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re: Michigan football forcing women to get abortions: Harbaugh may return to burn it down

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/24/26 at 10:00 am to BilJ

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"they cared more about winning football games, not having another scandal, and trying to protect the head coach" than her feelings.

They weren’t even winning that many football games

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re: NFL Draft Discussion Thread

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/23/26 at 8:12 pm to Downeast12

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Is it just ABC, or does the draft suck now? Way too much going on. Just show me highlights and the analysts talking about players. I don’t care about weird rants from the parents or bands playing in the background

The ABC show is supposed to be focused on the players and stories. The ESPN one is more analysis, but ESPN’s NFL analysts mostly suck. Maybe try NFLN.

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re: Why the hell did we extend DeBoer?

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/23/26 at 8:32 am to Freight Joker

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How many of our programs have been ranked in the top 25 or top 10 over the last 12 months? Damn near all of them? I’ll give the guy the benefit of the doubt if that’s ok.

That’s fair, and I’m not suggesting we fire Byrne. But I haven’t seen anyone defending this contract based on its own merits.

The buyout if DeBoer chooses to leave is only $10M. No program or NFL team that he would leave for is going to blink at that. From my perspective, we gave him way more security for little to no more security in return.

People are saying a long term contract helps recruiting, but that just seems like archaic thinking to me. The team that just won the national title was all transfers, and not even very highly regarded transfers. Same is true in men’s basketball.

If the goal was the stave off Michigan and Penn State, it would have been nice to at least get some security that we won’t have the same problem this fall.

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re: Why the hell did we extend DeBoer?

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/22/26 at 7:50 pm to Freight Joker

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Because maybe Byrne & Co know more than the average message board loser i.e. me.

This sort of blind deference to any sort of authority is stupid.

How many ADs have given awful extensions over the past 20 years? Tons and tons.

There’s no reason to think Byrne or any person in the administration is infallible.

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re: Pickleball Slam

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/15/26 at 7:36 pm to dirtsandwich

It’s pretty entertaining watching the one pickleball girl take over

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re: I Lived The Feminist Dream. I Want My Money Back.

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 4/2/26 at 4:45 pm to bad93ex

I can appreciate the writer at least acknowledging that she has made a mistake. The problem is she still misses the mark about where she was wrong. This quote proves it:

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Ten years go by. Surely, the men left in their forties are still single because they're looking for something real, something mature; a woman of substance. Wrong. They're still dating twenty-year-olds, just now with a hair transplant and an eye-rolling age gap.

The vast majority of single men in their 40s are not dating 20 somethings. This woman’s main problem isn’t a focus on career. It’s an inflated sense of self worth. She still thinks she deserves a top 1% man, the type that can pull a 20 something at 40 if he wants.

The problem is she can’t pull that guy, and honestly probably never could except for a hookup when the guy was on a backslide.

I know a lot girls who like to pretend the career thing is why they are single. The reason they are actually single is because they need a reality check about how valued they are. Any thin, okay looking girl like the author could easily find some guy to settle down with, but she still thinks she’s too good for that.

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re: Women’s loss on Curry

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/23/26 at 3:27 pm to Amarillo Tide

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We have a sizable segment of our fan base that scream for Madonna but answer me this, if she’s such an amazing coach, why has literally NO Division I school even interviewed her for a job? Doesn’t that kind of make you wonder?

To be fair, the same thing happened with Bucky in the men’s game coaching high school until Samford gave him a shot. I’d like to see a Samford or UAB or whoever give Thompson a shot in the women’s game.

I agree that jumping from JuCo to SEC doesn’t seem realistic.

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re: Dan Orlovsky Thinks Ty Simpson is The Best QB in This Class

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/23/26 at 9:08 am to RLDSC FAN

I think his take at the end that having Simpson in the 15 to 20 range is better than Mendoza at 1 makes a lot of sense.

I’m not sure Simpson is better than Mendoza because Simpson’s deep ball was pretty lacking at times. I do think people outside of Alabama and the SEC don’t appreciate how bad the Alabama offense was outside of Simpson.

The running game, including RPO, was nonexistent even against light boxes. Simpson had to pick apart defenses with the defense playing for a pass every play.

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re: WBC is an unserious exhibition in its current state.

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/18/26 at 6:48 am to lsufball19

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Not a single pitcher is going to pitch in the WBC after a 162 game season and postseason. Most players wouldn’t want to either. That’s just not realistic

I agree with you, but also hockey players do with this for the iihf world championships every year. Those start while the Stanley Cup playoffs are still going, and some guys will get knocked out of the playoffs and immediately fly over to Europe to join their national team.

Just more evidence that hockey is the purest sport left standing.

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re: WBC is an unserious exhibition in its current state.

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/18/26 at 6:43 am to reauxl tigers

I think it should be a week or 10 days and replace the all star break. I feel that every league except the NFL should move this way given the ratings hockey has pulled for the 4 nations and the Olympics, and now baseball with the WBC.

I think it’d be smart to try to get a big game on the 4th of July. Team USA playing America’s pass time on Independence Day. Seems like the easiest sell ever.

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re: Ole Miss 80 @ Alabama 79 Final - SECN

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 3/13/26 at 5:33 pm to wm72

Anyone know the tipoff time? I know 6 is the listed but seems like UT-Vandy went long

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re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/15/26 at 4:41 pm to UltimaParadox

Kind of unlucky for us that Sweden finished all the way down as a 7 seed. That’s probably who we’ll play Wednesday.

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re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/14/26 at 4:44 pm to Drank

That wasn’t a great showing if we are honest.

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re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/14/26 at 3:54 pm to metallica81788

In Swayman’s defense on the last one, Miller has to close that space more. Staying that far back is doing more to screen your own goalie than to block the shot.

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re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/14/26 at 3:49 pm to MF Doom

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I thought our goalie was supposed to be the best

Hellebuyck started the first game and will start the next game and the knockout games. Oettinger might even take over as backup after this showig from Swayman.

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re: TEAM USA WINS GOLD | USA 2 Canada 1 FINAL/OT | Gold Medal Game | Olympic Hockey

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/14/26 at 3:46 pm to Shreve Perry

I doubt we see Swayman start another game this Olympics

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re: Will Illia win Gold or won't he?

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/13/26 at 10:06 pm to Dawgsontop34

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Also, I know I called Ilia a choker earlier, but I’m seeing a lot of things talking about the quality of the ice. Any truth to that or just sour grapes?

I don’t know, but basically everyone was falling. I think 4 of the last 5 fell which would be 4 of the favorites to win gold because the highest scorers from the short program went last today.

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re: Will Illia win Gold or won't he?

Posted by TomRollTideRitter on 2/13/26 at 10:02 pm to MSUDawg98

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After they got him coached up what to and what not to say. Believe his words when he didn't think the mic would pick it up and his body language as he left the bench.

I thought he handled himself pretty well given the circumstances.

Sponsors aren’t going to drop him over that. They might over just losing, but I doubt anyone is going to care beyond this week that a hot mic caught him saying he should have been on the 2022 team.

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