BigRedBuster

Curious where you saw this. If he wasn't audibling, he - and the rest of the team - did a great job of making it look like he was audibling on many occasions. I agree. I always thought he was audibling. http://www.theticketfm.com/drop-the-mike/dan-hoppen-husker-online-5/ The team may have been audibling, but the calls were coming up from Beck down to the players on the headset giving signals. That's when TA would look to the sideline and adjust the play if need be. He didn't always look to the sidelines before he audibled.

I do prefer NIKE, and I think more people prefer NIKE than any other manufacturer. I think the reason most people "prefer" Nike is because they have the best marketing of the major shoe and apparel companies. They throw the money at the best athletes around the world to serve as their spokespeople and walking billboards. Then when it comes time to buy an athletic shoe, people will just go with a Nike. Pretty much sums it up. They don't have the best stuff across the board.

LINK This is obviously the school he wanted to go to no matter what. Got the offer and jumped on it.

If there are others that deserve it more, why would they be included just because they have a scholarship?

You must actually like Nike better than other companies. There are a lot of people that don't feel that way.

It's sad that it's not more intellectual than that. People should be going to these things with an open mind and willing to sit back and listen to what each is saying. On the other hand, the crowd in the auditorium was probably filled with operatives from each campaign and they are going to cheer on whatever candidate they work for and try to make it sound like the entire crowd is on their side.

As to the bolded part. This is a quote from the article. The non-violent offenders are less than 20%. As to the RED hi lighted part. LINK Now, most of the top 5 (at least) talks about drug crimes and how there needs to not be mandatory sentencing for these crimes. Not much of what I read talked about violent crimes. So, I'm assuming he is talking about non-violent crimes. This is Eric Holder's top 10 list of how to reduce the over populated prisons. Now, this article seems to contradict the one I posted above. It would be interesting to know what the actual truth is. You mentioned poverty related to crime. I'm not necessarily questioning you. However, one political side would try to have everyone believe that poverty in America is horrible and getting worse every day. To that, I found this article very interesting and it's from a pretty left leaning site. LINK So, poverty is getting worse and violent crime is getting better. Another part of this that leaves me scratching my head. If violent crime is going down, and non-violent offenders aren't the majority of the prison population, then why do we have an explosion in prison population? Let me throw out a theory that I have no data to prove. Back in the 80s and 90s, there was a big movement in the government to become tougher on crime. It was talked about during the Reagan years, Bush 1 years and Clinton took it even a step farther and put legislation through to increase the police force by 100,000 cops to try to reign in violent crime. Well...it appears to me it has worked. So....is the violent crime rate going down because we are locking up a large portion of the right people who would be out committing more violent crimes? I know that goes against most popular political speak today. But, is it true? So, if we reduce sentences and let more people out of prison to reduce prison populations, are we going to see a rise in crime rate again? If so, what is going to be the solution then?

You are right that she was a winner. I wouldn't totally rule her out at this point in the race. CNN

It was a beautiful night for golf league. I won my match so...technically, I was a winner last night too.

you mean a packed sun life stadium in a sea of red. Or that.

Is there a list of the 105 roster somewhere?

I will say this though. He needs to be concerned about practice and who is also trying to win that starting spot instead of what the media is saying. I've never seen anything in the media negative about him. He wasn't the starter last year so I don't know what he expects the media to say.

I personally would rather have specific threads for various topics. Now....what did you think about the interviews?

I love it. Push each other and get a good rotation so that two players aren't out there getting gassed late on drives or late in games. Dominate the line.

Why is there a 105 man rule for practice before school starts? It's been said many times and I will say it again. It is refreshing to have a coach that actually acts like he wants to inform us on what is going on.

We need to go kick Miami's ass in an empty stadium and show him where real football is played.

SWEET!!!!

Did our defenses in the 90s use a safety over the top? I'm not that knowledgable about that stuff but I'm thinking we didn't. CBs were basically on an island most of the time in lock down mode and the pass rush was extremely important to put pressure on the QB so the CBs didn't have to cover for very long.

Got any examples? I am just curious what you have in mind. And teachers who gripe about the pay - they knew going in what the pay was. I always thought that instead of a 9 month (actually its closer to 10 now) contract, we should get an 11 month contract (with a pay raise) and do all the staff development crap in that one month and **get ready for this** let us teach the rest of the time. To chime in with NUinID - my first contract in 1980 was $9875. OK...you hit on something I have a question about. In our school system, every Wednesday is a half day for the kids because the teachers have teacher inservice/meetings. Why can't they do that in the summer? Now that my kids are in HS and have their own cars, it's not that big of a deal. But, before that, it was a pain in the ass trying to figure out who is going to get them, take care of them, where they are going ...etc. Meanwhile, sports practices were at the same time so these kids that live out of town have to figure out what they are going to do for 3 hours. I just have never figured out what they need to do every week for 3 hours that they couldn't learn or do for a month in the summer. I don't like half day inservice myself - the class periods are too short to do much. I think it has to do with counting it as a school day. It would be better for the parents if instead of a half day every week we did a full day every other week. As far as early release we are finally doing late start so there isn't a big gap where the athletes have nothing to do. Now, that would be a step in the right direction. Let the kids sleep in while the teachers are at inservice. No gap between school and practices.

1. Nebraska 2. Nebraska 3. Any team that Nebraska needs to lose to improve their ranking 4. Northern midwest teams against anything in the sunbelt. yes, this would include the B1G, ND, northern Big XII teams..etc. 5. Anyone playing Texas, Miami, Colorado.

Did I get this right that he received the offer today and committed immediately? I think the punctuation should have been a period after "U of H" and a comma after "Today". And some people think punctuation is stupid.

What a friggen con man.

Personally, if I were taking my 5 year old to his first game, I would want to sit closer to the action where he can see the players and coaches better. Just my opinion. The view from up top is great for someone who likes the Xs and Os of the game and watch the plays develop.

And, he has one heck of an offer list.