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The beat downs are so easy one really doesn't have to "try harder " From the British Medical Journal which is a highly respected, pro-science journal not some pseudo science, quackery rag like ZeroHedge or the Daily Sceptic. https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o3061# "On 13 December 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held what he ominously called a “Covid-19 mRNA vaccine accountability roundtable.”1 The event featured his surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, and Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, authors of the Great Barrington Declaration and now senior scholars at the Brownstone Institute, a libertarian think tank. The event did not come out of the blue. DeSantis and Ladapo have previously alarmed the public health community, both in Florida and nationwide, with their sceptical statements about covid-19 vaccines and their suggestion that the public has been misled about the value of vaccination.3 In February 2021, Ladapo called universal covid-19 vaccination “a chimera” and questioned the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness. DeSantis ramped up the rhetoric even further at the roundtable, announcing the formation of a statewide grand jury investigation into alleged “crimes and wrongdoings” related to the vaccines, though he offered few details on what the jury would examine. Benjamin Mazer, assistant professor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins University, pushed back against the Florida governor’s suggestion that the public has been misled. “To believe the covid vaccines have serious hidden safety issues,” he wrote, “is to believe in conspiracy theory. It requires not just distrusting FDA (they’re fallible) but regulatory agencies around the world, all of whom have approved the vaccines and recommended them for the general population. This is to say nothing of the broad peer reviewed literature supporting vaccination, and an almost universal consensus among doctors and scientists. There are specific vaccine policy questions in which there is real debate, but not about their fundamental safety and efficacy.”7 Why, then, is the Florida governor taking his vaccine scepticism to the next level? It only makes sense as a political ploy. As Albert Lin, cardiac electrophysiologist at North western Medicine, said, the grand jury investigation is “a purely political exercise that is 99% likely to not enlighten public policy over C19 [covid-19] vaccination.”8 DeSantis is widely expected to run for US President in 2024, and pushing vaccine scepticism plays well with the conservative base who he will need to win over if he is to beat Donald Trump to be the Republican presidential nominee. This anti-vaccine message also helps to detract from the Florida governor’s own disastrous performance in averting covid-19 deaths. As Oliver Johnson, mathematician at the University of Bristol, noted, if Florida were a country, its covid-19 death rate (3,874 covid-19 deaths per million) would put it at “10th worst in the world, behind Peru and various East European countries that got slammed pre-vaccine.” Booster coverage rates among residents of nursing homes in Florida are the second lowest among all states in the country—which is entirely unsurprising given the stances of the Florida governor and his public health team. It is a great irony that the Florida governor enthusiastically adopted the debunked Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for “focused protection” of older people; a strategy that, without vaccination, has not been proven to work.12 And there’s another irony. On the day DeSantis held his roundtable, a new study was published by researchers at the University of Maryland, York University, and Yale School of Public Health that estimated that the US. Covid-19 vaccination campaign prevented over 18 million hospital admissions and over three million deaths.13 The study authors also noted that the campaign “saved the U.S. more than $1 trillion in medical costs, and has preserved hospital resources, kept children in school, and allowed for reopening of businesses and other activities.” DeSantis could have embraced the study’s findings. But instead of encouraging more Florida residents to get vaccinated, or announcing a strategy to get boosters to older Floridians in nursing homes, he doubled down on his anti-vaccine rhetoric. It’s a political stunt that plays well to the right wing of the party, but leaves many of the most vulnerable people unprotected." It's clear that Desantis is fine with increased deaths and a financial drain on the health care system just long as his perceived tact of moving even further right than Trump will help him win the nomination. That's turned out to be an abject failure however.

Well the article leaves out the obvious fact that both pieces of legislation are Republican sponsored and agenda driven, and the dictated specifics are indeed a passive-aggressive slap to the spirit of academic freedom. Full disclosure: the sponsors of this bill are at war with higher education. It's almost like this Fox article was written for people to repost in online forums, where they can ask "how can anyone be opposed to learning our country's history?" and "Look! They included Martin Luther King Jr.!" while demonizing professors and pretending not to know the actual motives of the bill's sponsors, who otherwise s#!t bricks when anyone dares to teach real American history.

Some speaking out about Sanders approach. Sure am glad we got Rhule and not Sanders. Rhule walks in with humility and awe of the program. Sander walks in with an ego bigger than Texas and only in awe of himself it appears. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/parents-are-speaking-out-against-colorado-football-coach-deion-sanders-and-his-treatment-of-players/ar-AA1amsFP?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=948e023b755940238415989ef2875e26&ei=17

How much does a MAGA shill get paid? Is it per outrage post or just flat monthly fee?

If the Conservative voters of Texas wanted a Senator who believed in the American values of Democracy and Constitutional order, they'd vote for it. The conservative voters of Texas are morons who dislike the American ideals of Democracy and are getting the historical embarrassment of a Senator they deserve. He represents them and the historical record should reflect just how stupid and moronic their choice is.

I tend to think that the gen ed classes bring a lot of value. So many people end up working in some field not directly tied to their degree, and general knowledge about the world is never a bad thing. We often use this knowledge in ways we don't expect. Math and science give us problem solving skills beyond the specific content of the course. Humanities courses teach us about human behavior and life in ways that we may not even realize. I have a criminal justice degree, but the single most impactful class I took in college was a theater class, which I only took to fill a gen ed requirement and to try to meet girls. That theater class taught me a lot, in terms of projecting (or faking) confidence, interpersonal interactions, and how I carry myself. And over the past few years, we have seen the damage that people can do to this country when they are ignorant of scientific principles and history. People should definitely continue to seek knowledge and growth. Instead of eliminating general education requirements for a degree, we should look for ways to make college more affordable. It's not the content that is a waste of money, it is the outrageous cost of higher education overall. Unfortunately I did not take any business administration classes and slept through Econ, so I don't know what to do about the cost.

Yes, unless he is going to graduate this May, which will enable him to use a grad transfer. I think players will also petition for waivers from the NCAA due the coaching change.

MAGA doesn't understand what "pandering to the base means". MAGA also conveniently seems to forget that an unethical politician just might flipflop on a position if he thought it would help with his political ambitions. But MAGA only would forget that in the case of MAGA's latest shiney idol. MAGA also believes that others on the board will believe MAGA's gaslighting above the position of the highly regarded British Medical Journal. I mean he did get one scientifically challenged board lurker to upvote his inane post so there's that .

This whole rhule vs sanders debate has been a case study on fandom. The nature of college sports with the transfer portal and NIL all these things are happening the same way at every school. Just like frost used to “help players find a better situation”. Don’t let coach speak fool you they are all operating the same way business first.

Good attrition. And Scott frost is a dolt.

County Scholarships are BACK, folks!

Awesome

Their ability to coach up a QB was even worse!

I know this. I think it’s funny they are laughing at direct words from the article though because they have no clue what to think

Smothers is getting jobbed. Started out with that moron coach Harry Potter ended with that moron Mr. Whipple., I hope he shines at his next stop.

The full post is amazing and humbling for any of us who think we are too good for....

Musk's twitter saga should go in the dictionary next to schaudenfreude. Even though it was obvious he was full of s#!t and wouldn't walk the walk of his "free speech absolutism", I don't think even the most pessimistic of us could have predicted how thoroughly poor his acquisition has gone thus far.

I went to the spring game w/ some long time buddies, special environment to say the least that day! I wrote this on a napkin at the railyard after and just found it in my pocket today. Going to send this to trev and see if we can add my poem to the husker trophy case to help break in the new locker room in honor of Frank. In Lincoln, where the Cornhuskers play Frank Solich led them to glory each day With power running and an iron will His team's performance gave fans a thrill The pride of Nebraska, yet Solich was maimed Despite his record being well-framed Though he's gone, his legacy remains And Cornhusker fans still chant his name

Signed, The 2022 season, and the 2021 season, and the 2020 season, and the 2019 season, and the 2018 season, and the 2017 season, and the 2016 season, and the 2015 season...

Always one or two surprises but I expect mostly healthy attrition.

It's a college. They shouldn't be forcing you to learn about the US government unless it's your major. College is about higher education of you choice. As part of that you are required to get some additional rounding in areas outside your major, but there are always a lot of different subjects to choose from. For example for the history requirements you can usually choose from a wide array of: classical history, modern history, art history, music history (I love taking history of Rock at UNL), American history, European history, Africa history, Asian history, etc. There is no reason we should be forcing college students to learn about US government, especially when there are foreign nationals in our university system from hundreds of different countries.

Don't know if there is any validity to this or not, but seeing theories that we could put some grad students (Thompson, Reimer, TyRob, etc) on NIL scholarships since a) grad students take less classes and b) masters level classes can be taken online for cheap. This would mean that tuition would drop from about $25k for an undergrad to around $5k for a grad student. I've been in the "NIL scholarships don't work for a lot of reasons" camp, but doing it for grad students with 1 year left does make some sense when you look at it.

telling that he is upset that carlson was fired....but not a peep about lemon. that's a mighty big clue to who was a russian asset and who wasn't.

I don’t think those laughs are there for what you think they are.

Word is Corcoran and Benhart will never leave....

We need to quit scheduling such world class teams midweek. Find some "Sisters of the Poor" or some of the Class C high schools here in the state.

Deion is going to KILL it in recruiting this year. The pitch: "We only have 43 guys on scholarship right now. Half of those I wish would leave. You're GUARANTEED playing time!!!"

At least he wears socks. I can’t get behind people that wear shoes without socks.

maybe we should start a desantis legal troubles thread?

Three silent commits

After all, we all know that nobody who is anti-capitalism owns an iphone. People always act with pure consistency towards their values.

It's a tough one for sure, but I do think the Gen Ed classes have a lot of benefits. For starters you don't know where everyone is coming in at with their previous educational background, and in this day and age especially there is going to be a lot of variation in the curriculum students have been exposed to prior. You need to have a well rounded education to be a productive student and good problem solver. To be honest I use very little of my actual degree in my daily job as an engineer, but I learned a lot of valuable skills while obtaining that degree that are a great help in performing my job and problem solving issues. I've never used calculus in my job, and only use a very basic understanding of physics and engineering principles, but having taken all those courses in school it gave me a good foundation to understand the physics of what's happening with issues that come up. Lastly, the philosophical idea of colleges/universities has always been to allow you to grow your knowledge and be a better person as a whole, to the benefit society. You are going to have a hard time doing that if you only ever explore one specific subject.

If this goes forward I wonder if they would be able to get a hold of emails, texts, and other communications. Bet those would be juicy. Actually, I'm surprised their hasn't been a FOI request leaked out yet...

Yeah...everything's good and healthy in the program.

Wynn to the portal. Damn.

If you actually listen to the translation, he trying to use a classic whataboutism. He's trying to equate Fox (a non-government corporation) firing Tucker with some kind violation of the first amendment. Seeing as he's at the UN, this is just a classic move that China tries to use all the time as well. They know full well the US doesn't operate the way they portray it on these stages. There's a massive difference between state sanctioned censorship (and in the case of China, genocide) and a business making an executive decision.

I didn't know learning the constitution was "ideological force-feeding". If I remember right I was required to take a government class in college. I guess I do not remember whether it was a required credit or I chose it for an elective. The GOP is also trying to aboloish tenure. I would think that is the bigger reason for protest. Hundreds of professors at the University of North Carolina signed a public letter Tuesday opposing legislation that would require university students to take courses on America's government and founding documents. The 673 UNC Chapel Hill professors revealed the public letter Tuesday, arguing the new courses and another bill in the North Carolina House of Representatives would constitute an infringement on the university's "academic freedom." The first piece of legislation, House Bill 96, would require students to take a 3 credit-hour course covering America's founding and history. Required reading for the course would include the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Emancipation Proclamation, at least five essays from the Federalist Papers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Gettysburg Address. The professors argue the legislation "violates core principles of academic freedom" and "substitutes ideological force-feeding for the intellectual expertise of faculty." https://www.foxnews.com/politics/673-university-professors-sign-letter-opposing-courses-americas-founding-constitution

Yep. 100% believe they have oppo files on their own staff.

I believe we recently fired a guy for thinking that way. The moment I knew that wasn't going to work out was the second half of the 2019 CU game. Acted like the game was won at halftime and lost to what should have been a clearly inferior team. I'm not underestimating Sanders. He pushes the envelope of ethical behavior, and that's all I will say on that, but I don't underestimate him as a competitor.