Davidson Deac II

4 hours ago, ForJimmy said:

They should be forced to send Bijan and Pitts to the last place team in their division. Whoever that was…

They will be forced to hire Matt Rhule as both head coach and GM.  

After the first ten or so picks, mock drafts are as useless as tits on a boar hog.  

Let it ride this year.  If next year comes and we feel we are a couple of players away from being a contender, then restructure, extend, cut whatever.  No point in kicking the can down the road this year.  

And I don't see how we are 'handcuffed" by Moton's contract.  

I never want an SEC or a Big 10 school to win anything, so I hope UConn wins.  But I don't care that much.  

nm

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Does he have to stay to get that bag or did he get the bag already?

I mean, state was always competitive under Herb Sendek and they ran him off and sucked for years. They always get too big for their britches. If I'm Keats and the check has cleared I'm absolutely entertaining offers.

He will get the bonus for winning the ACC tournament.  But the money for the automatic contract extension will come later.  

6 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Does he have to stay to get that bag or did he get the bag already?

I mean, state was always competitive under Herb Sendek and they ran him off and sucked for years. They always get too big for their britches. If I'm Keats and the check has cleared I'm absolutely entertaining offers.

He will get the bonus for winning the ACC tournament.  But the money for the automatic contract extension will come later.  

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

The interesting thing to watch with state now is if someone comes and offers Keats a bag. They were coach shopping before state got hot and he knows it. He might bounce.

Winning the ACC tournament triggered a lot of bonuses, and a bag of money.  If someone comes at him, they better have deep pockets.  And would a deep pockets team come after a guy who was on the hot seat until the ACC tournament?  

14 points in the entire second half.  That is just some horrific shooting.  Ah well, they still had a good run.

They are rebounding better, with Purdue having only a slight advantage in the second half.

But their shooting has disappeared.  Looks like Purdue is going to win, unless something dramatic happens.  

Diarra had a terrible half of basketball there.  He will need to improve for NCSU to have a shot.  

2 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

State won’t rebound better because this is what Purdue does. Purdue is tied for first in the NCAA in rebounding margin.

It would be one thing if this was uncharacteristic for Purdue but it’s what they do, they dominate on the glass.

Ok, but what they did in other games is irrelevant at this point.  And they don't have to beat Purdue on the boards, they just have to do better than 20-12.   I am not saying NCSU will win, they probably won't.  But if they shoot better and rebound better, they can take the lead and have a shot at winning.  

5 minutes ago, MillionDollarCam said:

Seven of State’s points came off of Purdue turnovers. If Purdue eliminates the turnovers then this one is over because they are dominating on the glass and shooting just as good as State is from the field and better from the outside.

On the other hand, if State starts rebounding better and shooting better, they will take the lead.  

1 hour ago, Jon Snow said:

On the flipside there hasn't been any reason to think positively about him either. He's got to prove himself as a headcoach before you can form an opinion one way or the other. Currently I'm neutral on him and his staff. I will form an opinion around the end of this season.

Fwiw, I agree.  But that would be true of anyone we hire, no exceptions.  

On 4/4/2024 at 7:21 AM, top dawg said:

 

Well...we certainly know where you both stand. 

Canales is saying the right things, I'll give him that. I'm not prepared to say he's a great hire yet, but I certainly can't fathom why anyone would say he was a bad hire without really having ANY type of evidence to support that assertion (and I'd ask for enlightenment, but I don't feel that it would be well-supported).

He was the man that took the job, so I think we gotta kinda let things play out before we crown him or decapitate him by the guillotine. 

I think that he's kinda tied to Morgan, and today that's a good thing from where I'm sitting. I hope that it continues to be. 

Agreed. The vast majority of NFL hires don't work out, but we have no reason to think negatively of this hire at this point.  

22 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

AT&T is not the only one this has happened to. There have been and will be data leaks from other companies.

It would probably be easier to find a list of companies that haven't been compromised.  

There have been so many data breaches, that I just assume all of my information is out there and just keep an eye on my accounts.  Can't do much else.  

1 hour ago, Dave Gettleman's Shorts said:

only the panthers would tank when they traded away their first round pick

I think its more like Hurst says, I want to come back, and they say, nah we are good.  

We were terrible, but Hurst wouldn't have helped.  

8 hours ago, onmyown said:

There are a lot of examples from players coming from college  basketball to the NFL. Though it’s not lineman. But it’s possible. 

And at least one guy who went from college football to the NBA.

26 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

Mount Tabor High School here, how about you? 1987 grad.

North Forsyth, class of 82.

36 minutes ago, Khyber53 said:

I grew up in the neighborhood where Fritz Klenner killed the old couple. My best friend's mom was the one who discovered them. (They also lived right across the street from Maya Angelou, a wonderful lady).

I remember the TV station breaking in in the middle of the afternoon cartoons to announce about the chase, wreck and explosion that killed Klenner, his girlfriend and her two kids. The tale behind that whole event is just jaw dropping. I've wanted to do it, but the guy who owns our channel says it's too old and won't draw much attention because there is no footage to work with. I disagree but I don't sign the checks, so...

And I think Velma Jean Barfield, North Carolina's poisoning black widow, would be excellent, too. And there's another nope for the same reasons.

The narrator and I are hoping he'll let us open up a spin-off channel that can cover older stories like those. Maybe someday we will get the chance.

You and I grew up within a few miles of each other.

2 hours ago, Lame Duck said:

They stole everything from AT&T… from names, addresses, social, birthdays to even PIN numbers.  I mean, they sucked everything out.  Whenever you discover you are being hacked but not sure of the source, you just shut everything down and trying to figure out in safe mode/offline where breach happened and patch it up before going back online.   That’s why I’m thinking the systems went down was no coincidence.  Rule of thumb, dark web gets all the info right away and hack communicated within few weeks of attack.  Falls in line with an outage.  I have been hacked before.  My immediate response was to take everything offline and close the door before going back on as I wasn’t sure where hack was coming front.

No, you don't.  That is just not the way it works.   You secure the network if there is an active breech, but this had been going on since 2019.  

Not sure if this would be the type of story you would do, but the story of Fritz Klenner is probably one of the most sordid and tragic tales in the History of North Carolina.  The older folks might remember it, but younger people probably haven't.  

2 hours ago, Lame Duck said:

You do not think AT&T took the system down when they realized they are being hacked and likely realized what was stolen so they did not go back online until the patch was installed?

I have been working in that area of IT for a long time, and it's highly highly unlikely.  Personal information storage and the active network for phones are two completely different systems.  Just a rough guess here, but when your phone connects to a network, the data stored on your phone (the phone chip number) is communicated to authentication servers and they confirm that phone has the right to use the ATT network.  The communication doesn't necessarily contain personal data like email and such.  

The breech is more along the lines of email, phone number and address that they have on file for bill pay and statement information, or when you log in via app to pay your bill.  And the big issue is social security numbers.  This is more along the lines of when you log into your account thru your phone or laptop to pay your bill or check the status of an order.  This is not about the phone connecting to and using the ATT cell tower.  

Most likely, they discovered the breech after the fact and then had to implement new security protocols, patches, and updates to prevent new breeches. 

If outsiders gained access to a company's network, the last thing they would want to do is cause an outage that brings attention to them.  Such a hack would be subtle, and likely discovered after the fact.

The vast majority of major outages are caused by software/code upgrades that were improperly vetted, or engineers making a mistake. Sometimes denial of service attacks are a big problem as well.  Data breaches rarely if ever are accompanied by an outage.