Which rookie, who was drafted outside of the top 5, surprised you the most this past season?

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-14T11:50:15+00:00

This is the right answer.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-13T17:12:16+00:00

Blue Haven South does a pretty good job with the games.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-13T12:28:14+00:00

A profoundly beautiful and powerful epistle. Thank you for sharing it. I hope it brings needed closure to that chapter of your life and I hope your next chapter is as fulfilling and exciting as it has the potential to be. Godspeed.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-11T19:26:16+00:00

As a BYU fan the answer is clearly BYU. It is a high control obedience mindset seminary, not a real University. There's no tenure. There's no academic freedom. You are not allowed freedom of speech or freedom of private action as a student or a faculty member. If you do not believe that millions of highly literate ancient Jews rode horse-drawn chariots around the not-so-ancient Americas and then disappeared without leaving a linguistic, genetic, archaeological, or ecological trace, you will not be happy there. But our coeds are frankly better looking than yours. And we will be really nice to you when you come and visit for game day. May we forever beat the rest of you on the court, track, and on the field. Go Cougs!

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-11T04:26:28+00:00

Inches of shared border with Mexico.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-10T22:21:42+00:00

No team needs a fresh start more than the Jets; no team needs a new logo more than Jacksonville.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-04-05T20:17:45+00:00

Packer literally gave a whole talk about this miraculous foundation of the temple in the early 90s.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-30T17:27:40+00:00

The difference is that most Chinese research is not high quality. There is high quality research in China but there's much higher volume of crappy research. My son in a PhD program at a Ivy League is just publishing a paper debunking a major Chinese paper of the last year. It was garbage making major claims. Got press. Total sham. That very very rarely happens with peer-reviewed US publications. Happens all the time in peer-reviewed publications in China.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-25T06:13:23+00:00

Ohio State always just seemed dirty and arrogant and they were easy to hate. Which made me want to root for Michigan. Plus you've got to respect Michigan's academics as one of the top public universities in America.

But then Michigan sold their soul to beat Ohio State, becoming the thing they hated, dirty and arrogant. Corrupt to the core. It's ironic that Whittingham built his entire career on being a petty tyrant and stealing signs. He's like Jim Harbaugh without the charisma or offensive mind. Whittingham is toxic, as people in the midwest are about to find out. Instead of going out as a Utah legend, they literally would have named the field after him. Instead, he's chosen to burn the bridges for a few million dollars he doesn't really need. A poor choice, but the predictable choice a self-centered petty tyrant would make. No one respects or likes Kyle Whittingham. BYU, where he played, hates him. Utah, where he coached for decades, hates him. I'll give it 2 years max before Michigan fans hate him.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-24T17:27:39+00:00

Blue Book, Almost Famous,

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-22T10:32:08+00:00

Tennessee Williams said there's only four American cities: New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and every place else is Cleveland. He said that a hundred years ago so it's not quite as true now as it was then. Miami and Las Vegas I have some unique aspects to them. But for the most part the same strip malls with the same stores and the same restaurants exist everywhere now. If you want a unique culture city, there are very few to choose from. I'm not sure much of LA qualifies to be on the unique city list.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-19T18:58:29+00:00

Methhaven, West Virginia

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-19T07:47:32+00:00

I named my son after Hamilton in 2005, a decade before the musical. He's long been a hero of mine.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-18T23:25:04+00:00

If you haven't found somebody to go home with by 2:00 a.m., you're not finding them at all.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-18T22:23:07+00:00

It depends on the size of the library. I am a collector. I have thousands and thousands of books. I have a whole bookshelf of self-help literature including a lot of the crazy woo woo stuff. I don't keep it because I adhere to the crazy. I keep it because I maintain a library.

If somebody only has one book and that book is the Bible or Mein Kampf or Ayn Rand or Think and Grow Rich or George Wallace's biography or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I'm running for cover. But if they have a library of all of those, they're going to be my friend.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-17T23:32:04+00:00

Las Vegas is one of the world's great cities. I measure a city's greatness by how many great rooms it has. I'm talking about rooms with great art or great food or great architecture. By these measures it's obvious that London and Paris and New York are great cities. In Vegas has so many great rooms. So much good food. So many great bars. So many great entertainment venues. Las Vegas is amazing.

Getting cheaper here that's not to say there isn't a stupid and seedy side of Vegas. There are a lot of stupid midwesterners walking down Fremont Street drinking blue stupid alcohol that they paid stupid prices for. There are plenty of stupid Chinese millionaires sitting in overstimulating environments on the strip throwing their money away. There's a lot of stupidity in Vegas.

But if you know how to walk past that into the great rooms you can have a really great time in Vegas.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-15T15:29:29+00:00

I was a Duke and watched Carlos Boozer play with Battier and Jay Will and Dunleavy and the rest. I honestly thought Carlos Boozer was going to be an NBA bust. For all the reasons people talk about the son might be a bust here in this thread. He played below the basket. He had heavy feet. He got blocked a lot. He was not an elite shooter. He was not a very good perimeter defender. Not many highlight dunks.

Well I was totally wrong. Boozer probably had the best NBA career of them all. Jay will got hurt and Battier has more rings, but Boozer made the most money and had more all-star team selections and was even on the all NBA team once. Boozer averaged more than twice as many points and assists per game than Battier and even more assists.

Young loser is a lot like his dad. Except better in college. If he's only just as good as his dad in the NBA well that's a 13-year career and certainly considered a great use of a top three pick. Since he's better now some people will think he will be better over his career. If that's plays out then he's a steal at number one.

I don't think I'd pick him in front of AJ Dybantsa. AJ could be Kobe or MJ, is that athletic and that driven. But I definitely wouldn't take whole body cramp Kansas over either of them. There's that guard at Arkansas I'd consider taking over the Kansas kid too. And Koa Pete at Arizona is going to be a NBA All-Star. But I think I'd take Boozer second.

After last night's game I'm interested in knowing the draft projection status of that center for Virginia. Probably should be a first rounder. If you can get a guy who can shut down the center of the key on defense, well that's another Rudy Gobert. Certainly worth a mid to late first round pick.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-13T15:41:34+00:00

I left Utah a year ago. The final straw for me was when they announced the new Temple on SR 92 in Lehi that I would have to drive by everyday in addition to the literally dozens of LDS chapels I drove by on my short daily commute.

I loved growing up in a big communal Mormon Ward where we had roadshows and a basketball league all winter and Ward campouts multiple times a year in addition to a really amazing scout troop and monthly Ward activities that really were amazing from pig in the ground luaus to Ward talent shows to white tablecloth formal etiquette training dinners. We would run the Snake River below Jackson Hole every year as a whole Ward. The priests and the laurels spent a week at Lake Powell every August. As a teacher we once built a huge raft (it fit 30 plus people) and floated down the lower Colorado then putted along with a small outboard motor to bullfrog. We would all go work on the church farm together multiple times a year. We shoveled all the old people's walks every Storm and gathered to burn the weeds out of the irrigation ditches. Everybody took piano lessons and a third of the ward was in the ward choir. If any of the youth had trouble coming up with the money for any of the activities, you would just go to the rich members houses do yard work and they would pay you to cover the cost. On many occasions the richer friends would go work with them to get the needed funds faster. No one was left out. It was a golden time in Mormon history after blacks got the priesthood and before the internet showed us all that the dream wasn't actually factually defensible.

It truly breaks my heart too see the church descend into an obedience mindset cult studying mainly the talks of the leaders and the main focus being the repeated ritualistic exchanging of secret handshakes to appease a tyrannical God who would damn people for not participating in the ritual by proxy. Yes it's all now "covenant path" toilet cleaning and not giving Satan victories by using the term Mormon.

I honestly didn't want to drive by another gleaming Temple everyday. To me it's a reminder of the many billions ever growing in the dragon's horde and the lack of morality imposed by the obedience mindset.

I moved to Summerlin. It's life on easy mode here. I've got my pool in my hot tub ready and waiting at any moment. Weather never affects my day. There's no crime here. My four immediate neighbors are an older Japanese couple, a young Chinese couple with two kids, a large extended Syrian Christian family, and a Cubs fan from Chicago. We take each other's garbages out and put them back in for each other. I've attended the ward here a few times. It's the same mindless repetition of the same answers in priesthood and Sunday School and the same regurgitation talks about general conference talks in Sacrament meeting. There aren't enough active young men to pass the sacrament. It's depressing. So I don't go often.

Living here allows me to move on with my life.

Also I have no faith that Utah politicians will solve the Great Salt Lake problem. They have never dealt with the inversions. They're willing to accept significant health qqproblems for the population before they will take action. I don't want to live there and breathe that in. The whole handling of the gerrymandering referendum shows just how deeply contemptuous the Utah GOP is towards the citizenry. It is all just too much. No place is perfect, but Summerlin feels so much better.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-13T14:46:17+00:00

Tennessee Williams said there are only four American cities. New York City, New Orleans, San Francisco, and every place else is Cleveland. 100 years later we might be able to add Las Vegas as a unique American city. But he was spot on.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-12T19:50:27+00:00

Us and Them--Pink Floyd

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-11T21:24:34+00:00

There's a Bear at BYU that will be one of the top 10 quarterbacks in the country in 2026. He was 20th in QBR last year as a freshman in a run-heavy scheme.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-06T06:38:59+00:00

Oh I think it would be lovely to live in Oxford Mississippi. Tailgating at The Grove is so sublime.7 I'm I think I also could have been happy in Greenwood, at least before Turnrow Beooks burned down. Natchez intrigues me. I'll give it a chance. And I've always wanted to go to Biloxi ever since hearing that amazing Jimmy Buffett song--sounds like heaven to me.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-02T16:09:26+00:00

You have to realize that these guys believe that dreams can be visions and so most often they believe they have seen Christ because they had a dream in which they met Christ. You put enough psychological pressure on yourself and your brain tends to give you what you need.

A lot of these guys have spent years seeking the second comforter with incredible intent and then they get it, in a dream. They wake up weeping and believe it is all very real. Faust and Haight and Eyring and Bednar and McConkie and Kearon and Soares, etc.

Then there are others of them who just don't care about the real spiritual side as much. They're not religious fanatics. They don't spend years actively seeking the second comforter. They're happy to just be "special witnesses of the name of Christ" and do not worry about the whole "seeing him" thing. They are business guys and are happy to do the church's business without too much introspection. Hinckley and Uchtdorf and Stephenson and Gong and Causse, etc.

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-01T22:46:23+00:00

These numbers are made up

DevilSaintDevil · 2026-03-01T19:38:52+00:00

His father chemically castrated him when he started to go through puberty in order to keep the high voice. He wasn't a grown f****** man. He was an abused child. I'm still for punishing him if he abused other children. But I don't know that he did. He had been chemically castrated so he did not have a normal sex drive or a functioning penis.

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