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If Fortner walks and gets the $6m per year that Sportrac has him projected for, could we get another compensatory pick? or do those not go out until the draft after you lose the player?

Amazing that this little town has produced:

Nancy - deadly from medium range with an automatic rifle

Erica - Smartest science kid in her science class -- even smarter than Dustin and the teacher. Probably a grandchild of one of the black science ladies who got us to the moon

Karen Wheeler - Wine bottle assassin.. MacGyver with an O2 tank and a commercial dryer

Robin - successful therapist and relationship counselor, also runs tech support and maintenance for a 50k watt radio tower.

Max and Holly - Upside-down tag team duo of Survivorman and Sherlock Holmes

11 - Future olympic high jump champion

This town is a hotbed of glass ceiling breakers!

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On top of that, you also make a good point about new characters while existing (and formerly prominent) ones take a back seat

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Keep in mind that some of the "formerly prominent" characters have aged into very bad actors..

El's character still doing the single syllable just-learned-English from Papa thing comes off as just bad acting now that she's visibly a full grown adult on screen

Erica is a horrific actor whose sassy black girl shtick was humorous as a child.. now she just sounds like a Spirit Airlines ticket agent

The professional actors on the show are - unsurprisingly - putting down the best performances, and I imagine its because the writers know they can get more out of them than the others.

Also does anyone know if Linda Hamilton actually had to audition for her part? Or did the Duffers just Google "female actors in strong military roles" and Demi Moore wasn't available?

Haven't seen a pump fake like that since #9 left

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Thank Boise St for that I guess.

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Boise State was the match that lit the fuse on this whole shite show...

Year after year going undefeated (or close to it), with some occasional quality wins.. Forcing the committee to justify bigger name teams with worse records being ahead of them to keep TV ratings up. It was because of Boise that the "Power 5" split got rolling, and created the perpetual spending machine that we currently have.

Should have been clear then that this show was about TV contracts and money, and not not about the untainted competition of amateur collegiate athletics

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Motivation only gets you so far in the modern NBA

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Worst thing that happened in the Willie Green tenure was that comeback against the Clippers in the play-in..

That one "you gotta fight" sound bite gave him so much more slack and national praise than he deserved

That one game and that one situation had Willie convinced that Jonas -- probably our most consistent player -- needed to sit for Larry Nance every game in God knows how many winnable losses

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I will always believe KM and Loomis tanked the first half of the season with Rattler and some peculiar in-game decisions on purpose. I truly believe we'd be sitting at 8-9 wins right now if they'd tried to win from the start. If you're obsessed with draft position, you should thank them for all those early season Ls. Once you put in your QB of the future, though, the tanking has to stop.

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Tanked on purpose? I doubt it..

But I think they were smart enough to not throw Shough out there against 8 playoff teams...

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The injuries derailed his career

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Yeah that's what it was...

Just dont let them suddenly get hot from 3

On pace for 100+ catches, 1200+ yards and at least 8 TDs.. thats a pretty damn good season. Just wish he was better at high-pointing some of those deep balls..

The other guy everyone wanted to replace (Juwan Johnson) is currently 4th in the NFL in yards and on pace for 80 and 800