Ostensibly Hoops

[hedge]

You're really contributing to society in general and striving to reach your peak potential personally. Really inspiring...

[The Anti k*]

Our era, Hedge…

[eCat]

a damned if you do, damned if you don't but its very possible that Pope will load up UK with 4 really good freshmen players for 2025.

But the model for Freshmen is broken. You pay them a shit load of NIL money, they essentially do nothing when it matters the most, and then they leave the following year, either to a higher bidder or to the NBA.

But if Pope doesn't land these kids, then he gets shit on for not being a great recruiter so I'm inclined to give me a pass just to get out from under the shadow of Calipari

but the clear model for success in college now is to build your team through the transfer portal, targeting ideal players who can improve and possibly stay at least 2 years with the team.

[hedge]

Our era, Hedge…

He got there the year before I did. Saw him at a few frat parties during his tenure in Chapel Hill (kinda hard to miss 6'9" guys in a crowed room), he wasn't scared to pop an e-ball, which was the new wonder drug back then (and legal for a little while). Him and Dave Popson weren't the most electrifying frontcourt, but they were solid. Wolf was better than Popson by a pretty good margin but both were classic Dean Smith 4-year guys who improved every year and were very dependable by their junior/senior years, esp. Wolf in this case. Just checked him out on wikipedia, I didn't realize he had a 12 year NBA career. Not a particularly productive one, but I bet he made good money...

[hedge]

Just checked him out on basketball reference, he made $4.7 million over 12 years, that's about $400K a year (he made $1 million his last year in the league). Well, that ain't LeBron money but not bad (esp. in the late 80's and 90's) to do something you love 8 months a year...

[The Anti k*]

I just remember the buzz on campus when Sports Illustrated did the Big Man On Campus feature on Joe. He was lethal from the key on the secondary break.

R.I.P.

[The Anti k*]

Oh and how was an e-ball ever legal? Did they just not know what was in them?

[DooKSucks]

Authorities didn't know what it was. MDMA has been illegal in NC since at least the early 70's, and I know that because I had to do a motion for appropriate relief to help out a retiree who got popped with it during the early 70's. She wanted to travel international but was having issues with certain countries due to being a convicted felon.

[hedge]

By May 1985, MDMA use was widespread in California, Texas, southern Florida, and the northeastern United States. According to the DEA there was evidence of use in twenty-eight states and Canada.[146] Urged by Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the DEA announced an emergency Schedule I classification of MDMA on 31 May 1985. The agency cited increased distribution in Texas, escalating street use, and new evidence of MDA (an analog of MDMA) neurotoxicity as reasons for the emergency measure. The ban took effect one month later on 1 July 1985[171] in the midst of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#History

[The Anti k*]

Thanks for the info, DS & Hedge.

[Saint]

DS-MDA was illegal in the 70s but nobody had heard of MDMA then. They still didn't know what it was in the '80s, as far as testing for illegal substances. That's why I had an MDA, not MDMA, rap.

[DooKSucks]

By May 1985, MDMA use was widespread in California, Texas, southern Florida, and the northeastern United States. According to the DEA there was evidence of use in twenty-eight states and Canada.[146] Urged by Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the DEA announced an emergency Schedule I classification of MDMA on 31 May 1985. The agency cited increased distribution in Texas, escalating street use, and new evidence of MDA (an analog of MDMA) neurotoxicity as reasons for the emergency measure. The ban took effect one month later on 1 July 1985[171] in the midst of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#History

It was on the NC schedule in NCGS chapter 90 in the 70’s. Don’t know how they beat the Feds to it.

[hedge]

Dikembe Mutombo​ dead...

[DooKSucks]

DS-MDA was illegal in the 70s but nobody had heard of MDMA then. They still didn't know what it was in the '80s, as far as testing for illegal substances. That's why I had an MDA, not MDMA, rap.

Yeah. I went and checked the schedules in the old session laws afterwards and saw the mda without the meth prefix on the amphetamine.

[Jungle Rat]

This is what Pete Rose saw when he tried to get into heaven.

[eCat]

I am at the age where half the people I know are in Florida now

[eCat]

[sardis]

I don’t understand why people keep moving down there.

[innocentbystander]

When your adult children have either abandoned you to (emotionally, medically, and financially) care entirely for yourself OR your adult children refuse to marry and give you grandchildren that you desperately want to spoil, OR both (abandonment AND no grandchildren to spoil) then, fuck it, time to sell the McMansion and head for the VD of The Villages. You have no reason to stay in New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Michigan. At least you can drive a golf cart to Wal-Mart, no longer have to shovel snow, and you can die among your peers that give a damn about you.

[innocentbystander]

Oh and this is the hoops thread. Okay Caitlyn Clark (the best thing that ever happened to the WNBA) was battered by that jealous, ignorant, cunt dyke.