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  1. In theory. In reality I don't think so and although SDSU would never say so publicly, the school has no desire to see the NFL return to America's Finest City.
  2. The new SDSU stadium doesn't need a dome because the temperature almost never reaches 90 degrees much less 120.
  3. Surprised to hear that Adelson is still alive as last time I saw a photo of the a-hole he looked 90% dead.
  4. Many Aztecs may refer to Hoke as Fred Flintstone but that's just TIC.The only ones who were glad he left were those who got butthurt over the eleventh hour way in which he did.
  5. People can go ahead and call me a male chauvinist pig but I'll say it anyway. When has a female athletic director ever made a good football coach hire?
  6. Re Abbey Road, I haven't been a big fan of that album for years. "Something" strikes me as maudlin, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" is McCartney schmaltz and the rest of the album was overproduced.

    Which reminds me of this. I never much liked the band Toto but they were pretty big in the late seventies, at least in California. "Rosanna" and "Africa" are very good pop rock tunes and unless they've taken it down, there is still a photo of the band in the office of Grant HS in North Hollywood where they all met. For a couple years the son and nephew of Toto's Porcaro brothers worked at the Starbucks I frequent. He's a great "kid" (meaning he's younger than 35) and we used to talk the hell out of rock when Chris had the time to do so. However, his father Jeff likely died of complications from years of cocaine abuse rather than simply a negative reaction to an insecticide he applied to some trees in the gated community of Hidden Hills in which he lived and about a year ago as was reported in the media. (Word is that Jeff tooted so much coke that he had to have plastic surgery on his septum. Not knocking him because if I had the musical talent he had, that could have been me.) Then a couple years ago Chris' brother died of a heroin overdose after years of struggling with his sobriety. I could empathize with the difficulty Chris had struggling with substance abuse in his family since I've had a couple family members die after years of substance abuse.

    Because Chris told me he loved his dad but the guy never had time for his kids, I didn't tell him I thought his dad's band was overproduced as well.

  7. I forgot all about Reb Baron. After north of 15K posts he just completely disappeared three years ago. Serious question. Does anyone know if he died?
  8. Very true about Thompson, Convert. It seems to me that during the MW's first decade, Thompson was highly motivated. He pushed for adding TCU and creating The Mtn network and then worked hard to try to get it an automatic bid in the BCS. However, among his mistakes was putting his subordinate Gillibrand, or whatever the guy's name is, in charge of putting together the TV deal. Maybe nobody could have done better but thinking back, in about 2006 on the old Aztectalk, a couple of the board members of the then Aztec Foundation started a thread about Gillibrand's visit to see them. I used to tailgate a bit with one of them and he was the last person you would read being critical on that board but that AF board member just tore Gillibrand a new one. He said in essence that if Gillibrand was actually in charge of putting together the TV deal as he claimed, the MW was going to get screwed and The Mtn was probably going to be in trouble down the road. Prescient comments all. Seems like since The Mtn went belly up and the autobid didn't come to pass and the Big Three bailed that Thompson has pretty much retired on the job. However, the Ram has a point too. This conference once had some presidents with balls. Utah's guy comes immediately to mind. Same for TCU's president a bit later who read the tea leaves about the future of CUSA and then made a huge push to emulate his Utah peer in devoting more money to football and renovating their stadium in anticipation of a chance to move to a power conference. When they were leaving, SDSU's president Weber chaired the conference board and among other things put the kibosh on what many were saying was an inevitable vote to add USU and UTEP since CBSSN was allegedly pushing hard for their addition. USU subsequently turned out to be fine but UTEP continues to be a disaster and would have been almost as bad an addition as SJSU has proved to be. Weber retired a few years ago and after a year and a half of an interim president has been replaced by a friendly Latina who has thankfully ended all the nonsense about abolishing the Aztecs as the school's nickname but who is just as clearly not sports savvy and now that Kustra is also gone if there's any other MW president out there who is, I'll be darned if I know who it might be.
  9. That's a great comparison. 'Cause the P5 has established a formula for G5s to become one of them just like the BCS did a dozen years ago. Oh wait . . .
  10. SGF doesn't usually speak in the third person but when Mike Bronson decides to get his Bo Jackson on, SGF feels compelled to do so too just to see how it feels. And having now done so, SGF can say it feels pretty damn weird.
  11. I've commented on multiple occasions on the MW board how culturally inappropriate the conference is for SDSU. I listed a number of factors including political diversity. I've generally been laughed at for so stating but there's no better example than the reaction of mainly Boise and Wyoming fans to that incident in D.C. It's really quite amazing how differently they see things than we Californians do.

    1. TheSanDiegan

      TheSanDiegan

      To be honest, I see no shortage of people from both locales (e.g., tspoke, Boise Fan, et al) who go against the grain. And conversely, we have no shortage of right-wing demagoguery in the Golden State either (e.g., SDSUFan).

      I do tho agree that there is a provincial cultural divide, and than a majority of the Right Wing Meme Speak comes from MWCBoarders from Wyoming or Idaho.

      I like to think that by staying the course - relying on logic, reason, and verifiable fact - helps speak to the decency in those who have it, regardless of the political leanings. I do fear that the schism in core values (honesty, integrity, decency, etc.) that exists within our culture continues to widen - and that over time, the delineation between 'good' and 'bad' will become more apparent.

      As far as how this impacts our conference affiliation? IMO it makes W's that much more sweeter. I mean, can you think of any other reason to get stoked about a victory over WhyOming? :D

      But yes, I say stay the course and groom us for a P12/B12 invite when the eventuality of P5 poaching occurs.

  12. From this morning's L.A. Times article on the event. 1. To quote a USC public policy professor, "Some people are seeing an invasion, and some people are seeing toddlers being tear gassed." As that professor suggests, neither is accurate and those who continue to claim as much need to STFU because, as the professor also said, the situation was tough to begin with and these men's attempt to overwhelm our Border Patrol is going to make it that much worse. 2. The Times writers reported that the migrants were chanting "We are not criminals! We are international workers!" That's more evidence of how ignorant the leaders of the caravan are. First they begin their march before the November election, thereby providing a campaign vehicle for their worst enemy, Trump. Now they admit - or at least many of them do - that rather than seeking asylum from tyranny in their homeland, they are hoping to gain entry to the U.S. solely for economic reasons. Such facts further convince me that we have to be very careful about which of these primarily Hondurans we allow into our country. Because if we let the great majority in, to say nothing of all of them, it will set a precedent which will result in a deluge of people from elsewhere in Latin America, including countries bereft of the persecution which exists in Honduras.
  13. I'm usually with you on this stuff but you have misstated things. Check the video. Maybe there is a child there but I see none. In fact, I don't see any women either. I am sympathetic to the plight of the great majority of these people. However, I'm not naive enough to believe they are all suffering from persecution by their government or hounded by criminal elements and we simply don't need any more people to come to our country as unskilled laborers. Offer a decent wage and there will be plenty already here to fill those slots. I do think the fake prez is being his usual FOS self in encouraging the use of "lethal" force on people who may simply be trying to climb his "beautiful" fence.
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