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LA is a different beast than anywhere in the country aside from NYC. I'd put WA and OR (and Stanford) as better targets than the ACC teams. For the universities as a whole, but that's my bias.

It would be a mistake to overlook Washington and Oregon. The B10 may do it, because they are stupidly blind and elitist to anything not east coast, but Washington in particular is an excellent school and the flood of people and dollars that hit the PNW over the last 20 years from people moving up there to work in tech would be stupid to overlook. The only problem may be that the more tech savvy people aren't paying for cable subscriptions. If that's the case at that point though you're not innovating, you're going the country music route and just trying to ride a dying medium (CD sales for country music, cable TV for college football) until the people willing to buy that die off.

Riley basically existed off Bo's remaining talent and killed the talent level at the program. Callahan recruited some good talent but they were horrible on the field, I mean how much of Suh's greatness was due to Pelini coming in? Do you think he'd have had anywhere close to the legendary couple years he had without that? Yes, I would/do feel the same, you make it sound like it was all garbage time scores where we had a 2 minute offense out there lighting up a defense that already checked out. That wasn't the case, the husker 2 minute offense sucks... The line wouldn't hold up late, and Martinez forced bad throws. You're not going to convince me that 1) the team doesn't play harder now under frost than it did under callahan or riley. or 2) the offense while not there yet isn't miles ahead of where it was under Bo because I have eyes and a working memory. What fans like you have convinced me of though over these last 20 years is that people like you that sit there and want to throw every coach out since Solich are why we are where we are. You cant just hit the f#&%ing reset button every couple of years, especially with different offenses/defenses like it's your xbox when you get mad about the AI dunking on you and think that magic is going to strike next time and the 90s are going to magically appear again but this time with whatever offensive flavor of the month is in vogue. Frankly Nebraska should have never done it in the first place, but here we are, and that's what's going to keep this program where it's been at.

Mike Riley worse? where you know going into the season most games are going to be uncompetitive but maybe he'll sqeak out a win he shouldn't have against a highly ranked team that came in sleeping? Callahan worse? where you know that any "big game" is going to be a blowout loss and games that shouldn't be competitive are nail biters? I can tell you just watching the games I see a big difference on the competitiveness between those years and Frost years. If you don't that's fine, but I'd take being probably a reliable kicker away from a winning record and an upgraded O-line away from being able to beat the Ohio States, Michigan, OU. Those were one score games against some of the best teams in the country running through one of the toughest schedules in the country. Yeah it'd be great if they didn't have the craptastic kicking game and an outclassed O-line and ran the table, but that wasn't likely to happen this season with this schedule with any team short of 94/95 Nebraska.

I still support frost, you all can be mad at me. I'd rather watch this team than one coached by Callahan, Riley or even Pelini. Nebraska was just a few years after the historic 90s run and our head coaching search brought us the big name of Bill Callahan. Pelini had a hard playing defense, but once people soured on him we spent big bucks to get rid of him and hire Historically horrible Mike Riley. People on here seem to think it's going to be better rolling the dice again, well, the track record on Nebraska's head coaching dice rolls proves otherwise.

At this point I'm convinced that the people that want to see him fired are the same ones that have set this program on the path it's been on for 18 years now. Stability is going to be far better then pretending we can hire Saban from Bama and instantly be NC contenders or something equally as make-believe. I sure hope Trev has the stones to tell the fans calling for firings where they can stick their opinions on the coaching staff.

The people that talk about these things talk about them from a football only wish-list standpoint, and football dollars are millions sure, but the cooperation on billions worth of grants between the CIC(or whatever it's called now) members and all the other university benefits beyond sports means you don't have Ohio States and Michigan's looking at the SEC and going "yeah totally worth it!" The idiots that think the SEC grass is greener for any BIG school think that college is just basically the mini-NFL and forget that there's entire student bodies, professors, deans, boards, etc and the dollars that flow into universities from research would dwarf a 10 million dollar more TV contract. There's no benefit. It's not like college football's going to leave out Ohio State and Michigan regardless of what conference they are in, not to mention they're already in the most profitable one.

Everything people are saying about ND are what they were saying back before they joined the ACC partially while telling the BIG to piss off. What do you all imagine has changed for ND? The ACC isn't imploding, the Big12 is just still in a slow motion drain circle that it has been since texas tried to bolt for the pac12 in 2010. I don't see how this really changes anyone's calculus as it's basically been in the process of happening and expected for 10+ years at this point.

Yes, it is, or advertising wouldn't work. It's amazing to me that it does, but it does.

100+ people traveling from state to state to college campuses that will probably still be mostly closed during a pandemic, except for "essential" staff for a sporting event and the TV crews/Network Talent to broadcast it. I can't think of a better demonstration that there's nothing amateur about the athletes at football schools. I think it's highly unlikely that there's any football this fall. People have already pointed out the potential liability of it from the student athlete point of view. What about the other people? people driving buses or press? God forbid having 200+ people on a field together and something spreads, what about other people on that campus and the community they live in? What happens when that's contact traced back to a player at a particular school due to football? I understand that people want to be optimistic that this will be over by the fall, but we are simply slowing it down, it's still going to probably infect half the population at least.

Its 160ish there about in 5 years, so yes its a matter of time, and approximately 5 years from now or so I'll be able to post there again. I lurk more than post, and I'll happily continue to do so. I just happen to disagree with the policy change that I got caught in and said so. I envy those of you that have the time to rack up 90+ posts a day and consider it a slow day, but I won't be joining those ranks, I don't have that much to say.

I think you're making a leap there, personally. The fact that I don't contribute nearly as much to the football forum doesn't mean it isn't my main interest here and why I joined the board originally. I read it to stay current on what is going on and what I would add, would there be anything I felt compelled to, has usually already been said. Where as P&R was interesting discussions with less of the same views as me.

While I am under no delusion that anyone will miss me in there or notice I am gone. Nor do I want to just go echo what everyone has already said a dozen times before I read threads in the football forum just to up a counter. So just let me say it seems a bit arbitrary, the 250 post count, so you earned yourself an eye-roll Enhance, as I'm not above shooting the messenger(a passive aggressive emote that is).

His success was getting the biggest rich shyster idiot in the country elected. If Trump had brain one he would have taken office and said "we need to secure our elections from foreign interference" and "I certainly believe in our intelligence and intelligence professionals and we need to let law enforcement investigate and come up with recommendations to protect the integrity of our elections from electronic espionage and influence campaigns" then let the FBI run with it. Then it ends there. Instead he tried to bury all his staff's contacts with Russians, fired Comey for the "Russia thing" and celebrated it the next day in his office with the Russian ambassadors and told the world he believes the word of Putin over the free worlds intelligence agencies. When we already knew they were running influence and hacking campaigns. That's how you end up with a special council investigation. His every instinct is the exact wrong way to handle this if he had no guilt. This has been a mess of his own making, not some deep state fighting against Trump, this is the result of a moron that cant think beyond his baser instincts with no ability to listen to people who are smarter than he is, then lying about it every step of the way. Some of you are just so far gone, worshiping this idiot, its baffling.

1) yes, although I don't know enough about every aspect of it, but support the idea in general. 2) Yes, because the court doesn't reflect the country when you stack it one way or the other. It should be balanced, and attempts to skew it either way are wrong. Actually historically we've had both more and fewer judges on the court. Nowhere is 9 set in law AFAIK. 3) yes, the electoral college is just a plain old dumb Idea. My vote should count the same in Nebraska or New York. Edit: I mixed up looking at the poll and the post below it with the voting age thing. So here's my thoughts on lowering the voting age. no, 16 year olds aren't fully formed adults and they don't really have any idea what their actual political views are. 99% of them probably just parrot their parents or friends political views to fit in. Also how many do you think would hear something like "if you want help paying for college in a couple years you'll vote for X" from a parent? It's asking for problems.

I disagree, years ago it was pretty obvious that the "news" part of fox news exists to give them a "credibility" they can point to when people point out their propaganda from all their other shows. Now we're finding out that they were doing things like killing stories they didn't want to come out prior to the election too. They are a news organization only so far as it gives them something to shield themselves with and point to in an attempt to prove legitimacy. So they are at least as bad on the news side, assuming all their news employees are duped and stupid into believing they are legitimate news, which is hard to believe. If they know they are running cover for a propaganda network that makes them worse in my mind.

Removing him from office or worse impeaching without removal and then no longer having that looming threat to at least partially keep him in check would be a big defeat for her. Pence would walk strait in to the oval after that and pardon Trump, if they even could convict. I'd personally prefer if he lost the election, SDNY and whoever else charged him the next day and he and his idiotic offspring were actually held accountable for their tax dodging and other crimes. Her mistake was answering that question in the first place, in any way that wasn't "We'll have to wait and see what the numerous investigations uncover and will consider all evidence as they wrap up." If they cant convict in the senate it's a moot point. Also we'll have much more detail about just how much of an idiot and crook he is by the time the next election rolls around, it would probably be a gift to the republican party if they were able to say "Yeah, that was an anomaly lets move on" rather then having to explain it all publicly for months.

1). Yes, it's a duh for the country, it'll save money in the long run, and it's long overdue. The lives and welfare of fellow citizens shouldn't be held hostage based on how much they earn and getting sick shouldn't ever result in financial ruin. 2). Yes, for public research institutions. A Degree is a requirement anymore for even some of the s#!ttiest of entry level jobs, but having a well educated population benefits almost everyone. Long gone are the days where you can walk into somewhere and slap your resume down, hope they like you and get training on the job. That has been pushed onto the public. 3). Europe is nice and some of those countries do some smart things in their public policy... I guess the blanket dismissal of any policies that originate there comes from this country's puritan roots, but you treat this like it's mutually exclusive, it's not. There are things the government can, should, and would do better than private companies. Those things are in best interest of the country such as keeping a healthy and educated workforce, researching things for the common good (like cures to diseases), funding space exploration, building and maintaining infrastructure, advancing future technological advancements, regulating monopolies, keeping a well trained and appropriately equipped military, running and building prisons (and actually working to reform inmates that can be rather then just throwing the book at the poorest among us), providing national security and foreign intelligence etc. So I voted for European socialism, partially to be contrarian to all the conservatives on here, but also because capitalism we have now isn't working for lots of people and it's not because the world changed and their manufacturing jobs got ripped out from under them, its because we've been in a class war for the last 30 years and it's taken away economic security and social mobility for lots of folks. Dismissing public policies out of hand without actually looking at each one and doing a cost benefit analysis is stupid and we need to be better and smarter than that. One blanket ideology or another isn't a solution to all this county's or the world's problems, but our political environment now allows for no nuance. I want to see policy positions backed up by studies on what would do the most good for the most people, we never get that, just idiotic talking points usually backed by fearmongering.

Monetary and fear based mainly. "Your care isn't going to be as good," "government death panels," "You're going to lose your doctor," "The governments going to tell you X," "Where are we going to magically get all this money," "Doctors are going to leave the country in droves," "you'll be standing in the soup line for medical care," "you'll have wait-lists" etc... Then there's the ones targeted at people without empathy or full of hate, "Do you want your money to cover <Insert Stereotype here>" and you can go ahead and insert any marginalized group into that or any population who's decisions they don't agree with or feel deserve any ill that befalls them, I'd call that part of it "revenge masquerading as justice." Then there's the insurance/doctors, they tend to focus on the fact that they may not make as much money, or that they don't want the government to mandate how they treat people. I think we see less of that from most doctors not in administration anymore because insurance companies do that now, mandate care, make doctors negotiate pre-authorization on any procedure they'd prescribe. One other thing I've read is possible increases in paperwork. Those are the ones I've seen, read, and talked through with friends off the top of my head. The worry I have, as a supporter of a single payer system, is that we have half our elected government basically acting in bad faith to f#&% things up to prove their sales pitch that "government doesn't work" right now. They'll do that with this too. screw it with de-funding, under-funding and under-staffing. This country needs a solid block of years or decades of elected people that are actually looking to do the best they can for the citizens as a whole not just whoever pays for their election to not just undo the damage this administration and senate has done now but to put something like MCA in place but then to keep it in place and fix whatever may not work as well as intended when implemented. Yet every time a democrat wins an election its like the left/center left of the population goes "didn't we already settle this? we won, why do I need to take time to vote" in the next election. That's infuriating.

He sort of explained it briefly on a MSNBC or CNN clip I saw last night. These were people that have either already given info or testimony and therefore will have a very tough time going back and claiming executive privilege and added that this wasn't a final list, this was the beginning and that its possible she would be asked for things in the future.

They have along with you know the audio recordings that came out from Cohen and Trump himself discussing the McDougal payoff through AMI.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ivanka-trumps-terrible-book-helps-explain-the-trump-family-ethos They totally understand the common man, they had no advantages, they simply know how to make the best of bad situations.

I don't see where he gets money for it, it seemed like he was playing for sympathy and more face time in front of a camera. I didn't follow this much, because I don't care about celebrity crap and don't watch TV often, but it really felt like he was really playing it up for sympathy and publicity. The problem is crazy people like him with schemes like this not only take police resources from actual victims but also make people more likely to disbelieve real victims of hate crimes. He'll be lumped in with the left because he tried to make it political with the MAGA crap, which gives people something to point to about the left and fake news or fake attacks to draw attention away from actual bad things happening. I hope they throw the book at him.

I'm pretty liberal when it comes to tax stuff, but I disagree with this too, you absolutely should be able to carry losses forward like that unless the entity goes bankrupt (shouldn't be transferable). Once they are whole then taxes would kick in, otherwise it's a penalty, but capital is needed up front to do almost anything. That sort of buffer could also help a company stay in business if they had a few rough years. Basically what the market needs for jobs and growth is stability and kicking people when they are down or trying to create something doesn't help that.

Family separation at the border force feeding border detainees on hunger strikes waterboarding etc... there's plenty of right wing policies put in place that are radical/extreme