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At the 25 second mark of the Husker Online video #9 is one of my sons!!!

I wonder if we'll use negative recruiting on this guy from Finland: SF: "Florida? Yeah, I lived there. It's hot as hell in Florida! Just miserable weather twelve months out of the year."

As @Mavric said, Diaco coached the DL to push or squeeze the pocket, not to rush the QB. Playing your DBs so far off, and not requiring or wanting an effective pass rush, just from a schematic sense, is severely problematic. Side Note: My goodness, in the last ~11 years we've had: Kevin Cosgrove, Mark Banker, and Bob Diaco as DCs. Three of the historically worst DCs of all time in the modern era have all been on Nebraska's coaching staff. It's sad enough to make you cry.

Missing some of your conversation? Follow the link. Now, back to Aaron.

He's lost my vote.

No mention of strain. I like him.

There was no pass rush because Diaco coached the defensive lineman to play contain and not rush the passer. So that's still the same problem. Just with one more degree.

"undecided". I almost always vote. And I guess I'm undecided in every race. I wait and see who I like best. I don't care which party they're from. I vote Democrat and Republican about equally often. When neither of the major parties fields a halfway decent candidate, I vote independent. (like the last POTUS election. ugh)

Eh, the thing that helped Banker was he played against a bunch of terrible offenses. When you look at yards per play allowed compared to what the opponents did the rest of the season, the 2015 defense was right up there with Cosgrove.

He’s been the most popular Democrat, other than Obama, for decades. He’s lauded, applauded, celebrated, and honored by Democrats. He’s a speaker at Democratic events, rallies, and conventions...often the keynote speaker. He’s made tens of millions of dollars based on his popularity among Democrats. Championing a rapist and serial sexual predator is appalling in a vacuum. Doing so while shrieking about #METOO is unbelievably hypocritical.

Get in line

If California was its own nation, it would be the fifth largest economy in the world, distributed across a healthy variety of sectors. It returns more into the federal breadbasket than any other state, thus propping up a lot of states that brag about their lower taxes and pro-business, deregulation attitudes. Some of the most conservative regions of California also tend to be far more dependent on federal funds. When they interview these people, they are charmingly unaware of that fact. The state is far from failing, but it struggles with its huge budget and all the people and politicians who demand a piece of it. Education is a serious problem, but it's rooted partly in the 1970s tax revolt that limited state funding. Infrastructure is a problem across the country, and I'm not sure if California is uniquely accountable, or how a partition would help -- especially since infrastructure depends on shared responsibility that isn't reliant on the wealth of each region. California is really screwed up because of the ridiculously high cost of housing. That is an old-fashioned supply & demand issue. Also, this multi-state story comes up in California every few years. Someone had a 7 state partition a few years back. It's good for a feature story or two, but has no chance of going anywhere politically. I believe Western Nebraska ranchers agitate for secession from the Eastern Nebraska powers-that-be every few years.

Well opinions vary, but when your defense is at the bottom of all four major statistical categories, clearly you suck as a DC. Do I need to post links to show just how bad those defenses were? I mean I agree with you in that I am glad they are gone, but let's not try and re-write history to make it that they were somehow better than what their stats ranking showed.

The hypocrisy on display from Democrats for decades is obscene. Bill Clinton was and is a monster. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/opinions/bill-clinton-learned-nothing-after-monica-lewinsky-se-cupp-opinion/index.html

Great column. Time to drain the swamp. Hillary’s Pollster on the Deep State

I don't like Clinton and he's probably a scumbag. But, focusing just on Lewinsky here, she was well into adulthood. She wasn't some vulnerable little girl. Women are not vulnerable by default - but that's the message I hear when I see this argument. It's very possible she knew exactly what she wanted and went after it. This is all assuming there was in no way any implied consequences given to her by Clinton if she didn't agree to it. I don't think office relationships between a boss and an inferior automatically fall under the sexual harassment/assault umbrella. They are likely to, but there are cases when both adults in that situation want it.

Sounds like he’s visiting this week

76 Yard TD Run, Taylor Martinez

Clinton never was covicted of rape or he would be in jail right now . I don’t think him getting a bj from a concenting adult necessarily puts him in the predatory category either . He didn’t get impeached for that anyway, he got impeached for lying about it , which is pretty normal human behavior to me . I didn’t think it was a big deal then and don’t now , but if we’re gonna say it is, then we need to look into Trumps long list of accusers too .

Fine. Let me rephrase and clarify. The 2007, 2015 and 2017 defenses were all dreadfully bad in pass coverage. That entails rushing the passer, covering receivers and getting pass breakups or interceptions. The 2007 and 2017 defenses were equally dreadful at stopping the run. The 2015 defense was decent at stopping the run though. Not great, but generally competent. Therefore, I feel like since the 2015 defense wasn't awful at one thing, it was better than the other two. Maybe Mark Banker isn't an average defensive coordinator. Maybe he's below average. He still probably isn't as bad as Cosgrove. Diaco is certainly better than both for his career, but ironically, had the single worst season. Bottom line, I'm glad that Nebraska no longer employs any of the three.

@funhusker @commando I've added that option. Sorry it wasn't on there.

Recently saw on another message board (hey, when i'm bored, i wander sometimes) paraphrasing: OP: Cosgrove is now DC at New Mexico. I had no idea he was still coaching. 1st response: Neither did many of his players.

It seems McCabe and others hid the Weiner emails, fearing what was there, and hoping to keep from revealing them until after the election. Comey, assuming Hillary would win as it wasn’t really in doubt, feared that if the emails came out after a Hillary election, they would damage her legitimacy. He also had promised Comgress that he would notify them of any new news on that front. Sp when he got wind, he sprung into action to protect the FBI’s reputation and his own. Let’s be honest...Comey’s ‘higher loyalty’ has always been to himself. So Hillary should have been charged and they did her a favor by excusing her crimes. McCabe should have revealed the Weiner emails immediately, thought he was helping Hillary, and inadvertently hurt her by delaying things until so close to the election. And Comey, who assumed Hillary’s election was a sure thing and wanted it to be legitimate, was trying to help her but ended up hurting her.

also in the report

Not really all that damning. Also not really much we didn't know already. Certainly some things worth admonishing, though.

Did anyone read the IG report? Pretty damning stuff. Tune into the Senate hearings tomorrow. Try watching them for yourselves for a change. When you rely on MSNBC hosts to interpret the news for you and then I have to constantly educate you about what actually happened, it gets embarrassing.

I'm using an extreme example on purpose, but I get tired of people preaching about divisiveness. There were many people in Germany who supported Hitler, so I don't agree with the philosophy that we all need to respect each other's opinions. I can't respect the opinions of a fellow Christian who continues to support this man. I was and am understanding of why a Christian would have voted for him. I have Christian friends who voted for him who I've talked to who no longer support him and I completely understand why they voted the way they did. But I draw the line at continued support. You can be 100% against the Democratic party based solely on their abortion stance, and at the same time not support Trump. And I'm not talking about those who stay silent. That's another conversation. I'm talking about those who unabashedly support Trump's every move, no matter how immoral it is. These same people thought Bill Clinton was the devil for having an affair, before anyone thought he had committed sexual assault.

That's actually a valid reason.....Donnie entertains you. I think that's part of his strategery.

That is interesting. I see the red above the blue. Some people in the Reddit thread said they couldn't see the effect because they're colorblind. My colorblindnes apparently doesn't affect this trick.

I think they’re right... ...if this effect is what chromostereopsis is. Surprised I had never run across this before. Try this- close one eye, look at it for awhile and then close the other eye. Strange...one eye I don’t see any effect and the other eye it seems to slightly reverse which color stands up from when viewing with both eyes. After a little more reading, also of interest, I see the blue as rising above the red but apparently the more common way is for people to see the red rising above the blue. Curious to know how others here see it ?

Believe he’s a long snapper walk on offer.

WRONG #fakenews These guys sucked and we are glad that they will never be part of the NU staff again - however to say that they are three of the worst all time in college football is a bit much

I guess hiking down and up on a Donkey, wouldn't count as a hike. Haven't done that either, but i did look down at it. My wife has done the down to the bottom, camped and then hiked back up. I made sure no one used our room. GBR!!!

I find it quite perplexing how a state with vast wealth in natural resources, agricultural products and high technology development can be on the cusp of bankruptcy. I suspect incompetent and/or crooked politicians played a major role.

Remember other stories from years ago of imprisoned people being led off to showers?

I remember watching Oregon about 9 yrs ago and hey just got the ball to like, 8 different guys who seemed ready to take it to the house every play. Didn’t know their names, whence they came, or follow them at all. But they were dangerous and effective. I think kids like this player are in that vein. Except, I love Nebraska football and know all about him lol cant wait to see all this talent.

Diaco had no choice but to play soft coverage as there was zero pass rush. You can't play tight if you can't get to the qb or you'll just give up bombs all day long. Not defending the guy in general, he was a bit touched and was not a good fit here, but the coverage decision was the only one he could make last year.

Interesting wording. Did Hawking believe there is an immortal part of humans?

I don’t know him so I don’t know his motivation. However, California as a state, is a failed entity financially. Three smaller dtates would have more local control and input into what happens.....which I tend to think is a good thing.

I rescued a baby robin this morning. There's a nest of robins in a tree branch just outside our second story bathroom. Robins nest there every year. This morning there was a ruckus out there at around 5:00 am. A bunch of birds squawking. I looked out and could see several birds flying around a robin's nest. They seemed to be attacking each other. When I went outside a little bit later part of the robin's nest was on the patio, along with a baby robin. I think blue jays tore the a chunk out of the nest and dumped the baby robins out. They might have carried off one or two other baby robins, because there is usually more than one. Anyway I was watering some flowers and doing a bit of yard work while it was still cool morning, and all the while the two adult robins were hopping around all agitated about their baby sitting there on the patio. I kept my distance to see what would happen because robins (or any bird for that matter) generally won't accept their own baby if you pick it up or mess with it. They'll just abandon it. But this baby robin was far to young to fly yet, and I figured it wouldn't survive down on the ground. So I got out a ladder, put on some work gloves, and carefully put the baby robin back in its nest. After that the two adult robins calmed down, and were hanging around the nest. I don't think they'll abandon the baby robin, even though I picked it up. Hopefully the blue jays won't be back. edit: Tonight when I got home from work one of the adult robins was sitting on the nest. So I guess they didn't abandon the baby robin.

Diaco's soft, scared, passive, and play the CBs 10 yards off the line of scrimmage had more to do with that than anything else.

I disagree. Aaron is your most proven and is the leader in the secondary. This hurts an already thin and inexperienced group more than if this was anyone else.

The walk down, even though it is 10 miles, wouldn't be that bad. The walk back up though...that would sssssuuuuucccccckkkkkkk!

It’s one thing to have an incentivized system for the Blackshirts. But for the love of God, stop saying it’s restoring the tradition. It’s not.

Translation: We knew we could get away with s#!t so we did...because that is human nature.

This is Hillary Clinton’s pollster describing what he sees as a big problem. Others from across the political specteum agree with him. But the inane responses posted here show the difficulty of having a substantive discussion here. Unless whatever is posted is some drivel bashing Trump for being some combination of stupid, crazy, and evil, no one is interested. #SAD

Man I thought I had it bad when I was in sales paying for Blue cross/ blue shield 180 a month in the early 2000's. That was great coverage, it must be double or triple that now. This is a hyper inflating monster thats not going to slow, there has to be an eventual collapse to it. If not for the insurance companies most the doctors would be out of business as they are way priced out of the market. If you ever watch or read about a foreigner who had to use our services for some reason without insurance, often you will hear them say(and I heard this 3 times myself), extortion, or extortionate prices. That's where we are at right now. But it's a bit funny and troubling that the insurance/doctor co-dependency is very similar to the espn/pay tv co dependency. Insurances just accept the price increases from the medical community no matter how absurd(like the pills that went from $20 per 500 to $1600 per 500 in one year)and pass the price hikes along to us. To bad there is no Netflix of medicine to disrupt the cycle. Really though, we can talk about Obama care or whatever care, the bottom line is, the first thing your taxes should go to is your healthcare coverage as there is nothing more important then your or your family's health. Not any tanks, not any roads, not any moon lander(as much as i love them), without your life none of that matters obviously. Some like to point out though that they dont want to carry others or pay an unequal amount towards the pot. But if everyone picked and chose we could eliminate good 90% of Americans from healthcare, because you cost more because you are to poor, you are to fat, you eat to much fast food, you have a genetic predisposition towards certain sicknesses, you like to drive fast, you ski, you are plain to dumb to survive etc etc..... We really just need to get together as a country on this, it is just plain the right and decent thing to do. people should not have to play Russian roulette when they get a bump and hope it goes away or risk their family going into decades long debt. the whole thing just reeks of Dickensian England and no, despite how nice the period dramas make it look from the view of the upper class, you would not want to live there as anything but them.