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Of the front office personnel, this is least consequential for the football side of things. His main responsibilities are communication with the NFL (particularly around international games and when the officials screw us over) and business-related matters (i.e., securing the NFL Draft here, sponsorships, stadium related matters, long-term vision, etc.). Spielman might make sense, I don't know what he does right now. Disner might make sense. Allison Maki is their long-time CFO, she might make sense. Or they may go external and find a lawyer or businessman who is close to the family, similar to how Wood was hired in the first place.

Sooo..... what's the connection?! How'd this even get tied to TA? There was a reason I put "unverified," I'm glad I did.

Unverified reports are that a member of Arnold's security team and Arnold's cousin were both arrested for luring three men into an apartment and holding them at gunpoint while beating them senseless, in an attempt to recover $100k, guns, a cell phone, and high-end bags that belonged to TA.

Wasn't having the issue until the last hour or so, but now inaccessible on my iPhone. Refreshing the page just loads the same or a new ad with the same problem where you can't scroll to the 'minimize' button.

My one and only conspiracy theory in life (if you can call it that, maybe it’s just a soap box) is that I don’t think those GLP-1s are well tested enough as to the long-term side effects for long-term use for obesity. I’m worried what will happen in the next 10-15 years. They went from a little known treatment for Type 2 diabetes to a lose-weight-fast magic injection seemingly overnight. Prescriptions for them rose 300% for them from 2018 to 2023 and they’re even faster spreading now. A recent article said that 1 in 8 adults are taking GLP1s. That’s insane to me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt they help people, I know they do. I know of people who are finally able to start losing weight thanks to them, and that’s a great thing. But I adamantly believe there is no magical cure to obesity that doesn’t involve lifestyle change. Ultimately, long-term weight loss requires increased activity combined with a better diet. Today, I could download an app and order a GLP1 prescription with the relative ease of ordering a pizza. Not even see a doctor face to face. That alarming ease (when compared to getting an effective dietician or nutritionist or personal trainer) feels like a recipe for disaster. And I really worry that in 10-20 years, we’ll be seeing class action commercials on our $200 NetHulu Max Prime subscriptions saying “did you or a loved one take GLP1s and develop long-term effects? You may be entitled to compensation.”

I’d support this. Both as a depth piece and a trustworthy starter. They’ll need one more starter than normal with Branch out for at lease the start of the season.

I was hoping this was a joke. And it’s not.

The NCAA is completely powerless. Anytime they try to flex any power they get brought to court and lose. He might as well be shaking a fist at a cloud.

I agree with this. I’m hoping Graham Glasgow’s key card for building access was disabled at halftime of the Bears game. The sunny side up is that the line will get better by default with the return of a healthy LaPorta and Brock Wright. The one-two punch of losing those two decimated an already fragile offensive line. Of the five games you mentioned, there was no excuse (offense or defense) for Green Bay. But both KC and Philly have one of the best defensive lines in the league (or at least did when they faced us in the case of KC). Most offensive lines composed of the ghost of Glasgow’s past and effectively two rookies would struggle with that. With Pittsburgh and Minnesota though (and I would add the Rams game too even though they had some offensive success in the first half and probably should have won) we had effectively no tight end position. It’s hard to run the offense we are designed to run without a single NFL caliber tight end. It’s even harder without a tight end and with an interior composed of what it was.

It feels like I woke up some day in the last two months and all of a sudden every fast food joint, every ad, and every health craze, now just jacks up and advertises their protein levels. Is that the flavor of the month? There's probably something to it. In the grand scheme of macros, protein and calories are the only two I pay attention to. But what's with Chipotle, Subway, and every other place that pretends to be healthy screaming at me about how much protein they have?

In a past career, I worked in child welfare and became the primary caregiver of a kid with T1D. I learned so much, so quickly. He was a warrior and his parents made him just take care of it himself at like six-years-old. He somehow managed to do so until about 9 or 10, when he finally came to us. He could be a little **** head (like all kids in the system), and it became a little joke between us where I would tease him that he didn't need to prick his finger anymore because I could tell his levels just by what names he was calling me that day... Happy to say he got adopted, but not before we got his levels straightened out, his A1C steady, and got him on a CGM/pump combo. That last part made it so much easier. Anyway that all to say, hats off to you. That's a hard diagnosis with occasional nonsensical stigma from the ill-informed.

Gotta be, or the department would be bankrupting itself. You would think the PAC-12 would be happy to have a warm body. Does the agreement include baseball? Sac State has a very good baseball program that competes in the WAC. They would probably immediately become the best baseball team in the MAC. ETA: I see now it's football only. I can only imagine this is Sac State wanting to break into the FBS, but trying to be smarter about it than App State and Georgia State. They likely figure if they go to the Mountain West, or have to schedule their own opponents as an independent, they'll get creamed and eventually relegated to perpetual 3-9. But if they have Akron, Bowling Green, and UMass on their schedule every year, maybe they can manage to get the program to a respectable 8-4 by the end of the five years, in a position to compete in the MWC or PAC-12? And if you're the MAC, you have nothing to lose. Maybe the NorCal games will even give the smaller schools a shot at kids from the area who would otherwise go to FCS or D2.

Love the new thread. I've struggled with health my whole life. Weight is a simplistic measure for health, but correlates fairly well and I've yo-yo'd all over the place in my adult life. I was probably a no-muscle 235 when I graduated high school. Dropped 50 pounds in four months for a new job by basically strapping myself to a Planet Fitness treadmill, and I was like a dog on roller blades trying to run outside or look athletic. I was skinny, but I looked weird (still no muscle), and gained it all back and then some. It was gradual, but there came a time in graduate school I looked in the mirror, stepped on the scale, and saw it was 312. I wasn't happy. I got down to 245 by the time I graduated, but then moved for a post-grad job and was traveling a lot, was back up to 275 last December. I'm trying to do it right this time. I'm on a pretty strict high-protein and low-calorie diet (track everything I eat), go to a very difficult Cross Fit gym five days a week, and am gaining muscle a little faster than I can lose fat right now. I'm at 263 as of this morning. I'm really hoping to get down to 212, so that I can officially say I lost a hundred pounds. That'd be really cool. Of course, then I'll have to deal with a transition, because I'm moving again this fall. Moving (and hard transitions) has been my bear trap before.

The damage is done. Everyone knows who the good owners and bad owners are and it's who we expected. The Lions got poorly rated on food in like 2023 and overhauled their food services. I'd like to think they're on the right side of this ownership wise and would have done that even if it weren't made public.

JV taking the mound in September: