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  1. LA is a different beast than anywhere in the country aside from NYC. I'd put WA and OR (and Stanford) as better targets than the ACC teams. For the universities as a whole, but that's my bias.
  2. It would be a mistake to overlook Washington and Oregon. The B10 may do it, because they are stupidly blind and elitist to anything not east coast, but Washington in particular is an excellent school and the flood of people and dollars that hit the PNW over the last 20 years from people moving up there to work in tech would be stupid to overlook. The only problem may be that the more tech savvy people aren't paying for cable subscriptions. If that's the case at that point though you're not innovating, you're going the country music route and just trying to ride a dying medium (CD sales for country music, cable TV for college football) until the people willing to buy that die off.
  3. Riley basically existed off Bo's remaining talent and killed the talent level at the program. Callahan recruited some good talent but they were horrible on the field, I mean how much of Suh's greatness was due to Pelini coming in? Do you think he'd have had anywhere close to the legendary couple years he had without that? Yes, I would/do feel the same, you make it sound like it was all garbage time scores where we had a 2 minute offense out there lighting up a defense that already checked out. That wasn't the case, the husker 2 minute offense sucks... The line wouldn't hold up late, and Martinez forced bad throws. You're not going to convince me that 1) the team doesn't play harder now under frost than it did under callahan or riley. or 2) the offense while not there yet isn't miles ahead of where it was under Bo because I have eyes and a working memory. What fans like you have convinced me of though over these last 20 years is that people like you that sit there and want to throw every coach out since Solich are why we are where we are. You cant just hit the f#&%ing reset button every couple of years, especially with different offenses/defenses like it's your xbox when you get mad about the AI dunking on you and think that magic is going to strike next time and the 90s are going to magically appear again but this time with whatever offensive flavor of the month is in vogue. Frankly Nebraska should have never done it in the first place, but here we are, and that's what's going to keep this program where it's been at.
  4. Mike Riley worse? where you know going into the season most games are going to be uncompetitive but maybe he'll sqeak out a win he shouldn't have against a highly ranked team that came in sleeping? Callahan worse? where you know that any "big game" is going to be a blowout loss and games that shouldn't be competitive are nail biters? I can tell you just watching the games I see a big difference on the competitiveness between those years and Frost years. If you don't that's fine, but I'd take being probably a reliable kicker away from a winning record and an upgraded O-line away from being able to beat the Ohio States, Michigan, OU. Those were one score games against some of the best teams in the country running through one of the toughest schedules in the country. Yeah it'd be great if they didn't have the craptastic kicking game and an outclassed O-line and ran the table, but that wasn't likely to happen this season with this schedule with any team short of 94/95 Nebraska.
  5. I still support frost, you all can be mad at me. I'd rather watch this team than one coached by Callahan, Riley or even Pelini. Nebraska was just a few years after the historic 90s run and our head coaching search brought us the big name of Bill Callahan. Pelini had a hard playing defense, but once people soured on him we spent big bucks to get rid of him and hire Historically horrible Mike Riley. People on here seem to think it's going to be better rolling the dice again, well, the track record on Nebraska's head coaching dice rolls proves otherwise.
  6. At this point I'm convinced that the people that want to see him fired are the same ones that have set this program on the path it's been on for 18 years now. Stability is going to be far better then pretending we can hire Saban from Bama and instantly be NC contenders or something equally as make-believe. I sure hope Trev has the stones to tell the fans calling for firings where they can stick their opinions on the coaching staff.
  7. The people that talk about these things talk about them from a football only wish-list standpoint, and football dollars are millions sure, but the cooperation on billions worth of grants between the CIC(or whatever it's called now) members and all the other university benefits beyond sports means you don't have Ohio States and Michigan's looking at the SEC and going "yeah totally worth it!" The idiots that think the SEC grass is greener for any BIG school think that college is just basically the mini-NFL and forget that there's entire student bodies, professors, deans, boards, etc and the dollars that flow into universities from research would dwarf a 10 million dollar more TV contract. There's no benefit. It's not like college football's going to leave out Ohio State and Michigan regardless of what conference they are in, not to mention they're already in the most profitable one.
  8. Everything people are saying about ND are what they were saying back before they joined the ACC partially while telling the BIG to piss off. What do you all imagine has changed for ND? The ACC isn't imploding, the Big12 is just still in a slow motion drain circle that it has been since texas tried to bolt for the pac12 in 2010. I don't see how this really changes anyone's calculus as it's basically been in the process of happening and expected for 10+ years at this point.
  9. Yes, it is, or advertising wouldn't work. It's amazing to me that it does, but it does.
  10. 100+ people traveling from state to state to college campuses that will probably still be mostly closed during a pandemic, except for "essential" staff for a sporting event and the TV crews/Network Talent to broadcast it. I can't think of a better demonstration that there's nothing amateur about the athletes at football schools. I think it's highly unlikely that there's any football this fall. People have already pointed out the potential liability of it from the student athlete point of view. What about the other people? people driving buses or press? God forbid having 200+ people on a field together and something spreads, what about other people on that campus and the community they live in? What happens when that's contact traced back to a player at a particular school due to football? I understand that people want to be optimistic that this will be over by the fall, but we are simply slowing it down, it's still going to probably infect half the population at least.
  11. Its 160ish there about in 5 years, so yes its a matter of time, and approximately 5 years from now or so I'll be able to post there again. I lurk more than post, and I'll happily continue to do so. I just happen to disagree with the policy change that I got caught in and said so. I envy those of you that have the time to rack up 90+ posts a day and consider it a slow day, but I won't be joining those ranks, I don't have that much to say.
  12. I think you're making a leap there, personally. The fact that I don't contribute nearly as much to the football forum doesn't mean it isn't my main interest here and why I joined the board originally. I read it to stay current on what is going on and what I would add, would there be anything I felt compelled to, has usually already been said. Where as P&R was interesting discussions with less of the same views as me.
  13. While I am under no delusion that anyone will miss me in there or notice I am gone. Nor do I want to just go echo what everyone has already said a dozen times before I read threads in the football forum just to up a counter. So just let me say it seems a bit arbitrary, the 250 post count, so you earned yourself an eye-roll Enhance, as I'm not above shooting the messenger(a passive aggressive emote that is).
  14. His success was getting the biggest rich shyster idiot in the country elected. If Trump had brain one he would have taken office and said "we need to secure our elections from foreign interference" and "I certainly believe in our intelligence and intelligence professionals and we need to let law enforcement investigate and come up with recommendations to protect the integrity of our elections from electronic espionage and influence campaigns" then let the FBI run with it. Then it ends there. Instead he tried to bury all his staff's contacts with Russians, fired Comey for the "Russia thing" and celebrated it the next day in his office with the Russian ambassadors and told the world he believes the word of Putin over the free worlds intelligence agencies. When we already knew they were running influence and hacking campaigns. That's how you end up with a special council investigation. His every instinct is the exact wrong way to handle this if he had no guilt. This has been a mess of his own making, not some deep state fighting against Trump, this is the result of a moron that cant think beyond his baser instincts with no ability to listen to people who are smarter than he is, then lying about it every step of the way. Some of you are just so far gone, worshiping this idiot, its baffling.
  15. 1) yes, although I don't know enough about every aspect of it, but support the idea in general. 2) Yes, because the court doesn't reflect the country when you stack it one way or the other. It should be balanced, and attempts to skew it either way are wrong. Actually historically we've had both more and fewer judges on the court. Nowhere is 9 set in law AFAIK. 3) yes, the electoral college is just a plain old dumb Idea. My vote should count the same in Nebraska or New York. Edit: I mixed up looking at the poll and the post below it with the voting age thing. So here's my thoughts on lowering the voting age. no, 16 year olds aren't fully formed adults and they don't really have any idea what their actual political views are. 99% of them probably just parrot their parents or friends political views to fit in. Also how many do you think would hear something like "if you want help paying for college in a couple years you'll vote for X" from a parent? It's asking for problems.
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