OU Men's Basketball drop-a-spot this week...
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We're NOT #1...
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OK! I like Yours better...I'm going to decommit from The Coaches Poll and flip to AP!
OK! I like Yours better...I'm going to decommit from The Coaches Poll and flip to AP!
'Decommit', so cute.
As long we are a #1 seed going into March madness, where we play some team that barely made the cut, I can live with that now.
One must take the long view.
Hadn't actually thought that far ahead....but is a VERY pleasant thought.'Decommit', so cute.
As long we are a #1 seed going into March madness, where we play some team that barely made the cut, I can live with that now.
One must take the long view.
Coaches Poll doesn't mean jack. When OU plays on TV, they'll be listed as #1 because they go by the AP Poll. We're still #1 baby!!!
That's total BS that UNC jumped OU in the Coaches Poll when the two losses by Carolina are to a 7 loss Texas team and a 10 loss Northern Iowa, while our two losses are against a team that was #1 and it took 3 OTs to lose against Kansas on the road and on the road to #19 Iowa State. No contest.
We're still #1 baby!!!That's total BS that UNC jumped OU in the Coaches Poll when the two losses by Carolina are to a 7 loss Texas team and a 10 loss Northern Iowa, while our two losses are against a team that was #1 and it took 3 OTs to lose against Kansas on the road and on the road to #19 Iowa State. No contest.
One could argue that they always are. Perception is a big part of any subjective equation. Just the nature of being ranked highly puts one's importance into others heads and sways their opinion.
It'd be a fun experiment to take 100 pollsters and have them all put together a top 25 (any sport) based on their subjective opinion, then have them put together a top 25 while given the previous top 25 aggregate list. I bet you'd see way more divergence in the first example than the second.
They are for recruiting, but that's it. Was listening to someone in the athletic department on the radio call of the West Virginia game, don't recall his name, and he was saying that the #1 ranking is very valuable to recruiting and that mail would be going out to recruits regarding being the #1 ranked team in the country.
Subjective, aggregate, divergence?
Oh my, big shot, knows a couple of multi-syllabic words...
Subjective, aggregate, divergence?
Oh my, big shot, knows a couple of multi-syllabic words...
More shuck and jive, I could not be.
Your subliminal message makes me want Corn-on-the Cob!More shuck and jive, I could not be.
Your subliminal message makes me want Corn-on-the Cob!
One of my favs too.
Can't wait to buy it from the random road side stand around here...still warm from the sun.
Excellent, especially marinated in Country Crock, blackened with large curd pepper.
What you NEED to do, if you can wait, is have iasooner ship you some Iowa sweet corn. Most amazing corn I've ever eaten...ever.One of my favs too.
Can't wait to buy it from the random road side stand around here...still warm from the sun.
Excellent, especially marinated in Country Crock, blackened with large curd pepper.
That's right ST.
See, now you're doing something to help me.
(classic Laurel and Hardy)No, really, that might be a good road trip up yonder in the late spring/summer I'm thinking.
Sweet corn for all my peeps down here!
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On a business trip up there 14-16 months ago, another Buddy in the area favored me with some sweet corn he had frozen for the Holidays. Told him he should sell it, frozen, on eBay. He'd make a fortune. The weekend after I got back from Iowa, went to the lake and another friend had purchased some Bixby sweet corn. It was good, but honestly there was no comparison.That's right ST.
See, now you're doing something to help me.
No, really, that might be a good road trip up yonder in the late spring/summer I'm thinking.
I mean, I've got that big *** pickup after all.
Sweet corn for all my peeps down here!
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This reminds me of OUr Board...Rarely do we keep On Topic...OUr Threads take on Lives of their Own, and that's OK...It's who we are......
This reminds me of OUr Board...Rarely do we keep On Topic...OUr Threads take on Lives of their Own, and that's OK...It's who we are......
This reminds me of OUr Board...Rarely do we keep On Topic, and that's OK...It's who we are...OUr Threads take on a Life of their Own...
Yep, I know that's an abomination to the purists among us...but it's stifling and a lot more fun to just 'meander to your dander', if you will.
Regarding the iowa sweet corn, it really is all that; I would be interested in doing a road trip to trade a bunch for some Oklahoma okra. There isn't enough heat in the summer up here to generate much of the good stuff. In fact, some of the frozen cut breaded stuff I've bought before is packaged in TULSA !
I'm game for that either way.
We'll even throw in some of our famous tomatoes if that's to you liking too.
We've got the heat here as you well know.
Jerry Clower said he ate so much boiled okra as a kid he couldn't keep his socks up.
We can grow pretty good 'maters up here too in sufficient quantities. In all the time I've been here there may have been one summer that was hot & dry enough for a scant quantity of okra. With all the water in OK lately it's bound to be time for some kind of 'bumper crop', one would think...
I dunno. I'm not a tomato fan but my wife is. My buddy in Iowa gave me a tomato for the wife. I packed it in my carry on and after a long travel day, it got squished and battered. In spite of its outward appearance, my wife said it was the best tomato she'd ever eaten. Ever. The minerals left by the glaciers in that part of the country are golden.I'm game for that either way.
We'll even throw in some of our famous tomatoes if that's to you liking too.
We've got the heat here as you well know.
Mmm, I did not know that.
See, this place, entertaining and educational.
I'm not too surprised really...some of the best tasting strawberries I've had came from Michigan of all places.
Have another buddy I used to travel to Iowa with for work that was a Geologist. Geology is a lot like coaching football. It's all about pressure.
"Nation's richest farmland soil touted by Illinois; Iowans object"
Mar 7, 2005 Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
"Have they not been to Iowa? We'd have to disagree for sure," said Holly Coppola, spokeswoman for the Iowa Farm Bureau. Both states trace their rich farmland to glaciers that covered much of the region before they began retreating about 12,000 years ago.
Soil scientists say the glaciers left prime farmland through much of Illinois north of Interstate 70, which cuts through the south-central part of the state. They say the richest soil is in a swath that runs east from around Springfield to the Indiana border.
"If it isn't the richest farmland in the world, it's a least some of the richest. … It's not hype, it's true," said Jeff Squibb, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
Iowa farm officials, without meaning to take anything away from the soil that helps produce Illinois' roughly $7 billion annual grain crop, nevertheless take exception to such talk.
"There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that Illinois and Iowa both are both blessed with above-average soils from a fertility standpoint," said Mark Salvadore, a research analyst with the Iowa Farm Bureau.
As evidence, he cited the neighboring states' neck-and-neck yield averages in 2004. Illinois averaged just over 50 bushels an acre for soybeans, compared with 49 bushels in Iowa, while Iowa's corn harvest averaged 181 bushels an acre, topping the 180-bushel average in Illinois."
So now we know more about soil and glaciers and harvest totals than we ever wanted !
Mar 7, 2005 Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier
"Have they not been to Iowa? We'd have to disagree for sure," said Holly Coppola, spokeswoman for the Iowa Farm Bureau. Both states trace their rich farmland to glaciers that covered much of the region before they began retreating about 12,000 years ago.
Soil scientists say the glaciers left prime farmland through much of Illinois north of Interstate 70, which cuts through the south-central part of the state. They say the richest soil is in a swath that runs east from around Springfield to the Indiana border.
"If it isn't the richest farmland in the world, it's a least some of the richest. … It's not hype, it's true," said Jeff Squibb, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
Iowa farm officials, without meaning to take anything away from the soil that helps produce Illinois' roughly $7 billion annual grain crop, nevertheless take exception to such talk.
"There's absolutely no doubt in my mind that Illinois and Iowa both are both blessed with above-average soils from a fertility standpoint," said Mark Salvadore, a research analyst with the Iowa Farm Bureau.
As evidence, he cited the neighboring states' neck-and-neck yield averages in 2004. Illinois averaged just over 50 bushels an acre for soybeans, compared with 49 bushels in Iowa, while Iowa's corn harvest averaged 181 bushels an acre, topping the 180-bushel average in Illinois."
So now we know more about soil and glaciers and harvest totals than we ever wanted !
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