Mavric

There have already been more offensive fouls in this game than any I can remember.

Diaz is in the game sporting the Richard Hamilton-like face guard. Sparks NU to a 11-7 lead.

North Dakota St (13-1) Playing Sam Houston St. (14-0) for the FCS title. North Dakota St.'s Head Coach is Lincoln native Craig Bohl. Bohl is 74-31 in 9 seasons as ND St.'s coach, including 5-3 against FBS opponents.

Took us almost three minutes to even get a shot up (four TOs to start the game). I wonder why we have trouble scoring points?

Three straight turnovers...

Looks like this article gave him basically "Honorable Mention" for "Best Arm" at the O-D Bowl:

"Tommy Armstrong has truly progressed as a passer over the last year and was impressive all week in practice with his arm strength on the out routes."

Here's an idea to fix the offense: do you think anyone would notice if we quietly slid Jordan Hooper over to the men's team?

Apparenlty Doc's looking to tinker with his ranked-290th-in-the-country offense per this story in the OWH. I'd say it can't get any worse but ...

The link is worth the click if for nothing else than :facepalm:

The media sells for itself, not for the actual facts. On the other hand, maybe Bo needs to be a little kinder to the press, as well as to the fans. Then, writing negative spew would not take place.

I'm sure negative writing would take place anyways. Regardless of wether Bo plays nice with the reporters or not. When they write, they look for one thing, and that is hits...they try to make themselves part of the story and last time I checked, that's not good reporting.

yes, but Bo sure makes for an easy target.......he could work on that some more, the networks have it figured out, ever time a penalty is called, the camera pans to a shot of Pelini.......and stays on him when he blows a gasket.....that won't change anytime soon.

True, but he is far from the only coach to which this applies.

I think an 8 team playoff would be best but that wasn't one of the choices.

"My" playoff (similar to knapplc) would go as follows:

• Take any conference champion as long as they're in the Final BCS Top 12
  
• Fill in the remaining 8 teams using BCS rankings and seed 1-8
  
• These 8 teams will go to the Rose, Fiesta, Sugar & Orange bowls; remaining bowls filled just as they are now
  
• Higher seed hosts first-round game 1-2 weeks after CCGs
  
• Winners of the first round games are matched up in two of the "BCS" bowls; losers matched up in the other two
  
• Winners of the winners play one week later for the National Championship
  
• "BCS" bowls rotate who hosts winners and losers and National Championship (one of the "loser" bowls gets the NC game)
  

So, the bowl system is preserved, we get a playoff and the season isn't any longer. Problems solved.

This year, the playoff would look like this:

#8 Wisconsin @ #1 LSU

#5 Oregon @ #4 Stanford

#6 Arkansas @ #3 Oklahoma St.

#7 Boise St. @ #2 Alabama

I can't decide if the two teams per conference should be kept or not. If it was, K St. would be the #7 seed, Boise St. would be #6 and Arkansas would be out.

The only two-loss teams included (Oregon & Arkansas) have both their losses to other teams in the tournament. The only one-loss team not included would be Houston.

Coach Petrino getting a little testy....

As for Jucos, Thanks Mavric, I was too lazy to look at all of them. Im not going to lie, I am surprised by the numbers, I figured they would be 1-2 out of all those schools. I was wrong, fully admitted. I dont hate Jucos, I just wish we could have nabbed them 2-3 years ago. No-one can deny Bo is good with Jucos, I just wish he was just as good with HS recruits.

 

Overall I agree with you on most points. I guess after last year, I was just hoping for mostly 4 and 1-2 5 stars. Maybe my expectations were too high and i bought into all the hype. Oh well, here is to hoping we get Peat, fuller and can hold onto Westerkamp.

No problem. I agree with you on that - I'd rather have guys on campus for 4-5 years but grabbing a couple JUCOs each year seems to work out pretty well. Definitely don't want to go overboard.

According to Rivals, we're currently #12 when ranked by average stars. Adding Peat would give us the 5* you talked about and would currently put us up to #8. I'm not totally sold on star ratings either but that's about all we have to go by for now. Rivals currently shows only 15 5* recruits are committed to ANY school so they are pretty hard to come by. Bama has 3, Florida St. & Texas have two each and no one else has more than one.

Can't say it would hurt my feelings to see Arky go down hard but ... cheering for K St. isn't easy.

had a great visit tonight with martin and kelly.

 

made an interesting quote to 24/7 sports that said "If I committed right then and there, they would take me."

 

...not sure exactly what that means, but BK was probably putting the pressure on JW as schollys are moving quickly. that is the latest from NDs side.

But apparently he didn't so hopefully that's a good sign - as is the Husker logo.

If the loss has already occurred, then it is not insurance. It is a company paying for a person's condition.

The problem is that insurance companies would refuse to insure people with pre-existing conditions . . . not just decline to cover the pre-existing issue but decline to insure them at all.

 

It's more complicated than that . . . but that's the quick and dirty version.

 

Basically, if a person has health issues and for whatever reason they have to change insurance (new job, lost job, can't afford old insurance, etc.) prior to the ACA insurance companies could and would refuse to insure them. Canttakeitanymore is spot on with his point about risk pooling. This is one of those areas in medicine where there is a somewhat awkward intersection between necessary care, profit margins, and morality. Touchy subject with high emotions.

I don't necessarily disagree with your point but I think it would get pretty hard to decide what procedures were only due to the pre-existing condition and which were new conditions. For example, if you had back surgery then developed a staph infection from the incision, was the infection an extension of the the back problem or is it a new issue? If you had stomach cancer then later developed liver cancer, how would that be handled? Some things would be obvious but a lot of others would just lead to more legal battles, costing more.

Also, a certain company might not insure them but (and I'm no expert at this so someone can correct me if I'm wrong) aren't there high-risk pools that people can get into? I believe this was reference earlier. So it's maybe not so much that they can't get any insurance, just that they have to pay more for it.

Arkansas trying to let K St. back in the game - K St. with 9 unanswered points (I bet that doesn't get said a lot in football).

These injuries are becoming more common. A year or so ago a Golf Channel reporter (she is female - you can decide if that's relevant or not) reported Tiger Woods had a "bulging disc" with the same problem.

Looks like he recommitted to Penn St.

Arkansas and K St. are trying to restore faith in bad offenses. It's 19-2 just before the half. K St. has 41 yards of offense. Arkansas has only had to come up with about 110 yds on their three scoring drives.

RB Edwin Baker is also going into the draft.

2. We don’t know if they will play. Will they get hurt, not able to understand the system in 2 years, live up to expectations, get in Bo's dog house? In the end, they are juco. You have them for a few years, instead of 5. How many jucos have any of the traditional top 10 teams taken this year? (usc, texas, Bama, LSU, OSU, etc).

As long as we're talking about what could happen, they could turn into All-Americans like some other JUCO LB I've heard of.

USC has two, Texas has two, Alabama has one, Oklahoma has three, Arkansas has two and was after one of ours, Oregon has two.

Doesn't sound like too many PSU alum (former players anyway) are very happy.

They write this crap because it is what people want.

 

"People" are stupid. "People" are the lowest common denominator. "People" will eat a sh#t sandwich and smile if it diverts them from their daily lives. Writing to please "people" is why we have tabloid journalism rather than actual news today. It's why ESPN is rabidly consumed by the masses as if it's real sports information.

 

Journalists are supposed to be like offensive linemen - you either never know their name, or you learn their name because they are 1) Superlative at their job, or 2) they are horrendous at their job. We have examples of both in Nebraska sports journalism. I can guarantee you that nobody who fits description #1 is going to write the alleged article coming out.

+1 (a lot more if possible). Couldn't agree more.

I think a lot of problems with the program right now are mental

90% of the game is mental ... the other half is physical.

Does Burkhead breaking every tackle count? No? Should be in the Bold Predictions thread? Darn.

I'll go with defense returning to 2009 form.

Awful tired of this comment. Its not the talent level its the fault of the system. The way the state of Nebraska sets up their athletics from PeeWee to High School. The talent is here, just not in force. Gayle Sayers, Johnny Rodgers, Eric Crouch, Bob Gibson need I go on. The population base is very prohibitive, do you think Texas would be a great hot bed of talent if it had 1.4 million people? You make it sound like "if you are born in Nebraska, you have a sporting handicap, just can't play with the big boys" and that is simply not true.

And only one of those players has been in college in the last 40 years (although, to be fair, you could add Ahman Green and probably others). I'm curious how you can blame the system? Obviously we don't have a system like Texas where they pretty much play football year-round but that can't explain all of it. There are a lot more programs in place now than 30 years ago but there are still fewer elite athletes in the state (IMO). You see the same thing in basketball. I would say the main problems are lack of population and too many other things going on.