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  1. Wowza......... Also, I really cannot stand this 'joking' about staying in office longer than the constitution allows! He keeps throwing it out there because he is really going to try it! Thats what he does, messages something over and over until his base thinks it is normal or right then he really uses it to try and pull some slick s#!t. Dangerous time we live in...
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  2. The middle ground you’re projecting is awfully narrow.
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  3. Our performance and our max capabilities have also fallen. Expectations should be based on an actual metric other than, "We should be awesome because we're Nebraska and that's awesome".
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  4. Cool story on Fred Vanvleet. He went undrafted after tearing it up at Wichita State. He had his whole family over for a watch party to see who would draft him on draft night in 2016. After he didn't get drafted he went on the mic and said something like it wouldn't be right if he did get drafted cause he always has a chip on his shoulder. And that his story or career in basketball won't end here and he decided to bet on himself. On his website, it says he chose to go undrafted but I believe teams just didn't want to draft him. Later, he was picked up by the Raptors on a two-way contract and tore it up in the Summer League. Flash forward to this season and he was a consistent #2 pg off the bench for Toronto, who was arguably the deepest team in the League. He also was in the running for 6th man of the year award. During the playoffs, he struggled in the first rounds against Orlando and Philadephia. After three horrible performances against the Bucks in games 1, 2, and 3 his son was born. Once his son was born it breathed new life into Fred, he almost became unplayable but his coaches and teammates believed in him and he believed in himself. He then hit 7 threes in a crucial game 5 to help secure a victory against the Bucks and went on to average superb numbers after that. Without him, the Raptors would not be NBA champs because of his crucial shots and great defense on Steph Curry, which helped them win it all. Edit: Here is the article that talks about it. However, it was written before the Finals were over but still gives you some nice insight on him. https://www.businessinsider.com/fred-vanvleet-on-fire-playoffs-son-born-2019-6
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  5. Key word is supposed to. We are all intrigued how that will work with Jim "ball control" Harbaugh chewing on his play sheet trying not to step in.
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  6. Didn't know a good place to post this, so instead of creating a new thread I stuck it at the end of the VNL thread. The team selected for the Pan Am Cup (of which there are two former Nebraska players K Rolfzen and Wong-Orantes) has made it through pool play undefeated at 4-0 and jumps past the quater-finals to the semi-final round due to being the top team in the pool. In the four matches, they've lost one set (24-26) to Puerto Rico. https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2019/July/10/US-Women-Defeat-Puerto-Rico-Advance-to-Pan-Am-Semis The team consists of a mixture of names from the VNL 25 player roster that didn't make the final round team (Lowe, Kingdon-Rishel), players that were part of the 30 invited for the VNL tryouts but didn't make the cut (Rolfzen, Wong-Orantes), and then some big names from the next tier (Plummer from Stanford, Jones-Perry from BYU, Hannah Tapp from Minnesota). Some of the vets took a pass like Carli Lloyd and Kim Hill. Not quite the USA's 2nd best team, but a solid assemble of talent. The semis are on the 13th and the medal round is the next day. BTW both Rolfzen and Wong-Orantes are major contributors in the matches thus far. Some thoughts on the VNL final round. Robinson has apparently supplanted Larson on the outside. However, Bartsch-Hackley did not look that impressive in the semis and finals. Poulter and Dixon gave the US a spark in the semis against China (props to Kiraly for having the confidence to put in Poulter, a rookie, at that moment), and Larson and Dixon literally changed the momentum and won the match when they came in the third set down 0-2. And congrats to the opposites as Drews was the final round MVP and of course Thompson went off in the first match against Brazil with 30 kills on 51 attempts. Next is the Olympic qualifier in early August which is on home turf in Louisiana. It wouldn't surprise me to see two Nebraska gals, Larson and Robinson, starting on the outside with Bartsch-Hackley coming off the bench. Dixon was clutch in the middle when it counted so she may get more time. Ogbogu is a definite starter at middle, and Washington had a good final round, so maybe Dixon's role will be similar to what happened in the VNL semis and final matches. Come off the bench and provide a spark. The opposites are set with the dynamic play of Drews and Thompson. Kiraly appears to be sold on Poulter along side the other 6'2" setter Carlini with Lloyd out of the picture for now. And then you have the libero position........Kiraly seems set on Megan Courtney. Lake didn't sniff the court in the four final round matches. And for Nebraska fan, of the 8 outside positions slotted for the VNL finals team and the Pan Am team, FOUR (4) are occupied by former Huskers. Not that Coach Cook needs another recruiting pitch to aspiring young girls, but that fact should carry some weight in itself.
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  7. Well that's just not at all true, but I realize at times progressives cannot resist hyperbole and cutting down anyone who doesn't march in lockstep with them.
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  8. I really hope you hang around the board so we can chat early December
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  9. Thats not Phil Steeles win projections, he is just tweeting the betting lines Caesars Palace has put out for teams he likes this year. He predicted us at 10 regular season wins.
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  10. I'm sorry but I don't fear Minnesota whatsoever. It's like the same thing as our team except yall have worse talent. What did you guys do last year? Won some games down the stretch, just like we did. We have better talent, a better QB and better coaching. Yes yall got better after we played you last year, but we ran your Gophers out of our stadium and honestly I don't expect it to be much different this season.
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  11. All you have to do is look at the tie-knots to know Scott Frost runs a tighter ship than Riley.
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  12. Can anyone possibly read this and think this man is ok?
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  13. I think it is called "Rileyed"
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  14. You're saying that after back-to-back 4-8 seasons, you'd be upset with Nebraska playing in a bowl game and possibly winning eight games?
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  15. I do agree with this and if this is what TG is getting at then I'm 100% on board. I think people taking the teachings of Jesus and turning it into yet another tribe that you're either in or out of is COMPLETELY the opposite of the thing Jesus was trying to get at. Christianity should not be a team. I think a key tenant of Christ ethos is that there are no teams and that God is not keeping score. https://www.britannica.com/topic/biblical-literature/New-Testament-literature#ref598075 https://glenandpaula.com/wordpress/archives/2010/02/25/pre-christian-uses-of-gospel https://theologycurator.com/roman-empire-during-time-jesus/ https://www.nae.net/theology-behind-euangelion/ The bit about the pamphlets might be a bit of imaginative embellishing on my part or on the part of people who's work I follow, but the nature of the New Testament "gospel" accounts being highly politically subversive to Rome would have been very apparent to people within the culture of that empire.
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  16. I think the best thing about these types of poll releases. Even if they are worthless. Think of how many Iowa fans get triggered over it.
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  17. It's not hard to understand when something is meant to be taken generally and not literally. But the eye roll function is gone so fear not!
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  19. It was all collectively bargained. That alone makes all arguments (and the lawsuit) laughably irrelevant for the time being.
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  20. I know it doesn’t but people seem to love Frost. I would guess a lot of it depends on when the 9th win was. E.g. with Riley we sucked at the end of the season. But if the 9th win is your bowl game the chances if ending rated are higher. I think we’ll win more than 9 anyway though.
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  22. The tears of Colorado players and fans will be delicious. Anyone else think CU is going to implode this year starting with the Huskers crushing them?
    1 point
  23. Yes, meaningless. Nebraska is rapidly improving, but it would be remarkable if they finished this season as a top 25 team. Reality check: your Huskers won four games last year. And yeah, they improved at the end of the season, but so do most well-coached teams. So did my Gophers. The Huskers and Gophers are going to be neck and neck this year, and neither team is going to finish in the top 10.
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  24. Ummm... this means a Democratic president can use executive orders to overturn Citizens United, end gerrymandering and add a public option to the ACA, right?
    1 point
  25. Phil Steele has us at 8.5 wins on the season. That seems reasonable.
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  26. I think more people would be vocal against it, but that doesn’t change my opinion that people’s reactions haven’t changed when it comes to adults having sex with anyone under 18. And that’s what Acosta is talking about. He’s not talking about someone joking about wanting to bang teenagers as soon as they’re legal. Never in my lifetime do I recall a time when people weren’t outraged when that happened. It always ends up in the news and the adult is shamed. E.g. there have always been stories of teachers having inappropriate relationships with their teenaged students and I don’t recall ever thinking people weren’t making a big deal out of it. There are always going to be a minority of people who think it’s not a big deal but that’s still the case now. People do react differently now (which is for the good) when the victims are adult, and for lesser misdeeds like sexual harrassment. No one is arguing that that’s not the case, though.
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  27. Yori used players in custody case and them lie. Not the same.
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  28. In the realm of "Oh... yeah. This is also a thing..." the US Men's team has also made the VNL Finals. They kicked some fromage-eating butts today.
    1 point
  29. I'd complain about it but that would make some people complain
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  30. I think it might be Dedrick Mills. Similar hair and hairline and a tattoo on the right arm, also a necklace and an earring. (I'm sure lots of the guys have a tattoo on their arms but it looks like it could be his).
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  31. The account's less than a week old and has 5 total tweets...heavy emphasis on the meaningless
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  32. The Party who rails against Sharia Law has no problem inflicting their similarly dated patriarchal belief system on America.
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  35. I don't think dysfunction is the right word. I think there's no way in hell Kushner isn't getting $ from agreeing to do things for leaders of these countries. He left Tillerson out because Tillerson wouldn't have been okay with it.
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  36. We just need to win it on the field. That will take care of the haters.
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  37. Fair points, but the biggest problem with this post is F#%K TEXAS
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  38. This kid has made some pretty fascinating progress with his body in a short time frame. The Nelson from state championship game to even spring game had made some pretty remarkable muscle gains. Dude looks like he'll have the B1G body he needs in short order. It's also time for me to submit my first real critique of this coaching staff, and it's really bugging me. Specifically, to Duval... Bro, we need at least 15-20 videos like this PER DAY. Don't let us down.
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