Mavric

Not sure what your definition of a "few weeks" is but we did get Afalava and Moss just over two weeks ago. Those are the only two in the last month, however. Edit: Only two commits of the non-silent variety.

If you're talking about athletic accomplishments in Nebraska, Strickland is way up there. Tough to top Gale Sayers overall, IMO. Tough to not rank Sayers on any list of athletes..................but beyond high school, he really has nothing on his resume other than football........or did I miss something...........? True, but I guess I don't penalize someone too much for being so outstanding at one thing such that they didn't have to do anything else. He set the NE state long jump record that stood for about 45 years and even now is only 1/2 inch off the record. Plus, even though he only played football, he showed his versatility by not only being a two-time rushing champs but also being one of the best return men in the history of the league. Kind of a good at many things vs. great at one thing arguement.

Probably just remembering from early in the year. Abdullah was the KR from day one but it was Green and Heard who were in the backfield quite a bit more early in the season. Later in the year, you saw more of Abdullah back there. As of now, I'd say AA is #2 but he didn't start out that way.

I have to stop and read this evey time I check this thread - still makes me laugh.

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If you're saying the situation can't be fixed, I sure hope you're wrong. We've been going to wrong way (debt-wise) for a long time and it'll take a lot to get it even pointed in the right direction.

Vilma was the #12 overall draft pick and NFL Defensive Rookie of the year.

I thought that's what I was doing. Perhaps there's some slight disconnect between presidents mandating affordable-housing quotas and Fannie and Freddie accomplishing that by buying sub-prime loans but I think you can connect the dots. I know Fannie and Freddie aren't technically part of the government but both articles were showing how they are responding to what presidents and congress were ordering. If not that, I guess you'll have to explain to me the difference between the examples I listed in the two articles and you saying the government didn't mandate it.

Because their D was so good this year? Maybe this is why M. Stoops was "on the market" so long - now he's DC all by himself.

If you're talking about athletic accomplishments in Nebraska, Strickland is way up there. Tough to top Gale Sayers overall, IMO.

We were 3rd in the Legends division this year. Just saying. We were thrid to two Top 15 team. Arizona was dead last in a division that had two teams with winning records. Not quite the same.

How did he imply that? What he was saying was that they started hating us alot more after we started bombing them. That makes sense, I would hate anyone who started bombing me. He said "we endlessly bomb these countries then we wonder why they get upset with us." Not "more upset". Not "are upset". To "get upset" means you were not upset before.

Ubel for the three ... we do actually have an offense, right?

We're on pace to beat them by 16! 10-8 after five minutes means we should win 80-64, right???

With no offer yet, I'm guessing Plan B.

still haven't been anywhere near great but better the last couple games. Can we take another step up?

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The fallacy of Paul's comments is he's implying that they actually liked us before we "endlessly bombed" them and that they were innocent bystanders in all of this. Not saying that is justification for war but he's making up a straw man arguement. I'm curious what you think these would be? Another straw man arguement because it makes the assumption that we would be willfully harborning a known terrorist. If we were playing both sides of the terrorism game, it would be a totally different story on a lot of things. Are you making that case?

I'm not saying it was the only cause but I'm not sure you can argue that government didn't play it's part.

I wouldn't mind seeing Shoff get a shot. I watched him play in person this year and really wasn't terribly impressed but he is a stud wrestler (I think his first three matches at state last year lasted a COMBINED 1:45 or something like that) which is usually a good sign and apparently can run track as well. If we end up with a few more scholarships than expected, he could be worth a flier.\ Edit: I didn't give him enough credit. His first three matches at state last year lasted 10 seconds, 28 seconds, and 13 seconds. He slacked off in the finals and only pinned the guy in 3:28.

The trend in regulations is that they are being written more frequently by industry insiders who have a conflict of interest, and funding for enforcement/oversight has been decreased. Banking: Repeal of Glass Staegle (cause of banking crisis). Energy: Revolving door at MME (cause of gulf spill). Despite CFTC report, there is still rampant speculation in oil markets. Securities fraud, and the inability of the SEC to do anything. This is such a broad topic that it would take a considerable amount of research by people dedicated to honest debate. Yet you've still only given one example of less regulation. All the rest are examples of more regulation (I assume) you'd like to see. To state the anything at MME is the "cause" of the oil spill is nothing short of ridiculous. The spill was caused by human and/or equipment failure. You can make the assertion that some regulators doing something different would help prevent such an occurrence but they cannot cause it. Also, as I stated earlier, I believe that the implosion of the subprime mortgage market was the "cause" of the banking crisis. The main contribution of deregulation (as I understand it) was that it allowed banks to become bigger and work on both sides of investing. However, this has nothing to do with the actual subprime lending - which was mandated by the government. The only thing the regulations still being in place would have done would be to make the effects of the collapse only affect the banks involved in lending - those banks would have been hit harder (as they had fewer alternatives to make up for the losses) while the banks not on that side would have not been affected as much. (I'm sure that is an over-simplification but that's my general understanding).

Second jsneb83 Anything (B/P)o (P/B)elini says has to be gospel.

Can you please read my entire post instead of trying to pick apart one phrase? I said the ball is "screaming" coming out of his hand, he's got a "cannon arm", has "zip on the ball" and is "doing a lot of things right." Then people accuse me of saying he can't improve which is made up out of nowhere. I said comparing him to Kiel is "setting the bar pretty high" but just needed someone to compare him to. The comment I originally replied to said he has "awesome mechanics". I think that is overstated based on what a lot of QB experts would look for in a delivery. I'd say they are pretty good but it would nice if he would quicken up his delivery. With as strong of an arm as he seems to have, I would think he could do this without losing much. I believe I said earlier in the thread that I'm excited to have him because he looks like he could be a really good QB. But if he's as good now as he's ever going to be, maybe I'm wrong.

Seems to me like all we ever do is add regulations? What regulations have we lost? Really? You don't know about the deregulation of Wall Street over the last 30 years and how it greatly contributed to the stock market crashing? 1. So one industry losing some regulations qualifies as "too much"? 2. I believe the crash of the subprime mortgage business was one major cause of the crash. Why was there so much investment in subprime mortgages? Because the government mandated it. That sounds like an increase in regulation to me.