Daniel Jacobsen. Freshman Gicarri Harris looks to be a potential two-way player who can provide production on both ends of the floor. Purdue will definitely be a little different on both ends, but you will still see some of the same principles - motion offense - establishing a paint presence on offense......and working inside-out at times. What might be a little different is a few more players working the wings on both ends of the floor.

The Boilers could be a little vulnerable in the paint and on the glass - another aspect of the game where it was more than a luxury to have Zach Edey. TKR, Will Berg, Caleb Furst, and the newcomers will have to generate that via committee for now.....and they will get tested.

The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders won 21 games last season and have topped 20 wins in each of the last 3 years. The Islanders, who finished 2nd in the Southland Conference last season, play New Mexico and New Mexico State next. Garry Clark returns after averaging 13.2 points and 8.1 rebounds, while Dian Wright-Forde averaged 10.4 points and 1.6 assists. Jordan Roberts averaged 1.6 assists per game and Owen Dease played in 655 minutes last season. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi has been one of the better teams in the Southland the last 3 seasons, and it brings back its top-3 scorers from last year. The core of this Texas A&M-Corpus Christi roster is the same, and they could give Purdue a more competitive contest than some might expect. They can play aggressively at times and force some mistakes - will these Boilers be ready to handle it and get the season off to a good start?

We shall see in a couple of hours.....

Boiler Up, my friends....

DwaynePurvis00 said:

He IS Wole!

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Who knew?

Boiler Buck said:

Any other R would win. Country says 79% wrong track right now.

If K2 wins she will be the first to overcome that by...
1. Having media 100% behind her lies
2. Lying to public about abortion.... which is not a national issue any longer. Media assisted in this lie.
3. $ for lying TV adds and the team of unethical election ground game minions it bought.
4. Division of Hate wins.

If T wins......
1. People are ready for great policy for the people...not against the people
2. People are broke and will accept even Trump
3. People are tired of the border invasion & want a fix.

People just want this over.....either way.

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Just because abortion was sent back to the states doesn't mean it's not a national issue. Wtf are you talking about. You're parroting trump again........who says with a dead brain that EVERYBODY, even dems, wanted Roe overturned. He seems to think that gets him off the hook with women. Totally clueless.
It's very much a national issue. It's the biggest issue with the demographic that might put Harris over the top.

Do we get an actual banner now? I was there the last time and think we just got a painted square wasn't it? But been 50+ years so I can't really remember too clearly.

Happy to see others that can see the forest for the trees. The kid just needs enough minutes to settle in and not play "nervous". Just like all the other bigs not TKR. He can and probably will be a rotation player.

bonefish1 said:

The election is riding on that 3-4% slice of the electorate that will decide the swing states .

Will people look past what Trump (or comedians at a Trump rally said) said and believe his policies will lift the country out of this hole?
Wil Trump grad enough of the black male votes out of places like Detroit, Philly, Pitt and Atlanta?

Will people believe that Harris will really be different than Biden?
Has her campaign done a good enough job of laying out policy vs just attacking Trump?

When it's all said and done, the entire election will probably come down to 2 states.

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Any other R would win. Country says 79% wrong track right now.

If K2 wins she will be the first to overcome that by...
1. Having media 100% behind her lies
2. Lying to public about abortion.... which is not a national issue any longer. Media assisted in this lie.
3. $ for lying TV adds and the team of unethical election ground game minions it bought.
4. Division of Hate wins.

If T wins......
1. People are ready for great policy for the people...not against the people
2. People are broke and will accept even Trump
3. People are tired of the border invasion & want a fix.

People just want this over.....either way.

lovelyblonde said:

I see it coming. I love we have several players that can handle the ball, it's got me pretty excited!

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I love it too. And both frosh guards are impressive. But there's 20 combo guards that "can handle it" for every "true" pg out there.

Chi-Boiler said:

Agree. I don't expect him to RS, but not my decision.

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proudopete said:

Reported that Burgess will not redshirt

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Good

Reported that Burgess will not redshirt

typeviic said:

Yes, we know he was involved with him.

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Until Trump found out what he was about.

Chi-Boiler said:

He probably blocks Wole too.

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He IS Wole!

If the polls under represent the trump vote as they did in his last two elections he most likely wins.

If women turn out en mass as there are signs that it will, Harris can overcome it. The women over 65 vote may be surprising and crucial.

Interesting poll in Iowa.

New Pal Boiler said:

For me, Mendenhall would be an underwhelming hire, but still would be a massive improvement over the clown show we currently have in place…

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no matter who we would get. it's going to be a slow climb out of a big hole, personally I think Dickert would be the guy if he would come to Purdue

Rebound. Rebound. Rebound.

Riveting said:

He will need a puppet-weasel like Merrick Garland.

Which political enemies did he go after in his first term? I don't recall any. Do you?

Hillary certainly deserved it after the fake dossier.

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He didn't have an AG that would do it. Are you saying he didn't ask Sessions to go after Hillary? Barr wouldn't do half the stuff trump wanted him to do. That's why they were both fired. Trump won't make that mistake again.

This whole "he didn't do it the first time " argument ignores the obvious. Trump had no idea how to choose the people that would do his bidding. He went with traditional people at all the departments. They were guardrails Most of them now refuse to support him. Not this time.

BB62 said:

"Under the new law, billions would be spent on new detention centers and yes, that's where the illegals would be housed, fed and cared for. They wouldn't be deported. That's how the bill would end catch-and-release. We'd just build housing for them."

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That is correct. The illegals would not be immediately deported. They are placed in detention centers until their asylum pleas can be heard in court. The average wait time is currently 3.9 years. But once we build the detention centers, the bill says, the wait time would magically drop to three weeks. Remember now, that's with 5,000 new ones coming in every day. And that is how the bill proposes to end catch-and-release.

BoilerJS said:

Like there wasn't massive demand before the pandemic.

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Oh my.

See, when the pandemic struck, demand cratered. Production fell. Prices fell. Refineries closed.

Coming out of the pandemic, demand rose sharply and quickly. You can't compare that to a stable market for oil in good economic conditions. Production doesn't ramp up overnight. There wasn't enough refinery capacity. Prices skyrocketed.

It's basic supply and demand economics. While I don't doubt regulation had an effect on oil prices, it's a drop in the bucket compared to a worldwide demand for oil booming after a economic collapse.