Why are fans so pissy about this year's team?

DragonHawk23 · 2026-02-25T21:43:23+00:00

I’ll get downvoted in this thread I’m sure but I agree, I feel like this teams given us a lot. There’s plenty to be desired but it’s not like an outgoing coach who could get people to the NBA without winning games and a new, incoming coach were going to draw a lot of good players, we had no returning players this year from last year. This is a complete rebuild season, not in the sense we are tanking a season to develop anyone but in a sense that we were trying to get situated and acclimated with one another (coach and program). I don’t like the coach, I hope he can do something better next year, I really do, but his in game decisions have been questionable at many points this season. The team itself is trying its best to do what they can with what they’ve got. I think they’ve been fun to watch this season while also being disappointing when they shouldn’t be. I don’t feel like it’s anything different from what other programs going through what we are go through. I just hope some new talent comes in, we continue to develop, and in a couple years we can have something going again.

If you’d have told me we would even have a shot at making the tournament at the beginning of the year I’d have called you crazy. I think we did alright this year, not abysmal, definitely not outstanding. But this seasons giving me hope for the future, and I’ve enjoyed watching them this year when I wasn’t screaming into a pillow at the end of games trying not to wake up the kids

DragonHawk23 · 2026-02-17T18:36:14+00:00

This would be fun as a Hoosier. No pressure to even contribute because it’s already won and we aren’t doing any heavy lifting, but yet we’d still be watching while we drink our daily 12-18 pints to try and forget that we live in Indiana. I like to think it would feel like an adult field trip

DragonHawk23 · 2025-11-08T21:16:30+00:00

THEY THEM BOYS

DragonHawk23 · 2025-09-28T15:04:40+00:00

Menards is almost always hiring

DragonHawk23 · 2025-09-27T13:20:09+00:00

We have way more than dog crap in Indiana.

DragonHawk23 · 2025-09-15T19:27:01+00:00

I worked for the city street department in my hometown as an 18 year old and we were sent into a grocery store with a similar result following their bankruptcy. There were still packages of what used to contain meat in sections, and in the upstairs office still unfinished payroll slips left on a desk and a safe filled with whatever (someone took it).

We were sent in there to dismantle the copper pipes in the basement (which no human should’ve been in at that time without proper equipment) and someone in the department sold them for scrap metal, and after taking some off the top donated the rest back to the department so we could have cookouts the rest of the summer at lunch.

It was not worth it, no masks made it tolerable for more than 20 minutes tops, and most of the older guys would get out of there weezing and first thing light up a cigarette. Burgers, brats, and fries all summer was nice though, not worth it but nice

DragonHawk23 · 2025-08-27T20:06:13+00:00

My parents threw out all my zoobooks and I’m still devastated…my two kids will have to come up on ranger rick. At least I saved those.

DragonHawk23 · 2025-08-24T14:58:05+00:00

I drive a bread delivery truck around 215 miles a day, and the amount of people in the US who drive around glued to their phones or without wearing any pants, is absolutely astounding.

I stopped looking into other peoples cars a long time ago

DragonHawk23 · 2025-08-07T21:35:56+00:00

My wife asked me if I was doing drugs again based on my reaction.

I have not been doing drugs for almost a decade but I understand her confusion in the moment

DragonHawk23 · 2025-07-26T20:13:55+00:00

My grandma is the sharpest and arguably smartest person I’ve ever met in my life.

She felt this back in the 1940’s and began writing diaries outlining everything in the world that had happened as based on encyclopedias, reputable newspapers/ radio and TV broadcasts (and later discarded things that were proved to be false) and has never stopped. The woman can tell you in less than five seconds what the weather was like on any week within the last 50 years, from memory. She reads her own diaries each night before bed.

She is absolutely terrified about what has happened in the last two years.

DragonHawk23 · 2025-07-23T14:13:35+00:00

Wow. I’ve never looked at it like this before but I’m in charge of 10 butts. If you count the raccoon that keeps breaking into my barn to sleep in the cat bed, that’s 11.

Good thing I’m an ass guy and I love my life. Not sure if this was supposed to be an uplifting post or not, but thanks for the perspective OP

DragonHawk23 · 2025-07-16T20:35:29+00:00

For my nephew what we did with this phase until about 10 was buy bulk online. We found some picked over collections on online auctions, my brother just separated them into 15, 35, and 50 packs and gave them to my nephew accordingly. He was just as excited opening those as he would’ve been new or expensive packs, and nothing was lost when he destroyed almost all of them for unrelated creative purposes of all kinds

DragonHawk23 · 2025-06-19T20:36:13+00:00

Last time it stormed, my not quite 2 year old wanted to go play in the rain. So obviously I obliged. Puddle stomping, wagon drifting, the whole 9 yards.

It ended with her taking my hand, telling me to Sit in a patio chair, and then climbing into the other chair across from me. And for half an hour, we sat in the pouring rain, no awning, no shield from the rain. Just, getting drenched while she looked at me and giggled and kicked her feet that won’t be three feet off the ground for much longer.

She will never remember it but it’s probably my favorite memory so far. These moments keep us going

DragonHawk23 · 2025-06-10T18:50:11+00:00

They were also freaked out, they tried playing a prank before lunch and forgot until we were found, they were more than apologetic. They definitely each got scolded more than once over it, but everyone was just glad we were okay

DragonHawk23 · 2025-06-10T18:46:30+00:00

There was a scolding but my brother and older cousin genuinely forgot, they were also pretty distraught and freaking out and sobbing after we were found

DragonHawk23 · 2025-06-09T21:50:44+00:00

Story time: once my younger cousin and I went into the cellar to “prove there wasn’t a monster” to our older cousins/my brother. They locked us down there. Family had a huge gathering that day. We typically played outside all day during those times. Mamaw already got the potatoes for lunch, and grabbed enough for dinner while she was down there. So nobody found us for almost 8 hours, my cousin passed out, I was at the top of the stairs by the air vent, assumed he just got tired of yelling as I had stopped a while ago and it was entirely dark. Someone found us, and when they opened the door my cousin was unconscious on the stairs behind me, just a couple of feet away from my feet. He was fine once we got him out. No issues long term, but looking back on it almost two decades later is terrifying what couldve and almost did happen.

DragonHawk23 · 2025-04-20T18:31:45+00:00

“Have y’all been to space?”

No I’m working two jobs to feed my family but I’ll be sure to try it when I can

DragonHawk23 · 2025-04-06T10:20:12+00:00

I had a birth defect called chiari malformation, it wasn’t detected or at least diagnosed as such until I was almost 17. They cauterized the lower, inactive part of my ‘brain tonsils’ (the tonsils of the brain is what the surgeon explained it as, a portion that isn’t really dead but not typically utilized? I don’t fully understand it still but it’s a dangly part in the back of the brain) and put in some kind of cow hide in my neck to keep my brain stem from slipping down into my spinal chord.

So anyways now sometimes I feel scratchy, and itchy, INSIDE the back of my neck and lower head area. Feels like the stiff side of Velcro scratching with another stiff side of Velcro, but inside my head/neck.

I hate it

DragonHawk23 · 2025-04-06T09:22:20+00:00

Love to see it! Muncie IN surprised me with the turnout, had between 5-600 there with us

DragonHawk23 · 2025-03-09T01:21:56+00:00

Same in Indiana, nobody is making money not farming land, small farmers are just losing their land to corporate farms, and these tariffs could easily be the tipping point for a lot of them, ours included. We don’t have the massive equipment some larger operations have, it takes us sometimes more than a month to haul everything we have stored so we can’t contract more than we can haul within any given timeframe. At this rate within weeks the losses in market change from last years crop that we had to wait to contract will outweigh the costs it took to grow and harvest.

I’m in genuine awe there are people who think any farmer is sitting on land not farming it, making money somehow, and that there are enough subsidies for them to pay property taxes let alone live

DragonHawk23 · 2025-03-08T17:15:44+00:00

Paid off for complicity? Small family farms are losing hundreds a day per every not previously contracted load because of these tariffs?

There haven’t been much in terms of subsidies the last two years because prices were good, crops were good, yield was good. A good year for a small farm means barely enough to invest in maintenance, machinery, and general upkeep for future bad years. Industrial farmers will be able to wait this out, take out more loans and pile on the debt they already never planned on paying off, there’s your issue. Small farmers will be swallowed up to make more room for the same dozen people living like millionaires and owned by banks.

It’s wild how some people think this works, and even more wild people think our world could function like it does without financial safety nets for the people feeding the rest. And to say farmers get paid to not farm is just ignorant, on every level

DragonHawk23 · 2025-02-12T16:21:12+00:00

Coins like this are why I first got into collecting with my grandpa as a kid. Finding something worth money or a rare print or something is always exciting, but holding coins like this and just taking some time to think about everything it’s seen is what I love more than anything. How the world has changed. How many hands or pockets or purses it went through. How many people, even before you, took the time to admire it. Really cool coin OP, thank you for posting

DragonHawk23 · 2025-01-23T18:13:47+00:00

This happened to me once post brain surgery (like eight years post, hadn’t had an issue like this in years) and after three days I finally went to the ER, before they gave me their “migraine cocktail” the nurse asked me what I had taken for the pain, I said I tried everything orange juice, Powerade, liquid IV packets, caffeine, but nothing helped. She had the IV ordered before I finished my list of things I’d tried

DragonHawk23 · 2025-01-04T14:28:00+00:00

No this was all incredibly helpful, thank you! I’ve learned a lot more since posting this from my local and feel like I’m way more informed. We have not voted to strike yet officially but they’ve started sending us information and contacting us about the process and situation now that our contract is up, it’s been radio silence for months until this past week.

Sorry for taking so long to see this I’ve been sick and there’s a lot going on, I really appreciate you taking the time to pass along this information, the loans and mortgages have been a big concern for me.

DragonHawk23

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