Anyone have any opinions on them from experience? Going to meet with one at 2:00. Just don't want to come home to a house full of three dead animals (I have a GSD/Boxer mix and two cats) someday.

Google is producing mixed opinions.

FYI as to an example of some of the tactics going on out there.

First, I am in total favor of players opting out. Football is a brutal sport. For a guy looking to play professionally, the body only has so many hits it can take.

What I like about it is that players we will need next year are genuinely motivated. They have practiced all year in relative obscurity. Nothing was worse for me in any sport than practice without a good chance of playing. Now these guys are suddenly motivated to practice hard and make a mark.
History tells me that guys playing their last game already have one foot out the door. Not a good ingredient for a W.
We aren’t playing for anything other than bragging rights and pride.
Pride matters most.

If you have been waiting more than a decade for the French-Canadian version of “Twin Peaks,” your wait finally is over. “Three Pines” has arrived on Prime Video, premiering last week.

It has everything that “Twin Peaks” was loved/hated for, down to the mysterious crows, which are replaced by Blue Jays. The obsessed, vision-seeing detective is brilliantly played by Alfred Molina. If you remember him as the obsessed mayor in the Juliette Brioche/Johnny Depp/Judy Dench mini-classic “Chocolat,” he brings the same passion to this role, but in a far more admirable character.

A high ranking police detective in Montreal, he upsets his superiors by stopping police from attacking Indigenous women outside police headquarters where they are protesting the lack of police action investigating the disappearances of scores of young Indigenous women. Before he stops him, one Montreal policeman is doing his best impersonation of the Minneapolis police officer dealing with George Floyd. He then drives the woman he “rescued” and her family back to the reservation and promises to look into the daughter’s disappearance.

For that perceived insolence, right after Christmas he is assigned to what at first seems to be an accidental death in the small town of Three Pines, which happens to be near that reservation. A wealthy woman was electrocuted while sitting in a chair watching the annual Boxing Day outdoor women’s curling match.

His police team consists of a more junior detective, played by Kiefer Sutherland’s half-brother, a police sergeant who is herself Indigenous, and a semi-competent police officer from a nearby town who was first on the scene. After interviewing all of the witnesses and examining the scene, he determines that the victim somehow was murdered and all of the witnesses are actually suspects. Like in “Twin Peaks,” most of the townspeople are a little bit, or a lot, strange.

It’s a good, albeit not great, series, and for me a welcome relief from the endless repeats of Christmas shows, specials, movies we are bombarded with every December.

Two episodes now are available. Apparently, six more will follow. I suspect that the disappearances of the Indigenous women, and not the murder by electrocution, will be the focal point.

No one has talked with these two guys will come back. I think they are both very important. They anchor the line of scrimmage. Neither one is Kancey, but they are big and tough!

Nice and easy watch and very fun to hear the stories of how competitive and how much a shit talker he was.

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For some reason they played a nooner on a Wednesday that isn't in the week between Christmas and New Years. As I still have vacation time to use up I took the afternoon off and went.

Pitt beat North Alabama 85-83. Pitt actually trailed most of the first half and into the third quarter. But Pitt had a 28-9 run from late in the 2nd to early in the 3rd, which was enough to carry the day.

I still don't get what they are trying to accomplish on defense. It was pretty clear that the only way North Alabama was going to win, or heck, even stay in the game, was by making a lot of threes. And yet somehow we let them get off 33 of them, of which they made 14. They made 8 of 15 in the first half. And most of them were with the defense sagging off and just giving them open looks. As an example, with about a minute and a half left we had a two point lead. NA is taking the ball out under the basket. We are so worried about the inside game that if you had drawn a line parallel to the baseline about five feet out from the basket, all five Pitt players would have been between that line and the baseline. So NA just passes the ball out to a shooter wide open on the wing. Fortunately for Pitt, she missed. But that kind of defense is just inexplicable.

And I also don't understand the substitution patterns that we use. We have players that have good games, and then in the next game barely play. We have someone like Aislin Malcolm who has had games that she hasn't played or hardly played at all, and today she was on the court for almost all of the last five minutes of a close game. At some point in time they have got to figure out who their best players are and start substituting accordingly. Decide who the best eight or so are and play them that way. It's not like we press a lot or play high intensity defense that requires a lot of substituting to keep players fresh. So figure out who your best players are, and start playing them more.

The letters are being signed. Most of the class is already in.

Maybe McMillon can help?
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Good call by the Rams.

The Los Angeles Rams will likely shut down star defensive tackle Aaron Donald for the remainder of the season, head coach Sean McVay said Friday, according to team reporter Stu Jackson.

With the Rams officially eliminated from playoff contention, McVay said Donald - who has missed the last three games with a knee injury - "probably" won't play again in 2022.

Awwwww we

along with a starting OL and WR Bobo. Same bowl as Haba. Don't recall if allowed to come back to school or not. Game isn't until early Feb 2023. Hoping since it is somewhat of a showcase bowl, they start training now and opt out like Haba.

Braylan Lovelace did it all for Leechburg this past season, and on Wednesday, he signed to play linebacker at Pitt. We spoke to Lovelace about picking the Panthers and more.

Imagine if last year number 12 Pitt was going up against number 5 notre Dame in the first round of the playoffs…do we think Kenny opts out? I think the chance is near zero, abd would be the same for a lot of players.

Players don’t opt out of the NCAA tourney. They don’t opt out of the college World Series where especially as a pitcher you can destroy your draft stock if you blow out your arm by throwing too many pitches.

Honestly, I’d love even a 24 team playoff. Get as many in as possible. Shorten the regular season by a game. If you want to have a few bowls fine but those would just be exhibitions

Were we really up 20 with 10 minutes left? If this is true, just another reason Dior can help this team.

Sounds like I missed a good one last night.

Tab Ramos, when asked about the coaching search for the USMNT, said he wants to hear more from the US Soccer Federation 🗣️

“Well look, I could have a lot of opinions about this, but the bottom line is have you heard Cindy Parlow Cone say anything about this? She’s the president of the federation, am not sure I have heard her speak about the men’s national team. I don’t think she has said anything. I don’t think I even heard her name while I was at the World Cup in Qatar.

Where is Earnie Stewart, shouldn’t he be saying something? Shouldn’t he be answering some of these questions? What direction are we going? I don’t hear anything coming (from the federation). That was kind of the same thing that happened when Berhalter got hired. No one hears anything and then something happens. I want to hear the president of the federation say something and you don’t hear it, unless it’s about a lawsuit, you don’t really hear anything.”

Yep.

US Soccer is pure incompetence. They need to hire "outsiders." MLS actually did that with Don Garber and they've had tremendous success. I'd actually like to see Garber run US Soccer.

The whole Primetime in Colorado thing has got me thinking.. (as a precursor to what I'm going to say, this is only fodder, not hoping Narduzzi gets canned or anything like it, just discussion).

Is there someone in Pitt's past or in general that could bring the same type or similar type of excitement, and/or recruitment turn to Pitt, like Deion has to Colorado? Someone that's not your typical head coach that we all know about so no Dabo, Saban, etc.

It just got me thinking and was wondering if we could get some good discussion going.

Man, I really wish we had a game Monday against “easy victory directional state college” prior to playing Carolina. This break seems to be extremely long based on my fading recent memory.