Dr. Strangelove

6 hours ago, Decked said:

3 star galore. They’ve had some limited traction with the higher rated fellas. They need to win this year. Bowl game. 

It's a process.

I do think Rhule's strategy could pay dividends - keeping a very large roster that eventually becomes 4 and 5 year seniors is something Nebraska can do. 

Supplementing 4* talent - even if limited - can be effective with an older, experienced roster. Can Nebraska build and maintain that roster in the era of the transfer portal? It's a risky strategy, but with Nebraska's limited recruiting base it may be the only strategy that can mitigate the Blue Chip gap.

5 hours ago, Loebarth said:

Now I know he's only a 3 star (little poke @Dr. Strangelove cause he hates 3* recruiting) but 40 D1 offers.. Is there an expectation of a earning 4th star? Seems there was some hype around this kid both locally and nationally. Someone above (or maybe some journalist) stated he's body ready more than most freshmen TE prospects which kind of shocked me as I've always thought soft hands and quick feet were essential TE attributes more so than height/weight ratio. How wrong am I?

I don't hate 3* players. 

It's not a good strategy to have your recruiting class be 3/4ths of them.

17 minutes ago, commando said:

mafia attorneys defend their bosses 

The primary difference being that, in this instance, it sets a precedent for authoritarianism. 

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Do you even understand what a defense attorney does?  
 

Does this mean the argument is going to win?  Hopefully not, but that is their job when they take the job. 

See above. Congrats on creating this. Wish I could say that it was difficult to see coming and that Trump really veered off course, but you know, decades of being a piece of s#!t kind of eliminates that excuse. 

On 4/23/2024 at 12:43 PM, Mavric said:

 

Hopefully they land some talent. This recruiting class is lacking blue chip talent.

4 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Isn’t it his lawyers job to make these arguments on his behalf?  Even if they end of losing said arguments.  

At a certain point, shouldn't a person look themselves in the mirror and say "wow, I'm actually going to step in front of SCOTUS and say that attempting a coup attempt, ordering the military to commit a coup, or assassinating a political rival should be allowed by Presidential immunity. Maybe this entire political movement is f#&%ing stupid, enabled by the lowest dredges of society, and I probably shouldn't be doing this"

I realize looking into the mirror and asking difficult questions is kind of difficult for a certain voter who enabled all this, but lets be honest here - Trump is a catastrophic idiot enabled by elements of society who cheer his anti-American authoritarianism on because it OwNs teH LiBs. 

33 minutes ago, Fru said:

ONE bad man? Dude. C’mon.

It has a lot more to do with millions of voters who enable his behavior in the name of moronic culture war nonsense.

Trump is probably going to be found to be immune from prosecution for trying to overthrow Democracy, won't end up in jail, and because the average voter is stupid beyond comprehension, he's likely to win in November.

8 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Yeah...

 

It was Trump -125 and Biden at +110 (I think) and then it went to -110 for both.  Then -125 for Trump and now -120 and -110

 

With RFK jr getting the +3000

All of that seems reasonable, Trump has a 55%-60% chance to win. Those odds seem correct.

5 minutes ago, teachercd said:

DT -120

JB -110

Any other:  +3000

So an election that's essentially a toss-up with Trump as a slight favorite? Honestly this seems pretty accurate. 

56 minutes ago, teachercd said:

Trump odds fell again today on betting my betting site.

What are the odds?

I may have to get in on this action.

21 hours ago, Danny Bateman said:

 

If somebody with a worldview this f#&%ing completely bonkers was in line next to me at the grocery store, I'd let them cut ahead of me just to get them the hell away from me in case today was the day their brain decided to break.

 

And yet some Americans are ready to put him in charge again. What the f#&% is wrong with us?

If my "some" you mean like 75 million, then you are correct.

I still think Trump is more likely to win in November than he is to lose. Biden's poll numbers are getting better but he's nowhere near the 5% mark nationally he needs to win by in order to pull off an Electoral College victory.

Pretend for a moment that you were actually grifted into voting for this pathetic excuse for a person not once, but twice.

If this applies to whomever is reading this, please evaluate your political choices and disengage from political participation. 

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

What you will get from his supporters will be this idea that him falling asleep is showing off his swagger and how he doesn't give a f#&% about the trial.   

It's the sign of ultimate electability - and he's owning the Libs by sleeping through the SHAM trial.

21 minutes ago, Lorewarn said:

 

 

This might (mostly) be the case now, but seemingly always wasn't so. SSO has had a series of relatively informed/insider accounts of the state of NIL over the last few years:

 

https://herbieshangout.com/2023/12/22/nebraska-and-the-collective/

 

https://herbieshangout.com/2022/12/22/nil-reality-for-nebraska/

 

https://herbieshangout.com/2023/01/09/we-arent-getting-you-here-with-our-nil-bid-with-that-said-we-aint-losing-a-bidding-war/

 

Some highlights:

 

The reality is the fact that Nebraska was probably closer to 50th in terms of what we were paying guys and how we were organized. Don’t forget, we grabbed Trey Palmer by telling him he would sell NFTs to our fans among other things:

PRESENTING… Nebraska x Trey Palmer NFT. LIMITED quantities of these NFTs will be available for purchase beginning Saturday, April 9th at 12 PM CST until Sunday, April 17th https://t.co/IroV6Oktqe #PoweredByABM @treythekiid3

— Athlete Branding & Marketing (@_ABMusa_) April 8, 2022
That site can’t even be reached anymore. We did a little better grabbing guys like Ben Scott, Billy Kemp, and Jeff Sims the following year. But lost out bidding wars for guys like Walter Rouse to Oklahoma. Things just weren’t right. We needed a ton of help.

1890 Collective
I apologize for the language, but it was a f#&%ing s#!t show for Nebraska and NIL collectives the first 2 years. Luckily we had some of Nebraska’s most powerful donors Tom and Shawn Peed decide to reach out and ask what they could do to help. With Matt Davison no longer in a football role with the University, and having a pretty extensive resume for fundraising in different capacities, it almost made too much sense for them to have him heading the efforts of 1890. After all, Matt had already been doing most of the heavy lifting for securing the funds for the new football facility. Him being an alum helped, as he was going to have to have conversations with players on what the football team can do for them. And by the way, if football doesn’t work out, look what playing for the team can do for you like it did for him.

 

 

 

There was only one problem, Nebraska was trying to do it the way the NCAA intended it to be. We would talk to recruits and say “you can tweet about Runza” or other companies like that. “We have so much fan support here that as soon as you take off businesses will be lining up to get you in a commercial.” It made sense, there’s a ton of support for our beloved Cornhuskers. What Nebraska didn’t see coming was the fact that many schools were going to just give recruits money to sign. No need for the tweet or to spend time on a commercial, just ink your name and we are good.

 

 

 

Want me to really blow your mind? So we figured out that we needed to pay people to just come here… and we did a great job at that shortly after. Casey Thompson commits and Trey Palmer comes on up with Mickey with a sweet NIL deal. Only one problem, we actually ran out of money. Don’t believe me? One of our top transfers was told he had to wait to sign for us to get the cash to him. It’s almost too crazy to believe, but i’ll add some more points to this to let you guys see just how far behind we were. We were scrambling to scrape up any booster donations we could get to add a few more pieces.

According to On3 sports, Nebraska only had one player on the top 100 for NIL dollars, and that was Trey Palmer. You have schools like Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, all with guys that according to On3 have higher NIL grades/deals than our top guy. Now, do I fully believe the valuations and those things on there? No, but they aren’t as far off as us being #3 18 months ago for NIL then finishing with the worst class since joining the conference. So again, either we are really good at NIL and just don’t promote that we are which would be the dumbest thing ever, or we just aren’t there yet.

I personally put very little stock in herbies hangout posts, particularly when he's using On3 Sports NIL valuations for players - numbers they completely makeup and use athletes Twitter/IG follower counts to  try and come up with an NIL number. Lets be honest: the reason Nebraska struggled in the early days of NIL was because the state of the team was terrible. Scott Frost was a terrible coach and Nebraska Football was at it's lowest point. NIL dollars aren't going to be flowing. I'm not sure if that's Matt Davidson's fault.

That doesn't mean what he's saying isn't true, but a lot of what he's discussing seems like collective growing pains and learning how to navigate the NIL space on the fly. I distinctly remember Oregon getting into NFTs for NIL purposes around that time as well.

21 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

We all have to collectively admit that it's absolutely hilarious that the guy who dubbed his political opponent "Sleepy Joe" is falling asleep at one of his many criminal trials.

Now, the irony is lost on the horde of people who have and will vote for this guy. The expectations for his supporters should be lower than you can possibly imagine. But, still, this could not be funnier.

On 4/2/2024 at 12:54 PM, Micheal said:

So are there other NIL organizations here other than the 1890 Initiative? Is it the most "legitimate"?

 

Idk why but the NIL groups make me nervous. It just seems like it is the wild wild west right now. 

There may be smaller ones, but the biggest by far is 1890. They seem to be the one the school "unofficially" works with regarding NIL.

By all accounts, 1890 is a well run NIL operation despite weird message board missgivings about Matt Davidson. If you chose to donate, most of your money will go directly towards Husker Athletics - with a small amount going towards costs to run the operation. 

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Vote by mail and ballot harvesting is on the agenda for GOP.  Won’t work this year 

Luckily all these GOPers know that voting by mail defaults your vote to Joe Biden.

Trust me, there isn't a grift stupid enough for these people. I mean, my God, some voted for Trump twice. Can you believe that?!

1 minute ago, TGHusker said:

 

 

Hopefully Trump voters will be on a burrito hangover on voting Tuesday and decide not to vote in those critical states. 

I think we should tell them a voting booth is laced with DEI and that a CRT immigrant is waiting to jump on them at their polling location. Scare them into staying home.

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

It’s interesting that they think this appeals to the majority of Americans. 
 

 

I think this only appeals to the Trump base who don't really live in reality anymore. Most of these people are convinced that America is a barren wasteland infested with Immigrants, Trans people, and murderous criminals just beyond the horizon.

This election is going to be decided by an extremely small number of people in 6 states that do not pay attention to politics and are angry that Beefy 5-Layer Burritos are $0.30 more expensive today than they were in 2020. Voters like this barely know anything about either candidate and chalk up most news about them as just "politics". Biden has to win huge margins of low information, low propensity voters which just may not be possible.

1 hour ago, Husker in WI said:

 

You can pretty much assume anyone who started their career as a walk-on (even if they were on scholarship at one point) and most of the guys transferring in each year are not technically on scholarship. Also guys coming back for 5th/6th years - my understanding is guys who sign out of high school get that scholarship for 4 years, but after that they could be taken off. Several high school guys are not on scholarship either. There are a lot more than 10 guys in those buckets.

Right, at this point, who's on scholarship and reported as such to the NCAA really doesn't matter. Nebraska will report 85 scholarship players, but may have a roster of 150. 

Nobody knows for sure, but a good number of 'non-scholarship' players are essentially getting NIL payouts that make the distinction between who's on scholarship and who isn't pretty vague. A non scholarship player may have their tuition, housing, extra spending money paid for as part of their deal. It's a strategy that Rhule seems to believe in, and we'll see if using NIL resources to bring in a large quantity of players is the correct approach. 

On 4/8/2024 at 3:41 PM, commando said:

it's been an hour and no one has posted about how bad this is for america?  or how Joe is to blame for how bad this is?

This just goes to show that the CHIPS Act was just a BIDEN sellout to FOREIGN Interests and he probably accepted a BRIBE because he HATES AMERICA!

Donate to Trump's legal defense fund to pay a judgement against a woman he raped if you agree!

17 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

These numbers are interesting.   KC’s number is compared against 2023 when the city experienced its deadliest year on record.  This years number is also recently trending up.  Not sure if this reflects other cities too, but as for KC, it’s not the flex someone is wanting it to be.   
 

That said, reducing the murder rate is ALWAYS a good thing no matter who is in charge.  

Absolutely. The good thing is that violent crime across the board has been on a downward trajectory since the 1970s. As we distance ourselves from COVID, violent crime seems to be resuming it'd downward trend.

18 hours ago, teachercd said:

One thing, notice how the stupid "defund the police" thing is GONE...because it was stooopid.  

There are a lot of really dumb ideas to come out of the American left, and "defund the police" was one of the worst.

Absolutely bonkers considering the pro crime, anti-police, authority hating domestic policies of the Biden Administration. 

Really amazing considering the job killing, worker hating, anti-growth economic policies of the Biden Administration. 

The American public, fortunately, is smart enough to realize that merely doubling the economic performance of peer nations represents an economic catastrophe. 

On 4/13/2024 at 11:50 AM, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

In fairness, Republicans nominated John McCain and Mitt Romney and lost handily. They regained their groove when they went psychotic and obstructionist, including state and local levels. 

Because they faced Obama who ran on a considerably less progressive policy goals.

On 4/12/2024 at 8:07 AM, Archy1221 said:

 

I understand that being grifted into voting for Trump twice had caused you to undergo bizarre, reality altering views of the world in order to reconcile your support for embarrassing morons who hate America and also happen to be anti-democracy criminals.

But my God, posting RFK Jr. videos after Trump is facing 14 criminal indictments for interfering in Georgia's election and in federal elections. The cases are ongoing... and guess who's fault it is? VOTERS LIKE YOU for supporting him. 

We need to collectively stop coddling these voters who live in rural states and collectively place proper blame that they've given rise to Trump. These people need to be regarded with mocking and derision.