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Player: Levi Jones
Hometown: Austin, Texas
School: Westlake
Position: Linebacker
Height: 6-3
Weight: 215
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Offers: Baylor, Colorado, East Carolina, Houston, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, UCLA
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247 Composite: #170 Overall; #12 OLB; .9279; :star

Rivals: #15 OLB; :star
247: #166 Overall; #10 OLB; :star
Scout: #189 Overall; #14 OLB; :star :star
ESPN: #121 Overall; #7 OLB; :star :star

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https://twitter.com/DerrickTucker19/status/699337619847577600

Player: Derrick Tucker
Hometown: Manvel, Texas
School: Manvel
Position: Safety
Height: 6-3
Weight: 180
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Offers: Arkansas, Houston, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas, Utah
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247 Composite: #74 Overall; #4 S; .9628; :star :star

Rivals: #107 Overall; #10 S; :star :star
247: #66 Overall; #3 S; :star :star
Scout: #81 Overall; #5 S; :star :star
ESPN: #121 Overall; #9 S: :star :star

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https://twitter.com/grantdelpit/status/699330725250617344

Player: Grant Delpit
Hometown: Houston, Texas
School: Lamar
Position: Safety
Height: 6-3
Weight: 185
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Offers: Baylor, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, LSU, Miami, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Purdue, TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Tulsa
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247: #276 Overall; #23 S; :star
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Confirmed new cast members - I haven't seen characters they're playing

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Player: Aashari Crosswell
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
School: Hawkins
Position: Safety
Height: 5-11
Weight: 190
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Offers: Arizona State, Boise State, Boston College, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Tennessee, UNLV, Washington, Washington State
Visits: 9/2/17 vs. Arkansas State

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247 Composite: #97 Overall; #10 S; .9555;    

Rivals: #119 Overall; #12 S;    
247: #145 Overall; #10 S;    
Scout: #120 Overall; #11 S;    
ESPN: #101 Overall; #7 S;    

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Player: Greg Johnson
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
School: Hawkins
Position: Athlete
Height: 5-11
Weight: 190
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Offers: Arizona, Arizona State, Boston College, California, Colorado, Colorado State, Hawai'i, Michigan, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oregon State, San Jose State, South Carolina, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington, Washington State
Visits: 10/22/16 vs. Purdue

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247 Composite: #102 Overall; #1 ATH; .9506; :star :star

Rivals: #103 Overall; #4 ATH; :star :star
247: #180 Overall; #7 ATH; :star :star
Scout: #97 Overall; #6 ATH; :star :star
ESPN: #116 Overall; #7 ATH; :star :star

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Says Arizona, Nebraska and Maryland are recruiting him the hardest.

Sounds like several schools are looking at him as a TE, which he said is fine with him.

Player: Tray Bishop
Hometown: Dawson, Georgia
School: Terrell County
Position: Athlete, Wide Receiver
Height: 6-3
Weight: 193
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Offers: Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Nebraska, Penn State
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247 Composite: #133 Overall; #12 ATH; .9433; :star :star

Rivals: #28 ATH; :star
247: #75 Overall; #6 ATH; :star :star
Scout: #123 Overall; #12 ATH; :star :star
ESPN: #65 Overall; #8 ATH; :star :star

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This is a great topic and I'll put more effort into a response later.

But I've read another article from Lucas - and a couple other articles - from that side of the table in the last couple weeks. I find it interesting that he actually talks about the money they get from property taxes in this post. In his other article that was totally absent. I though that he wasn't presenting the whole picture before but this is much more balanced.

Here is his post from last month. I'm glad his tone has changed to provide a more complete synopsis of the situation:

I have sat back over the last two years or so and watched and listened to public education take a beating from folks around our great state and I can’t take it anymore.

I’ve seen and heard organizations like the Platte Institute, Farm Bureau, and even the State Chamber of Commerce take some cheap shots at us for spending and “under-delivering.” Heck, even some of our elected officials in the Capitol view public education as a burden.

As a career educator that didn’t grow up in Nebraska but has been here since 2000, I have come to love and appreciate what our great public school system offers.

• Did you know that over 86% of Nebraska Public High School students took the ACT in 2014? Their average composite score of 21.7 is the HIGHEST IN THE NATION for states that had 80% or more of their students taking the ACT!

• Did you know that Nebraska has one of the best high school graduation rates in the nation, with nearly 90% of our seniors graduating?

Now, we hear about how our spending is “out of control” and we’re the culprit for obscenely high property taxes. Well, we have spending lids and tax levy lids that we are mandated to adhere by. Many of our districts absolutely do have an overreliance on local property taxes and you would have to think that one of the main reasons is that Nebraska ranks 49 in the nation for the percentage of its state budget that goes towards K-12 public education.

In 1998-99, right at 32% of the state’s general fund was spent on K-12 educational aid. During this 2015-16 fiscal year, that percentage has plummeted to 27.6%. It is projected to be even lower in 2016-17. If K-12 aid made up the same percentage of the budget today as it did in 1999, the state’s general fund support would be over $187 million more than it is.

Most states provide significantly more state aid to K-12 schools. In fact, Nebraska would have to increase state aid to K-12 education by more than $700 million just to reach the national average.

Here in York, we’ve seen our state aid go from $3.7 million a few years ago to $1.56 million this year. We are projected to lose another million for 2016-17 and receive just $560,000 in state aid. All the while, our total revenue, which includes state aid, federal monies, special education reimbursement, etc. has only increased by an annual average of just over 2%. We HAVE to increase local property taxes just to make up for the huge losses in state aid.

Local school districts are very wary of their spending. They have public board meetings every month where their bills are discussed and approved. Here in York, our spending is so “out of control” that it has grown by an average of 1.8% over the last six years. What other organizations, businesses, and institutes can say the same? Right at 33% of our spending increase has been for grant funded programming that we’ve added over the past size years for pre-school, children living in poverty, and before/after school programming. If we didn’t have these student needs, we wouldn’t have increased our spending!

We have lots of room for improvement in every public school district in this state. We will always be a “work in progress.” It just sickens me that people that have never walked a step in the shoes of our dedicated teachers, support staff, and administrators get to continually put us down.

Come visit a high needs special education room and help care for severely disabled students that can’t go to the bathroom on their own. Come visit a pre-school or kindergarten room and help provide meaningful instruction for youngsters that haven’t eaten anything since they left your classroom at 3:15 yesterday. Come deal with the mental health issues we have in our middle and high schools. Come deal with more and more unfunded mandates and school accountability. Come spend a day with your local school administrator and deal with the chaos that often begins before 7:00 AM and ends around 10:00 PM. We do it every day and love it and can’t wait to do it again tomorrow!

What services do they want us to cut? What are we providing for our students that is so out of line?

We’ll hear an awful lot this legislative session about how under-performing our state’s public schools are. Folks will be pushing charter schools and vouchers, spending lids, and all kinds of measures that paint public education as the enemy. We’re not. Come visit us and see for yourselves!

I'm not really sure the extent of Louisiana's budget issues. I guess the concept of publicly funded institutions' continued operation being dependent on legislature action isn't that unusual to me. Maybe football will remain safe from eligibility issues, but does it make their lack of funds issues any less serious? Or is the argument here that Louisiana's crisis is blownnout of proportion?

This is my point. It can be a serious problem without having to make it sound like every academic institution in the state is suddenly going to cease operation. The difference between trying to draw attention to an issue that you want people to be aware of and trying to make it sound like the most horrible situation anyone can imagine will come to pass if you don't let him do what he wants.

Fear mongering.

Player: Jamyest Williams
Hometown: Lawrenceville, Georgia
School: Archer
Position: Cornerback, Wide Receiver
Height: 5-9
Weight: 180
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Offers: Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Baylor, Boston College, Cincinnati, Clemson, Colorado, Colorado State, Duke, Florida State, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisville, LSU, Memphis, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, Stanford, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Tulane, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Wisconsin
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247 Composite: #53 Overall; #7 CB; .9717; :star :star

Rivals: #148 Overall; #11 ATH; :star :star
247: #40 Overall; #5 CB; :star :star
Scout: #61 Overall; #4 ATH; :star :star
ESPN: #37 Overall; #4 CB; :star :star

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The only problem I had with Cav's way of running the Oline last year was that he said there was a substantial gap between the starters and back ups. But when Kondolo got hurt and they moved Sterup to G, there was a considerable improvement in line play.

 

So I think he picked who he thought were the best 5 and decided to stick with them no matter what. And that was clearly the wrong move as evidenced in a few games.

Agree with this.

Early in the season where that was the story, I kept saying "but what happens when someone gets hurt?" At some point you're going to have to rotate for some reason - injury, ineffectiveness, etc. I don't necessarily think it's a bad plan, but I don't think the reasons given really make sense.

Sterup moved from tackle to guard and started the next week. By all accounts, Foster was right there with Utter but couldn't get on the field. Thurston came in when Reeves got hurt and we didn't seem to miss a beat.

I understand wanting the starters to get most of the reps and be a cohesive unit. But I fail to see where giving a couple backups a series here and there would be that damaging to chemistry. If anything, it would make it easier for the unit to still be cohesive when someone gets hurt.

Player: Pete Werner
Hometown: Mount Vernon, Indiana
School: Cathedral
Position: Linebacker
Height: 6-3
Weight: 212
40 time:
Offers: Army, Boston College, Cincinnati, Duke, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Miami (OH), Nebraska, Northwestern, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Syracuse, Toledo, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin
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247 Composite: #273 Overall; #20 OLB; .9020; :star :star

Rivals: #240 Overall; #17 OLB; :star :star
247: #261 Overall; #20 OLB; :star :star
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Austin Allen from Aurora is one to watch. 6'8 215 right now. Great hands, very fluid for his size. Sean Callahan says he is on Nebraska's radar. Has the frame to put on 20-30 pounds, imo.

 

Playing in Class B state championship now.

Watched him play basketball Saturday. Moves REALLY well for a guy that big.

I would think we'd take a flier on him and see what kind of match-up problems he can create. Especially in a bigger class.

Watched him play basketball on Saturday. Great athlete. Probably not quite as tall as you would like for a QB but I can see why he's getting a look.

A 69-year-old Spanish man was fined this week after officials discovered he hadn't shown up to work for at least six years, the Guardian reports. Ironically, the civil servant was discovered only when the deputy mayor attempted to give him an award for 20 years of "loyal and dedicated" service in 2010. “I thought, where is this man?" the Guardianquotes the deputy mayor. "Is he still there? Has he retired? Has he died?” According to the Independent, a legal case was launched against the man — Joaquín García — that year. It finally wrapped up this week, with García, who retired in 2011, losing an appeal and being issued a fine of approximately $30,000, the Times reports. That's the equivalent of one year's salary after taxes, and was the most that could legally be reclaimed.

The investigation into García determined he hadn't been to his office for at least six years—and possibly as long as 14 years — and had done "absolutely no work" between 2007 and 2010. He was supposed to be supervising the construction of a water treatment plant, the BBC reports. But the water company thought the city council was in charge of García, while the city council thought the water company was in charge of him. A water company manager admitted to not having seen García for years despite having an office across from him. García argues he was bullied and given a job with no actual work to do because of his socialist politics. As for what he did with all his free time: The Guardian reports he became "an avid reader of philosophy and an expert on the works of Spinoza." (A Spanish mayormade taking an afternoon nap the law.)

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I'm not sure Wingett would be in my Top 5 to be honest.

That last game was so hard to tell because it was so ugly. But Arop, Fant and Davis have to be up there. After that, I was impressed with Riverside's point guard, Gothenburg's point guard, Aurora's center (who the Huskers are looking at for TE), and Vedral from Neumann.