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BOK Center - 2028 Tourney

Glad to have the tournament back in the BOK, but hate that OSU is the host school. I know it's not our arena, but Tulsa is Tulsa and not a 70 mile drive down the turnpike. I know when it's in OKC OU has been the host at PayCom, but Norman is suburb.

On a side note, I had a blast a volunteer the last time. Don Tom and crew did an outstanding job of coordinating everything.
I’m completely on the other side of the fence on this. I’m thrilled that TU has a chance to play an NCAA tournament game in Tulsa! I know it’s a very long shot, but we have 3 1/2 years of hope ahead of us!

2024-2025 Men's Schedule

UT-Arlington could be tough. They got to the WAC Championship game last year and got Diante Smith (All Southland) in the portal.

Austin Peay is picked 4th in the Atlantic Sun Conference with portal pickups of LJ Thomas from NC State and NAIA All-American Quan Lax.

Rhode Island got Sebastian Thomas All -Conference in the America East Conference last year and Nebraska transfer Jamarcus Lawrence.

Georgia State has Zarique Nutter from N Illinois and Darnell Evans , a D2 23 ppg player.

Detroit mercy- still looking to turn things around.

Looks like UT Arlington , Rhode island and Tulsa should be the strongest. Georgia State and Detroit the weakest, and Austin Peay the question mark.

Kevin Wilson

Ehh they are pseudo pro until they unionize and have a league minimum pay scale.. the pros get minimum $50k a game and full benefits after a period of service.. the schools are still bound by title ix as well.. nfl franchises dont have to pay equal salaries to womens teams..
You don't have to have a union to be a professional. 80% of workers don't have a union. Your point about minimum and benefits are why they SHOULD have a union but it doesn't make them not professional, any more than a barista at a non-union Starbucks location is less of a professional than one at a unionized location. The XFL players didn't have a union.

BOK Center - 2028 Tourney

Opening round NCAA games return to Tulsa in 2028. OSU will serve as the host school.
Glad to have the tournament back in the BOK, but hate that OSU is the host school. I know it's not our arena, but Tulsa is Tulsa and not a 70 mile drive down the turnpike. I know when it's in OKC OU has been the host at PayCom, but Norman is suburb.

On a side note, I had a blast a volunteer the last time. Don Tom and crew did an outstanding job of coordinating everything.

Kevin Wilson

Agree 1000%, but they're not psuedo pro, they are full on pro. Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, etc. Those are professional sports teams, full stop. The fact that you require your players to go to classes doesn't change the fact that they're professional athletes. I have to take legal classes not to get disbarred, that doesn't make me a student-lawyer...
Ehh they are pseudo pro until they unionize and have a league minimum pay scale.. the pros get minimum $50k a game and full benefits after a period of service.. the schools are still bound by title ix as well.. nfl franchises dont have to pay equal salaries to womens teams..

Berhalter’s replacement may not have been to Oklahoma,

So the latest USMNT training camp roster for October is out. Steffen is back in the mix although he has an awful "goals prevented" stat-line. No Reyna, Adams, Dest, or Chris Richards who are all nursing injuries. Pochettino has mentioned that it will be hard for players to be part of the squad if they're not getting regular minutes at their clubs...seemed like a dig at Matt Turner and Ethan Horvath who are both riding the pine. Turner essentially needs to come back to MLS (and New England) where he can start and get regular minutes. He's not even playing at Crystal Palace right now and they're dreadful.

Saw an article on ESPN about P0chettino and what he's looking to do in formation and how he attacks. 4-2-3-1, high press and fullbacks will move high up to support the attack. But he's also intent on playing out of the back and that will be an Achilles until Adams returns. Our CBs are not designed for that and none of our GKs can really play that style effectively. 2 games this month vs Panama and Mexico. Will be glad if we see an improvement in attitude towards friendlies and we come out focused and ready to play. We have thrown these games away under Berhalter and it leads to not being able to be ready intensity wise at opening kick for meaningful games.

I think we will struggle in these games without 2 of the 3 main MFs being involved. Does Pulisic run the 11 alongside Balogun or Sargent or does he drop into the MF with McKennie to trigger and Weah and Balogun run the Fs in this formation?

This is the Democratic Party.

name a successful left lead State or City: low crime, low taxes, livability.
It’s funny, just as we know the common denominators of all left leaning policy, the same is true for demographics across countries worldwide. Some races score better on tests depending on subject matter. The same is true in behavioral patterns, too.

Given the lies of modern mainstream media, & the lack of physical artifacts (like ships) to prove it to be true, as well as everything you know about whites & backs today, do you believe whites ever enslaved blacks & that blacks allowed it?

Really? You do?

I absolutely do not.

Similar to the lack of slave ship artifacts anomaly, there’s also the issue of which race is actually most racist in the USA. For example, over 90% of hate crimes reported are hoaxes. In a similar distribution, of violent crime between whites & blacks, over 93% of it is committed by one of the groups against the other (the victim is white in over 93% of all interracial violent crime between whites & blacks in USA.)

I’ve shared this w/ close friends & family of mine (both of which contain whites & blacks, fam mostly white & friends mostly black by happenstance of who my friends & family are) & they all describe experiencing a similar feeling of discontent & conflict when taught history about ancient Egyptians building the pyramids as they did when taught about colonial whites enslaving blacks.

The truth is, it’s highly unlikely either actually happened.
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