Quote from: muwarrior69 on February 26, 2026, 09:30:35 AMWill the Big East return to winning basketball? I cannot remember a worse season for the league since MU joined. It is not just MU having to make adjustments this off season but a majority of the league.

Yet we are near the bottom of the league. Oh what a sorry state

Since Big East expansion, the league has largely been Villanova, UConn, and the Midwest 3. (Marquette, Creighton, Xavier). Thise 3 teams are down. St. John's is up.

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 27, 2026, 10:37:16 AMwho isn't a superfan of Bodo/Glimt the rest of the way? A fan base that carries giant yellow toothbrushes to matches deserves worldwide support

The more you read into Bodo/Glimt, the more absolutely astounding it is.  The Eliteserien isn't great (top 15 league at best, but historically more around the 20th best league in Europe), but even lesser leagues have a great team that supercedes historically (Celtic in Scotland, Shaktar in Ukraine, Crvena Zvezda in Serbia, etc...) but Bodo isn't historically good in Norway, that would be Rosenborg or Molde. Bodo had been bouncing around for awhile between the top flight and 1st division in Norway when they got promoted again in 2018, hadn't finished better than 10th in the Eliteserien for 15 years.  Then a year after promotion they finish second, then 2 years after promotion they win a title and win 4 of the next 5 (finishing second the 1 year they didn't win).  Last year they finished 2nd by a point largely due to balancing a deep CL/EL schedule with the domestic slate.

Add to that they are in Bodo, an 8 hour drive from any decent sized city, so far north they HAVE to play on turf, and due to the Norwegian season playing from March to November, they've played their last 3 group games, even before the knockouts against Inter, in the offseason with no meaningful games to keep them sharp. 

And unlike someone like Celtic or Shaktar who are filled with foreign mercenaries, their roster is 80% Norwegian (most of the rest are Danish  ) with a Norwegian manager.  And not just Norwegian, they aren't even stacked with Norwegian capped nationals.  Their captain, Berg, is a mainstay in the midfield for the national team, but they only have 1 other defender with a decent amount of regular caps and another midfielder who got a cluster of caps when he was playing for AC Milan and Frankfurt, but only has 2 recently.  So its really just a true team of homegrown guys knocking down giants against literally every disadvantage comparatively.  The performance at home against Inter was awesome, but then they went to San Siro and didn't just camp and hold on for dear life, they settled in during the first half and then came out and immediately punched Inter in the mouth to set the tone in the second half.  Now they have a VERY winnable matchup against a surprising Sporting

The Bulls bad luck continues. Needing to lose as much as possible, Pat Williams goes out with an injury. 

Skol!

What happened to anti-trust?

Quote from: Billy Hoyle on February 27, 2026, 01:03:53 PMBasically, UConn and St. John's are good, Villanova is mediocre, and the entire rest of the conference is bad, and there's very little separation in the quality of the 4th-place and 11th-place teams.

FIFY.

Quote from: MU82 on February 27, 2026, 10:10:27 AMDon't worry, folks. College sports have been saved!

Either that, or they'll be "totally obliterated."

Have to go medieval

Quote from: Its DJOver on February 27, 2026, 11:28:24 AMThe amount of times I've heard "They'd trade all their Premier League and Champions League trophies for a gold one" is sickening. Great team, great year, but I could also name half a dozen Premier League era teams that were better.

My wife isn't a football fan at all.  All she really knows of the EPL is whatever Ive shared about Liverpool and the Liverpool shop which she's well acquainted with for both me and my son.  But even she can't stand Arsenal supporters after our London trips.  First trip to London, we went to Selhurst Park for Liverpool/Palace.  Late afternoon match, went to a pub on the way down, I think in Brixton, to watch earlier matches.  Chatting with the mix of people in the pub, people were super cool, had great banter with Palace fans who thought it was awesome her first match would be at Selhurst, "real proper ground". 

Yet there was a group of Arsenal supporters who kept calling me a plastic and insisting all American fans were glory hunters and jokes.  Some middle aged dude in a skin tight late 90s JVC kit kept trying to quiz me on mid 80s Liverpool players and proving I wasn't an actual fan like I was pretending to be a Scouser.  We were laughing about what douches they were later at the match with Palace supporters during the joking around after when we scolded by stewards for having Liverpool scarves in the Palace home section.

2 years later, walking around Camden, found really cool coasters from aged concrete that were painted with the road signs from the big grounds around the country.  Grabbed the Anfield Road one and an employee from the neighboring booth started crowing about what c**ts Liverpool supporters are and the only reason "my friend here" sells those is cause Yank Reds are easy marks.  Checking out, the booth owner apologized, said his mate is a bitter Arsenal supporter, and chatted with me for 4-5 min about the 98 World Cup and Michael Owen (the reason a 13 year old JWags became a Liverpool fan).

So yea, no love lost for the Gooner faithful in my household.  So much so that a new coworker joined her team in NYC who was from London and she found out he was an Arsenal fan (literally grew up in Islington and Finsbury Park) she cringed.  But he's actually a great guy and found the stories to be hilarious and got my son a Liverpool jibbit for his crocs for his birthday this year.   Obviously plenty of great Arsenal fans but its a reputation that isn't built off a random outlier or two.

Quote from: MU82 on February 27, 2026, 12:32:46 PMWhy would Schneider want to leave the Seahawks? Why would the Seahawks let him leave?

You have to at least give him a call. Make him say no