Bank Shot Podcast said:

Big time for Shrews. He will have ND respectable again.

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Shrews is coooookin for this class of 2025. Another kid “predicted” to be committing today..6’10 center out of Minnesota.

Katscratch said:

Agreement or not, we should protect/militarily assist Ukraine when it’s in America’s best interests to do so, and it currently is.

We do not have an obligation to support any other country’s social programs.

These two concepts are incredibly simple.

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Why is it in American's best interest to support Ukraine? Since we purchase oil from Russia, it sounds like we're fighting ourselves in this situation.

Purdue95Grad said:

It’s wild. Their hatred of “libs” is so strong that their brains have fallen out of their asses and they come up with takes like this. X is happening in a country on another continent and the current response is “meh, out of sight, out of mind”. Never mind that those idiotic takes go directly against the foundational principles of this country.

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Why is the US the largest financial contributor to Ukraines defense? You would think that if the threat of invasion by Russia were that real, Germany, France, Poland and other Euro countries would be doing more than that US.

Purdue’s ladies aren’t a deep team, wish Coach (great man and Coach) would have hit the portal this offseason and picked up a capable depth piece player, don’t think Gray was the piece.

BB62 said:

Good for you. Doesn't make you right. You're showing it in every post.

You were arguing it was our fault Russia invaded because we made overtures to accepting Ukraine into NATO. Correct?

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I posted this for you when you were using your pre-banishment user name. It must be difficult for you to accept amid your Churchill fantasies:

"Many of these analysts argue that the U.S. erred in its efforts to prevent the breakout of war by refusing to offer to retract support for Ukraine to one day join NATO or substantially reconsider its terms of entry. And they argue that Russia’s willingness to go to war over Ukraine’s NATO status, which it perceived as an existential national security threat and listed as a fundamental part of its rationale for the invasion, was so clear for so long that dropping support for its eventual entry could have averted the invasion."

Purdue95Grad said:

Says the guy who swears people are out grilling cats. 😂😂😂😂

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You can see it plain as day. Do you not have eyes?

Meanwhile in liberal utopia...

BB62 said:

You were arguing it was our fault Russia invaded because we made overtures to accepting Ukraine into NATO. Correct?

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I don't use words like 'fault' and 'blame'. I simply convey what transpired. Putin had warned for 20 years that any former Warsaw Pact nation joining NATO would be considered an act of war. Ukraine and the US finalized the paperwork for Ukraine to join NATO and Russia invaded. That's what happened.

Bill Clinton promised Ukraine that we'd have their six if they got into a war with Russia. You and I don't know if the understanding at the time assumed ground troops, nuclear weapons, whatever. I think it's safe to assume that Ukraine would appreciate a lot more military support from the US than they're getting at this time. But of course, more support could escalate this into WWIII.

Heads up BOILER said:

I think the first two to garner time will be Berg and Furst. Jacobsen will play as well due to ability to protect the rim. Not sure about Burgess as word coming out is he’s been very good thus far but will he come in off the bench or redshirt? Paint said likely a 8-9 man rotation with possibly 10 at most. That leaves the rest as scout team players and only playing at the end of big margin games.

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Maybe so, but in reality MOST red shirts involve a guy that isnt' quite ready to see the floor. Whether physical development or skills, there's usually a reason. When you have a Big that has the body and the skills to help right now, you don't usually put a shirt on those guys. We are "deep" up front, but we don't know how good yet.

northside100 said:

I’m not sure I follow your point. I agree that he is big enough to be able to guard the five and would need to be quick enough to guard fours. So defense is certainly an important factor.

My point was that in addition to being able to guard a four. At a minimum you need to be able to shoot, which reports would indicate that RB can do. IMO, a true stretch for also has guard like passing and ball handling skills like a Robbie and Vince. That doesn’t seem to be RM’s MO, which is fine.

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TI've never seen any discussion or posting that a stretch 4 has guard like skills.
Stretch just means they can shoot it outside to hopefully keep opposing 4 from sagging on 5.

northside100 said:

Ethan never panned out the way he was expected to on an individual basis, but you could have a much worse career. He played a bunch of minutes and helped Purdue win a ton of games. Not many players will leave Purdue or any other program having won more games over four years than Ethan Morton.

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Not "many"?
NONE (I think)
Wasn't this graduating class the most wins in the big 10? EVER????

Purdue95Grad said:

“I kNoW wHaT a CaT lOoKs LiKe”. Did you use a pop-up book to remind yourself?

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Wow you have mental problems.

Purdue95Grad said:

Probably because he’s a right wing conspiracy whacko, 03.

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Oh right, because you said so. Got it!

Quix0te said:

Sigh. More insults and name-calling. This 'illogical MAGA idiot' is a retired 28-year active duty US Army officer who is a graduate of both Command and General Staff College and Army War College. If you think you know more about this than I do, you are mistaken. You seem to be arguing that we should have trusted Russia to comply with the Budapest Memo. Is that realistic? And Clinton promised Ukraine that we would have their back if they gave up their nukes. But we didn't.

I will tell you once again: If Ukraine had kept its nuclear weapons, they would not have been invaded by Russia.

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Good for you. Doesn't make you right. You're showing it in every post.

You were arguing it was our fault Russia invaded because we made overtures to accepting Ukraine into NATO. Correct?

In other words, NATO and Ukraine believed Ukraine would be safer and less likely to be invaded if they were in NATO............because we can't trust Russia to leave Ukraine alone. You are now saying it wasn't wise to trust Russia in '94 but we can trust them now? You're saying without the NATO protection we could trust Russia to not invade? You're completely contradicting yourself. We shouldn't have trusted them with the BM but we can trust them to not invade now without NATO protection? Pick a lane dude. Either you trust Russia or you don't. And I would argue the issue of trust is completely different in the two situations because it was a reformer named Yeltsin in '94 who was leading Russia and it's now a murdering former KGB agent.

We promised to have Ukraine's back with the BM? Not in writing but it was the spirit of the agreement. You say we didn't do it? WHAT WOULD YOU CALL WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW? That's exactly what we're doing along with the UK and the rest of Europe.

It's easy to Monday morning QB what happened 30 years ago. You seem to forget the geopolitical atmosphere at the time. Russian provinces were splitting off right and left. Everyone thought there was a fundamental change happening in Russian leadership. Ukraine was going to finally break free from Russia but they were still rightly concerned about future conflicts with them. They wanted the US to guarantee protection for them in the BM. Why? Because of what is happening RIGHT NOW. They were right. But by all means lets blame the US for Russia breaking an agreement and invading Ukraine.

You may have been educated on the subject but your politics is overwhelming your logic.

IUHDog said:

Matt Painter?

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Move!!!!

TC4THREE said:

Unforgiving?? How hard has our schedule really been? Notre Dame is a big name and ranked but has already lost at home to a MAC team. Indiana State is a pathetic FCS opponent and Oregon State isn't P5 anymore and didn't look that good even when they were beating us.

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"Unforgiving" was meant to say that there haven't been a lot of cupcakes for a first time HC to cut his teeth on. He was thrown into the fire between last year and this year. Also, I say unforgiving because of what is to come. If Walters fixes what is broken and does a steller job coaching from here on out, it is highly unlikely he has much to show for it.

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TC4THREE said:

Unforgiving?? How hard has our schedule really been? Notre Dame is a big name and ranked but has already lost at home to a MAC team. Indiana State is a pathetic FCS opponent and Oregon State isn't P5 anymore and didn't look that good even when they were beating us.

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We are 1-3 with only 1 real un-winnable game that was on the schedule. Agree the Oregon State just is not good.

Gets much tougher now.

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Indy_Rider said:

Hazell always said he needed to watch the tape and then nothing changed.
After the Nebraska game, Walters used the dreaded watch the tape, but then to our surprise he made a huge change after watching the tape. That alone is a huge difference.

The defense was good enough to win Saturday, the offense did nothing, and the D ran out of gas at the end because they were on the field for way too long.

I am not completely out on Walters, people forget that Brohm didn't exactly leave us with a wealth of talent. Probably why Harrel got another chance after he brought in some more players, but clearly not calling a good game and I think that is what Walters saw on the tape, things that would/should work and we weren't doing it, not attacking the weaknesses so time for a change to someone who can adjust play calling to attack defensive weaknesses. Anyone else can't really be worse.

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I liked your post. I agree Brohm had more talent leftover year 1 compared to the talent Walters had his first year.

Holding Nebraska scoreless in the first half was impressive. Since the offense could not put together any long drives to give the defense a rest, the defense, as we expected, became tired towards the end of game.

BB62 said:

Lol. The rabbit hole keeps pulling you deeper.

There would be no war in Ukraine if Russia had lived up to their commitments laid out in the Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine gave up the nukes to satisfy Russia and make them feel safe. Ukraine was rewarded with an invasion........and getting blamed for it by illogical MAGA idiots.

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Sigh. More insults and name-calling. This 'illogical MAGA idiot' is a retired 28-year active duty US Army officer who is a graduate of both Command and General Staff College and Army War College. If you think you know more about this than I do, you are mistaken. You seem to be arguing that we should have trusted Russia to comply with the Budapest Memo. Is that realistic? And Clinton promised Ukraine that we would have their back if they gave up their nukes. Four presidents later, we didn't.

I will tell you once again: If Ukraine had kept its nuclear weapons, they would not have been invaded by Russia.

Hazell always said he needed to watch the tape and then nothing changed.
After the Nebraska game, Walters used the dreaded watch the tape, but then to our surprise he made a huge change after watching the tape. That alone is a huge difference.

The defense was good enough to win Saturday, the offense did nothing, and the D ran out of gas at the end because they were on the field for way too long.

I am not completely out on Walters, people forget that Brohm didn't exactly leave us with a wealth of talent. Probably why Harrel got another chance after he brought in some more players, but clearly not calling a good game and I think that is what Walters saw on the tape, things that would/should work and we weren't doing it, not attacking the weaknesses so time for a change to someone who can adjust play calling to attack defensive weaknesses. Anyone else can't really be worse.

Riveting said:

You think we are helping a 'democracy'? Good one. That is the same myth Bob believes.

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Agree with you that Ukraine is not a democracy in the sense of the US or Canada.

Compared to Russia? They are far more aligned with our democratic institutions.

Katscratch said:

You’re making a point of substance; not sure why you felt the need to end the post with labeling and name calling.

But yes “don't have to put American troops into harms way” is a real factor. Of course it’s not the only factor but if we can exert American influence and help democracies that will be allies? There’s incredible long term value in that.

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You think we are helping a 'democracy'? Good one. That is the same myth Bob believes.