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by GlobalCat
Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WWII
Replies: 416
Views: 40318

Re: WWII

Chicat wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 12:28 pm The RealTimeWWII Xitter account went silent 6 days ago.
Back In action!
by GlobalCat
Fri Sep 13, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Let's talk '25
Replies: 212
Views: 27925

Re: Let's talk '25

I'd just look at the transfer portal for mid-major players. With all the one and dones, and unlimited transfers by players, why waste any time on developing freshmen? Keep looking at Euros of course, just don't make them the core of the program. UA obviously doesn't have the NIL money KU does, but ...
by GlobalCat
Sun Sep 08, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Colorado
Replies: 209
Views: 19123

Re: Colorado

He sucks. Lots of local stories out of Boulder about his personal behavior where he believes rules don’t apply to him.

At some point, the Colorado OL is just going to let Shedeur get blasted on a blitz.
by GlobalCat
Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:19 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Let's talk '25
Replies: 212
Views: 27925

Re: Let's talk '25

Dave wrote: Fri Sep 06, 2024 10:15 am Pretty interesting! We go from being the leader to not even making the Top 6. ASU! Seriously!
Sheer/Luke said on YouTube it was a highest bidder + getting family members into the US scenario.
by GlobalCat
Fri Jul 26, 2024 10:18 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Anyone know jack shit about the airline industry?
Replies: 497
Views: 57333

Re: Anyone know jack shit about the airline industry?

Merkin wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2024 8:25 am
Blame the activist investors for this one. :(
by GlobalCat
Mon May 27, 2024 10:53 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Bill Walton - Legend
Replies: 578
Views: 48568

Re: Ban Bill Walton Petition

RIP to a legend.
by GlobalCat
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:10 am
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Fuck asu
Replies: 1232
Views: 148459

Re: Fuck asu

Merkin wrote: Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:49 am
Or as they call it “#1 in innovation”
by GlobalCat
Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:38 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Former Cats in the NBA
Replies: 1911
Views: 280259

Re: Former Cats in the NBA

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/dini ... -wine.html

A nice little article on Channing’s new career
by GlobalCat
Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: University President Hot Board
Replies: 78
Views: 8779

Re: University President Hot Board

Postmaster wrote: Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:43 pm The visitor locker room is bad.
Good.
by GlobalCat
Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Basketball Arch Rivals
Topic: UCLA Basketball in trouble!
Replies: 5170
Views: 3061848

Re: UCLA Basketball in trouble!

After lessons learned in the Euro chase, Mick Cronin lands Skyy Clark and Kobe Johnson in the transfer portal. Dominic Harris is likely to join them in the coming days. Ilane Fibleuil and Will McClendon have both entered the transfer portal from UCLA's side thus far. That's a pretty good influx of ...
by GlobalCat
Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:35 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy
Replies: 124
Views: 17940

Re: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy

Talking to Longhorned was incredibly illuminating. He’s on the faculty senate and has been privy to a lot of the behind the scenes stuff that I’m not sure I can mention here, so I’ll let him tell it if he chooses to if/when he returns to the board. I’ll just say that Robbins has burned all the brid...
by GlobalCat
Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:28 pm
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Kylan Boswell
Replies: 369
Views: 32598

Re: Kylan Boswell

Macho Grande wrote: Tue Mar 19, 2024 4:58 am Hopefully CTL has him on a very short leash while in Salt Lake City. Both on and off the court.
Lol, The temptations of SLC
by GlobalCat
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:20 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

An example is why should Robbins (a state employee) have received a cash bonus when the deal closed? The whole inventive structure is fucked up and should be flagged as a reason why the blazing red flags were intentionally ignored.
by GlobalCat
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:17 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

What was the conflict of interest? I have missed that detail in all of this. He used to do work with a company that worked with/for universities and that was over 5 years ago. So it's a shoddy accusation needless to say. IMNSHO, in any corporate structure, whenever a board member (especially and of...
by GlobalCat
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

Conflicts of interest with certain ABOR members and Robbins are being investigated. A search firm is already chatting with new President candidates. Who hired the search firm? No idea, but did learn Robbins and ABOR have run deals (including the UAGC diligence) through the Foundation to avoid FOIA ...
by GlobalCat
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:03 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

Conflicts of interest with certain ABOR members and Robbins are being investigated. A search firm is already chatting with new President candidates.
by GlobalCat
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy
Replies: 124
Views: 17940

Re: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy

84Cat wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2024 1:05 pm

The sharks are circling a couple ABOR members and Robbins right now…
by GlobalCat
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

PS, zero chance Robbins will be her boss in a year
by GlobalCat
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois
Replies: 61
Views: 3644

Re: Arizona AD- Desiree Reed-Francois

When DG retired at UCLA, she was the favorite. Nobody really wanted her at UCLA and UNLV fans were pleading for us to take her. I have no idea if she worked out at Missouri or her path from UNLV to Missouri was successful or not, but UCLA's hiring of Jarmond during COVID didn't work out too well in...
by GlobalCat
Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: President Bobby Robbins
Replies: 159
Views: 13836

Re: President Bobby Robbins

I heard from a colleague that the Arizona Global University transaction was masked behind the Arizona Foundation (and not the university itself), thus hiding the transaction details from potential Freedom of Information Act requests.
by GlobalCat
Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy
Replies: 124
Views: 17940

Re: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy

ABOR members are hiding stuff too
by GlobalCat
Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:25 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 117
Views: 8934

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

See ya.
by GlobalCat
Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:05 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Millennials
Replies: 107
Views: 6155

Re: Millennials

dovecanyoncat wrote: Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:18 am HENRYs are a thing now: High Earner Not Rich Yet. Mostly Millennials, apparently, are the new DINKs: Double Income No Kids, and have +/- $80k in college loan debt. Who knew?
HENRYs are old news. The new acronym to know is DILDOs. Dual Income Large Dog Owners.
by GlobalCat
Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy
Replies: 124
Views: 17940

Re: UofA Miscalculated $240M, Athletics in Jeopardy

The UA is a state university. At the very least the AZ Board of 'Regents needs to bring in outside accountants to go over the books and get to the bottom of who screwed up............and to ensure that nobody has swindled the taxpayers. The head of the ABOR has run other universities he’s managed i...
by GlobalCat
Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:49 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 11 Noah Fifita
Replies: 234
Views: 27005

Re: 11 Noah Fifita

I have not been fickle on this from the day a certain news item dropped Nothing to do with football But I also thought we agreed to separate that news item from upper and lower boards. Maybe I’m mistaken. Anyway, this thread is about celebrating the rise of Noah imo. I didn’t and wouldn’t agree to ...
by GlobalCat
Fri Oct 06, 2023 7:41 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 2024 Recruit/Commitment Thread
Replies: 370
Views: 50426

Re: 2024 Recruit/Commitment Thread

Someone on FB said it was due to NIL negotiations breaking down. Just wonder how deep of pockets the UA NIL program has. Williams Jr has a NIL valuation of $63K. Elijah Rushing has a NIL valuation of $190K. Couldn't find Wilhite's valuation. Price of admission just got higher. EVERY football player...
by GlobalCat
Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:50 am
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Lets Talk '24
Replies: 581
Views: 101230

Re: Lets Talk '24

Koa Peat to visit UT that weekend 👎
by GlobalCat
Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:09 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 2023 Season Thread
Replies: 752
Views: 2758462

Re: 2023 Season Thread

Frankly this is the WRONG THREAD for the continuing discussion about JDL's crime and how the U of A Athletic Department handled it. In the JDL thread, this was discussed at length, and posters had more than ample opportunity to share their views and conclusions. And, more importantly, not a single ...
by GlobalCat
Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:37 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 2023 Season Thread
Replies: 752
Views: 2758462

Re: 2023 Season Thread

UAEebs86 wrote: Sun Sep 24, 2023 10:53 am If Noah starts, do we get Ari and Merkin back?
Other fans too. We shouldn’t even be having this conversation if the right decisions were made at the start of the season.
by GlobalCat
Sun Aug 27, 2023 11:15 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: The Official Missing Posters Thread
Replies: 457
Views: 49132

Re: The Official Missing Posters Thread

UAEebs86 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:56 am
Chicat wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:22 am Merkin got run off huh? That sucks for everyone.
He said he'll probably come back when basketball season starts up. He's not happy with how the de Laura situation was handled and it got testy between him and a couple posters.
He was right too. Hope he comes back soon.
by GlobalCat
Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:51 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Bourbon
Replies: 99
Views: 6604

Re: Bourbon

Our most recent bottle crack was the Weller Special Reserve. It’s goddamn amazing. Our friend just dropped off two more bottles so we are loving life. Cheap too. $22 each. Cannot beat it if you can find it. That stuff is spectacular - and I can't find it for under $95 bottle IF I can find it at all...
by GlobalCat
Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:11 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

It's likely all this will change again dramatically in another 8 years or so as the media market continues to evolve. Right now we're at the crossroads of failing traditional linear TV, while streaming paywalls aren't quite there yet to offer security or enough guaranteed money. Now was just a terr...
by GlobalCat
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:37 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

Siempre Verde wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:28 pm I think it is time to interject, Fuck Larry Scott.
Seriously. And his biggest backer Michael crow.
by GlobalCat
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:07 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

My view: this whole thing sucks. Stable/predictable revenues are nice, but this is not the only measure or predictor of success. Huge sympathy for the Olympic sport athletes with an uglier season schedule and huge sorrow for the loss of traditions. Arizona’s well know traveling fans base isn’t showi...
by GlobalCat
Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:51 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

RondaeShimmy wrote: Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:15 pm Trying to find a way out
“NYC finance bros are going to rip off panhandle rednecks”
by GlobalCat
Tue Aug 01, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

I feel the ABOR will do all it can to protect Tempe Normal. Michael Crow runs the ABOR through Larry Penley. On espn, ya’ll know they are in panic mode over there with layoffs and potential divestment from Disney, right? Internally, they know shifting to streaming is the only way they as a network ...
by GlobalCat
Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:31 pm
Forum: Basketball Arch Rivals
Topic: The Big 12 Thread
Replies: 129
Views: 19807

Re: The Big 12 Thread

Many other PAC-12 (particularly the academic) schools will not affiliate due to concerns around treatment of women, minorities, and the LGBTQ communities, the strictness and inconsistent application of their code of conduct, partial aversion to scientific based research, and issues around censorshi...
by GlobalCat
Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: Basketball Arch Rivals
Topic: The Big 12 Thread
Replies: 129
Views: 19807

Re: The Big 12 Thread

I think the Big 12 sucks and don't want to go there. Geographically it would be hard on student athletes. Everyone is chasing the dollars and I understand that but it just sucks. In addition, I do not want my Alma mater affiliated with Brigham Young University (or TCU, for that matter) in any forma...
by GlobalCat
Fri Jul 21, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

Pathetic by Fisch
by GlobalCat
Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:35 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

Basketcats wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:25 pm Why am I getting the feeling that UofA is going to agree to a shitty media deal in order to appease ABOR?
Bluntly, because the head of ABOR is a Michael Crow crony/protégé.
by GlobalCat
Wed May 24, 2023 2:44 pm
Forum: Arizona Basketball
Topic: Let's talk '23
Replies: 1599
Views: 2725951

Re: Let's talk '23

Postmaster wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 12:41 pm I thought UNC made sure all athletes had a 4.0.
They do! Too bad "Underwater basketweaving 201" credits don't transfer externally.
by GlobalCat
Mon May 22, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

espn and fox are running everything The PAC12 fans dug the grave for the conference years and years ago A deal not being done is not on George K or anyone else besides fox and espn purposely moving parts around to make their program as cheap as possible. Why pay 4 conferences when you can suck out ...
by GlobalCat
Mon May 22, 2023 10:20 am
Forum: Football Arch Rivals
Topic: Conference Realignment
Replies: 4455
Views: 3621177

Re: Conference Realignment

Merkin wrote: Mon May 22, 2023 8:12 am
Going DTC was inevitable in the face of ongoing cord cutting
by GlobalCat
Mon May 08, 2023 7:00 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

The questions have been answered multiple time - you are just too dimwitted to process it. No they haven't. And certainly not to my satisfaction. The first question can't be answered, because the criminal files are sealed. The second one, someone suggested appointing a special master to look at all...
by GlobalCat
Mon May 08, 2023 12:02 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

The questions have been answered multiple time - you are just too dimwitted to process it.
by GlobalCat
Mon May 08, 2023 9:42 am
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

Yes, I’ve done a 180 on the QB since I found out he’s a convicted rapist. If that’s a strange statement to you, your moral compass must be located in a landfill. Did I say that I found it strange? :?: You said “I don’t get any of you”. Really? Yes, really. I said... "I don't get any of you. It's li...
by GlobalCat
Mon May 08, 2023 8:35 am
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

Our justice system has decided, for better or worse, that juvenile criminal files are closed. And for the most part, expunged when someone turns 18. I happen to think this system does a lot more good than bad, and is the right decision. Students entering the University are under no obligation to re...
by GlobalCat
Mon May 08, 2023 8:30 am
Forum: Basketball Arch Rivals
Topic: USC
Replies: 76
Views: 10130

Re: USC

Fact. USC basketball just became a "hot ticket" for the TV market merely with the addition of Bronny. Fact. It's likely that Arizona, and other Pac-12 teams will get less nationally broadcast games as a consequence next season. Ironically, Bronny might not even be a starter his frosh year. And, if ...
by GlobalCat
Sun May 07, 2023 4:04 pm
Forum: Arizona Football
Topic: 7 Jayden de Laura
Replies: 305
Views: 13228

Re: 7 Jayden de Laura

I'll ask again, if JDL was eligible to be tried as an adult with a potential maximum 14-year sentence, then why did the prosecutor offer him a Juvie deal with no time, and the judge signed off on it? Answer is, we'll never know. But it's not the job of a University President nor AD to play judge an...