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The guy lost his F*ing child in a meaningless shooting that nobody in power seems to care about fixing. If you can't figure out his intentions....then that speaks volumes about the entire Republican pro gun movement that chooses to demonize anyone who is affected by gun violence and chooses to speak out about it....no matter if it's this guy or kids from florida or anyone else. It's a pretty bad look actually.

Now wait a minute. Are you saying if someone is instructing their opponent in a debate to do their own "Googling", that they are essentially conceding or surrendering their side of the argument?

My theory is they get upset because it's uncomfortable for them that these family members of victims of gun violence remind them that their fervor for permissive gun laws is at least partially responsible for these deaths. If that's not it, it should be, as massacring school children should elicit more of a response then a shrug by the electorate and hollow prayers from politicians publicly while they privately just stick their hands out for more money from the gun lobby. You'd have to be really really dense to not understand exactly why parents of school shooting victims are on capitol hill. They want these policymakers to publicly have to look them in the face to remind them that there are consequences to their votes. That's the capital they have to lobby with, since they don't have the deep pockets and backrooms the NRA does. Which should be a thousand times more awkward, it just isn't in public view, and that is a shame.

I wasn't aware trying to shake someone's hand and engage them in conversation was considered aggression. In some cultures, I suppose?

I think it would be appropriate if Akron got Zip.

Did everyone miss where Frost said he would have likely done the same thing if he were faced with the situation?

By the time they got players actually settled in with blankets and pillows from who knows where, they would have been lucky to get 5 hours of sleep. Not ideal at all for their guys. I would have refused as well in his shoes. I commend our people for trying as it sounds like they made every reasonable effort but it didn't work. Nothing reasonable left of that dead horse to kick- moving on. In the mean time, we have a solid CU team to get ready for.

247 transitioned him to the 2019 class rankings. #1 JUCO RB, 87 rating.

I could have provided a link to a Fox News article saying the same as these things all say (that Trump could win), but the request was for a "news source" and that disqualifies Fox.

Welcome to the real world. You buy a ticket and if that event doesn't happen for reasons out of anyone's control "act of God"...you don't get a refund. On top of that, the AD has already said that if a 12th game is scheduled, they will issue a ticket for that game to anyone who had purchased the ticket through the University. The University is doing everything they need to do and should do. People that are all pissy about how it's being handled need to reevaluate their anger and realize it's simply frustration that the evening weather happened the way it did.

Translation: They're going to get their money

I would have refused this offer 100 times out of 100.

Oh I'm not. It was a totally facetious comment about people at home sitting on their collective asses during the anthem while complaining that the players aren't standing.

I mean. This is just. Just lock this thread and this discussion up. It's only going to get worse

These are fun.

While I think it was inappropriate of him to approach the nominee in that setting (highly political setting - the nominee wouldn't have known his intentions) I as a dad, understand his passion and wanting to make a wrong right in any way legally possible.

All in all, it's an enjoyable experience, but one some of our younger fans may have forgotten about. Long story short, Colorado was playing for the Big XII North title, and they choked, hardcore, to a Callahan-led squad at home. The Student Section wasn't having any of it, and throughout the game, they were throwing objects (e.g. plastic footballs, yellow pom-poms, AA batteries, pennies, water bottles filled with urine) on the field on occasion...but when Colorado found themselves down 27-3 with 10:00 to go in the 4th, things escalated quickly, and after warnings by the officials, the entire Student Section for Colorado was kicked out of the game. That's the point where Mike Tirico said on national television what Nebraska fans have known for ages: Yup, you heard him right, at 2:10:22 in the recording, Mike Tirico said "the people (Colorado Student Section fans) are idiots". Truer words have yet to be spoken in the realm of College Football since then. He even went further and advocated that the students deserve jail time and a criminal record...and in honesty, he's right. And while this won't pay for lost rental car deductibles, new tires that required purchase, or children that were called expletives to and from the stadium in Boulder, this was pretty much vindication for all of the s*** that Nebraska fans have endured at Boulder over the decades. Just a trip down memory lane in preparation for this week's tilt with Colorado. Enjoy.

Yep and #9 Overall for JUCO

I hope this somehow blows up to the point that the anthem just isn't played at sporting events anymore. It won't, but I can dream.

I think people who paid for a ticket and didn't get to see the game have every right to be bummed or disappointed. I also think the University has every right to not offer a refund. At the end of the day, they still have to pay the people who worked the game. By rescheduling the game and still accepting those same tickets they are actually going to lose money in that aspect(they wont due to double food/more souvenirs and what not). I think the University is handling it like any business should. Does it suck for people who spent all the money to come out, of course it does. That doesnt mean the university is in the wrong. Its a crappy situation that happened. I honestly think all parties involved handled it the best they could. No one will ever be fully happy.

Ya unfortunately concerts and events have refunded events for thise types of things before. No it doesn’t have to happen but at the same time, you want to play the Greatest Fans in the world, why wouldn’t you treat them as such. Reevaluate their anger.....is that coming from someone who doesn’t have to make a budget decision about tickets, food, tailgate, parking, work, family, for every game every year? Some us have to make very real decisions about getting tickets every year. So ya when that time effort and money goes into an event that have gone to for how ever many years, paid the donation ect, it’s a pretty big middle finger to not get refunded for the game.

Who knows, it just seems rather SE like, you would think the Moos would act differently but in the end it is what it is. Time will tell if a big booster gets a little irritated about having that $200k per game box.

So they should just pay for things that don’t happen?

Prediction...AD Larry Williams has never hated his job more than he has this week.

Yes

Neither have been shy about stirring the pot with a mic in their face. Moos especially.

Sure, but at the last second, what's that food going to be? Gruel? S on a Shingle? I've had Mariott's catering many times at Husker functions and it's OK, but it's not always good. But that only answers half the question. The other half is where they're going to eat. The dining hall of an unused dorm? Which has been vacant for how long, and is in what state of cleanliness? This would be perfectly acceptable for refugees. Say a tornado rips through Lincoln and 200 people are homeless. This would work for them in that emergency. A game getting canceled because of lightning isn't that kind of emergency. I wouldn't put my kids through that if I were the coach. Frost seems to have agreed to that, too.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the options of what was available to feed that many people via a catering service in that short of time was minimal.

That's how I see it. I can't imagine a scenario where we pay them less than full price and don't get bad publicity out of it. Akron may have had "options" in place to play the game, but none of them were good. I'd love to know what dorm rooms they were offered, which of those have full beds/amenities, and how long it's been since those dorms were used. Were there vermin in the buildings? Where would the players have eaten, and exactly what? The whole thing was dodgy from the moment the first lightning struck, and it's not Akron's fault. Pay them & move on.

People that are burning their Nike's don't care about the homeless.

Email from the University:

Instead of burning/destroying your Nike gear, maybe donate it to a local homeless veteran.

Before anybody says anything too nasty about Coach McCartney, please note: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/pac12/2016/08/01/family-says-hall-fame-coach-bill-mccartney-diagnosed-alzheimers-dementia/87914492/

Buffs Junior QB Steven Montez. More: https://www.youtube.com/user/buffvision/videos https://www.denverpost.com/2018/09/01/stephens-steven-montez-heisman-cu-colorado-state/

I know...and it did. Then we got closer and closer to games and I just keep thinking "My god, they were so bad last year, so very bad, can they really be that much improved with a lot of the same players that have been Rileyed"

We've played them 69 times?? Nice.

Same. I've been to Boulder for multiple games as well as Madison. Never has a bad experience at either place. Both are beautiful cities. I'm sure these stories started from something but by the way everyone talks you'd think you're walking into these towns like John McClain with his sandwich board at the beginning of Die Hard with a Vengeance.

He also proved he could get kicked off the team as a sophomore.

It was bad luck. Time to move on.

No it's embarrassing that you didn't have a plan in place for a total cancellation. The weather said thunderstorms from 6pm until Midnight starting the Sunday before.

Pretty much what Frost said - it's not that they didn't know about the weather. It's that most thunderstorms in Nebraska blow by in 30 minutes to an hour. They expected a delay but not one that lasted eight hours. Not embarrassing. Just pretty bad luck.

You and I agree that this instance is a non issue....but don’t try and lump me in with thinking s father who lost a child to gun violence is an attention whore because he is trying to fix the problem that caused his daughters death.

So you consider it shamelessly attention whoring to extend your hand to someone who's going to have a tremendous say on the laws governing everyone's lives for the next handful of decades & try to chat with them? Guess I'm an attention whore because I'd have done the same thing.

2:17:00 is proof that time travel exists and it didn't just feel like Taylor Martinez was around for a decade, he really was!

I'd like to attend the game in Boulder next year, but am still trying to determine how much I need to budget for new tires and paint for after the game.

Well, to be fair, one of those coaches might have lost to Akron.