Sooners News Daily 6.7.16
Posted on: June 7, 2016
SOFTBALL
Full recap of tonight's 3-2 win over Auburn ➡️ https://t.co/CTH4VwPuH0 pic.twitter.com/hwfT8NUKKI
— Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) June 7, 2016
And tonight's top play on #SCtop10… Yours truly. #WCWS pic.twitter.com/t800uG3IyC
— Oklahoma Softball (@OU_Softball) June 7, 2016
Sydney Romero hits a 3-run homer and Oklahoma holds off Auburn as the Sooners take Game 1: https://t.co/3tgKOUg7tz #WCWS
— espnW (@espnW) June 7, 2016
A defensive play from Shay Knighten was the difference for the #Sooners in their #WCWS win: https://t.co/puvUxhUIT7 pic.twitter.com/PHPcLofdgi
— OU Daily Sports (@OUDailySports) June 7, 2016
Sydney Romero continues to be the biggest hit at the Women's College World Series https://t.co/Ug51rGbYAO via @espnW @OU_Softball #Sooners
— Jordan Esco (@Jordan_Esco) June 7, 2016
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Relive Samaje’s 4⃣2⃣7⃣ in season Preview Vol. 8
Kansas ➡️https://t.co/OfRIgHyHbQ pic.twitter.com/wn397UxQgu
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) June 6, 2016
This ‘football only’ expansion theory, for whatever reason/s, has become really popular over the course of the last several days.
With network off the table, Big 12 expansion focus could turn toward best available football programs https://t.co/srM6jjdiiT
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) June 6, 2016
Because Ok State has a say in anything?
In letter to Okla St, UCF touts Orlando for Big 12 candidacy; includes report comparing city to Cincinnati, Hartford https://t.co/BgkNBZfmoc
— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) June 6, 2016
Shocker.
Baylor will not release the full Pepper Hamilton report https://t.co/xi5UbL8J9u pic.twitter.com/l9adqb3xcM
— SI College Football (@si_ncaafb) June 6, 2016
Dear college football leaders: It's been a depressing two weeks. Why is it so hard for you to do the right thing? https://t.co/Ctm9u8QZsf
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) June 6, 2016
Why Gus Malzahn, Kevin Sumlin and Les Miles are entering 2016 on the hot seat https://t.co/KaofAzgGep pic.twitter.com/u08iiwOQ7i
— SI College Football (@si_ncaafb) June 6, 2016
OTHER
MMA reporter Ariel Helwani opens up about lifetime UFC ban: https://t.co/dHpQXWpgzu pic.twitter.com/GrRLAdLXx8
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) June 6, 2016
UFC does the right thing here (obviously), but still looks like s#$% for ever having done it in the first place.
UFC lifts ban on MMA journalist Ariel Helwani: https://t.co/5XecJTVmKI
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) June 7, 2016
Breaking: MMA fighter Kimbo Slice is dead at age 42 https://t.co/AJsFHCeFFI pic.twitter.com/ftOA9TiEbs
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) June 7, 2016
The motivation behind Brock Lesnar’s UFC return https://t.co/8x6VILNr9l via @YahooSports
— Kevin Iole (@KevinI) June 6, 2016
Brilliant.
Here's our piece on the Debt Buying industry from last night. Your move, Oprah… https://t.co/yhZfbCuY5f
— John Oliver (@iamjohnoliver) June 6, 2016
WTF?
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Boomer!
SOONER!
BOOMER!!!!!
And a SOONER to you Doc.
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!
Oracle – good morning!
Mornin’ Cush.
Sooner!
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Metz!
Good morning, Oracle!!
Good morning JR.
SOONER! ! !
BOOMER
Doc!
CUSH.
Sooner!!
SOONER!!!!!!!!!!
Doc!
SOONER! ! ! !
SBallers – Great going. Now, ONE more win! And pleeeeeease make it tonight…and pile it on them because I can’t take any more close 7th innings!
Not good for the poor heart
Good morning, Cush!! Was sure hoping we were going to shut them out last night. Maybe tonight.
Also make it tonight so we can keep this winning streak going heading into next year!
Word…
BOOMER!!! Shay Knighten rocks!!! What an amazing play to get the second out at home!! One more win, ladies!!
Indeed! A star, a leader, and ONLY a Frosh!
Cush!
Metz, my man! Have to dash to the old grind – see you guys in a bit.
J.r.
Good morning, Metz!!
Sooner! ! !
Looking for a big win tonight.
Boomer!!
Sooner!!
Ray
metz!
Good morning, Ray!!
Mornin J.r.
I would love to see UCF in the Big 12(-2). It’s a 3 hour drive to Orlando for me.
They have a lot of long-term potential, but they may be too far away from realizing it to make sense for the Big 12.
Of course there are some OU fans that think anything short of ND would be a bad addition.
What appears to be lost at times, is the importance of how the national media and others view the conference, when it comes to making the Final 4. I don’t know that these kind of schools really help and they may actually kind of hurt. But, I could be wrong.
Isn’t UCF the largest school in Florida? Student-wise I mean…
70,000 plus vs 56,000 plus at UF, 46,000 plus at FSU
Did not realize just how large their enrollment is. THE largest campus enrollment in the nation. Larger than aTm or tOsu @ 50k +. And if they can seat 65k they would be behind only texsa and OU for capacity as currently configured. Plus OU gets a larger footprint in Florida/sec country. I’m liking this more and more.
Good opinion piece on Baylor not releasing the Hamilton report
http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2016/06/what-is-baylor-board-of-regents-still-hiding-in-sexual-assault-scandal.html/
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Metz. Mr. Metz.
It seems that this is far from over. They believe they can keep all their coaches except the head coach for having knowledge of the complaints? They believe they can keep some of the Pepper Hamilton report secret, possibly regarding the regents own knowledge? I don’t think they can. And where is the otherwise ubiquitous NCAA? Or the Big 12 itself? Their self created disaster is far from over in my opinion because they are still hiding things and until they stop it won’t – and shouldn’t- be over. Actions are going to be forced on them eventually at some point the way this is going.
You’re absolutely right – I sure hope actions are placed on them. There is virtually no way you can convince me that Briles sr. was the only coach with knowledge of the situations. The report needs to come out.
And I agree about the regents – I want to know their role in all of this
The NCAA usually takes time to do anything. I suspect when they do it will be major. Baylor is the type of school they like to make an example of. School with a name but not a lot of TV sets that would be lost by putting them on probation. Lot’s of similarities to SMU back when they got the death penalty.
IMO (worthless of course), the NCAA does nothing. Its not going to repeat the PSU mess. Baylor will struggle for awhile with recruiting, but I think they’ll be pretty good on the field this year. I think OU and TCU are the teams to beat; Baylor has lots of pieces to replace and they have a lot of negativity to deal with. Grobe is a good coach, they will fight.
IMO (just as worthless or maybe even more so) is the NCAA needs to do something. The PSU situation was completely different because the players had nothing to do the with the situation. It was a coach seeing another coach doing horrible things running home to his daddy then telling Joe and Joe and administration not following through. So taking scholarships from players made no sense in that case. That needed and should have been a coaching and admin. fire sale and leave the players out of it.
Baylor has a situation that includes all parties. PLAYERS were assaulting victims and who knows how many assaults will and have gone unaccounted for because the players, coaches, and administration covered these actions up. I am so tired of people comparing this to PSU. Assaulting children is awful absolutely evil, but again it wasn’t players that were doing evil it was a coach. Baylor is program completely out of control from the school president to the water-boys and needs to be dealt with by the NCAA.
Exactly, PSU was a criminal act by someone who just happened to be associated with the FB program, but in no official capacity and had no direct relationship to any of the players or their recruitment or participation in the sport. All of involved violations of the law, but not NCAA regulations.
In the Baylor case it’s players and official members of the FB staff and athletic department involved as well as there appear to have been direct violations of NCAA regulations.
Maybe… the NCAA also has shown with the Penn St (reversal of their ruling) thing that they aren’t too keen to get involved in legal matters.
The problem with PSU is that they didn’t really have any jurisdiction because the issues were not really related to NCAA rules violation. In the case of Baylor you do appear to have rules violations as well. If they go after them they will use those to do so.
I’m unclear on the difference I guess. Seem like very similar cases to me.
When the Sandusky stuff came out he hadn’t been a coach for a decade. There weren’t’ any accusations that I am aware of that he broke NCAA rules. What he did was criminal, but the NCAA doesn’t prosecute sex crimes, murders or anything else like that they regulate sports.
In the case of Baylor there appear to have been actual NCAA violations in addition to the rapes. If they go after Baylor, assuming they learned their lesson with PSU, they will actually penalize them for the NCAA violations.
Since they were on probation in both 2005 and 2012 in different sports, they are eligible for the death penalty because it has been less than five years between the current probation and the prior one and because of the dreaded “lack of institutional control.
Its safe to say.
Someone will get their hands on this situation whether its the NCAA or Govt and drop the hammer.
I would expect both.
So it sounds like if Baylor is going to get punished, their legal matters won’t be a part of it. Right? I don’t know…
I would argue that legal problems of this magnitude could lend credence to the “lack of institutional control” designation. If your players are consistently outside the lines, perhaps the institution has a control problem. Maybe not death penalty level, but certainly worthy of sanctions.
Didn’t someone post (Shelby maybe) who Gasso has coming in next year?
Great game,texsa SUCKS and BOOMER SOONER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good morning fellow Brainiacs!!! “It is indeed another fine day to be a SOONER” So get out there and make the most of it!!!
A late good morning to you!
Mornin, Jim!!
I know this got discussed a little bit in last nights thread, but holy crap was Auburn the most cocky team in last nights pressed or what!? The entire team never gave Ou credit for a good game including coach Myers. One girl referred to Paige as our “one pitcher” and said they’ve got her figured out so it won’t take long to score runs tonight. But what really got me was when one reporter asked Myers his thoughts on the fact Gasso wouldn’t commit to saying Paige was starting tonight, and before the question was over every player at the presser started laughing. This is when I wish Kelsey Stevens could dig deep and find one more good game in her and Gasso start her tonight and just shut AU down! That would do them justice! Screw Auburn and Boomer Sooner!!
I think it was bluster to try to regain their confidence. After all, they are 1 game away from elimination. Pretty weak on the sportsmanship meter.
Bring the AU hate Austin! I know all the teams do it, but its a real clown show in those dugouts during the game. Kinda cute and kinda annoying. I’d like to see Stevens also. BOOMER!!
Saw the Perine record game up there on the OU vs Kansas preview and felt compelled to go watch the full highlights of the 427 game. Never fails to put a smile on my face
too bad it couldn’t have come against texas……….
Gonna go make today an amazing start to something big. Catch you all later.
interest piqued…
Waiting on results for a new crushing technique I invented. They are supposed to arrive today. It looks incredibly promising. looks like median size was in the .0015 ” range.
grapes or gravel?
Let’s just say it involves a 300 lb. woman and a man’s face.
gravel, sand, other interesting things. They all powder.
Good luck and please bring a load to my house in NC. I could use some fine .0015 gravel in my driveway :). Seriously, good luck.
Get em Pimp!
implants for men THAT small ? amazing what technology can think of.
Get’em Bruce!
Great! ! ! ! ! “Just Do It! !”
I actually kinda like the UCF idea. They’re the 2nd largest school in the country, so you know the money and support is there. I’m not sure about how their sports are outside of football, but I know they’ve put together some solid football teams over the years. They’re not a flashy pickup, but they might be good long-term.
If we do expand (I wish we’d leave); I agree on UCF. I’d try to steal USF as well. Tampa and Orlando are great TV markets; travel there is easy and desirable for fans with families and of course Florida is at least the third best state for talent.
With Florida’s tax friendly environment, it is only getting more and more populated and continue to grow economically.
They may have a large student base but they suck on the field.
I don’t remember UCF in any recent bowl game.
Football program isn’t exactly average.
So did OU in the 90s. What’s your point?
They were dead last with Kansas last year…KU has bball team.
7 bowl games all time.. 3-4
Sure, they were bad last year. They’ve also won their conference 4 times in the last 9 years.
they have done better than Texsa in recent years haha…
All time record is 127-116
Better than K state 😉
Its not as bad as I thought.
But I like this team better for the conference first.
They did beat Baylor in a bowl game. (But kind of sucked last season. But then so did saxeT.)
How about the University of Phoenix? They have 162,000 students and a stadium?
NICE!!
I say we entice Harvard in the mix. The have more billionaire alums than any other school. 5 of the top 10 in the U.S.
Nice article by Stewart Mandel on how rough the last few weeks of college football shenanigans have been
I thought that was a good article, too. It doesn’t look like the media is going to get off of Bailer until the season starts.
Probably shouldn’t get off of them until the whole thing is out
Maybe we should hope Baylor football get’s the death penalty. That drops us to nine teams and probably voids our media contracts. Might be the out we need to leave.
I say they vote to shrink the B12 by one school. Allow the University of Oklahoma to leave.
http://www.auburntigers.com/sports/w-softbl/recaps/060616aac.html
Auburn coach Clint Myers knows the score.
“You’ve got to win two. You can pick the first two, you can pick the first and last. We chose to pick the last two.”
HUH? So you picked to lose Game 1?
The intelligence displayed by the SEC never ceases to amaze
She was out partying too hard with Gus Bus after his contract extension lol. Allbarn and their bs drive me crazy.
Unreal. I’m surprised you didn’t find that at ESPin. I wonder what he’s going to say when we choose to win the first two.
Is there a run rule in CSB? If so, I hope OU run rules them.
Yes there is and I hope we do too.
Yes, up by 8 after the fifth.
Mornin’ BleedC. So…uh…how many more days till kickoff??
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Too many
Myers is a cocky, prick. He gives no credit to OU and verbally supported LSU the night before when the Sooners won 7-3…..great game last night, lady Sooners….finish Auburn tonight so Myers can eat humble pie.
This coming up year is a big turning point for the Sooners. They bounced back from an 8-5 season to enter the College Football Playoffs, we’ve all seen what that has done for recruiting purposes. You also have all these renovations being done to the stadium to catch the eyes of the high school kids. They can take advantage of this opportunity by having another great season and having a great future ahead of us. If for some reason they slip up, you’ll continue to hear the talks about the Sooners being a “has been team”. Let’s change what the rest of the country thinks about us by dominating next year and showing that Boomer Sooner is here to continue to stay and hungry for much much more!
taking care of business against Houston & tOSU will be a good start AND showing up in dallas and actually competing to win the RRS will be a really good start ….its been a while since the Sooners played a solid game against Texas
Wow. That’s pretty close to a positive outlook for you. Gonna even upvote that ^^.
Please temper your enthusiasm hOUligan.
SD is right about RRS, got beat last 2 of 3. Hate to say it but its true. Need to show up this year.
True, we haven’t shown up, but you still don’t feed the trolls.
Beat me to my reply DC.
I didn’t say he wasn’t correct in this particular moment. lol
Sorry. Got carried away. Just trying a little positive reenforcement since HWSNBN apparently isn’t going anywhere anytime Sooner.
Rolled into the gym today decked out in OU gear and the front desk kid asks if we had a big win last night. I guess I’m that predictable in my outfit selection lol. I still can’t believe how fired up I was last night. Time to finish those kitty Kats off.
Has anyone watched that 16-17 pump up video? I’m on the elliptical bouncing between GOT and TFB lol.
I hope everyone has a great day!
Just watched the video…. fantastic
Kimbo Slice, the guy was so young. Remember when all those YouTube video’s came out. Those were some straight up beatdowns.
Bobby Boucher voice- “Remember that time the Sooners beat UH in Houston, then had a home coming at the new stadium vs that little school and then on a prime time stage they were able to show the world the new stadium while beating Ohio State, do ya!?!”
Hard to remember something that hasn’t happened yet… :/
Don’t kill “The Waterboy” vibe! Ha
I remember Houston beating Tulsa 100-6.
Greeting and salutations AM TFB crew!! How ’bout them Sooner ladies!! Bring another Natty trophy home.
Good Morning! Boomer!
SOONER..Oskie!!
Not that I agreed with the actions of UFC but I kinda understand. As a journalist they want to report the news. But I imagine UFC had some plans for a special release or announcement planned for Brock Lesner coming back.
I relate it to a recruit wanting to announce where he is going on twitter or have a ceremony but someone releases it ahead of time and ruins the moment.
Lesnar doesn’t care a$ long as he’s taking in the ca$h
So… Brandon said he would be posting some info on Creed today plus, it’s Tues. Predicting an OP about 10 minutes after Metz starts his meeting.
Well that will be @ 1;10 then!
That’s crazy about Kimbo, 2 fighters in less than a week.
DTG 88
Keith Jackson AA; Best tight end to ever play on Owen Field!!!
https://youtu.be/3o-SjMenV4U
…. Best ever …
Amen
Trent Smith was a pretty good TE for us the last time we won a NC.
Yep, Grishem was pretty good too.
Gresham*
88 is all I’m sayin.
In all my years watching OU football, Keith Jackson was the best ever. Not a knock on Trent or on Gresham, both are/were very good, but Jackson was the best.
23.7 yards per catch that’s the definition of a big play receiver. Offensive Player of the Century at OU.
What number did Trent wear?
Trent was #88.
🙂
Don’t know if he was the best TE but he was definitely the best athlete to play TE.
Stephen Alexander and Steve Zabel had their times as well. Best ever covers a lot of territory. Steve Zabel in particular played both ways.
Yeah, Zabel was a beast. We forget but can now appreciate the stamina and ability of the old school guys who went both ways. Thanks for the reminder.
Great player for sure. His DE play was even better than his TE play.
Stephen Alexander and Steve Zabel had their times as well. Best ever covers a lot of territory. Steve Zabel in particular played both ways.
Great memories.
YES. Yes. And HELL YES.
Lot of work today, but finally here to say thanks for posting and thanks for the great play to # 88!
Glad yOU enjoyed!
The acceleration at the 3:00 minute mark was amazing and I can’t think of a TE who has ever shown that burst. He was at his best in those Nov 25th games.
Was my all time favorite TE. A man that big shouldn’t move like that!! 🙂
“Baylor will not release the full Pepper Hamilton report”….because then EVERRRYONE will get the axe!
http://i.imgur.com/fTTBLia.gif?noredirect
Or as texsa sucks would say they gettin’ errrbody.
Yeah, like the 911 report that redacts everything about the Saudi’s. The Baylor board is definitely complicit.
KJ, the two things that I think the O-line really needed to do better last year was handle stunts and blitzes and then execute reach blocks on linebackers. I think both of those really hurt OU in the Orange Bowl. Do you think they’ll improve at both of those things?
I think the stunts and blitzes will be handled better because of experience. Last year they had Ty and Nila but it was a new offense. This year the 3 vets will have an easier time. Reach blocks depend on athleticism imo. I think Dalton, Samia and Avalrez are the more athletic OLs we have. However, I wouldn’t rule Bobby Evans out from over taking Daimler at that RT spot if they kick Samia inside. Evans is very athletic as well.
Awesome, good to hear! Do you think Brown has the athleticism needed for the outside zone blocks?
I’m not KJ, but I thought Brown did extremely well last year considering his youth. I saw good improvement as the season went on too. He’s not going to attack the second level as much as the guards do though.
Gotcha.
Mojo, one thing I liked about Brown was his attitude. Did he make some mistakes? Did he need to work on his technique? Did he at times perform quite well? The answer in my mind to all of the questions was yes. His mindset and attitude was, in my opinion, his most important asset. The kid’s got the right attitude, right mindset, and obviously the right physical attributes to be an awesome tackle. I’m quite sure he will become an All-Pro in his future.
Really couldn’t agree more, Rick. I think this year he will step his game up even more. I thought he made oakman a non-factor in that game and I appreciated him greatly for that.
You have to think that Brown played a big role in showing NFL scouts what a sham Oakman was. I’d like to think that, even w/o the assault stuff, that he still would’ve gone undrafted.
Yeah with the offseason being so long ( 🙁 ) I’ve had time to rewatch a LOT of plays (to my wife’s dismay haha) and watching him against Derek Barnett and Malik Jefferson (probably the two most natural pass rushers he faced all year besides Lawson for 3 plays in the OB) he held his own on most plays. He did give up a couple sacks and pressures against those guys but that’s alright. I think he’s going to be great.
Honestly, I think Orlando gets away with alot because of his size and length. Dont get me wrong, there have been times where I was like, yeah, that’s a NFL type movement, but I think he need to develop more.
Gotcha. Hope he takes a big step!
I agree, but he’s still very young. He has time to learn. And, think of how well he did last year relying so little on technique? If he continues to learn and improve, he could certainly be great.
Is Samia still at a smallish 275?
Always liked this one better…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L971-MaGlqM
A little offseason pick-me-up for all
T. Marshall..Derrick ‘Magic’ Strait .. Timmy!! ..Roy Williams ..Lehman … Rocky Calmus.. Jason White .. Clayton .. Bradford .. Clint Ingram .. (even a shot of Coach Thibs) .. Lendy Holmes .. Garret Hartley .. Hurst.. Jamelle Fleming.. Landry Jones to Hanna.. KStills..Brennan Clay.. TJeff..Blake Bell..Jalen Saunders..Striker..Grisom..
Big names making big plays in big games. Wow. Made my day. Thanks!!
Happy to share it! That channel has a lot of great OU stuff. And much agreed – fun seeing those players. I always loved beating Oregon in that Holiday Bowl – the Ingram pick is one of my favorite plays of the Stoops era. And yeah, seeing Thibs hug Stoops was pretty cool!
So many. Great reminder of just a few of the ‘greats’ at OU and just during the Stoops era who made the plays when games and championships were on the line.
Right before Bomar spikes the ball on the 3 yard line? 🙂 I remember Bob getting into that young man!
Haha and it wouldn’t have been as bad if Clint Ingram hadn’t also gotten a flag for throwing the ball into the crowd after his pick. It did make us a little nervous. But we got the W
That was close last night. But Paige hung in there tough.
I thought Pendley was going to be able to get to their homerun ball. Sure wanted to shut them out last night.
Tonight. Shut them out and shut their coach’s mouth.
I think should could have, for sure. Just didn’t get her head around in time, IMO.
Yeah it was right there at the edge of the wall.
Yeah it was right there at the edge of the wall.
I love John Oliver
Going to watch that at lunch time – he has some pretty good stuff
Great piece. Consumer debt (as gigantic as it is) is only a small portion of the debt economy. Over sold derivatives go into the 10s of trillions. Economist/Entrepreneurs such as Doug Casey (Casey Research) Bill Bonner, Peter Schiff, Currency historian Mike Maloney, market gurus Jim Rodgers, George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller, Eric Sprott and many other highly respected businessmen, economist, and professional investors and advisors, believe a total dollar debt collapse is coming.
That’s why my money is invested in beer and Xanax futures.
Dick – take delivery. You will need the physical material during a collapse. Double up on the beer though.
If they ever sue you, you can have it dismissed by simply showing up to the court date. 99.9999% of the time they will have nobody show up. Happened to me. I just told the judge I had no idea what the debt was or who was suing me and she said, “Well, you win. No one showed up on the plaintiff’s behalf.” Walked out of the courtroom and never heard another word about it.
So. Either we all die (or go off and live in caves, wearing animal skins)..or we have a global ‘do over’. Look at the Dutch tulip bubble or the south seas bubble.
There may well be a reckoning moment, but since derivatives are imaginary in the first place, they will affect real economic activity for only a short period. Keep yourself unextended and you’ll be fine.
True. As Doug Casey says, true assets are not destroyed, the are just re-valued, and when they are down, that is when you buy.
Best piece of financial advice I ever heard was from Kid Rock. “Live beneath your means.”
The only time Wall Street can really hurt you is when you are ‘trying too hard’ and have extended yourself and become a slave to your possessions. If the stuff in your life is so important to you that losing it would make your self image change much at all, you’ve got problems that are far deeper than any external stock market fiasco.
I like the basic principles that Dave Ramsey teaches, I don’t follow them 100% but it’s simple enough for anybody to follow. Don’t spend it if you don’t have it.
Hard to take financial advice from a guy who admits to filing bankruptcy 3 times.
He went bankrupt from spending money he didn’t have, which is why he changed his ways and wants to help other people not make the same mistakes he made.
Great piece. Consumer debt (as gigantic as it is) is only a small portion of the debt economy. Over sold derivatives go into the 10s of trillions. Economist/Entrepreneurs such as Doug Casey (Casey Research) Bill Bonner, Peter Schiff, Currency historian Mike Maloney, market gurus Jim Rodgers, George Soros, Stanley Druckenmiller, Eric Sprott and many other highly respected businessmen, economist, and professional investors and advisors, believe a total dollar debt collapse is coming.
Who’s the creep now?
I’m not ashamed.
Love him too, although I don’t always agree 100%.
I get annoyed when he doesn’t show both sides of the coin. Could easily do a piece on how damaging it is to the economy when people buy goods and services that they know they’ll never pay for.
Of the two problems, people not paying their bills vs debt buyers, I think it’s pretty clear that the first is a much bigger problem, but he makes it seem like everyone who owes a debt is a victim.
I largely agree with you. But I’d place medical debt in a special category. And I’d go further to say that about 75% of medical debt is illegit from the start. A person can be for or against ‘Obamacare’ but anyone who seriously considers the matter has to acknowledge a couple of key points, we pay more for medical care than any other country on earth…and receive on the whole a very mediocre product. Secondly, there is zero competition among providers of medical care, so there is no free market operating in this 16~20% of the economy. And thirdly, nothing done so far in the way of ‘reform’ has addressed the cost side of the equation whatsoever.
So, if hospitals, or, by extension, pharma makers or device makers get screwed, it’s no more than a tiny fraction of what they do to us hourly.
My wife owns a collection agency, 80% of her business is medical debt! The one downfall of hers is she is oswho alumni.
And I’d bet she obeys the rules and didn’t make them, to boot. My beef is more with the costs and how those costs are run up to start with.
And that we seem to have no stomach, nationally, to debate how, or if, we address runaway medical costs.
Side note: Always get an itemized bill and review it carefully. Some things get “used” in surgery that are unnecessary.
You are correct in that, but here’s the rub: my father has had three knee replacements and finally an amputation along with several sessions of congestive heart failure resulting in seven major hospitalizations.
In each instance, the bill ran to over 100 pages and none of the entries was identified by anything other than a billing code. There was no way to review the bill.
Finally we hired a medical billing firm out of Connecticut to review the bills (which, in aggregate, ran to over $1 million). They found that almost 75% was erroneous. Not just a bit padded, but for services that simply were not performed on the patient in question. Case in point: a pace maker. $35,000. Except no pace maker was ever implanted or otherwise used. And the billing didn’t even purport to include a surgical procedure to implant a pace maker. It was kind of like buying a new car and having the dealership throw in a bill for a lawn tractor as well. Just ‘because’.
Result? The hospital simply accepted the challenges and adjusted the bill…and then turned it over to a bill collector immediately because it was ‘late’. I’m still fighting with the credit agencies to get my folks’ credit fixed.
That’s terrible. I’m sorry to hear that.
Yeah, me too. I lived 25 years overseas, mostly as a ‘local’ contractor to American companies…so I was on my own for arranging health coverage.. (Yes, I was well compensated, yes the companies worked with me to route the insurance coverage in such a way as to minimize taxes, etc. I was well treated and am in no way complaining.) My family had great care for about half the insurance cost as here…and paid about 1/10 of what we would have here for in-patient care.
We don’t have to live this way.
Side note: Always get an itemized bill and review it carefully. Some things get “used” in surgery that are unnecessary.
I’m not well informed enough on the subject to speak intelligently about it, but I disagree anecdotally that our quality of care is subpar. We have the best doctors and hospitals in the world. People come from all over the world to be cared for here.
I also would question the competition aspect. Are you saying that competition is restricted because of insurance? Otherwise, there seems to be plenty of competition for where I go for medical care.
Not saying our medical system is fair or perfect, but I would question those points. Then again I’m debating something I know little about on a football message board so…
Not subpar, but mediocre. We get health results that are at best on par with what are achieved in other developed nations…at a minimum of twice the price.
If I am having a ‘routine’ procedure, I will definitely approach my insurance about having it done in Singapore, for example. UCLA trained docs, Philippina nurses, same like here…at around 25% what it costs here.
Competition? How would anyone know? Ask for a price. You’ll never get an answer. Personally, I like FDA checked out meds and licensed doctors…but when you do that, you make a cartel. You get exactly what we see today: out of control price increases.
That is pretty cool to see…
https://twitter.com/CareyWWLS/status/739981328704118785
Already 6’2 210+. And if he has 1/2 the fire and passion of his dad plus the football IQ from growing up w/ Brent … really hoping Brent sends him OUr way to let Bob coach him in football and life.
I thought Brent was a heck of a player at K-State.
Glad to see UFC lift its ban on helwani. The other reporters might have boycotted 200, and that would have been REALLY bad for them. This is already a pretty bad look for them as it is.
Lets go tonight ladies! FINISH IT!
OK, we are discussing UCF and UFC in the same comment section. If UCF is coming their are going to have to change their name, because TFB has been discussing UFC for a long time and is not going to stop and having the two is just too confusing.
I’m conflicted, could you start over please?
Just call them the Knights…
One is University of Central Florida, the other is Urban Fried Chicken.
Have to miss the Lady Sooners tonight – major bummer, but I’m sure the TFB board can pull them through without me. Gasso’s Girls! Go Get ‘Em and end this thing tonight!
Good morning, TFB family. How goes it?
Quick question: how does a rapist at Baylor get 20 years in prison and a rapist at Stanford get 6 months? Folks, this is an outrage.
How is it possible for several coaches intentionally cover up said rapes, still have jobs?
Yes, sir. There is a lot of work that needs to be done. I can’t wait for the collapse of Baylor’s house of cards.
It’s a good time to be white in America.
Hey, Dustin. How goes it, brother?
Not bad. Back home and spending time with the family. My boy is at golf camp and I’m enjoying the sunshine. Summer is nearly here.
With a racist President and attorney general?! I think not…
LOL
Well… the Stanford kid was a rich white boy. The other most likely was neither of those things.
RD, what’s up man? This is crazy.
Same old thing, man. I’m assuming you’re talking about Ukwuachu? I don’t think he got 20 years. Some jail time and 10 years felony probation if I remember right. My point remains the same though.
Yeah, that’s who I’m talking about. Where is mush mouth Jenni?
$$$$$$$
Sizeable donation to the “Help Make Our Streets Clean” program
Because in the Stanford case she said, “um grg risle” instead of “no”. Pretty simple really. That and economic status may have played a small part.
Forgot: /s
What’s up, MoJo?
Are you keeping Metz in line?
Been trying Sam, but I lack your finesse. Sorry again for your loss. Hope your ship is righting as well as can be expected.
Been trying Sam, but I lack your finesse. Sorry again for your loss. Hope your ship is righting as well as can be expected.
Are you keeping Metz in your sights?
Fixed it for ya.
Yeah, that’s a better choice of words.
How are you, Bob?
Doing pretty good given the circumstances. Trying to help my wife work through her new circumstances and the death of her brother. His mercies are new every morning.
I’m sorry to hear about that. I imagine it’s tough for you and it seems like it’s not going to end. I will pray for God’s grace.
We do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Cor 16-18
We do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Cor 16-18
Oh, and how are you doing? I know it’s a tough time for you.
It’s all good, Bob. We got back home yesterday. I’m glad that’s over.
It’s all good, Bob. We got back home yesterday. I’m glad that’s over.
Yeah, that’s a better choice of words.
How are you, Bob?
Are you keeping Metz in your sights?
Fixed it for ya.
Hey, Sam!! Sorry to say it, but … same as it ever was … we have a long way to go, not just in this country but everywhere, w/ regard to how we treat people accused of criminal acts … regardless of race, ‘birth right’ or economic status.
hOUligan, how are you sir?
I just hate to see this kind of disparity in punishment (regardless of race) happen when both circumstances happened in the same span of time.
Sam, I think it’s like that stupid rich kid that got off after drunk drive killing those people and then ran off with mommy to Mexico.
I HATE to sound like the old fart, but we had to compete and knew when we did well and messed up. Now, take your “ribbon” and don’t worry about how well you do (in school as well as athletics).
Watch me, I’m too old to get on that soap box – I might slip.
I’ve got you, Cush. You’re right: we don’t have a system of earn what you get or a system of accountability.
Auburn is justifiably proud of having a great team and what they’ve accomplished and appears to be looking for all the little things, excuses, that they can to justify the loss and maintain the necessary confidence to play their best tonight. Obviously for every “if” they had, there was an equal “if” on OU’s side that would have made the game not even close.
I think they will discover that continuing to hit Paige is not so easy, and after the Sooners crush them tonight, they will be much more conciliatory and complimentary post game..
Just watched the press conference, Auburn players and coach awfully defensive. Heard the game for them “was a warmup”, they are “guaranteed to win” 2 more games. And, they keep referring to the Arizona series as the template by which they beat OU. Uh, Arizona is no Oklahoma.
They’re only guaranteed the wins *if* they play “Auburn” ball. Seems to me they are leaving some wiggle room for themselves. If they don’t play “Auburn” ball and OU wins, then they have something to talk about during the off season.
What “if” those strikes were called instead of balls and Paige would not have walked the first batter in the 7th inning.
Yeah, the two balls in the K zone.
Happy for Ariel.
Ok guys let the OP fly, meeting will start 12:30 today. MEtz out for a while——
That’s the way to take one for the team. What’s been up?
You didn’t give me my assignment.
Okay, Sam – Get some brews, chips, dip, salsa, and be READY for the GASSO GANG to bring home a NATTY! How’s that?
Yep thats it Sam!
Welcome back..even without an OP.
Let’s bring it home tonight, girls. Get it done.
Not working today, buddy. TFB is getting too clever for us. We might have to send you on a trip…no, not a “road trip.”
Any word on the Devin Duvernay situation? He could be the next Shepard type guy in our offense…or we just waiting till SS17 guys get in next year
Would love to see him at OU. I wish he would come to OU one more time as well. Kyler will help out big time.
Kylers Sway
OU stability
Open spots next year due to graduation. (Dede,Baxter)
Come on down Devin
Hi…Im fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=312PSg6KW0A
Just a 10.3. Oh wait, a WHAT? That’s moving.
Lulz…
https://twitter.com/ESPNNFL/status/740229782508580864
And just like that, Alan Trimble unretires and will now remain coach of Jenks high school.
Money? Weird!
Anyone concerned Metz didn’t make it to his meeting? It’s been almost an hour and no OP.
Maybe they know he is secretly hanging on the main board F5’ing. 😉
Yeah, Metz. If you are here, go to your meeting. Don’t make me stop this car mister.
Yeah..Jordon and Brandon need to stop Metzing around. He’s gonna be back from his meeting and lunch Sooner than later.
And again!!
Metzing* (What can I say i’m bored)
*I’m. Lol I had to do it!
Well you know nobody say’s I am, anymore. And is I’m not correct.
Dude. Seriously need to get to your optometrist. Again..Sooner rather than later. Lol.
Just went three months ago. They said NO,YOU DONT NEED GLASSES!!
Just went three months ago. They said NO,YOU DONT NEED GLASSES!!
Should be a good one tomorrow.
Did anyone ever mention Devin Duvernay’s cousin was Kyler Murray?
Yep. In the article bommer85 linked below. Some pretty good stuff. Murray is working him and, according to DD, OU was his 2nd choice. Liking how this is sounding for OUr guys.
Since Dustin did not catch!!
boomer85*
I stand corrected. I am such a loser.
I stand corrected. I am such a loser.
Lol. 47…you are anything BUT a loser. You, Sir, are a SOONER!! And it’s another great day!! Maybe ‘bommer85’ needs to update his name.
I thought i had double vision there for a minute!! Literally had to look 4 times.
Just crazy how nobody knew.
Just crazy how nobody knew.
LOL, I just posted something very similar above.
So Devin Duvernay is going to choose between OU, Texas and TCU. Says he is going to apply to all three schools. Apparently OU was #2 choice behind Baylor and Kyler Murray has been in his ear lately. This is per an ESPN article on the Big 12 Blog.
So why didn’t Baylor submit is NLI (as stated in the article)?
Just heard Samia weighed in at 300 yesterday. I think now only Alvarez is just a shade under 3….looking good so far.
Alvarez’s ‘official’ is 315#. But think we were most concerned w/ Dru running around 275ish. Good news.
RUN THE BALL…
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Yessir!! Mr. Ford driving his man and Nila shouldering his man 10 yards away from the play.
How about two 1000 yard rushers in 2016?
Good suggestion!!!! I’ll allow it!
https://media.giphy.com/media/rSaQxzxmPAGpW/giphy.gif
That’s great news. I wonder why he cut all that weight during the winter workouts.
He looked pretty lean during the orange bowl…Im guessing MAYBE 280 at most. That probably just carried over into the winter and was just working more harder than eating enough.
What’s preventing him from losing it again? He needs to play at 300 or above. Like my grandmother used to say, “Manga, manga, you eat like a bird!”
I was hammered, I don’t remember his frame during that game lol. I was thinking he was listed at a heavier weight than 280. Either way, 300 lbs is nice with his athleticism. To think we will have him for another two years just blows my mind. Him and Orlando are first rounders for sure.
Baylor gonna Baylor:
https://twitter.com/schadjoe/status/740259960467116032
https://twitter.com/Eddie_Rado/status/740263179310096384
I don’t think the media is going to let this one go. There are enough people involved that everyone out there that calls himself a sports journalist can have his very own scoop. Kenn Starr has a big name and was involved in a national political scandal so his name just draws attention to it. That means people outside of Waco are interested.
The same Jeff Lebby scooping OU on the opponent’s sideline? Dressed as an opposing coach?
Ole Jeff needs to be taken to the wood shed.
Tulsa Coach Lebby.
Tulsa Coach Lebby.
Well there is a championship game post up!
I thought it was about the SBallers winning tonight – that championship.
me too
I thought it was about the SBallers winning tonight – that championship.
https://twitter.com/TheFbBrainiacs/status/740276252238483456
Pull the trigger Anthony.
https://twitter.com/ZachFarrar3/status/740286070055567360
All I can say…….
Got anything you can share on this T. Rob?
https://twitter.com/ou_coachgundy/status/740318847371071488
Most likely for Calcaterra getting invited to the Opening, making that 8 OU commits going!
Hmmm, seemed more like a BOOM type of tweet to me. Did he do that for the other guys?
Don’t recall him doing that for the other guys.
Coach Gundy is hinting at another BOOM coming….who could this be?
Duvernay?
I think that’s the first that comes to my mind.
And Gundy is a WR coach…
True, which makes that the best sense.
But, he said it was SS17, isn’t Duvernay a 2016 guy?
Lol I just realized that too. I’m clueless now.
I saw a couple Crystal Balls for Jeremiah Hall to OU yesterday. TE from NC. I think That would count as Gundy’s position.
There might only be 3 or 4 scollys left by the time NSD rolls around next year.
The coaches keep telling them to grab their spot while they can.
And that’s no gimmick like a normal recruiting campaign. I can see Lamb not having a spot left by time he cuts his top 25 list down a couple of times.
Lol, that’s hilarious. He has had every opportunity but other guys may want it more and snatch that spot. I assume just 1 spot left at WR right?
Yes he has. I don’t understand how you go from committed to a top 10. As if now 9 other schools have all of a sudden becoming equal to the school you decommited from. I can understand a top 3 or maybe 5. IMO it’s all a attention thing. Once you commit your not in the news as much as the other kids still looking. The kid has talent, but so does many other kids.
I’m glad you said it. These kids work hard and deserve the attention but they just need to realize the more attention they seek they may lose opportunities at some of these better schools that have a chance with just about every player in the country at their position.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. It can back fire on you. At the same time you don’t want a kid holding a scolly that’s heart is not in it and isn’t pumping that true OUDNA blood through his body. Wish him nothing but the best, but I’m sure at this point he has to notice that the train is still rolling full steam ahead and still picking up more players. Damn Auburn just hit a homerun.
Wait. He said more great new coming for ss17. Duvernay is class of 16′.
Haha looks like we both caught that at the same time.
Jermiah Hall is my best guess.
Wow, this is getting weird now. LOL
I have a little Hawk blood in me as well lol.
Duvernay would be 2016 class, but who knows.
SOONERSQUAD17 now has 8 commits heading to the opening finals. You already know they’re going be recruiting their butts off on top elite talent up there. Plus there the fact no other school will have half that amount of commits in attendance. Speaks volumes for the eye for talent these coaches have went out and rounded up.