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What a load of BS. He wasn't just hired because of his name.

Cotton, cav and Austin were all proven and for the better part of a decade I feel the oline has under performed. I am excited about the fire he will bring. Hoping that’s enough. Who knows. Fingers crossed

This is where it gets stupid and this is where the crazies come out and say "SEE I TOLD YOU!" What is next, ID to go form state to state? Get vaxxed, where a mask for now and stop with the cards and ID's to get some f#&%ing onion rings.

Yes, this is from six years (and three months) ago (not seven). And yes, the decision was overturned by the Alabama governor after a public uproar. But it's not an accident this attempt was made less than two years after the Supremes gutted the Voting Rights Act curtailing such moves in discriminatory states. Less than two years! And less than seven years ago! Let's just stop pretending racism is dead in America. It's thriving, and getting stronger. And the racists are working every day to expand their power. They're not going to stop trying stuff like this. Let's not pretend they're done because this didn't happen in 2022.

I think that article would have made a lot more sense a year or two ago. Surprised to see that it was released today. I live in the bluest of blue counties, had two kids in school and was surrounded by other parents. I don't remember a lot of living in fear. What I remember most about the first weeks of lockdown was how the sidewalks, parks and hiking trails filled up with entire families walking their dogs. People you don't normally see, out in the community, because everyone was home and there was nothing to do. The dogs were thrilled. Traffic was light and given the lenient definition of "essential business" a surprising number of stores were open. We started patronizing our favorite restaurants more than ever as they shifted to take out. There was a run on jigsaw puzzles for god's sake. Air quality visibly improved. There was an oddly wholesome family values thing going on at the beginning. Restrictions on kids were up to the parents. Kids still played in the park and rode their bikes on the street. The local teenagers completely ignored every rule. A majority of parents wanted their kids back in school. We paid attention to the science and the science looked promising for school age kids. And they started accommodating the elementary school students within a few months. It wasn't parents making the call about the high schools --- it was the teachers. And even they were split 50/50 initially about returning to live classes according to our principal. Of course teachers don't have the natural immunity kids do, and typically catch everything kids bring to school in the best of times. I totally forgot that our favorite teacher has a bundle of compromising conditions. But the teachers came back and they've had school and full athletics for a year now. My son had a pretty s#!tty senior year, but they had Senior Skip Day at the beach, resumed the live graduation, and everyone went to the go-cart track and arcade for a post-graduation party. I walk the dog every day and never stopped seeing kids out playing and neighbors chatting. Every business has long been reopened. Even live music has returned. Most of us are totally vaccinated. We're irritated by the omicron surge, but not fearful. We're buying the science that it's far less fatal and burning out quickly. I know people who are a lot more paranoid than I am, but they're like that regardless of pandemics. It's been worse for a lot of parents and their kids, but at the same time I feel that the "living in fear" angle gets a little overheated, as if the fearful are speaking with one voice and a lot of misinformation. They're not. At this point everything is anecdotal.

https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/621353/ Good article (IMO) concerning the affect of the pandemic on kids. Something we were discussing a few days ago.

^ that headline should make every American angry. Something totally within our control and too many were too stupid and too selfish to do their part. We as a country are in trouble.

When I start thinking about the season next year I have to do breathing exercises to ensure I don't hyperventilate and pass out. When my wife and I make love I recite next years schedule and she responds with WIN after each game.

I hear you. My take away wasn’t necessarily the ‘living in fear’ angle. I think the point is to ask ourselves at each stage why we’re doing what we’re doing, and saying ‘well, kids aren’t complaining’ is a cop out. We’ve established that the risk to kids is minimal, and yet we feel justified to take measures to reduce this risk from some small value to some slightly smaller value. However, when the potential fallout to these same kids might be more than zero, we seem to dismiss it out of hand. So on one hand our kids should be uber protected, but on the other hand…’eh, they’re probably fine’. If the answer is that kids need to be masked or school remotely to protect adults at all costs, then it’s kinda proving the point that The NY Times article (linked in the article I posted) was making.

Moos's approach was to hire the coaches, and then let them do their jobs. Most coaches would like that from an AD. Unfortunately, based on rumors on the football staff front, it sounds like some of the football coaches took advantage of that freedom, and weren't as professional as they probably should have been. Regarding the administration of the Athletic Department, again he let his Assistant AD's handle the bulk of the work without micro-management. That can work a lot of the times, but during COVID, with the uncertainty going around the University and Athletic Department, Moos probably needed to be more hands-on. He took the opposite approach, which led to his "early retirement".

I have. And others like it. They’re out there on Twitter I’m sure.

Already calling your shot, huh? Whatever future evidence is presented will be dismissed out of hand. Thanks for saving us the trouble.

She did link an article about self harm being up 99% during the pandemic, just as an example that you’re incorrect about there being no evidence. Maybe the evidence doesn’t compel you, which is fine. There are different approaches to risk, and I think (hopefully) we’re seeing evidence of yours with your response. You seem to be extremely risk adverse with children and covid. I can’t argue with that, even though statistically you would be protecting them more by preventing them from being driven to/from school. If your response is not a reflection of your risk tolerance, then I’m not sure why you wouldn’t consider this worthy of discussion and dismiss it as rhetoric. The author is not lying and not misinforming. If you want irrefutable proof that the pandemic measures have damaged kids, then you’ll conveniently find that there is none at this point. Similarly you will find out that our economy did just fine despite everything we went through during the pandemic. However, i do not hear that from my hospitality industry friends. And I certainly don’t remember things going well during my sons freshmen year of high school that he spent nearly 100% remote. You’ll likely get evidence over the next 5-10 years about just how well the kids did during all of this. Maybe you’ll be proven right, that it was all a bunch of stirred up drama. But I doubt it.

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Perhaps he's a good coach? Someone who showed good things in his interview? Frost needs to win now, not hope for an in on a 2024 recruit that could start four years from now.

I agree completely. You also can’t go off just my point of view as a citizen of Omaha. I can tell you for a fact what Omaha doesn’t think they are better than anyone else in the state… they just have their own crap to worry about.

He’s the biggest question mark of all the changes. He was hired because of his name with limited experience and no proof of having done anything special besides being named Raiola. He has the most to prove and no local sports propaganda will change that.

I know there's political propaganda in other countries. But, Americans have been fed so much BS about the vaccination and they are so conditioned to listen to their media that says what they want to hear that it's becoming almost impossible to actually educate the public with facts. The experts can come out with facts and immediately, it's spun politically and get everyone all worked up about it.

I agree that it should be easy to vote. I also think there should be systems in place to assure one person, one vote. It would seem that requiring ID should be an acceptable thing. We (people) have to prove we are who we are for numerous things, many of them much less important things than voting. IMO, the real problem isn’t requiring ID for in person voting but rather the closing of DMVs and other voter suppression tactics.

As in the Alabama case, as soon as IDs are required, they start closing DMVs in areas where their political opponents live. It doesn't create an insurmountable barrier, but it makes it more difficult, which is the point. And voting should be very, very easy since it's the cornerstone of our country. People who shouldn't be voting don't vote. We have a rigorous system in place to verify that the person who is supposed to be voting is voting. Voter fraud is vanishingly rare - and oddly only seems to be a problem from Republicans who scream about voter fraud all the time.

It was literally impossible for it to happen in the last two years.

I can quantify it...it is hurting them a s#!t ton. Especially in the super crazy places that are refusing to go back to the building. The latent function of school is so important, most of us losers don't believe that anymore because we are old and have our memories and had our time. When you are 15, for most kids, HS is the biggest deal in the world. Kids need to be in the building, they need everything that goes along with being in school around friends and making memories. Most juniors in HS have NEVER had a normal school year.

Yes. The school graded morning semester yesterday after tomorrow.

This oofis.

Yep. I will say, I get the feeling the department is in better hands with Trev Alberts. To help them however he can, but also put down some winning expectations. I do think Frost has another chance to finally turn this around and get it into a winning program again. Not so sure it would have happened under Moos if he was still here. And, I really really did not like hearing about the quiet contract extension Hoiberg received. It literally has messed things up severely, because Trev's hands are tied because of it (assuming things don't get better next season).

He does deserve credit, especially considering the coaches he hired. While Frost and Hoiberg haven't worked out as everyone has hoped, they each had near unanimous approval from the fans. Now, some will say "well, it wasn't hard to get everyone's top choice". That may be true to an extent, but he still had to convince Frost, Hoiberg, and Bolt to come to NU. Nebraska fans would have revolted in 2017/18 if Frost had gone to another school or stayed at UCF. That's the pressure which was on Moos at the time.

Holy crap!!!! Bumping this thread about gave me a heart attack. Geeesh

I find it hard to believe that someone is willing to donate or accept a donation but is unwilling to get a COVID vaccine, but here we are. I have gone through the donor process and have been poked and prodded many times over. I can't imagine someone getting a kidney or heart and not getting the vaccine since their immune system is going to take a huge hit from the rejection drugs. Trust me, it is hard to give a organ and not care about the outcome of the recipient. And you are right, the top donor centers in the country care about the outcomes and the surgeons are pissed (might not be a strong enough word) when the recipients aren't careful, protect themselves as much as possible, and take care of themselves.

Time to after 3 more weeks of the Big O. Here is how the estimated % ever infected moved in the last 22 days. California 66% -> 79% Texas 68% - > 76% Florida 80% -> 85% New York 77% -> 80% Pennsylvania 65% -> 73% Illinois 65% -> 74% Ohio 65% -> 78% Georgia 84% -> 82% (must have been some data issues here) North Carolina 63% -> 75% Michgan at 73% - > 78% That gets me to 140M infected in those 10 states which is 78% of their population. Apply that 78% to the entire 330M in the US and you get about 258M infected.

Reservations can be understood. He certainly isn't deserving of criticism though.

Maybe we're getting closer to why he was hired.

Short answer…yes, this is an editorial. She does provide references as background, but the conclusion is the authors. It seems grounded in reality. This statement is at the crux of it, and I find it fairly indisputable: ”Most children are neither in grave danger nor do they pose a grave danger to others—especially now that vaccines are widely, freely available—but we routinely treat them as if they were.’

He played at Wisconsin and Barry Alvarez was the AD during that time so anyone who was at Wisconsin during the time of Alvarez is basically our distant cousin, thus one of ours.

Why would you say that? To me it just looks like the law isn’t being followed

But you are going off of your nephew's point of view. This is an endless debate, but it's unfair to say that "Omaha kids don't have a state pride" like it's a negative thing.

If by 'nearly half' you mean 'nearly 13%' then you're correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha–Council_Bluffs_metropolitan_area#Counties

The media has made a huge impact on how kids view things. In this day and age, every college sports team is on TV and that alone can cause issues like we have in Nebraska.

Good points on school size. My son goes to a metro-Denver area high school with 2,000 students. I showed him around UNL this past fall when we went to a Husker game. To be honest, it was weird how UNL felt small to me. I know UNL has over 20,000 students, but UNL's city campus is in a tight, geographic area. Then when we were at my in-laws in Hastings over Christmas, we drove by Hastings College, and my son commented "That's the entire college?". My thoughts include school size and city size, and thoughts about expanding your geographical thoughts when thinking about a college.

It is sort of true. Americans love to b!^@h about America. We also love to look at other countries and pretend like they are super amazing. We do this with the sports teams we all love. We b!^@h about our team/players no matter how good they are and compare them to some crap team (like Iowa)

Also, I think there is a difference when Omaha kids think about their next step in life after graduating high school. When kids graduate high school, a lot of kids are looking "for something bigger" regardless of where you grow up. For Omaha kids, that "something bigger" is a school in a state super far away from Omaha. For Omaha kids, going to UNL is a "lateral move", and going to a small school like UNK, Hastings College, Doane, etc. would be a "step down". For kids outside of Omaha or Lincoln, going to UNL is the "something bigger", and going to a smaller state school would be the "lateral move". Also, just because Omahans may have stereotypes of people who live outside Omaha and smaller Nebraska cities/towns, doesn't mean that non-Omahans don't have negative stereotypes to Omahans and the city of Omaha.

I mean I live in Omaha and there is plenty of husker love here. Creighton takes some of the basketball love but there is still plenty. difference is York, GI, NP, Kearney, and Norfolk aren’t recruited hard by other programs… Omaha is. I would say that the Omaha and lack of state pride narrative is false. They just seem to have more opportunities from other schools in comparison to other cities in the state. (Lincoln excluded)

Nearly half of the official Omaha Metropolitan Area is in Iowa. As with most things in life, I think we should draw the line at Council Bluffs.

Because of bizarro American exceptionalism. We suck because we’re us.

I have learned a lot about chins each year he has been here and continued to improve with an offense and special teams that hung him and the defense out to dry all the time.

Article is behind a paywall, so I was unable to read it. But according to the NYT we would be middle of the pack for vaccination rate in Europe, so how exactly are they better off than us?

Racism - It is what it is. wow.

The Wisconsin GOP has just banned teaching about the Green Bay Packers loss in schools.