BigRedBuster

I haven't been able to watch the game. Looking at the stats, Moses Abraham seemed not much of a factor. Is that correct? I'm hoping he can build into a good addition in the paint.

Interesting. Let's look at the head to heads. * - Nebraska 4-1 8-1 * - Minnesota 3-1 6-2 * - Iowa 3-1 6-2 * - Wisconsin 3-1 6-2 Northwestern 2-3 3-5 Illinois 1-4 4-5 Purdue 1-4 3-6 * - Missouri 4-1 7-2 * - Georgia 4-2 6-2 Florida 3-3 4-3 Kentucky 2-4 5-4 South Carolina 2-5 4-5 Tennessee 1-4 4-5 Vanderbilt 0-5 3-6 Nebraska beats Missouri Minnesota loses to Georgia (maybe) Iowa and Florida is close, edge to Florida Wisconsin crushes Kentucky Northwestern and South Carolina is probably pretty close, Not sure here but edge S. Car for arguments sake Illinois crushes Tennessee Purdue crushes Vanderbilt I count 4-3 B1G here, but it could swing either way. I would say yes, B1G West is better then SEC East. B1G East is certainly much better than SEC East. Why would you give the edge to Florida over Iowa? Iowa has the better record. Admittedly, they didn't look that good this weekend against Minny. But, how good is Minny?

The movement on the line has absolutely zero to do with his health. If the line came out at 4 then moved to 6, that means more gamblers were putting money on Wisconsin. That is it. It has nothing to do with experts picking anything. Now, what it may mean is what the public's opinion of our chances if his knee isn't healthy. Big difference.

If I had to choose between the two options in the OP, I would take the second option. However, I think they could make a lot of hay with: a) Create policies that would bring manufacturing back to the US. No, that doesn't mean punish those horrible business owners. Make them want to be here. This would help out the low to middle class by bringing more jobs that actually create something. We can help out these groups without policies that appear to many people as only...."Tax those evil rich people". b) Improve social security in a way that actually is smart and would make the program need based and actually sustainable long term. c) Pass budgets that accomplish what needs accomplished without a bunch of crappy waste that we really don't need. Continue any efforts that have been made to reduce the deficit. d) Create new tax reform that actually makes sense instead of doing things that appears all you do is give things to the rich. Make them pay their share but don't go over board with "those evil rich 1%ers." e) pass immigration policy that actually shows you have a brain in your head. No....that doesn't mean round 8 million people up with brown skin and ship them south. f) Address higher education cost. It is totally outrageous what kids pay now going to college and the debt most are in when they get out. g) Address our energy problems. Continue to use our oil resources as needed. But, have an all out effort to develop new energy sources. Actually, if you accomplish "a", the rest are a lot easier.

Is this directed at me? Bc Ive never once mentioned how great we are to opponents. In fact I ignore opposing fans when I see them in Lincoln, just like I said in my post. And I think the compliments by opposing fans thread is stupid.While your opinion may the minority view, I completely agree with you. I don't see why Nebraska fans go out of their way to be nice to others. We should strive to make our home field a hostile environment where opponents dread playing in. The other team, not their fans, are our friends. They want to destroy us on our home field. We live in a dog-eat-dog world these days where we should utilize the competitive atmosphere to intimidate our opponents, not make them feel welcomed. Not saying we need to go out of our way to fight every visiting fan/player, but there is no reason to be nice to them. However, this is just my opinion so take it for what it's worth. Maybe, I'm just spiteful after living in Chicago for so many years. The fans are there to watch a football game. They have nothing to do with the outcome of the game. The way I look at them is, they are on vacation. I wouldn't want someone messing with me when Im on vacation. But at the same time, I bought this beer and food so stay away from my tailgate unless I know you. Buy your own beer and food. But I agree with treating the opposing TEAM with hostility. Make it intimidating for them, not their fans. Fans may not directly affect the outcome of the game, but they have the possibility to indirectly affect the outcome of the game. For example, let the opposing fans feel welcomed may make them feel more welcomed to cheer at the games. In a close game, after a momentum shifting play in favor of our opponents, they may not be as worried or feel as much as an outsider to cheer for their team, even though they are sitting among Nebraska fans. When the opposing team acknowledges these cheers they may feel support and play better. To say fans have no impact on the game is silly, because if not then what is the fuss over home field advantage. As you've stated the best way to approach this situation, is to ignore the opposing fans... Some of the funnest times I have had in Lincoln is with opposing fans. Heck, in college, we were fierce rivals on the field with OU. After the game? We had a blast with their fans. I just don't understand the attitude some fans have that they need to be rude or intimidating to the opposing fans. It just seems like the most immature way to be a fan and it ruins the experience for so many people. Believe it or not, you being rude to opposing fans doesn't affect the outcome. All it does is makes you feel tough.

Yeah....that sounds like much more fun discussion this week.

If we lose to Wisconsin I'm investing in shower curtain rod companies because there are some husker fans they will instantly become suicidal. They will realize a shower curtain rod isn't strong enough to support them. They will need to be replaced. This thread really isn't needed.

No, this is not at all about racism or individual ability or doing things for yourself. A rule that introduces requirements that weren't there before is going to lower the percentage of people who vote. This is simple cause & effect. There's nothing that will ever change that. You make it enough of a hassle that some people are going to say, "You know what? I'm not going to bother." And everyone is not affected equally by this. It takes advantage of the fact that the extra bother is imposed not indiscriminately, but very clearly on certain people more than others. The bottom line is that any group that has to take additional measures is going to turn out less, as a whole. Republicans are taking advantage of a convenient reality that the groups that happen to be hit hardest by these measures, also happen to vote the other way as a whole. There is nothing more to this than those in power changing the rules of the game so as to help themselves stay in power. why don't we send people door to door to vote. Heck, have people on street corners finding the homeless people and getting them to fill out their ballots or just have anyone walking down the street fill it out. We could do it like those annoying polling people in malls asking you to fill out a questionnaire. I'm sure it is an extreme burden for some people to have to actually go to a polling place and vote. I'm sure that making them actually get to a polling place deters some voters. Isn't that suppressing these poor minority people who....just can't get over a burden in their way to vote?

If Nebraska would have played Alabama's schedule so far, I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they are worse than 8-1. Up to now, there could be four potential losses there (WVU, ole miss, a&mmamd Arkansas), but they could be ok too. Either way, that's a better schedule than ours by a damn sight. "potential losses" is totally different than "it ain't 8-1". Ok fine, If Nebraska played that schedule I would predict losses to WVU, Arkansas, Ole Miss, possibly A&M, LSU, Miss. st and Auburn. And oh man would the Auburn loss be ugly. I wouldn't expect you to predict anything different.

If Nebraska would have played Alabama's schedule so far, I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they are worse than 8-1. Up to now, there could be four potential losses there (WVU, ole miss, a&mmamd Arkansas), but they could be ok too. Either way, that's a better schedule than ours by a damn sight. "potential losses" is totally different than "it ain't 8-1".

And by the way.... If Nebraska would have played Alabama's schedule so far, I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they are worse than 8-1.

I completely agree with this. For most of the season, everyone sits around and talks about how much more difficult their schedules have been. Meanwhile, at the end of the season they sneak in playing Presbyterian and nobody says boo.

It's exactly as carl said. On the one hand, the idea of having an airtight system ensuring all voters are identified is great. It's something to strive for. On the other, there's no evidence that voter fraud happens or is attempted in even close to significant amounts. And the burdens imposed by these new laws aren't trivial, either. Sometimes it's a matter of driving hours away to be able to secure a valid identification. There are hoops to jump through and the reality is, even if they are really easy hoops, the bottom line effect is that only a percentage of people affected will bother to go through with it. How hard is voting, for example, if you do have ID? Trivially easy. And yet only a percentage of people bother. Raising the barrier even by what might seem insignificant measures turns a further percentage of people away. This time it's not insignificant. And this time the people most inconvenienced and most turned away by this are minorities, young people, women (change of last name!) That's the simple reality of the situation. No procedure or process or regulation is ever really airtight or flawless. The only reason so much political effort is being expended to this end is because of what it will accomplish, and that is screen away percentages of a demographic that tends to be politically opposed. Here is the thing that drives me crazy about this entire issue. One side acts like idiots putting rules in place in a way that it's easy for the other side to scream....RACISM. The other side acts like these minorities are the most helpless invalid people who can't do anything for themselves. Heck, if I listened to this side and I was a black teen, I wouldn't think I could never accomplish anything because I am such a helpless poor person in such a dominatingly racist culture that no way in hell I can do anything.

What gives you that impression? The "go big, Obama", or the "good we got back the senate now we can go do x" comments. There are more, and I could be wrong, but it just seems there are lots of people in a gigantic hurry to make -rules- No . . . what gave you the impression that creating new rules and guidelines wasn't what a lot of the fathers and writers had in mind? Every time a rule is put in in some for or another, someone screams....OMG....it's hurting poor minority people. That is unless it's the other side putting the rule in and then some other group is being hurt.

Interesting Big Ten = 7 SEC = 8 Pac 12 = 8 ACC = 5 Big 12 = 2 If I counted right.

What a pair of idiots. They are perfect for themselves. I'm actually surprised they were able to get the charges on her to stick. Somehow they got her to plead guilty. The way the article reads, she never had possession of the meth they accused her of trying to sell. It reads as though she said she would go to the storage unit and sell "something" to raise the money. They followed her but she never opened the unit or got the meth. She drove off and they arrested her. There was meth in the unit. Unless the meth was the only thing in the unit, she could have been going to get something else to sell. But, like I said, they are both idiots and if she confessed...so be it.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar. If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect. So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops. Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team. Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other. My point is, why don't you bitch about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is. In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion. Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do. Here is the context for this topic. There has been an incredible amount of pearl clutching and butthurt over all things sec on this board. Whether it's recruit stealing, dirty pool, or bias, it seems everything they do is horrible and overrated and us poor pious big ten folk can't catch a break. So, there's an extremely well written article on Grantland on how there's some good games coming up in the big ten, and how they can get back to what they once were. Further, it explains how they got there. In short, losing marquee matchup games and poor scheduling. Poor scheduling is especially appropo for Nebraska this year. As it has one of the worst schedules it's ever had. Granted, some of it is out of their control, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's bad, and if you gave NU any other schedule that a sec west team has, it ain't 8-1. When Nebraska weak OOC is brought up, what's the knee jerk response? "Well the sec does it". Which rings hollow because because usually here the line is "we don't want to be like the sec". Well we don't until it's convenient to, apparently. I acknowledge that playing these games is wide spread and I'd like to see it stop but I'd also like if we were a little honest with ourselves. You are absolutely losing all perspective of what the argument against the SEC has been. EDIT....sorry, didn't see you said SEC west. The non-con schedules of the SEC isn't much tougher than this one. In fact, this is how almost ALL of the power 5 conferences schedule. So, it isn't a (well, if the SEC does it then we should to). It's how college football is. I, in fact, used the SEC in my post because all I hear about is..."Why aren't we as good as the SEC". So, why not compare to what they are doing? Also, you are talking about stuff that is actually recruiting violations that basically the SEC flaunts that they do. There is a big difference between paying players with bag men compared to scheduling games. But....hey....if you want to keep painting everything Nebraska bad then I guess you can probably keep getting the nice warm reception with other Husker fans.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar. If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect. So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops. Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team. Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other. My point is, why don't you bitch about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is. In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion. Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do.

Kinda like 3/4 of the SEC. What good for one should be good for the other. scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive. The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away. Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar. If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

I thought I had learned on here a month or so ago that there really is no such thing as home field advantage. It gets so confusing on here some times what I'm supposed to learn.

Oh my friggen Lord. That woman and Harry can't get thrown out of Washington fast enough. "Voter suppression watch: In the North Carolina Senate race, Thom Tillis beat Senator Kay Hagen by 48,000 votes. North Carolina’s voters were, for the first time, voting under one of the harshest new election laws in the country — which Tillis helped craft. The Election Protection hotline reported widespread problems with voter registrations and voters being told they were in the wrong precinct. Numbers from recent elections suggest the magnitude of voter suppression is close to 45,000 to 50,000 votes. Similarly, in Kansas, Governor Sam Brownback beat back challenger Paul Davis by fewer than 33,000 votes. The Kansas secretary of state says more than 24,000 Kansans tried to register this year but their registrations were held in “suspense” because they failed to present the documentary proof of citizenship now required by state law. And the Government Accountability Office found that Kansas’s voter ID law reduced turnout by 17,000 voters in 2012. You do the math." So, let me get this straight. Now it's even soooo disastrous for someone to even have to prove who they are just to register?

Have you watched Wisconsin this year? Stave and McEvoy are pick machines. Also, Gordon has the fumbled the ball a couple times this year which is odd seeing as he'd never lost one in his career before. You might guarantee that but I sure won't. We can get turnovers from these guys. See this is my problem with all the fear of Wisconsin stuff. How many of you have actually watch Wisconsin really play this year? They had like 4 TO against NW that really helped them get beat. Maryland was playing most or all of the game without its QB and played probably their worst game of the year and Wisconsin played their best game. Yes they beat Rutgers 37-0, but part of the reason was that NU beat the crap out of them the week before. Nova couldn't even move and was out their playing. The Rutgers punter literally shanked 4 punts in a row giving Whisky the ball on the plus side of the field. Nebraska actually had about 200 more yards of offense against Rutgers than Wisconsin did. They are a good solid team, but nothing more. Wisconsin doesn't scare me as a team. They are human and can be beat. Playing them at Camp Randle makes it more tough. I'm glad we had the Northwestern game on the road right after the MSU game so the team could get some confidence back on the road. If Nebraska goes out and plays they way they have shown they can play this year, they win. It's all between their ears. They have the talent, schemes...etc. Settle down. Play the game. Win the game and come home.

How do I watch BTN plus?

Polo. Why do you find it your mission to convince everyone how much Nebraska and the Big Ten sucks?

I am going to contradict a lot of people in Husker Nation. I believe we have to have an affective passing game in this game. They are 121st in passing yards in the nation. They are 3rd in rushing yards in the nation. We need the passing game to kill them early and often. That doesn't mean we need to pass the ball 45 times a game. It also does't mean we need 70% completion rate. If we have a 55% completion rate and complete some key plays in the first half, the game is going to be much easier in the second half. They also are tied for 18th in sacks with three per game. So, they are probably going to sack TA a couple times. That doesn't mean we suck or our OL is absolutely terrible or that Beck is evil. It means they have some pass rushers. However, we should be able to get yards and points with the pass in this game.