Muda69

Real Bears Fans. Don't take the evil empire's discards if you can help it.

IU Athletics eliminates 25 positions in layoffs as it braces for NCAA revenue sharing: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/indiana/2025/01/17/iu-athletics-cuts-25-positions-in-layoffs-as-it-braces-for-ncaa-revenue-sharing-indiana-hoosiers/77775492007/ Here we go. I wonder this is also affecting the other "big" college athletic powers in Indiana, namely Purdue and Notre Dame?

Let's start this 2025 thread with the current big question, who will the next HC be? https://bearswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/bears/2025/01/16/nfl-insider-claims-bears-head-coach-job-is-down-to-2-candidates/77755968007/ Tough choice for me. But McCarthy was a long time coach of the hated Packers. So I'll pick Mr. Johnson.

https://www.jconline.com/story/news/local/2025/01/17/usda-citations-say-78-birds-dead-or-missing-from-frankfort-tpa-park/77726057007/ The Frankfort Parts department need to get out of the Aviary and Petting Zoo business. Sell the remaining inventory of animals, and repurpose the buildings used for their care and display for other purposes or remove them completely.

https://apnews.com/article/david-lynch-dies-9107f3ce0b4dd49dbe3dc2ae3c09ed59 Truly and American Film Icon. He will be missed.

Not if you are a football player or basketball player at a D1 level school. Not anymore. It's to win games, period.

And we got another one: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/01/14/crispus-attucks-girls-basketball-beats-washington-115-5-ad-extremely-disappointed-ihsaa-indianapolis/77692586007/?tbref=hp These girls, and their coaches, truly are vicious.

https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/01/13/ihsaa-one-time-transfer-bill-to-be-filed-at-indiana-legislative-session-2025-transfers-policy-change/77661200007/?tbref=hp The Indiana State Legislature sticking it's nose into where it doesn't belong. The IHSAA is a private organization the last time I checked. If certain of its members don't like the current transfer rules then they should lobby the IHSAA to change them, not go running to the government.

I still don't fully understand this point spread stuff, and frankly I don't care to. I have zero interest in betting my hard earned money on a sportsball contest.

It's always a good day when the Packers lose.

Google to the rescue: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/bruv-party-can-andrew-tate-pull-off-a-donald-trump-in-the-uk/articleshow/117086083.cms It would kill some fish. And I guess a lot of salt water would kill the trees & plants so instead we just let them burn.

Modern Academe Has Corrupted the Media (And Pretty Much Everything Else): https://mises.org/mises-wire/modern-academe-has-corrupted-media-and-pretty-much-everything-else Today’s elite journalists overwhelmingly hold political and social views that are reflective of what is happening in higher education, and it hardly is a new phenomenon. In the Duke case, members of the Duke faculty rushed to judgment, declaring the players to be guilty and calling on the university to make huge changes in how it governed campus culture. Unfortunately, much of the media coverage of that case differed little from the Duke faculty response. Anyone who has spent much time in the academic world knows that most campuses are home to leftist narratives: Capitalism is oppressive and creates poverty; women are always oppressed; America is a hopelessly racist country built on the backs of black slaves; a state-run economy would be more just than private enterprise; if the state controlled healthcare, then we could have unlimited, free medical coverage; and so on. For a long time, people believed that college campuses were bubbles that held to leftist narratives, but that they would be contained there. However, that clearly has not been the case, especially as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement has migrated from higher education to the corporate world, and, of course, government. How it infected the business world should be no surprise. As one who taught in MBA programs for more than 20 years, the anti-business ethos has long been a staple of the academic business curriculum. Students in MBA programs have been taught for decades that businesses need to answer to “stakeholders,” which really has meant little more than trying to appeal to anti-business activists. Budding entrepreneurs are taught that seeking after profits is the pursuit of greed and that their efforts should be turned toward social goals. Not surprisingly, people who disagree are pushing back against the poisonous ideologies coming from higher education. And—not surprisingly—those in higher education who have been permitted to run amok see this pushback as a national emergency. The American Association of University Professors, in responding to changes in state colleges and universities in Florida (which came about as a result of pushback against DEI), had this hysterical statement: (In reading this statement, one is reminded of Otter’s infamous speech before the Faber College Student Court in the movie “Animal House.”) One doubts seriously that the United States of America faces dire implications because Marxist professors are not given full control of higher education in Florida—or anywhere else. For that matter, as one who has been in higher education for more than 30 years, the bubble that is much of that world is not something we wish to export to our general society, and when those advocates succeed, we get disasters like the Duke Lacrosse Case or “journalism” that is little more than political propaganda in which advocates try to turn reality upside down. Lest one think I exaggerate about the hysteria that the left has created on college campuses, this account from Brown University should remind us of the idiocy that has become the American university. When libertarian Wendy McElroy participated in a debate at Brown on the subject of sexual assault, university officials responded, according to the New York Times, by setting up a “safe space” for those traumatized by McElroy’s presence at Brown: Brown, of course, is attended by some of the most privileged young people in the world and it is ridiculous to claim that the presence of a libertarian blogger (who has written for this page) places the lives of young women there in peril. But that is the world that not only exists at Brown and other elite colleges and universities, but also in many of our other institutions such as government, business, and the non-profits that seem to be gaining in influence. There is nothing wrong with pushing back against hard-left agendas and the upside-down world leftist advocates wish to impose upon the rest of us. One hopes we can reverse some of the worst excesses before leftists in higher education are able to corrupt what is left of our body politic.

Indiana Considers Dissolving Public Schools https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2025/01/07/indiana-considers-dissolving-public-schools/ An interesting idea, but I don't like the idea of the governor's office basically taking over.

Rumor are swirling that Ryan Kelly has played his last game as a Colt. Is he someone the Bears should pursue?

This just in: Lebanon coach steps down after 8 seasons: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/01/07/lebanon-has-ihsaa-football-coach-opening-after-jeff-smock-steps-down-indiana-high-school/77517238007/?tbref=hp Guess Mr. Smock realized the Tigers will now have a tougher row to hoe after the 5 smaller schools have left the Sagamore. No more Crawfordsville's, Frankfort's, and North Montgomery's to beat up on.

Those were some very intellectually stimulating times on the GID. Anybody who remembers the Hurricane Scirfes debacle can surely relate. Wish I could find the picture which was uploaded to the GID that started that argument. Oh, and 96-0. Never forget.

Looking at the usual coaching change carousel in the NFL who ultimately makes a better head coach? The Offensive Guru types like Shane Steichen & Mike McDaniel or the Leader of Men types like Dan Campbell and Mike Vrabel?

Those are the only generations I've encountered who tend to view the word "cracker" as an "abhorrent racial slur". Usually accompanied by their requisite virtue signalling.

You must be a member of Gen-Z, maybe a young millennial.

Mr. Doyel hinting in his latest column that this just completed season will be Ryan Kelly's last as a Colt: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2025/01/05/colts-offseason-steichen-ballard-richardson-bradley/77114671007/

Ask and you shall receive: And I like crackers with chicken noodle soup, especially on a cold, snowy day like today.

I can believe this. Coaches on the sideline are just walking billboards for the NFL "drip" (stupid slang term btw). But something like this would still work: Simple classic perfection for an NFL head coach.

And my spouse thinks he is absolutely dreamy. She loved it when Freeman and Sam Hartman were in the same frame during games.

Good win for Mr. Kiser, but I see some androgenetic alopecia going on. And so young.

The truth: