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Don't want to dis a kid who doesn't know what he's talking about because he's too young to know better. Marcus got Shaq about Kareem. Got Shaq above Kobe. Got Shaq above Magic. Don't know what he's talking about. Can't root for dumbassness.

@Gerry Hamilton It's all Jerrys. Why do you think Jerry West and Jerry Buss thought Kobe was better than Shaq? When Shaq recently said Lakers fans loved Kobe more than him, I thought no crap genius. I became a Lakers fan in 1978 watching Kareem when I was 5. I never considered Shaq anywhere close to Kareem, Kobe or Magic. Fatboy wouldn't work. Jerry West told us in June 1996 that Kobe was more important Shaq.

He'll play tackle. Alan isn't stupid.

I hope you're right.

They didn't have a special carve out last year.

Committee does its own rankings. They figure out a way. Why do you think ND is the only team with a special carve out?

Problem is the altar boys could lose two and the committee would still blindly put them in.

Uniforms Wisco and ND are wearing look hideous. You would ND at least would remain traditional.

I live in the country, but I don't go to any clubs. I also have brothers (biological and social), but we don't engage in engage in mantras, symbolic ceremonies or anything like that.

I respect your opinion, Gerry. I never said your view on ND or Kiffin is unfounded. I don't agree, but I don't like ND, so I just might have a blind spot.

That's how I knew you'd take the altar boys later today if they simply don't look horrible (or maybe even if they do). I'd say Texas State is probably as good as Wisconsin.

He'll quickly switch to Freeman and Notre Dame if they play decent or better later today against Wisconsin.

Here's a blast from the past for you @Gerry Hamilton. I was listening to Macarena in the background in my apartment in Frisco, TX on 26 June 1996 eating a supreme burrito from Taco Bell while watching the NBA draft on TNT when it was announced the Lakers actually drafted 17 year old Kobe at number 13 by trading Vlade Divac for the rights to Kobe. I'd been hearing that Jerry West loved Kobe after watching him whip butt on Michael Cooper at the Inglewood YMCA a few weeks earlier. West engineered a trade to draft Kobe which cleared cap space to sign Shaq at the same time. The next day I watched Jerry West say Kobe was the key to multiple championships during an ESPN interview.

@Gerry Hamilton Any notable basketball recruits other than Beckham Black visiting for Ohio State?

Kareem played 20 seasons, appearing in 1,560 regular-season games. He even played 80 games during the 1983–84 season when he broke Wilt Chamberlain's scoring record, and played 79 games at age 38 in 1985 when he was the best player in the world during the Finals against the Celtics. Kobe believed he owed everything to the people who saved up money to watch him play, knowing it might be their only chance to see him live. He played every game he could walk, famously playing the entire 2009-2010 season when the Lakers beat the Celtics in the 2010 NBA Finals with a broken index finger on his shooting hand.