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One trophy was invented by a head coach who's a little weird, and no one else was interested. The other was invented by a fan (Faux Pelini) and embraced by the fans, seemingly of both teams. There's a big difference between the 2. Also, Diaco named his trophy after the civil war. *rolls eyes*

Don't Get Fired or, this:

this made me laugh

What an ironic anniversary to have the day after the Senate passed a bill to repeal Dodd Frank.

fair and balanced? you decide

From Shatel.... "He wasn’t loud or boisterous or showy. He was a character because of his stories, his way of spreading philosophy on everything. But more than that, it was that boyish twinkle in his eye, that would show up in Omaha each June at just the right time, when we all needed to be reminded why we loved eight teams full of kids running it out, and sunshine and families and autographs and ice cream and a great, great game. Every year at the CWS, I will forever see Garrido’s twinkle. And I will hope that Fullerton comes to Omaha. And I will always root for them to wear blue" You were a legend.

Football Scoop

184--Venz just put a beating on Renda (NCST) and wins 11-3 to lock up AA and avenge a loss from earlier in the year! Venz had an unbelievable 6:40 of riding time. To give you an idea of how dominant that is...matches are 7:00 in length. Nebraska goes 3 for 4 in the blood round to lock up 3 AAs. They'll pick up action tomorrow morning.

R3 Cons 184--Venz whoops up on Bowman (Iowa) 16-4 and advances to the blood round 194--Schultz drops a tough 3-2 decision to Holschlag (UNI) and is eliminated Nebraska has 4 wrestlers left in the consolation bracket going into the blood round tonight which starts at 7p CST

Guessing he wasn't the kid in orange.........

A power clean is just an indication that the hips don't descend below the knees during the lift. Full clean (from the floor), hang cleans (high hang, low hang, pocket, etc), and box cleans, among others could all be done "power" or full (squat cleans isn't a term used outside of CrossFit). I wonder if these guys are squatting high bar or low bar in the back squat. If they have been using front squat for a couple of years and switch to a low bar back squat, the numbers they're lifting are going to go up by a very large amount regardless of whether they are actually stronger. I actually think the front squat translates to football better than a back squat. I really can't see a reason to have football players snatch at any significant level of effort. That's an incredibly technical lift for barbell athletes and would have a lot of injury potential for most football players.

Not sure if this has been posted. Just another cool thing this staff is doing to relate to kids and increase their chance of success. Greg Austin & Animated Playbooks

When we don't punch it in on the goal line (especially if we lineup in the shotgun), then everyone will come out of the woodwork about how we need a fullback.

Wow...wow....wow.....

I fully expect this board to blow up the first time Frost's offense throws it on 3rd and inches and doesn't get it. They're going to fail plenty, but I can guarantee they'll succeed far more than the last staff.

I expect to see much improved tackling from Lamar Jackson. He can be very good if he stops being so soft.

The hypocrisy from Republicans on this issue alone reaches the disgusting level.

It wont change. trump-ism is the party's go forward path because its become the party of the intellectually lazy, those living in constant fear and outrage (ie far right media consumers), the bigoted and the christians all lead by the spineless. The chances of any one of those groups collectively going "we didn't sign up for this" is about zero. It was the path before trump ever came into the picture. It's been the path since fox news and talk radio realized they'd make tons of money stirring up outrage of those people and the republicans started having to swing right to the tea party idiots to keep their seats. They did that themselves by their gerrymandering. So I have doubts that it has anything to do with candidate messaging or using common sense, or that they will ever recover from trump (nor should they). It maybe will end when districts are drawn so they don't have to out-far-right each other but they still have their nutty propaganda machine and other right wing billionaire sociopaths that they have to kowtow to. By now though the damage is already done, maybe not right now this year, but as soon as the boomers decline.

Just had a late lunch at Leadbelly. Excellent! Had the Raspberry Beret burger and a Code Pale Ale. Will definitely eat here again.

We have an thread on Republican utopia and that is serving its purpose well. However, I wanted to create a thread on Conservatism separating it from Republicanism. I believe today's Republican party is doing a poor job of representing conservatism and the conservative movement should never be tied to one party but be trans-party in some respects. The same should be true of liberalism. Specifically, I believe Trump has co-oped conservatism and redefined it into something no longer recognizable. It has become Trumpism in so many ways. I believe it is important that American politics have 3 strong primary policy groups - conservative, moderate, and liberal. It takes all three to make balanced policy. When one dominates something suffers. However when one of these groups gets taken over by a philosophy that it traditionally is not, then the 'leaven in the dough spoils the whole loaf'. That is what I believe has occurred. I personally reject Trumpism or any 'conservative' movement based in the small mindedness of Trump. Since the poll does not have fill in the blank options - Who do you believe can best lead conservatives out of this mess? A current politician in DC, someone outside of DC?? The following Vox article is a good discussion jumping off point. It is written by a left of center writer which is good. Conservatives should be challenged to think and see through the filter of others (liberals should be as well - but that is a different thread someone else can start) I would like to hear what you think what conservatism should look like. I hope the left of center and moderate posters will also jump in and give their opinion and give their opinion on how conservatism can 'correct itself' before it is too late. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/15/17113176/new-york-times-opinion-page-conservatism The real problem with the New York Times op-ed page: it’s not honest about US conservatism

Biff Tannen

Well so much for my UVA all the way bracket. Doesn’t even upset me though, just saw the biggest upset in the history of the tournament. That is why I love the first two days of the dance.

165--White drops a tough one 2-1 in SV-2 to Chavez (Cornell). White falls one match short of AA.

Interesting report out today on this topic by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. One thing that they touch upon that we've discussed here before,

Herbie knows Frost is at NEBRASKA, right? (He didnt go to another Florida school)

This is true, and what prevents this from being the norm isn't science, it's culture. The "work hard" culture, especially at extremes where excessive hours are the expected norm for everyone, is not the best for productivity. Humans function best in small chunks. Do something for a little bit, then do something else. Small shifts are better than big shifts. Doing an activity for ten minutes is better for learning than doing it for an hour. Your brain just kinda turns off after a while. Culturally, and this definitely applies to football coaches, we put a value on working obscene hours because we're putting more value in quantity than quality even though copious amounts of research suggests otherwise. In what became the Scott Frost megathread I had a link where a reporter asked Frost last season what he did with the unusual amount of early season off time created by the hurricanes. He said he took his wife to the haunted house because it was not usual to have any in season opportunities to do something like that. I'm sure at least one reporter had to think he's crazy, here his schedule is turned upside down and instead of grinding away in the office, he's out playing with the wife. We saw the payoff to this last year though as one event after another came up and he was always prepared to tackle them.

^ we're due for another national championship in 2018 or 2020 depending on how you read the pattern. There are probably others I don't see. But I'm going with 2020.

R3 Consis 141--Red beats Turk (Iowa) 3-2 and advances to blood round tonight 149--McCrystal loses 5-2 to Oliver (CMU) and is eliminated.

Quarterfinals 157--Berger (NU) loses 3-2 to Hidlay (NCST) 165--White (NU) loses a tough one 4-2 in SV-2 to Joseph (PSU)

R2 Consis 149--McCrystal (NU) wins 10-4 over Donahue (NCST)

(Defense was in white, offense was in red)

Him too... Rodman wants Trump to send him back to North Korea

I was laughing out loud. Definitely listen to the audio - the music is great.

#BlueLivesMatter ... until we need to scapegoat them.

I didn't say that, I said home court advantage is a bigger deal than you're making it out to be. So you think Nebraska loses this game even if it was at PBA? 16-1 at home says probably not. If you don't think playing at home has any advantage in college, I can't help you.

That did happen. In several cases if I recall. It amazes me how deep the evil runs in the Cheney family. In a sane world they should be reviled by everyone on both sides of the aisle.

LJS

This could kind of go off topic but torture doesn't make sense logically to me. If I was being tortured and knew nothing, I'd start making things up just to try to get it to stop.

I shot this old bastard opening day after sitting in the stand for maybe 20 minutes! The old butthead decided to run about 30 yards and die in the creek though!

Ha ha ha ha! No.

A barbaric statement, in my opinion.

Sigh... you always come in when I'm exhausted of the subject. All I'll say is, Google pictures of a baby aborted at even 6 weeks.... That's a person. I've got three kids, (and as I hinted at earlier in my exchange with Knapp, I should have four) so I've been to plenty ultrasounds. They'll let you listen to the heartbeat at 4 weeks. The heartbeat.... Its alive. You can find out the sex at 14-16 weeks.... So 21-22 weeks is insane. So, given what I just said, when you ask if I think millions of people are ok with murdering babies? Yes, I do. But, I'm done with the conversation. I tread into this forum from time to time, but it's exhausting trying to take on a dozen of you. I respect most of you, but I'm checking out for now.

You guys are making me feel real old. I'm from the day of the Minneapolis Moline Z, the John Deere B, the Massey Ferguson 85, and the Farmal M. Growing up those were some of the tractors dad had on the farm near Parker, SD. Only after I went to college did he get the air conditioned, climate controlled International with radio wt headjacks. I can't hear well because my tractor had the radio on the fender blaring louder than an F-18 flyover just so I could hear it - but my neighbor a 1/2 mile away could hear it just fine.