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Could happen...I don't see PSU ending up any more competitive than Minn in the coming years following this whole mess. Nailed it.......^^^^^

Yet, with all the names bandied about shuffling throughout the line all year..............................we only took TWO guards to Happy Valley yesterday..............?? Since we brought home a "W"..............THAT is either a glass 1/2 full or 1/2 empty................

I know there a been a myriad of posts concerning Coach Brown’s role yesterday, so I hope this is not simply a rehash of some things. But I seem to remember quite a few years ago that he was interviewing for the Stanford head coaching position and their students got wind of his strong faith and organized a protest of some sort to discourage his hiring. He ended up either withdrawing or not getting very far in the process. (I might be a little shaky on the details, but that was pretty much the drift of things). To me, that is to our everlasting advantage and to Stanford’s everlasting loss. Just a personal opinion. A second issue is that when Abdullah committed and Ron was named the running backs coach, I recall some spirited discussion on a Husker board about whether that could ever mesh because of Coach Brown’s out -spoken Christianity. It was very heartening to see Abdullah close to the front of the circle in the pre-game prayer yesterday. Seems like they have worked that out just fine. Anyone else recall those incidents differently........?

To the OP...................I agree with all of your analysis .......................(Today's paper indicated that we blew an OL assignment).

Wow.................didn't realize this simple topic would create such a firestorm.......... To reiterate my original intent..................I think there are 3 teams we match up with so badly we virtually have no shot at beating (given current make-up; strengths/weakness/depth/maturity/attitude/etc) Those being LSU, OKie St., Oregon I believe we can COMPETE with everyone else.................(not limited to site, revenge, last year, or any other considerations)........... By compete, I'm not saying necessarily beat. Just compete. Have a shot and know that beforehand. For those that are handicapping potential victories by percentage.........................that is a tangent unrelated to the intended topic..........i.e. "we would only have a 40% chance".............to me that means we can compete. And finally, we should NOT be content with simply being competitive. This is a program that needs to compete with, and be able to beat anyone. Currently we are not that program. But, if there are only a few left that we can't currently compete with.................maybe we are closer than a lot of the negativity suggests. I suggest the "can't compete with" list is far smaller than it was a few years ago. jmho.

I wonder if his performance in this presser might be a turning point in how the public views Bo..................sort of "humanizing" him, if you will. Certainly, there will be shots of him berating officials in the future, but this image may soften a preconceived image somewhat.........

EXACTLY................

For all of our collective moaning/bitching/complaining throughout the season (and off-seasons)…….. The fact remains that we are 8-2 and among the better teams in the nation. After an elite few, I maintain that we could play with, and compete with, everyone else. Not that we’d be necessarily favored or even that we would win, but that we are capable of lining up and making a game out of it. The only teams I believe we could not presently match up with are Oregon, Okie Lite and LSU. The field after those 3 is fluid. I’d venture that we could play with Alabama because any team with an average offense and no kicking game is vulnerable no matter how great their defense. But the national media has idolized Alabama to the point where they are supposed to be invincible. I call b.s. Boise St., Stanford, Oklahoma, Arkansas…………sure we would be underdogs, but not grossly overmatched. I am not saying we should be satisfied with not being one of the elites, but am trying to bring some perspective to some of the nay-saying and carping. We are young and not that far off. Keep the faith !

Another lesson to be tatooed on the frontal lobe.................................Never, ever, ever expect the Hawkeyes to do you right.........................

That even against a below average qb, a below average offense, and not much of a scrambler.....................Carl is still reticent to blitz....................allowing a mediocre qb to stand in there until a receiver clears....... Maddening......................!!

OK, no big thing.....................we'll just wait and see when/if they comment much at all..............

How fortuitous that Ron Brown was available.....................I can't imagine anyone more powerfully suited to that role................

I don't mean the legal issues......... I mean some sort of statement from the Conf office regarding a member institution........ We seemingly heard plenty during the Ohio St issues, etc................did we not? Maybe I'm off base and in the minority here..............wouldn't be the first time........

I apologize if this has been discussed elsewhere.......................I didn't see it.................Mods please move or delete if repetitious.......... Is anyone else disappointed in the total lack of a public response/stance/comment/ direction from Delaney and the Conference as a whole on the Penn St situation..........??

Noticed that they left a empty seat on the bus in honor of JP...................kind of reminds me of Colorado leaving an open seat on the travel roster (and by extension......leaving a player at home because of travel restrictions) for Saul Aneuse (sp?).................

We still have not proved we can stop anyone running right at us. Possessions will be limited .............we need to create somethings ..............

That’s rich…………….. You obviously have no problem propping up such intellectual luminaries as Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Henry Waxman, Maxine Watters, Barbara Boxer, etc. Hey Pot, check your kettle…………

Just reported by espn...................nothing was found, but another bizarre tangent to this saga.....................

I actually thought Bo was pretty impressive.............. Sure, he struggled with his shot, but it didn't affect the rest of his game. ZERO turnovers and plenty of hustle and court awareness. Net-net................I'll take it...........his shot will be there, he is obviously a smooth and pure shooter. And, the good news was that we had some others pick up the slack offensively. Talley can flat out play! Compared to the last half dozen openers, it does look like we have better pieces.

If this circumstance was happening to almost any other school, I would tend to agree. (Can you even imagine if this was Nebraska ??............my gosh, the media would immediately connect this to hick/ flyover/ inbreds/etc.). But the fact is that Penn St is the school of choice for rooting purposes for a large segment of the east coast (who normally follow only pro sports), and I think that factors into keeping them relevant. Just my two cents..............

For what it's worth to add to the discussion....................I got this from a Ph.D friend who is a senior hydrologist and geologist who is often called to testify in state disputes concerning environmental liabilities. Not being a professional scientist myself, I tend to listen to the experts in the field. But of course, this decision has very little to do with facts and a whole lot to do with politics. THE FACTS BEHIND THE “MOVE THE ROUTE” DISCUSSION Over the past few weeks, we have been involved in a public discussion about moving the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route. While we have taken these suggestions seriously, moving the route is simply something that TransCanada is unable to do. This is not about being stubborn or unresponsive. It’s about following the rules we are required to honor and avoiding a route that will cross more waterways, disturb more special and sensitive areas and require the excavation of far more land. The people who are now lobbying for a different route first opposed the pipeline altogether. Then they didn’t like the product that would be shipped through the pipeline. Today, they say they can accept the pipeline, but they want it to take a different route. But the truth is: professional activists who are behind the opposition to Keystone XL are solely opposed to the consumption of fossil fuels. As more media outlets are reporting, these groups are pouring millions of dollars into the campaign against the pipeline and into misleading pressure campaigns in Nebraska. But when all is said and done, they will disappear and move on to their next campaign. TransCanada, on the other hand, has been in Nebraska for three decades and we will be here for a long time to come. These professional activists and lawyers want you to focus on publicity stunts and the same false information they pump out over and over again. They don’t deal with the facts about the pipeline, the oil it carries, the enhanced safety measures TransCanada has agreed to implement or the safety and environmental commitments TransCanada has made in Nebraska and elsewhere. So as the debate continues, keep these facts in mind: · Pipelines are far and away the safest way to transport crude oil. They do not have to compete with bad weather, traffic accidents, detours and other human factors that lead to many more incidents than pipelines have ever experienced. · TransCanada has agreed to 57 additional safety and operating procedures – measures that are not in place on other pipelines in Nebraska and elsewhere in the U.S., such as burying the pipe deeper, installing more automatic safety shut-off valves and increased pipeline inspections. Federal regulators acknowledge these steps will make Keystone XL safer than other pipelines in operation today. · In Nebraska, TransCanada has also offered to implement more safety, construction and operating practices that will provide enhanced protection for the sensitive Sandhills region. · With the issuance of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) by the U.S, Department of State, the route for Keystone XL has been confirmed. That means that if a Presidential Permit is received, the route has already been reviewed extensively, confirmed to be the safest and most environmentally responsible and the only one that is permitted under federal rules and regulations. When TransCanada made its application for the construction and operation of Keystone XL, we applied for a preferred route. However, during the course of the three-year review process, we also provided data to the Department of State on a total of 14 route configurations for the entire pipeline, and eight specific alternative routes that would have had a direct impact on the State of Nebraska. With each federal environmental review, the route we have selected has been confirmed and re-affirmed as the safest one that will also have the least amount of environmental disturbance of all the routes assessed. These facts do not change and it is odd that so-called environmental and conservation groups are pushing legislators, regulators and TransCanada to move the pipeline to a route that will have more environmental disturbance. A New Route Brings New Risks Not Yet Even Considered There is also something just as important to consider in the pipeline routing debate. We do not make an application to regulators to apply for any route; we apply for a preferred route and also present alternatives to consider. The FEIS has confirmed (once again) that the route we applied for is the one that the pipeline should follow. You cannot simply change the route, as some would like people to believe. It involves a re-start of the entire regulatory process – one that has already taken over three years – almost twice as long as the average review process. It involves a new regulatory review and a brand new application, because each route will have its own unique geological, environmental, design and operating characteristics. Designing, constructing and operating pipelines takes a lot of expert input and is a complex exercise. We should know – we’ve been doing this for almost 60 years in the United States and have operated pipeline systems in Nebraska for the past three decades. Finally, there are some who insist that the route should simply avoid the Ogallala Aquifer – and that could be done easily within the State of Nebraska. What they either do not know or fail to tell the public is that the Ogallala Aquifer covers almost the entire State of Nebraska, and runs through six other states. And the first Keystone pipeline runs through the aquifer. The Platte pipeline has been operating safely through the aquifer since 1952. In fact, 15,000 miles of oil pipelines already transport more than 30 billion gallons of oil – safely – across the Ogallala every year! Not to mention the hazardous goods pipelines, refined products pipelines and other pipelines that carry products required to preserve and protect our quality of life. Since oil was discovered in Nebraska in 1939, 20,000 wells have been drilled in search of oil and gas, the majority of them right down through the Ogallala Aquifer. Yet, in producing and transporting over 500 million barrels of Nebraska crude, the Aquifer has never been contaminated with oil. TransCanada understands the importance of operating a safe, environmentally responsible pipeline. We have been doing that for 60 years. We are a part of Nebraska, and understand the special relationship that Nebraskans feel with the land. We share that understanding, and have done more than any other pipeline company to provide additional safety and operating procedures to make this the safest pipeline ever built.

Except in his own mind..........

I really hate Tea Party Repugnants. Sub……. Have you ever been to a Tea Party event….? I confess that I walked through one a year ago locally to see for myself exactly what was happening. Here is what I found: People overwhelmingly concerned with the constitution. In fact, they handed out free pocket copies. Almost the entire event centered on their concern for the constitution, very little of the event was overtly political. They were unfailingly polite and courteous and respectful. They were profoundly passionate about what they believe in. I also found a pretty representative cross section of gender, race and age that I would guess fairly models our local demographic. Here is also what I did NOT find: Derogatory comments about others; any bashing or inciteful commentary. No evidence of bigotry, racism, or class warfare. And, respect for the property demonstrated by voluntarily cleaning up the site afterwards. I was pretty impressed. Of course, that is only one instance and it is tough to generalize to the whole, but the sense of it was very respectful. The world seems to want to categorize the OWS movement as the counter-point to the Tea Party, so I also meandered through our local OWS demonstration this week. The contrast was stark. As opposed to the positive atmosphere of the TP, this was almost entirely negative, whining and bitching. Again, I need to be careful not to generalize from simply 2 sites, but the differences were graphically notable in tenor, content and focus. My question is why you refer to the Tea Party participants as repugnant ? I understand you may differ politically from the majority of TPers, but repugnant is a fairly strong indictment of folks who seem to be lawfully and peacefully exercising their concerns about a wayward drift constitutionally.

Latest rumor is that McQuery will NOT be coaching on Saturday................

Has he now been officially declared dead? Or still listed as missing...........?