Mavric

Interesting stats but I'm not sure how accurate they are. By my count, Nebraska should be returning 7 on offense (losing Kinnie, Hardrick, Caputo & Jones) and 8 on defense (losing David, Dennard & Cassidy).

I wouldn't say that any of those guys have had "great" success as head coaches, but the amount of Belichick assistants who have become head coaches is very impressive. I might be wrong but I think it was intended as sarcastic because none of those guys had success as head coaches. That's why he said at least McDaniels figured it out and is going back to New England. You might just be right. Haha. Did I forget something?

We have, including one up for the Hall of Fame this year and one in the Pro Bowl but USC obviously runs a pro-style offense and the perception of them is totally different.

I guess I'm not really sure what all to take from that paper. It does seem that Medicare is somewhat more efficient but I'm not really convinced it's by all that much. According to the paper: Costs for both Medicare and private are estimates, including trying to figure out how much more cost should be allocated to Medicare above what the government reports Other Medicare liabilities "can create issues just as significant as costs" but aren't included in the paper (pg. 2) If Medicare had to cover as many people as private, the cost "would increase to perhaps 6-8%" (pg. 3) which is pretty close to the base 8.6% they put for private. "Private industry costs are based on [reported data] ... and our experience and judgement" (pg. 3) I'm sure they did an honest job of trying to compare the two but even they seem to admit it's somewhat like comparing apples and oranges. There are a lot of estimates included but the number that jumps out at me is it seems like most of the efficiency gains are due to covering far fewer people under the plan - which would also be true of the VA.

I wasn't referring to amounts paid out under the current fee schedules. I was referring to administrative costs. Medicare/Medicaid and the VA are run more efficiently than private insurance. A higher percentage of each dollar in these programs is paid out for actual health care rather than bureaucratic overhead/profits than in private health insurance. I was surprised when I learned that. But, yes, the government provided/paid for health care is more efficient than the private market. Draw from that what you will but those are facts. Edit: Here's one example - http://www.cahi.org/...hnicalPaper.pdf Yeah, I was trying to catch up on this thread and realized after I posted that my post didn't really follow up on your post that I quoted. Like I said, I'm not really up-to-date on all the numbers. Do you have any comments on my post?

ND St. wins in convincing fashion, 17-6. They held the top-scoring team in FCS to 6 points and 210 yds. Congrats to Coach Bohl and his squad.

Go look at the margins in Medicare/Medicaid and the VA system and compare them to the overhead in the private health insurance market. I think you might be very, very, surprised. I'm not an expert on the numbers but don't Medicare and/or Medicaid keep cutting back what/how much they pay for services? I believe that's why medical facilities are dropping Medicare/Medicaid patients. If I'm thinking of that correctly, it's pretty easy to see where that leads down a bad path: Government pays less for their part -> medical facilities have to charge other patients more to make up the difference -> private insurers have to pay more -> insurance premiums rise. I'm probably over-simplifying but I don't think that's too far-fetched.

Larry Johnson is staying. Sounds like that might be the only one retained.

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.