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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years 
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10 years 7 months
# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years 
I believe you are only half right, plunging off the cliff to wrong with the last 6 words.
Our defense most like LSU - Hell Bud Foster Yes.
Their offense most like Pitt, UCLA Iowa???? Tulsa?
Does this take into account Pitt did this to us while Tulsa was scoring on SMU?
Don't worry. Lefty will shine in this bowl game and use it as a springboard to be a successful OC for a team that beats us down the road.
The FEI No. 96 Virginia Tech offense is closest in personality to:
Akron
Louisiana-Lafayette
Kansas StateThe FEI No. 103 Tulsa defense is closest in personality to:
New Mexico
Fresno State
Army
That may be the most depressing thing I read all week.
I have no idea when this crossed the line from accurate to "embellished", I will assume it is all 100% true. Well done!
There is only one thing holding me back from believing Rey being Leia's daughter instead of Luke's. Hear me out, Luke disappeared roughly the same time as Rey is old. Luke being a true Jedi prevents him from being the father, I mean having a family is what turned his father, I am sure that Luke would try to prevent that from happening to himself. HOWEVER, in a moment of weakness he has a kid. Fearing the turn, he goes into hiding and leaves the child. I also think thats why he left a map, in case the girl is good, she can find him and become a Jedi.
I think this is largely a problem of scale within the movie. They just do a really poor job of showing how truly expansive the galaxy is, so it's easy to give the impression that the First Order is a much bigger deal than it is. When the Empire fell, it created a huge power vacuum, and factions tried to control as much territory as they could. The First Order still has a relatively small sphere of influence, and seemingly is not necessarily interested in galactic control, at least at the point in time shown. Their main objective is to cleanse the galaxy of Jedi first and foremost, and it's only by proxy they have a beef with the Republic. The New Republic allows the Resistance to exist, and occasionally provides direct support, the Resistance has Jedi sympathizers at a minimum, and so the New Republic must be removed simply as an obstacle to wiping out the Jedi. The New Republic didn't directly confront the First Order because they opposed conflict as a principal (which is why Leia formed the Resistance in the first place), and because they simply didn't have the means to police outside their limited sphere of influence.
Unfortunately most of this is either subtext, or gleaned from other canon sources, so most people will make the same assumptions about the First Order's size and apparent supremacy that you did, all because JJ couldn't write like three lines of dialogue explaining the situation.
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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years Good point on the bribes, but when an multi-national organization of this size has explicit rules against it (and its not like he was only there a few months) he has no excuse to act so ignorant of the rule. Most of those countries that do not frown on bribery tend to be much less established economies as well so I am not willing to give Blatter a pass.
What are you talking about? This is all 100% accurate.
Yes, that's probably what happened. OSU beats us out for recruits all the time, and sometimes we will beat them. These are 17 year old kids... The other kid probably felt that Temple prioritized him more than us and he likes his ego being stroked. But to insinuate that we dropped an offer just because of a change in high school is laughable. And to say that this prevents us from recruiting at Lake Taylor is just as flawed an argument.
BTW you should definitely let TG know that he is doing a sub par job. It sure seems that way with Fuller, Faycson, Jarret, Fuller, Exum, Hosley... just to name a few. I mean, what a terrible coach.
Looking at you Scott Leoffler
A loss would certainly be disappointing, but only a temporary setback as Virginia Tech will be national champions in 2016—at least by my projections.
NOW THAT'S THE KINDA MATH I LOVE!!!!
Now I have to go to Wikipedia and see what was lies and what's true. Thanks!
One thing I could imagine is that there are DMZ's or neutral zones between the various powers or some minor non aligned planets or sectors.
Those could be what the FO is gobbling up and stomping under heel, or word of their tactics were slow to filter out of their own territory.
Finn obviously knows how bad it is, but Rey doesn't really seem to hold any animosity to them until she starts getting shot at. Po obviously is on the side of hating the FO, but that is understandable.
After waking up and grabbing my coffee I hop on TKP...
"Oh look at that! 62 new comments on the 2016 Early Enrollment Big Board! It looks like maybe there are some juicy new recruiting moves happening!
*Clicks link...
"Oh...."
Like Fireman before you, you need to use your skills of deduction. I will not post stuff behind any pay wall here. I have provided one link sort of outlying what had happened. However if you are just here to argue then yes they both have committable offers, and nothing is wrong. We were just beat out by Temple and OSU recruiting these guys.
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# | OT: FIFA bans Sepp Blatter, their own current President, from the game for 8 years Sexwale, Champagne, and Prince Ali are all fantastic candidates to replace Blatter. But we'll probably get stuck with Sheikh Salman.
They have a song that has a very "interesting" intro.
Well if Rey ends up being Luke's daughter...maybe she's the mom
Goin' down to the chateau...
TEEMING WITH INTEL
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# | OT: Star Wars Episode VII (SPOILERS. SO. MANY. SPOILERS.) I absolutely agree with that, however, the part that I am most interested in is that the perception from the first part of the movie I got was no different than the beginning of IV, that the First Order (or empire) was in control, they were feared, they seemed to run shit. It was easy to forget that there was even a New Republic until their planets got obliterated. Some of that is obviously framing, but it would seem the NR should have taken notice to the fear and control the First Order seemed to have, even if it was moreso in the outer rim, outer reaches.
TURN UP THE WICK
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# | 4* FSU commit DJ Matthews tweets "I see myself playing at VTech" Not the visiting team...
Don't even look at Coach K and Duke
He is 5 - 26 in winning the NCAA Tournament. Atleast Coach K is 10 - 2 in NCAA Final Four Games
Also Poor Tom Izzo, is at 1 - 17 in winning the NCAA Tournament and 2-5 in the Final Four
yes, /s
A major factor in the leeway granted the First Order, and something that enabled them to build so rapidly is that they were largely operating in uncharted space. Before his death, Palpatine set out to try and find the place from which Sith power originated, and expanded into the outer edges of the galaxy and beyond. The First Order rose in these far reaches, and their growth was unchecked because they were pretty much the only ones in the neighborhood, and the New Republic seemingly didn't know where that neighborhood was.
I wonder who is more corrupt, FIFA or the NCAA? I guess FIFA is worldwide so it is worse but it would still be an interesting study to read if anyone has done one