69 overall to the Patriots.

Yesterday I hated the Milroe pick. Today, I’m agreeing with John Schneider that he’s the best QB value in the draft. KJRjust finished an interview with him that should be available on- demand, soon.

Love the rest of the picks, too.

Cam Ward goes No. 1, Travis Hunter 2nd and Shedeur Sanders not picked in 1st round of NFL draft | The Seattle Times​

ROB MAADDI
April 24, 2025

The Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Cam Ward went from zero-star recruit to No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. Travis Hunter cost Jacksonville a premium. Jaxson Dart was selected before Shedeur Sanders.

While Ward, Hunter and Abdul Carter went 1-2-3 as expected, Sanders wasn’t picked at all in the first round.

“We all didn’t expect this, of course, but I feel like with God, anything’s possible, everything’s possible,” Sanders told family and friends at his draft party. “I don’t think this happened for no reason. All this is, of course, fuel to the fire. Under no circumstance, we all know this shouldn’t have happened, but we understand we’re on to bigger and better things. Tomorrow’s the day. We’re going to be happy regardless.”

Sanders was passed over by every team that had a need for a potential franchise quarterback, even though some draft analysts had him rated higher than Ward. The New York Giants had two opportunities to take Sanders — who starred at Colorado under his father, coach Deion Sanders — and went with Penn State edge rusher Carter with the No. 3 pick, bolstering an already strong pass rush.

The Titans explored their options with the first pick before it became clear a few weeks ago that Ward would be their man.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Ward’s name to kick off the draft, which for the first time was held next to historic Lambeau Field. The NFL’s smallest market is hosting the league’s biggest offseason event as thousands of fans from across the country traveled to Titletown for the festivities.

Goodell rode a bicycle onto the draft stage and was followed by former Packers stars Clay Matthews, Jordy Nelson, Mason Crosby, Ahman Green and James Jones, as well as rap megastar and Green Bay superfan Lil Wayne.

As usual, fans booed Goodell when he opened the extravaganza.

Titans fans cheered inside the draft theater after hearing Ward’s name called. An overlooked high school player out of Texas, Ward began his college career at Incarnate Word, an FCS school in San Antonio. He played two seasons at Washington State after transferring there in 2022 and then set school records in his only season at Miami, finishing fourth in Heisman Trophy voting.

“Everything that I went through, not a lot of people went through the process from high school to this point can make it to this level and continue to have the same work ethic since day one, but I had God by my side and if you have that, the rest takes care of itself,” Ward said.

The Titans are coming off a three-win season and have missed the playoffs three straight years. Ward is the fourth quarterback Tennessee has drafted in the first round over the past two decades, joining Marcus Mariota (No. 2, 2015), Jake Locker (No. 8, 2011) and Vince Young (No. 3, 2006).

Mariota is the only QB drafted by Tennessee in that span who led the team to a playoff win. That was back in 2017.

Will Levis, the 33rd overall pick in 2023, is 5-16 as a starter in his two seasons with the Titans.

Ward led the country with 39 touchdown passes and finished second with 4,313 yards passing while leading the Hurricanes to a 10-3 record. Ward also had only seven interceptions and completed 67.2% of his passes.

At least according to the news a century ago.

I found this watching a history of the single wing. The context is the deaths caused by allowing only 5 men on the line (hence 6 in the backfield vs 4 today). You can watch the video here:

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I don’t know the year, but it is WSU vs Whitman on Thanksgiving. I tried to search but haven’t found anything.

Anyone know more?

Does KW get picked up today?

How about S Sanders? Is he damaged goods or will he go early in round 2?

Sounds like Kyle Williams may end up as high as a day 2 pick. Poster child for playing in your bowl game.

I also think Esa Pole will get snagged in the 6th or 7th. You can’t coach that kind of size and his improvement has been immense in the short time he’s been playing.

And Cam Ward - meh.

TV schedule is out.

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I like the idea a lot. Put a Board overseeing WSU athletics. We'd finally have some real accountability. If the holding company owned the real estate, I assume you could also work with developers and development partners on things like a new arena.

The other thing, which could be novel, is allow stocking ownership into this entity. I'd look at this as a way to wipe all facility debt away.

" If adopted, the entire UK Athletics Department would be shifted to a limited liability or holding company being created called Champions Blue, LLC.

The UK Athletics Committee is discussing the proposed opportunity this afternoon. The full UK Board of Trustees will consider the move at its meeting Friday.

The strategy will provide the department with the flexibility to unlock new revenue streams through public-private partnerships and potentially other transactions, such as real estate."

A federal judge told the NCAA on April 7th, modify your roster change rules. In NCAA and power conferences in this lawsuit (The Pac-12) in typical fashion, they came back and say "no thanks."

What fools...."We are playing chicken with a damn federal judge," said one high-ranking college leader.

From the article....

Wilken was clear on April 7: Change the roster-limit situation or risk not having me approve the settlement.

“My idea is to grandfather in” those currently on rosters, she told lawyers. “It would save a lot of angst.”

But the defendant attorneys in the case — the NCAA and power conferences — didn't make the change, even though the plaintiff attorneys have publicly supported that idea. In an interview in the fall with Yahoo Sports, Steve Berman, one of the lead plaintiff attorneys who struck the settlement with the NCAA, said both sets of attorneys were “working” with the NCAA and power leagues for solutions, including a transitional period in which those currently on a roster are grandfathered into the system.

However, it never happened.

In case you haven’t heard, the great negotiator is now talking about abandoning Ukraine because he is learning that his idiotic bullying tactics aren’t going to work on Russia. Putin gives zero f#cks about Trump and knows that there isn’t anything Trump can do that hasn’t already been done.

And he’s learning that Ukraine would rather fight to the end rather than capitulate to Russia.

When the US pulled out of Afghanistan, Trump and his idiotic minions railed on about Biden and his lack of morals. What Trump is doing is far worse and his every action on this and everything else is leading us down a path where the US is weaker and less meaningful than when he arrived.

Trump has always had good instincts and that has served him well in life, but he’s also really f#cking dumb and that has led him to many stupid conclusions along the way.

It’s just too bad that dumb Americans, motivated by the delusions that Trump would save our economy and keep those dirty immigrants out of our country, have put us in a position where our great grandchildren are going to be reading textbooks of how great the US used to be.

As he stomps around like a child not getting his way, it’s obvious that the illusion of his negotiating skills was just hiding the fact that he’s just a bully who runs away when he gets punched in the mouth.

OK, maybe not completely....

We've had OT offseason conversations here before about things like great drummers. In that vein, I've been listening to retro stations on Pandora with stuff from the late 70s/80s, and I've rediscovered Golden Earring (Radar Love, Twilight Zone).

He's not Jon Bonham or Neal Peart....but Cesar Zuiderwijk is pretty damn good. Listening to the extended version of Twilight Zone, I think the dude may have 6 arms with the number of drum elements he's got going. Pulled up some video to see him work, and there's some of him out there playing 2 kick drums backward with his heels while standing to play on upright drums and cymbals.

From the NYT​

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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat​

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plansthat he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic.

Ethridge gets a commitment from Kiwi Mackenzie Chatfield. Junior to be point guard from WKU. Mostly a backup but looks like part.

I do like the Kiwi players. High IQ and tough. She should help and compliment Villa.

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Let's see if we can some intelligent discourse here.

So we all know about the US and the three branches of government. Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is a question asked to prospective US citizens?

We also know that the R's in Congress are getting uneasy about what appears to be infringement on their turf (tariff's, etc.). Ok, there's that. But now the Supreme Court and many other courts, federal and otherwise, have made rulings against the Administration, specifically about deportations. The Administration (read Trump) are publicly stating that they don't need to follow these rulings. Any judge ruling against the Administration is being threatened with impeachment.

All agree so far?

So my question is who to obey? If/when the Supreme Court is defied, what are their options? They have no power over law enforcement or the military. If say, Kristi Noem follows orders to defy the SCOTUS, what can they do? Have her arrested, and by who? Federal Marshals? If they don't obey the court, are they subject to arrest? What about defying Congress? If they vote to eliminate Canada tariffs for instance, how can they enforce what is supposed to be their domain? If Trump tells Texas to load the Venezuelans on a plane in defiance of the SCOTUS, what are Texas officials, State/Federal whatever, supposed to do and at what cost to them?

Put aside your political leanings for a thread. I don't know these answers. And we are probably going to find out here pretty soon. Quite the conundrum. Intelligent thoughts welcome. The 2 (and growing list of) trolls are welcome to sit this one out.

Jerone Martin PG

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Judge sees birth certificate and SS card but doesn't have jurisdiction to order him released?

So when are you F-ing Trumpers going to finally see the carnage this rotten F-er is inflicting on the USA? And F-ing Florida - what a bunch of loons down there. It just gets worse every G-D day. And I won't even get started on the Harvard shit. The oldest University in the country, and home to how many Presidents?

I was invited to a meet and greet with the US House Representative for my area today. It's always kind of interesting to get the perspective directly rather than through a media filter (right or left). Some takeaways:

1. He thinks that Trump is going too far with the tariffs but it's obvious that he isn't willing to rock the boat.
2. He thinks that they can cut Medicaid spending by eliminating waste and abuse in the system without kicking people that need the program to the curb.
3. He supports legal immigration but said that the system right now allows too many indirect family members to tag along and take spots that other legal immigrants would like to have. He did go off on a tangent about Biden's open border.
4. He claimed that the TCJA actually yielded a net positive in tax revenue in recent years even though it was originally estimated to cost $2.2 trillion over the 10 year period. I read an article before I typed this that said that any positive effects are going to be wiped out by rising costs in the next 10 years.
5. One of the folks in the meeting put him on the spot about lumber tariffs. On one hand, I appreciated that he didn't kneejerk push back on the question. On the other, it's not great that he said he would have to do some research on what the exact tariff discussions were. The association hosting the meeting is very sensitive to lumber pricing and he should have had that accounted for in his preparations.

Overall, my takeaway was that he is listening more to what people are saying than I expected and he didn't posture for us. I will say that it's obvious that he knows his place and he isn't going to draw unnecessary attention to himself fighting battles that he knows that he won't win.

Kicking ass in the MW, especially against those bottom feeders that we are too good for. Let's see.

Just lost the home Nevada series 2-1. First game was a 19-0 loss
Prior series, lost 2-1 at NM. Now 8-10 in that pathetic beneath us conference.

All is well!

Multiple rulings today on defense motions, pretty much all losses for them:

- The surviving roommate gets to testify, and can talk about "bushy eyebrows." If the defense wants to say she was too drunk to remember anything reliably, they have to show that on cross-examination.
- The autism diagnosis is only relevant, and can only be mentioned, if Kohberger himself testifies...which the defense has said they're not planning on.
- Vehicle experts get to testify
- State DNA experts get to testify, but can't refer to "touch DNA"
story

Really, at this point I don't think the defense is really expecting to get anything excluded. What they're doing is creating ample grounds for appeal. They want to have a raft of rulings by the trial court that can be challenged on appeal, and if any of them are found to have been prejudicial, they can get a sentence thrown out or maybe get a new trial. It's not about this judge and this trial...it's about a more sympathetic judge that they can get a different ruling from in 10 years.

Is it 20 kids in the portal this month?

Is it time to sign only kids with 1 year of eligibility left? Sign them after spring ball so you’re as sure as you can be that you’ve got them. Bring in 100 new dudes for fall camp and get them ready for the season.

At this point you’re losing so many kids and wasting so many reps what’s the point? You cannot start all over every spring and fall. Just get all seniors. Season over? Tell the staff you’ll see them in May when recruiting starts.

No TV and not really a scrimmage but more of an open practice with some “live” play, apparently to keep the “vultures” away.

I’ve never made it to Pullman for a Spring game and definitely don’t see me going to this. Anyone going?

No, not for football, that ship has sailed for WSU. Is anyone going to the AC/DC concert there Saturday night?
This one snuck up on me, would have loved to go. Still trying to figure out how to get to a show in this tour.

They sounded pretty decent on their tour of Europe last summer.

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