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It's partisan political brinksmanship and pop culture theater. No argument there. It's also a flashpoint for a moment in time. There's much going on here that is ancillary to Brett Kavanaugh, but that doesn't invalidate it. I think we all need to be uncomfortable at the moment. But I will take issue withe your third paragraph, as it contradicts your second paragraph. If you have already concluded that "this is all a bunch of made up accusations" and "if all this crap were true, at least something of it would have popped up before" then you are not thinking for yourself; you're merely serving up the talking points of a single political wing. So, you know....spare us the lecture.

I live in the heart of the Boilermaker belly in West Lafayette. I'm writing this post from my office on campus. I work for and root for Purdue, except when they play Nebraska. You can't turn your back on your life long team. My neighbors are all lifelong Purdue fans. Some work in the athletic dept. My neighbor next door is a current football assistant coach. My grad student is an Iowa fan. He likes to take notice of things as well... I have dealt with the ridicule when Nebraska lost to Daryl Hazell for his only conference win. I sat through the game last year in utter disbelief and endured hazing at the hands of my neighbors and colleagues for 3 quarters. That 4th quarter delivered me from the constant reminders I was going to have to go through for a year. It caused some tension in the neighborhood. But I was on the right side of that one. This time I need it again Coach. Players, we can't be losing to Purdue. For my sake. Please, I beg you. Purdue has gained some confidence. They have attitude and a bit of fire. They have some direction now that they aren't playing QB carousel. They have an explosive WR. But Nebraska has an opportunity here. Winning cures all. Get that monkey off your back boys (for me..... please). Thank you for the forum to vent.

Lots of good stats and video here. SB Nation

I think he drank beer in highschool guise...

it is pretty simple, They know it is a rollout to the left, the line should be working to the left. Conrad was suppose to pickup the man foster passed off and instead decided that he was good and they all did nothing for a play. This is why I have continuously said Conrad is our weakest link. This year and last. He isnt a terrible lineman but he isnt a good center.

In case anyone was wondering why the Republicans brought in a female prosecutor to question Ford, here's Exhibit A, courtesy of Orrin Hatch.

This poor woman is going to be out through the ringer because old white men want to over turn Roe vs Wade.

Not sure you understand the context of my comment.

Pruitt told him that if he was his son, he'd send him to Nebraska

Oh look, more stuff Kavanaugh lied about. NYT reporters:

She did for the first couple until it got to Lindsay Graham, who proceeded to throw an absolute tizzy about how this is the most unfair process he's ever seen in politics and how Democrats held this information until the last moment to sabotage Kavanaugh. He literally threatened GOP senators should they not vote for Kavanaugh. Like I said earlier, he's trying to suck up to the Trump and get re-elected in 2020. He doesn't want to get primaried.

I made this post in August on reasons we might not be good this year... QB: Nebraska is starting a TRUE freshman quarterback for the first time in school history. To add to that nervousness that freshman also didn't play his senior in high school due to a shoulder injury on his throwing arm. Why do I bring that up you ask? Well, the two backups are two walk-ons. Andrew Bunch had a mediocre season at the juco level and Masker is straight outta high school with no D1 offers. It could be tough sledding for this unit that has to travel to the crowds in Ann Arbor, Madison, Columbus, and Iowa City. RB: A lot of hype is surrounding the running backs as the Huskers brought in juco AA Greg Bell and true freshman Maurice Washington is turning heads. Neither of those guys have taken a hand off at the D1 collegiate level yet. Ozigbo is also slated to get some carries and here's a guy who averaged just 3.8 ypc last season and spent more time in the doghouse than out on the football field. Sadly he had the most rushing yards for Nebraska which ranked 22nd in the B10 for an individual player. OL: This unit returns some good interior experience, but also a unit that was dead last in the B10 for rushing yards per game. Was it the lack of playmakers or could these guys not get any push? We are about to find out. There is also no depth at the tackle position so the big men on the outside need to make sure to keep healthy otherwise some guys named Gaylord and Sichterman will have to do. WR: Hard to be negative when you have Stanley Morgan and JD Spielman back from last year. The three backups haven't proven anything and we are hoping that Mike Williams can stretch the defense to open things up underneath. Without Stanley we only return 2 total receiving TD from this unit. TE: "We are going to throw to our tight ends this year" is a trend all Nebraskan's are familiar with. That was slightly true last year, but opposing defenses caught almost half the passes from our quarterback than all our tight ends combined. Now starter Jack Stoll had a staggering 89 yards and 2 TD. The two other tight ends are freshman who haven't seen the field yet. Defense: I had to group all the units into one since they were so bad last year. Gave up 36.4 ppg and ranked last in the B10 in rush defense and total defense. The defense created very few sacks, tackles for loss, or turnovers. The top 3/5 tacklers also graduated. Lets hope that this 3-4 is a lot better than what Diaco had to offer. K/P: We will call it a win if we don't have to use Lightbourn as much in the punt game. The shaky part is starting a true freshman kicker who may need to knock a few down to decide if we win or lose. The failed XP in the spring game was not a good start.

We’ve now entered the Alex Jones, pizza gate, and Hilary dying level conspiracy crap. This is the two twilight zone.

This guy... does not come across as the kind of reasonable, rational person I want to have a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.

Let's not forget to point out the RB totally whiffed too.

Senator Graham not having his best day.

If your looking for useful ideas, here’s another I think could get a lot of use on the board.

That is what I say in bed.

They could accomplish that with any other of the legion of pro-life judges they have on their list. She's being put through the ringer because the President A) wants a get out of jail free card for his misdeeds on the Supreme Court and B) he refuses to back down and reflexively attacks those claiming sexual assault instead.

f#&% grassley

When I first saw this play, I wondered how much Martinez's knee factored into his psyche. He seemed timid on this play, not playing fast, refusing to throw a block. This was only the second play of the game, and the execution lacked confidence. Neither the QB or RB seemed especially willing to attack. There was so much talk about the interception a couple plays later breaking the team's will, but they seemed fragile and hesitant right out of the gate.

Game thread emoji?

naw, at best he is still second to frost.

Kavanaugh lied. AGAIN. Ask yourself honestly about the implications of confirming a man who cannot stop lying under oath about all manner of things, from meaningless to critical. If he lies about the little things, he'll lie about the big ones too. This tells me no one should trust a lick of the way he's portrayed himself throughout this process or the positions he claims to hold. This is a man who would lie about anything to fulfill his personal ambitions of being on the Supreme Court. That's exactly why he doesn't belong there.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fancy-bear-the-russian-election-hackers-have-a-nasty-new-weapon?ref=home https://www.pcmag.com/news/364046/russian-hackers-use-malware-that-can-survive-os-reinstalls https://www.zdnet.com/article/fancy-bear-lojax-campaign-reveals-first-documented-use-of-uefi-rootkit-in-the-wild/ If you don't like that source, check around to tech outlets and computer code/malware sites. Trump just won't talk about this stuff, except to deny it's even going on, let alone apply pressure to Russia. Does he consider Russia an ally? That's the country that vowed to "bury" the U.S. decades ago, and who has worked on doing so militarily, politically, and financially.

JUCO Markquese Bell was offered. Former 4 star Safety who played for Maryland. Kids an immediate impact player.

I just want 4 quarters replicating what we did against Colorado in the 2nd quarter. Just pound the living piss out of the ball and grind out 400+ rushing yards. Not likely, but that would be quite satisfying.

We haven’t been favored against a P5 opponent by that much since Bo was here. That’s how far we’ve fallen.

Don't have to imagine. Remember the Central Park 5?

While we are on the DeGrom stats train.

From FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver: Kavanaugh is a liar. And a bitchy, rude, entitled one, at that.

I just hope the young kids dont pick up any cultural habits from the older guys that spent 3 years with Riley.

All things considered, it's an incredibly weird start for everybody. The crowd going absolutely nuts for the Akron kickoff, then forced to go home with blue balls for an entire week. The second quarter of the Colorado game......every freaking thing we wanted to see from Nebraska football, served up by Scott Frost himself! Then the foot coming off the gas. Then our starting quarterback getting hurt. Then remembering his back up leaving in a snit a week before the season started.Then the first loss of the Scott Frost era, a game most of us had pencilled as a win. Then Troy. We'd been telling ourselves Nebraska should beat teams like Troy, even with our back up quarterback. We'd seen enough good things in the Colorado game to think they'd be replicated. Even cautious fans had pencilled this W in, too. After Michigan it felt like nothing had changed. Nothing. Nobody saw that coming. It wasn't supposed to feel this way. But with expectations in utter chaos, I will continue to watch every game and predict both excitement and surprises ahead. It could be fun. Or it could be the Xanax talking. We'll see.

Not sure why you need this deep of a defense for something you didn't do...

The amount of victim shaming going on by elected representatives is deplorable. All of these guys deserve to lose their jobs, and then they can either evolve, or burn in hell.

The coaches just need to keep recruiting QB's every year and it will work itself out over the next few seasons. The only reason we would need a JUCO or a grad transfer is if there is a mass exodus including the starter and you need to rebuild depth. A minimum of 1 every year shouldn't be too tall of a task

Sounds to me like he’s putting in time watching the Michigan film. Gotta appreciate the work ethic.

We have little cohort of Nebraska fan profs here on campus. Bout half a dozen

zoogs isn't a mod and hasn't been on the board since April, bro

I don't even have words for this. We had 6 guys to block three and 1 M player bailed out and the other 2 got to the QB. Conrad and Foster should be benched for this play alone.

Yeah, but that feature is only available to users with the internet.

Yep, that's the one I was talking about. Three things: a) People have said the goal is to get the RB in a one on one in open space. Well....that's basically what we had and it still didn't work. b) There is a chance that if he keeps running and doesn't try to cut back inside, he at least gets back to the LOS. c) If Martinez would have simply made contact with the LB instead of turning away, he would have easily blocked him from making a play on the RB. The RB would have then had a running start to try to get past the safety. Frost has said you need to be tough to plat QB for him. That wouldn't have even been much of a hit and it would have made a big difference in the play. These are all little things that can be coached. In this game, unfortunately, we had things like this happen on almost every play.

Nothing special about that run against a lot of 3rd stringers. I do love the effort from Woodyard blocking at the end of the run.

Purdue - they are talented