BigRedBuster

What I don’t get is ,.....why not do the hat trick in December?

Blubbering idiot.

In case you’re interested.

We need more scoring off the bench. 8 points????

We need to pull away and ginish this. I like like the uniforms.

True. These plans are are being made a long time before they are made public. However, if things like the tax cuts make a big difference, these plans can be canceled. This tells me these plans were in the works and nothing that has happened the last two years has changed their minds. Nothing is going to either as much as the orange man thinks so.

wow......just wow.....

Grades are only speculation because nobody really knows. However, how many games he played in should be verifiable. If this is true, it's a major red flag you don't want on your team.

One more thing that really concerned me this morning. I don't have a link at my fingertips. On CNBC, they were saying that a large number of people have taken cash out of their home equity. Meaning, they refinanced the same home to a higher mortgage balance, paid off the old mortgage and pocketed the cash. Why??? So, people are bringing on higher debt balances and spending the money. They should be doing just the opposite. Get OUT of debt. I've also been seeing mortgage games being played like they were in 2006 and earlier. Zero down mortgages, mortgages for more than the home value....etc. I have a couple friends who are bank Presidents and they confirm they have seen this too.

I manage a company that manufactures products that go into (mostly) the residential housing and construction market. We sell nationally and in some foreign countries. Our market is really strong from march through mid-July....it then usually is slow until mid August and then picks up going into the fall. Our industry never came back in August and into the fall. Now, we all know that housing starts are down somewhat because of interest rates. However, when that happens, many times we will then see our products selling into the home improvement market. If people aren't buying new homes, they are fixing up their current ones. When they aren't doing either.....that concerns me. Florida is a huge market for us. When the housing market crashed last time, it was the first market that pulled back. My main customer down there claims about late July his phone completely shut off. He is hearing the same from other construction pros in Florida. I'm starting to hear similar type rumblings in other ares of the country. Also, our raw materials are sold heavily into the construction industry, but also into other markets like the auto industry, computer industry, packaging...etc. We are seeing some major softening in the prices they are selling to us at. Many times that means their demand is pulling back. They are acting as though they need people to be buying more. This tells me it's a wider issue than just the housing market. And...I know you disagree with me and I'm not going to argue the point. The ag economy stinks. This ultimately, affects many other industries. For instance, we have discussed GM switching to making more pickups. The ag industry is a huge market for them. Companies like Caterpillar have ag as a major market....etc. That's a lot of jobs. All of those cars and equipment are now more expensive because of the stupid tariffs. Pretty much any retail business in many small towns in America are largely reliant on the ag economy even if they're selling shoes, gas, computers....etc. None of that is going to show up in the stockmarket or in government statistics till months or quarters down the road. Many people think of the great recession starting in 2008. We knew it was happening as early as early 2007.

I'm not arguing against the bolded at all. The stats in the economy are very strong.

Ahhh...I understand the stat you were asking for now. I wouldn't have known it the exact answer. But, I fully understand that the stock market goes up and down. It's not my job. But, I invest and watch it enough to know that it fluctuates. My main point (that @HuskerNBigD doesn't agree with...and that's fine) is that I work in a couple different industries where I see things happening in the economy on a national basis. I'm seeing some cracks in our economy that I'm concerned about....they could end up being major cracks. HuskerNBigD doesn't agree with me, and that's fine. The cracks I'm seeing are things that aren't going to show up in government stats, like unemployment and consumer confidence, till later. I was in a discussion just over the weekend with several people in similar type jobs as me. They all thought we are already starting to see a pull back in the economy. Like I said, we get the pleasure of seeing what happens over the next 12-24 months.

Are you asking how much it's down year to date? That would be just under 2%.

I am adamantly against free college to everyone. I am a firm believer, that at that point in a person's life, they are an adult and they should have some skin in the game. Also, from what I've experienced from my college years and seeing kids go off to college from other families, if a kid has everything free, a lot don't take it as serious and just use it as a chance to party 4 more years before starting to adult. Look how many kids take free HS seriously now. Many think it's a joke. I have no desire to keep paying for those kids another 4 years and have them not take it seriously. Meanwhile, I see kids who work part time jobs to pay for college...and they know the cost they are putting into it and they make sure they get out of it what they can. This is the time people should be required to start investing in their own future and not just expect it to be handed to them. Now, I also believe that the cost of higher education is way out of control and that is a direct cause of students having so much college debt. That needs to be fixed. Looking at UNL, a large part of the problem is the state government drastically cutting back on the amount they are willing to fund to the University. If you look at the percentage of UNL the state funded when I was in school there in the late 80s compared to now, it's a fraction of what they used to fund. Those costs have to be passed on to the students....adding to their debt. The state benefits greatly from the state colleges, they should be funding them. I am also all for need based financial aid. We need to make sure we are doing what we can there.

Yes

Do they have to enroll early to count towards last year?

So, remind me again how early enrollees affect the number of recruits we can take. If I remember right, they can count towards last year's class. But, that's only if last year's class has room. Do all early enrollees count towards last year's class? If they don't, do they pay their own way for this semester and then go on scholarship starting in the summer? If not all, how many of these will count towards last year? Right now, this lists 8. So, if all fo them would count to last year, doesn't that actually make it possible to take 36 recruits in 2019? 25+8 early enrollees+3 over sign. I don't expect us to take that many. But, isn't that how the numbers would be? Of course, all that has to stay under the 85 limit. Thanks,

I agree. This is a disaster in the making.

I had to look up what the heck he meant by "littlejohn". Have to admit, I'm not confident in this game. The Texas Tech game was a blow to my confidence in this team. Hopefully, they prove that was just a bad night for them and not who this team really is.