LukeinNE

Good call, this was just a case where the law hadn't caught up to the technology yet. I'm far from a hard core libertarian on law and order, but with the capabilities of smart phones these days, searching a person's phone after an arrest isn't substantially different from driving to that person's house and seizing and searching their personal computer without a warrant.

I could be very wrong, but I sense that Hillary Clinton won't even be the Democratic nominee. She's got a lot of electoral history going against her, and the hard truth is that she's not a tenth the retail politician her husband is. This is a great example. Her political sin in this case isn't that she's rich (virtually every national politician is), it's how she handled the question. The correct answer to a question about ones wealth is, "you know, America's a great country, and that Bill and I have been blessed with the success we've had is a testament to the reality of the American dream. I believe in that Dream, and I want to help more people achieve it," not (my interpretation of her words) "Bill and I were poor leaving the White House, so I totally get the pocketbook issues of Middle America (wink wink)" In any case, the lasting political damage here is literally zero, but she's always had trouble with these sorts of comments and it doesn't look like the problem's been fixed.

It could be that I'm just too young to remember more competitive, nastier days, but my feelings toward OU-NU during the 2000s was the sensation of old friends getting together for beer and friendly competition. I've never felt any animosity toward OU whatsoever, and I sense many NU fans are the same, which makes it a very strange rivalry, even before conference realignment broke it up.

It'll be fine. We're a little squeezed at the moment because we probably overdid the expansion in a time of program stagnation, but ticket demand steadily grew despite the Solich and Callahan years and it will continue to do so in the future as long as the Athletic Department doesn't get greedy and alienate fans.

I hate saying "it depends" but...it depends on the nature of the payment. If paying players means elevating them to some sort of minor league pro status, letting them collect royalties on their likenesses, etc, I'm not interested. The appeal of college football is that it's an amateur's game, played for the love of the sport and school pride (at least there's enough of that to appeal..). However, I think we should take into consideration that NCAA regulations (not to mention the sheer amount of time being a scholarship athlete demands) unfairly limits the ability of an athlete to capitalize on other earning opportunities. I can tell you as a recent UNL grad....covering tuition, books and room/board still leaves thousands in fees, transportation, etc uncovered. So I don't feel like a small monthly stipend, or some limited compensation for their participation in the sports program would be out of line...so long as it merely serves to make athletes whole relative to their non-athlete peers who can more freely attain part time employment.