Mavric

6-3 Sam Houston St. at halftime. Sam Houston St. averages 39 points and 421 yards per game. ND St. held them to 133 yds in the first half.

We got to 40 ... and there's still 10:30 to play! Watch out!

NU destroyed Peyton Manning. Michigan needed help from the clock keeper to hold off Ryan Leaf. Any questions?

The Bill Belichick coaching tree continues to expand - Charlie Wiess, Romeo Crennel, Eric Mangini, Josh McDaniels ... all with great success as HCs. At least McDaniels figured it out and is going back to New England.

Up and down at times but I'll take a three point lead at half. Did Illinois' big guy come back in after picking up his second foul?

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:

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....

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.

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

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.