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The conservative trope that higher education is somehow more liberal is one that strikes me as incredibly tone-deaf. If the most educated people in our society are more liberal than conservative, then shouldn't conservatives start questioning their own ideology? I've found most conservatives instead choose to attack higher education.

From what I can tell on facebook both sides are more or less equally condescending towards each other. I'm both liberal and conservative in a lot of ways, so I just try to be condescending to everybody.

Looking back at Nebraska defenses the better part of this century is why I'm willing to give Chinander a chance. Regardless of form or nomenclature, two words I'd use to describe Nebraska defenses over this span is Rigid and Passive. Neither of those is how I'd describe a Chinander unit. At the end of the day, once a play is identified; the RB breaks the line of scrimmage, the pass is thrown, it's about 11 guys chasing down and tackling one guy. It's really that simple. So much of the various past schemes have been about area control, that we've kinda forgot this part. What Chinander and crew are doing is not eschewing control, but rather being more aggressive through the proper use of leverage. It's about attacking through the ball carrier/blocker with risk mitigation because you've taken the angle that reduces their threat. It's more fair to call it a philosophy than a scheme. He can and will use a lot of schemes, but they're all taught through this conceptual framework. What I love isn't so much where they put the players but that they explain the why to the players. That allows players to break the rules, ultimately allowing 11 to tackle 1. I think we will have a pretty good defensive unit this year. Obviously thin in the secondary, and it may take some time to find the right mix at LB, but the defensive line should be solid out of the gate. At some point, this defense will understand the freedom they have and it'll click. Should be a lot of fun when that happens.

FWIW, I don't think it's a bad idea. I just think it would run into resistance. Politicians that want stricter immigration policies love to talk about E-verify. I know I heard Ted Cruz mention it quite a bit. But pushing to run everyone through that would run into resistance from employers that benefit from cheap labor. Ag workers, construction, day laborers... anybody employing large numbers of illegal workers isn't going to want to go along with it.

This reminds me of the Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays topic. The Right is good at conjuring up attacks from nothing, then fighting against them. i.e. they're good at rallying the troops even when there isn't a fight. The transgender bathroom topic is another example. That started with North Carolina inventing a problem and then creating a bill to solve the problem - then a bunch of people complained about transgender people when they didn't start it at all.

Can we all agree 24 hour news stations are the worst?

My sister teaches at a state university in Minnesota, a swing state (a lot would actually call it liberal). She has to be careful about what she says because of the extreme conservatism of her male colleagues. She's actually been told how impressed they are that she can do her job and raise a family, especially as a woman. Higher education promotes thought and our place in a general society, maybe it isn't a coincidence that people leave there with a better understanding of the world outside our borders.

I did not know things like that were happening , I deal with factory workers mostly, not professionals . The system is definitely broken . Between the drug cartels, government corruption , and general lawlessness in Mexico , Central and South America I’m hearing its very unsafe many places there . I don’t blame them for fleeing as I would do the same in their situation . We just need to do a better job handling the influx of people on our end .

Absolutely. The defensive side of the ball is where recruiting really shows. No matter how proactive or aggressive a defensive scheme is, it is still the reactive side of the ball. Any offense can attempt to scheme around their weaknesses by virtue of having the ball and making the defense adjust to what they are doing. The defense, any defense, is prone to getting attacked where it is weak. To that point, two of UCF's best defensive players, Hughes and Griffin, were gambles in their own way. Griffin's story is known at this point, Hughes was a P5 talent that got into some legal trouble. UCF and it's kind has to find defensive talent where it can. Meanwhile, the offensive side of the ball can plug in an undersized, but speedy running back, even as a freshman because he only needs to do what he's capable of doing. You can so much more easily accommodate a range of players on offense for this reason. IMO, there is no excuse for ever having a bad offense. Small schools, service academies, P5 bottom dwellers...all have shown time and again that you can have a good offense without needing to recruit elite talent.

I don't disagree with you Big Red, I guess I just think we make it too tough (and yes, I know there has to be vetting and we need to be careful). For instance, this last week I was speaking to a woman, a MD & PHD from Venezuela who is trying to gain citizenship here. She and her husband (also an MD) came here to claim asylum. She has to turn in a 600 page application once a year to keep her app in process, and currently she's spent over 50k on lawyers and etc. She is unable to come here and work as an MD, so she's doing bench work for a hospital because she would have to go back to medical school and etc to be able to practice here, and med school is not cheap (especially not to go a second time, plus fellowship which puts an additional 3-5 years on). At any time they can tell her that she is not approved, and she then has 2 days to go home. 2 days to close up shop at work, sell her home, sell her belongings or pack them up and get on a plane home. Period - or she's at risk for arrest. She then would qualify as an illegal that ICE could come after (depending on city & state of course). That's ridiculous. The process is broken. If she hadn't had money in the bank before coming here she'd never be able to do it according to the requirements we have. She's earning a pittance now compared to what she is trained to do and was doing in Venezuela. Cost of living is significantly higher here, they're having expenses that even wealthy people would find excessive (100K for just application processes?!?!?) so there's no way that people fleeing a country where they're not safe, where there's no work can do this. When I asked her why she wants to be here, especially right now when our nation has made it so difficult to come, and has been unwelcoming. So didn't get into details on what she was escaping from, I expect as I get to know her better I'll learn more, but she would only say that it was better than the alternative.

Also, my completely anecdotal and unscientific opinion is there are a lot more offensive players to go around than there are defensive players. So there are enough skill guys that even the Group of 5 teams can find some pretty good players on offense. But it's a lot harder to find defensive players - especially defensive linemen and cornerbacks - so it's a lot more difficult to get talent at those spots for the smaller schools. So that's another reason that I'm willing to give Chinander a chance to see what he can do with some better athletes. Obviously the competition will get better as well but I think the talent he has to work with on defense will be a much bigger step up than it will be on offense.

Strong batch of teams in the tournament for the B1G this year. Minny has a real shot at Omaha.

I’ll bet Coach Miles is happy! http://www.wowt.com/content/news/Two-key-Husker-seniors-return-to-basketball-team--483822281.html

I would say so. We beat Purdue who I believe beat Iowa and we had Northwestern on the ropes before langsdork and diaco brainfarted their way to an L. We actually looked pretty competitive against the badgers for a half, so yeah, the level of athlete Nebraska recruits and has on the field is definitely a cut above schools like Troy and Akron. The difference, as has been discussed, has been our predictable and largely ineffective scheme, poor preparation, repetition of poor habits, not to mention a lot of asinine play-calls, personnel decisions, and clock-management. Now, do we have the athletes to truly compete with the likes of osu and Penn state? Not yet.

I think those four years were a very good stretch. And I'm not saying that 2001 was a "bad" year. But I think the cracks were starting to show and maybe wasn't quite as good as it seemed. We had a lot of recruits from one of the best stretches of success in college football history and a quarterback who was perfect for our offense. Once those disappeared, so did our success. So I don't think it's a terrible stretch to say that a decent amount of the success in those four years was "in spite of"* Solich as opposed to because of Solich. * - I'm not saying Frank doesn't deserve any credit. I'm saying that the Husker Football Machine was running in such a way that the recruits we were getting and the assistants we had would likely have had similar success for 3-4 years with someone else as the head coach as well. The part where Frank hasn't been able to win a conference championship in 13 years in the MAC would seem to lend credence to the assertion that he's not as good of a coach as some would like to think. Also, an interesting historical footnote is that Crouch nearly quit the team - or did for a day - because he wasn't the starting QB. Crouch definitely deserves blame for a less-than-mature attitude about that but he did turn out to be correct in the end - he should have been the starter but wasn't. So there would also be some level of blame on the coaches for not evaluating properly. Had Crouch not come back, do the next four years turn out differently? And would that have changed the perception of Solich?

Honestly I’m kind of tired of people saying things like “it’s troy” when teams like that have been competitive with P5 teams for at least the past decade. How long is it going to take some of us to realize that there aren’t necessarily gimmes just bc it’s some school that is directional or small or something that isn’t steeped in tradition?

compare to johnMcCains tweet to the vets

I mean, come on. It doesn't take a genius to connect the dots here. There's only two dots. 1. Ivanka gets trademarks approved by Chinese government. 2. Trump suddenly shifts from combative towards China to helping a Chinese telecom designated as a U.S. NatSec risk. This is why you don't let a wealthy family clearly not divested from their business interests run your government.

How do you figure? He has a purple heart.

in other words.....why didn't obama protect you from me

Seriously. Rivalries, and trophies, should just happen. Paul bunyans axe, Floyd of rosedale. Bits of broken chair. Not some stupid grocery store promotion masquerading as a salute to heroism. I hate when things are forced. Which is why I dont see why we have to have Iowa be the rival. We shouldn't have a trophy game already. If it happens, great, but it does not have to be the closest team. Kansas State was not our rival just because they were the closest. OU was because of history. So give it 10 more years and see what happens.

One thing to consider is what conservatives are we talking about here? If we are talking about supporters of the current GOP, maybe there is a reason for the bias and feeling attacked. If you believe in Fox and our lyin' POTUS, then I really don't have sympathy for you feeling attacked. I have more sympathy for you being duped. To expound, reasonable conservatives on this board such as TG and BRB don't seem to feel under attack or feeling forgotten. Just in disgust of this terrible administation and its hurtful self-serving policies. Im surprised more conservatives out there aren't fed up with their party at this point. I would be embarrased to say these people represent my political views.

I don't think anyone is done a disservice by the news media. At the same time, I think "news" has changed. The media briefly reports "news", but then spends a majority of the time on commentary and opinion. In my social circles, I've heard less political discussion in the past year or two than anytime in recent memory.

Their problem is this victim mentality you detailed throughout your post. Its not about them, but they make it about then

PG- Glynn Watson Jr. SG- Thomas Allen SF- James Palmer Jr. PF- Isaac Copeland Jr. C- Isaiah Roby 6- Jordy Tshimanga 7- Amir Harris 8- Nana Akenton 9- Tanner Borchardt 10- Karrington Davis 11- Thorir Thorbjarnarson 12- Brady Heiman(Hopefully Redshirts) What do you guys think about next year's depth chart?

Yes, 5150!

Yes. Coaching matters. Scheme matters. We do and did have more talent on our team than Troy, and many of the teams we lost to.

I am a bit surprised they are both back but hats off to Miles. I 100% think he has these guys buying in and while they tested the waters I think they truly care about this team/university. Lets win some games now!

Another good one is the so-called attack on Christians' religious freedom. It's just another completely made up thing. What they want the freedom to do, when they are complaining about this, is to discriminate against others. And yet another is the attack on the constitution.

These are the reasons why the royal family doesn’t actually rule England anymore. We have officially now become what we defeated in the revolutionary war.

I laughed.

I'm sure those serving are super happy to have a guy who pussed out of every available opportunity to serve himself telling everyone how happy & proud they are.

I have to admit as somebody who's liberal in most regards I do find it humorous when the right tries to slander the left as culture warriors or for playing identity politics. Republicans to me seem to do it just as much, they just have different targets.

i think this fits this thread best. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/world/europe/uk-austerity-poverty.html?action=click&module=Ribbon&pgtype=Article

Well folks, we got our Memorial Day message from POTUS. On this day of observance for people who made the ultimate sacrifice he has (not surprisingly) made it about himself, Cadet Bonespurs at his finest.

I liked a lot of The Cars’ later hits, even though the albums declined in quality, they still had some moments. But their first album can really stand in as a greatest hits record. One of the best albums of the 80s. I saw Cheap Trick in concert and was very underwhelmed. No stage presence. Poor showmanship. They had two huge and important radio hits in their day, but as an overall rock band they fail to deliver.

What is the evidence that the policy is/was lax, or that it's a problem? We're not currently doing nothing, we weren't doing nothing pre-Trump, and it's reduced steadily for years. My philosophy is that something needs to be shown to be a problem before we "fix" it, and we weren't letting immigrants in willy nilly before.

He's already provided false testimony based on the Trump tower meeting, so why hasn't anything been done? They setup the meeting on the pretense of getting dirt on the Clinton Campaign from Russian Nationals...

If we never hear about Verduzco talking about The Strain, that will be a win. TBH, I'm just glad we finally have an actual quarterbacks coach. That's something that's been sorely lacking over the last decade or more.

That rivals writer suggests an 8-4 season, and I postulate it could be a lot worse. It's easy to understand why 8 wins; take the 10 last year and chop off a couple to account for the tougher schedule. The problem is that 10 win team didn't put up the performance metrics of a 10 win team, they got there by winning several close games. That already suggests a strong possibility for a sharp downturn the next year. The opening set of games are deceptively tricky when you consider how poor the offense for Northwestern may be the first month. At Purdue and then home to Duke is not as easy as it sounds. Brohm has Purdue set up to make a year 2 jump. They may not show it in an increase in wins as last year's team was slightly overrated, but they will in performance, regardless of QB. Duke will have enough offense to pose a threat, as they tend to play some of their best ball early season. Akron is pretty poor. 1-2 is possible before the two Michigan games and then Nebraska. By midseason break, otherwise known as Rutgers, it's not a stretch to suggest Northwestern is 1-5. The order of the games this season does Northwestern no favors. Sure, Minnesota and Illinois look like very likely wins now, but they are in the final two weeks. They play their final 9 games without a bye, and if the season trends downward early, those could snowball into unexpected losses. 7 or 8 wins are certainly plausible, but I'm suggesting no one should really be surprised if it is only 3 or 4 wins.

Will be interesting to see if the UN looks at our treatment of immigrant children as a human rights abuse.

Utterly infuriating.

I'd like to add this to the above, also from today. This is another staggeringly obvious example of Trump being completely dishonest. He's just straight lying to people & seeing who is misinformed enough to believe him. We as a nation must do better than someone who lies to us so frequently.

Does Solich have any known retirement plans? Not that I'd complain if it happened now, but I feel like waiting until he's done coaching would be more appropriate for a Memorial Stadium appearance/tribute.

Football matches are fun to win, I tell ya what!

Bold. Probably not smart.

I'd be very pleasantly surprised if Nebraska held Troy to 17 points. I wish Nebraska was catching them as the home opener as they're trying to replace a 4 yr starting QB and Brown is a helluva coach.

That's absurd.