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  1. Year four, there were no blowouts. I get it they were still losses and very frustrating, but the fact is they were close in every loss was different than the previous three seasons.
    4 points
  2. Psychological. I think we've had talent for several seasons, and every phase has had its moments, but collectively they've forgotten how to win. There have been enough changes to give me hope. Oh yeah. And special teams. It's almost impossible for that to get worse. The continuous lack of attention to special teams has been a bad look for Frost and bleeds into the rest of the team.
    4 points
  3. 3 points
  4. Pretty much a chickens#!t and self serving way of partially accomplishing something the hard way. Let me get this straight- we know assault weapons in our communities are a problem so, instead of implementing sensible laws, we’ll tax the s#!t out of them. Our government is such a f#&%ing treat.
    3 points
  5. https://bigten.org/news/2022/6/16/general-2022-23-big-ten-conference-mens-basketball-opponents-announced.aspx
    2 points
  6. I’m most concerned that we will ultimately see more of the same of the past 4 years. I think Whipple may be the best hire, even though Mickey has the pub. Will Whip get to change things or not? No slight to MJ but my focus is on how the overall team is led by SF and the game plans and schemes are still his responsibility. He can replace the staff but if he’s in charge and pays attention to practices and meetings. Whipple will do as directed, as will the other coaches and staff, as did those who came before. So, my concern is whether Frost will finally prove he’s up to the task of HC at DONU. He’s said and done some good things and done nothing to embarrass NU, except put poor product on the field, consistently. There is very little differences between the first four teams imo. Staff changes and player replacements won’t mean much if the HC is not willing to try a new approach.
    2 points
  7. Chop that s#!t off and get a robo thumb! We need to win dammit.
    2 points
  8. Riola had better be the second coming and shock the world, because outside of his hire we did next to nothing to address an immediate and glaring need. Putting the disaster that was special teams on the back burner, Oline was our biggest liability.
    2 points
  9. I know Casey by all accounts has been right on track as far as healing from his thumb injury but I’m just hoping it doesn’t become one of those nagging injuries for him and for Nebraska.
    2 points
  10. I don't really have a problem with him doing this. Sensible laws are being blocked and have no chance of passing. The problem is the people blocking those laws, not the guy attempting to do something that has a chance of passing. But it's a different discussion if you just think the higher tax is a bad idea in and of itself.
    2 points
  11. We missed 90-85 Jerry List, 85, carrying the BobFather off the field after beating Bama and securing the National Championship.
    2 points
  12. I think the defense is going to be better than people are saying. Presumably the kicking game has been resolved, but perhaps we shouldn't presume that. I feel good about the QB situation. My biggest concern is the offensive line. I still have questions there.
    1 point
  13. The new approach was hiring some of the better recruiters out there. I just saved you about 8 paragraphs with that nugget.
    1 point
  14. I was just reading a review on Ambulance. Should be a fun watch.
    1 point
  15. Tampa Bay: Has a goalie or nah???
    1 point
  16. The Bob Saget special on Netflix is pretty hilarious and heartwarming
    1 point
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  18. I did that once when I drifted to the side of a very wide track and almost hit an old stump. I braked in time to avoid the stump but sent myself over the handle bars and down a hill full and stumps and downed trees. I managed to jump over and dodge them and came to stop with my hands on a tree. Two dudes in Iron Maiden shirts were on the path at the time and commented on how awesome it was to see me jumping tress and dodging stumps like superman. I think the fact they were stoned made it seem all the better. I came out unscathed but the bike ended up with a bent rim and I had to carry it back to the car.
    1 point
  19. Ya I agree with that. I see it more as I don't really blame the guy for having to go to these lengths. I blame the unreasonable people who care more about staying in power than about doing the right thing.
    1 point
  20. LOTS of people drive suvs or trucks worth $70k lol
    1 point
  21. Offensive line without question. Next up special teams. Also Mark Whipple has a great resume and experience but it will be interesting to see how his new offense for Nebraska is implemented especially given the o line concerns and not the longest time frame.
    1 point
  22. To keep this on topic....The Republican Utopia seeks to diminish the Warriors due to Steve Kerr's outspoken political views, but the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown precisely how the Warriors would have taken notorious white supremacist Jerry Krause's Chicago Bulls down in 7 games. It would have been a close series, so there's nothing for Michael Jordan to feel bad about. The fact that Dennis Rodman and Donald Trump share a similar relationship with Kim Jung Un really adds nothing to the conversation, so let's drop it.
    1 point
  23. Are you really trying to compare this Celtics team to the Bulls Dynasty? The bulls teams literally have three of the best defensive players of all time in Pippen Jordan and Rodman. Then they have the best offensive player of all time in Jordan. And with no inside presence to speak of for the Warriors there’s no reason to double on anything.… Into your other point in the 90s I was boming20-year-olds and that’s what I still bone today But to keep this on topic… Steve Kerr very outspoken about political issues.
    1 point
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  25. Oh for sure, but we are talking about Pip, 6'8 and MJ 6'6...both those guys are all and long and amazing defenders. Also...to keep it on topic, it is amazing that both these teams come from super heavy D cities. .
    1 point
  26. I am more anti-gun than anyone on this site...but is this per capita? That is not a good way to do it...7 people live in wyoming...if one gets killed that is a big deal, per capita. Do you have a list of just the amount of deaths? I know we have one or two posters that think 1 death out of 7 people is a bigger deal than 1000 deaths out of 2 million people...but more deaths is the issue. I did not look anything up but my guess is that cities like Chicago, LA and NY, have the most people killed by guns.
    1 point
  27. Hahaha! I know I know...there is no chance that Scottie Pip, one of the best defenders ever and 5 inches taller than Steph...could ever guard him. I still can't imagine the insane matchup advantages the Bulls would have, just length alone.
    1 point
  28. Even at NU there have been some really good freshman seasons Ahman Green, DeAngelo Evans, Calvin Jones, David Horne, Lawrence Phillips
    1 point
  29. Found this on another forum I frequent, I laughed audibly a few times reading this. Really, really funny! DF's "Unofficial Rules of Wrestling" 1.You only get one pass at celebrating a victory in an overly emotional way, usually when you win a big tournament (like state) for the first time. After that you have to act like you've been there/done that before. Don't be the Roger Federer of wrestling. For those of you who don't know who Roger Federer is, he's arguably the greatest tennis player in history who's won every major tournament a bunch of times. But every time he wins the same tournament again, he flops down on the court, cries, or gets hysterical in some other way like he's a rookie winning the tournament for the first time. 2. You should, as a matter of respect, shake your opponent's coach's hand after the match. The only time you don't have to do this is if your opponent's coach makes a negative remark about you during the match ("He's tired!", "He's doing nothing, ref!" "He's just resting on bottom!", etc). He disrespected you, so there's no need to show him respect by shaking his hand. 3. If you're a nobody (unranked) wrestler who makes it to the state finals against a superior wrestler, don't get overly emotional if you lose. You haven't achieved squat during your wrestling career (which is why you're unranked) and only got to the finals through some fluke. So don't act all angry/devastated when you lose as if you were expected to win. 4. If you're a nobody wrestler, chances are you're going to be spending a lot of time in the consolation bracket. If the #1 or even #2 ranked wrestler gets beat at some point in the tournament and chooses the indignity of joining you and the rest of the yabos in the consolation bracket, don't act all high and mighty and wrestle to defeat him. He's already lowered himself to try to get a meaningless 3rd place. He doesn't need the additional insult of some scrub wrestling hard to defeat him. The rule is you wrestle a solid match but the #1/#2 ranked wrestler gets to win. 5. When a weight class gets called at a tournament and all the wrestlers come down from the bleachers to get their bout sheets, it's the lower ranked wrestler who takes the bout sheet and brings it to the assigned mat for the match. 6. Rules for wrestling against the #1 ranked wrestler/returning champion: *Don't step on to the mat for the match before he does. *You wait until he offers his hand for the handshake before the match starts, never disrespect his higher position by offering your hand first. *You never take the first shot of the match against the #1 guy/returning champion. 7. Your headgear should be relatively clean and presentable. Don't tape it all up, put stickers on it, have it all torn up. It's pretentious and screams that you're trying way too hard to look tough/cool. 8. Tape up visible tattoos. This used to be the sport of kings. Don't denigrate that ideal by your trashy tats. Nobody cares how "meaningful" they are to you or how they make you "unique" (unique like every other jackwagon with tats). 9. Win or lose, go to center mat and get your hand raised or stay there while your opponent gets his hand raised. You don't look extra cool/defiant by running off the mat before your opponent gets his hand raised. 10. If you get screwed over in the finals there are several ways of handling the screw job. The ultimate option is to not show up to the awards ceremony so the 2nd place podium is awkwardly empty, which lets everybody know a screw job took place. The other more discrete option is to show up to the awards ceremony and stand on the 2nd place platform. But when the guy comes around to drape the silver medal around your neck, don't bow down and let him do so. Instead reach out and take the medal from his hand and hold it to the side during the ceremony. This is a subtle way of letting everyone know that you'll take the medal but you don't really accept it. If you want to really go all out, you can stand on the 2nd place platform but refuse to take the medal as he presents it to you. 11. If you win a tournament, don't "invite" the 2nd and 3rd place finishers up to join you on the 1st place podium. It's beyond condescending. You're basically saying to them "You weren't good enough to be up here on your own, but I'll give you permission to join me up here even though you don't really belong here." 12. Keep your headgear on after the match until you're off the mat. Have you noticed that the guy who wins is usually the one who pops his headgear strap off immediately after the final whistle or completely takes off his headgear while the guy who lost usually keeps his on? It's like some act of additional bravado after having won. Oh you say it's "uncomfortable" to keep wearing it? You were just wearing it for the entire match you hypocrite. You can keep it on for a few more seconds until you're off the mat. 13. Don't wear t-shirts advertising what "tough" camp you went to over the summer. Nobody cares or is intimidated that you made it through some "intense" camp. Besides it makes you look foolish if you end up losing to a guy who spent his summer sleeping in until noon and playing video games until dawn. 14. If a guy is wearing those old school tights (leggings) under his singlet then he's either the best wrestler at the tournament or the worst wrestler ever. There's no middle ground when it comes to guys wearing tights under their singlets. 15. If you get bounced early from a tournament it's perfectly ok to get the customary serving of extra large nachos with all the fixings and sit up in the bleachers and enjoy it with a huge satisfying grin as you watch everybody else still wrestling and struggling to make weight for the second day. It's one of the greatest joys of losing. 16. If the ref who's gonna be reffing your match is big fat guy then it's almost a given he's going to act like power hungry prick. If he's sporting the classic fat guy goatee (because fat guys think a goatee makes their double/triple chins less noticeable) then it's assured he's gonna be mega prick. The reason these fatties are colossal pricks is because (1) they're fat and (2) they achieved very little during their wrestling careers and now get a kick out of passive-aggressively projecting their fat frustrations on other wrestlers. The only good thing about having a fat ref is that if you put your opponent on his back these fatties will call a pin faster than they can wolf down an entire pie since it's super uncomfortable for them to be down on the mat on their huge gut for too long. 17. If you opponent is going through an "intimidating" pre-match warm-up (slapping himself all over, blaring angry music from his oversized headphones, doing air sprawls, etc) then you're probably going to beat him fairly easily. The guy's scared and he's trying to hide it by going through this elaborate routine to try to "psyche" you out. The guy you have to worry about is the quiet one who's just standing off to the side of the mat, calmly watching the match going on before you two are up, maybe just nonchalantly bouncing up and down a few times being his entire warm up. 18. Awesome singlet + Brand new state-of-the-art wrestling shoes = mediocre wrestler 19. Your opponent is unusually undersized for your weight class but is highly ranked even though he comes from a no-name school with a non-existent wrestling history? Prepare to be destroyed. 20. You're not listening to a damn word your coach is telling you right before your match if there's a hot stats girl or female trainer nearby. 21. The token chick wrestler on the all-male wrestling team has major issues that you cannot even begin to comprehend. Just let her be. After a few months of trying to prove "she's just as good as any guy", possibly a year if she's really hardcore, she'll get bored and quit. 22. If a wrestler has an injured leg and you see his opponent intentionally avoid shooting in on that leg, don't mistake that for sportsmanship. He's actually hurting the injured leg more by shooting in on the good leg. Why? Because when he gets a single and gets the good leg up in the air he's making the guy balance himself by putting all his weight on the bad leg. Oldest trick in the book to make yourself look like a good sport to the uninformed fans. 23. There are few things more annoying than a loud shrieking middle aged woman cheering during a wrestling match when the rest of the crowd is relatively quiet. "WHOOOOOO!" Alright JOHNNY! WHOOOOO!" 24. It's always disappointing to win a tournament and the medal you get is the exact same design as the medal you got at another tournament a few weeks ago. 25. You made a huge mistake by not taking advantage of the information the announcer said about you to the crowd during your finals appearance at that tournament. While everybody announced that they had a 4.0 GPA, or had signed to wrestle at this or that college, or dedicated this match to their parents, etc...you could have "Been recently nominated for the Nobel Prize and dedicates this match to himself because without him this match wouldn't be taking place right now." 26. How sharp and GQ a coach dresses up to coach his wrestler in the state finals is inversely proportional to how many times he's coached a wrestler in the state finals before. 27. Wrestlers who dye their hair for the state tournament are the watered-down version of tattoo guy. Just like guys with tats, nobody who dyes their hair thinks of it as an original idea on their own. They saw some other shmucks do it and so they decided to copy said shmucks but think they're being original and unique by doing so, much like every guy who gets a tat thinks they're being original and unique. 28. Matside dads are the worse. It's all but guaranteed they've pushed their son to become a wrestler and are living vicariously through him, like most sport's dads do. It's also guaranteed the son hates wrestling even if he's really good at it. Watch any wrestler who has a matside dad and you'll notice he's miserable out there on the mat, even if he's in the process of techpinning his opponent in the state finals. 29. Parents who wear t-shirts and sweaters with encouraging slogans about their son wrestler ("Go Johnny!, "Team Johnny", etc) come in two varieties. Some are plain obnoxious, especially if their son is an awesome wrestler, and they wear those slogans as a way to brag and let everyone know they're the parents of an awesome wrestler. And some are the sweetest, nicest couple you'll ever meet and are being genuinely sincere by wearing those shirts as a way to support a son they love very much. They're the kind of adorable couple who bakes snacks for the entire team and even become friends with their son's opponents and opposing coaches. Likewise, their son is also a respectful person on and off the mat and together they represent the family you wish you had. 30. Muscle shirt guy is harmless. He's just a dude who works out only his glamour muscles (biceps, pecs, abs) for the attention. He's not as strong as he looks. Definitely not even close to being as strong as farmer boy, who although looks soft compared to muscle shirt guy, will toss you around like a ragdoll during a match by using his unbelievable Herculian strength that is achieved only by those who grow up on a farm.
    1 point
  30. I think the real question is...how badly would the bulls teams of the 90's beat the warriors? Haha
    1 point
  31. I know. Empire Strikes Back is more realistic.
    1 point
  32. This is why you don't recruit measurables. You recruit attitude, tenacity, drive, and want to. This is one thing Bo tended to get. It didn't always work out, but when it did, we got Lavonte David and Ameer to name a few.
    1 point
  33. Lots of fun movies recently dropped on Redbox: Ambulance--Michael Bay heist movie w/ Jake Gyllenhaal. Super duper fun The Northman--Haven't seen it yet but appears to be an awesome Viking type movie. Got really positive reviews from my buddies who saw it. The Contractor--Seems to be a cut and dried espionage/action type movie. Really solid cast tho, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Kiefer Sutherland
    1 point
  34. I'm not sure any of us would understand without your constant reminders for the last 6 months inside every thread, regardless of topic. Really appreciate it!
    1 point
  35. Really would love to get over to Madison to watch this one but am not crazy about it being on Wednesday night but still... Might just see about making that happen. Should be able to make the Northwestern/Husker game in Evanston though.
    1 point
  36. Extremism on both sides is not healthy, unfortunately, the politicians seem to be moving towards appeasing the extremes on both sides. As an unaffiliated moderate, it's very frustrating.
    1 point
  37. If it is the NIL program that is driving these successes (and I have no reason to doubt that isn't the case), shouldn't the kudos go more to Trev than to Scott?
    1 point
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