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4 hours ago, admo said:

In your opinion, if people have an opinion about it and choose not to spend the money on it, vent or speak their mind, they are grumpy and pissy and ungrateful.  

The person I responded to said explicitly to count themselves in the grumpy crowd, which is who I'm referring to. If that isn't you, then I wasn't referring to you, and same goes for anyone else

2 hours ago, admo said:

It's not true that Luka cannot get this team to the Championship. 

Whether this is a fair narrative is a matter of opinion, but until he actually does in fact get them to the championship, it is true.

On 11/5/2023 at 9:51 PM, chamrocck said:

I guess I don’t get Peacock.  I went there on my TV and it wanted me to sign up.  So I can just do it on my TV and cancel?  Or do I have to download app on phone also?  
 

I’m with the grumpy crowd.  What’s up with this?  I don’t need an 800th app to sign up for and create a password to manage, etc.   All these steaming services are going to have to consolidate. It’s getting old pay $5.99 for this one, and $9.99 for this other one, and this next one is $12.99 but then you gotta add sports package.  Everything requires a separate app or subscription.  

You can get it for a month and then cancel it.

I don't understand how so many people are so grumpy and pissy and frankly ungrateful about how good we have it these days. Do you not remember the days when plenty of games weren't televised at all, and 2-5 more were on expensive pay per view tickets?

In 2023 you can get 95% of Nebraska games broadcast available in one bundled package for much cheaper than the days of full price cable/satellite, and one time in the last ~15 years you have to spend $6 once to see one game? 

17 hours ago, Dr. Strangelove said:

The D stands for Demon.

39 minutes ago, nic said:

Then they should have blown the whistle right away or at least while he was running down the field if the refs believed that. As far as the most corrupt, it might be a toss up. The stories that came to mind for me were the cover ups and pay off for doctors doing bad things…and a coach or two…at UofM, PSU, MSU and OSU.

Yes, they should have blown the play dead. 

On 11/4/2023 at 7:58 PM, Moiraine said:

I find Clemson fans pretty lame for storming the field after beating the 15th ranked team. Notre Dame isn’t a rival, and Clemson isn’t a crappy program or one that has sucked for a long time. Clemson won a national championship 5 years ago.

Just an FYI, Clemson fans storm the field after every win.

22 hours ago, Mavric said:

Well now...

 

Still not sure the context is right.  It does seem more likely that the was talking about the TD we should have had against Minnesota.

 

 

A good rule of thumb is to never rely on Mitch to get specific details right.

I imagine our 4th down conversion % on defense has to be one of the best in the country right? We've had a decent handful of stops by this point.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

The funny thing is homeboy saying it’s just his addiction that people are going after The Big Guy for.   Which is obviously untrue which we all know.   

Ultimately all this does is make me feel good about our staff's ability to find underscouted talent. We lost this one, but there will be more.

1 hour ago, Enhance said:

The B1G has historically been viewed as a bit of an ugly, gritty conference. I thought Nebraska handled this transition decently well when they first entered the league, but over time I've grown to appreciate the toughness it takes to operate at a high level in the league. 

The league has also changed pretty dramatically since we entered.

Not only was the offense league-wide much more open (OSU was doing what they always do, Michigan was in the Dennard Robinson/Devin Gardner spread era, Northwestern could be lethal with Kain Colter, WIsconsin had their best year and best stretch ever, Iowa was still Iowa but not all-time-terrible-offense Iowa, etc.), but the floor of competitiveness has been raised substantially. You look through the list of head coaches and over half the league has head guys that were one of the top 3 biggest hires of their cycle and coach of the year winners.

Please, the media did not have it out for Matt Rhule. Why is the Nebraska media ecosystem constantly so f#&%ing paranoid and eager to feel slighted? It's unbecoming.

58 minutes ago, funhusker said:

I wouldn't call those small towns either, I was probably being generous with my qualifications of school classifications.

 

I think of small towns as less than 2-3 thousand people.  People move to bigger towns close to home when they graduate, if not further away.  The ease of transportation and the fact that it just makes more sense for people to live in one "condensed" area instead of small areas spread out throughout the countryside.

Really depends on what lens you're looking through.

To the majority of americans, every town in Nebraska except for Lincoln/Omaha is a small town. I grew up in Columbus and thought of it as a normal sized town, so the small towns would've been 5,000 or less. To someone in NYC Lincoln is a small town.

On 10/27/2023 at 6:58 PM, ZRod said:

I had zero idea that was ever a thing.

I remember this clearly and I also remember it still being in North stadium as recently as a few years ago (maybe 2018), wonder when it got moved out.

3 minutes ago, BIG ERN said:

Fair enough but we thought that with Sims and Thompson. I was hoping for someone better than Kaelin, especially if we want a running QB going forward. 

Only speaking for myself, I personally definitively did not think we had that with Sims or Thompson. I thought Casey was probably slightly worse than Adrian and maybe about the same, and then I thought the same about Sims in relation to Casey.

People let the offseason hype inch its way into their brains so easily. When you're looking at a transfer portal QB with years of data, the data is telling the truth and it's best to trust it as is and not go to great efforts to explain why it's actually not representative.

That's a very manageable and favorable schedule. Finally get to start a season for the first time in ages at home and not against a conference opponent. Who's ready for a 7-0 start?

1 hour ago, AZRaiderH8r said:

Wow, that was amazing. I am so happy that he is leading the program, what a great person to be in charge. I think I missed it, any idea what Mrs. Piper said at the end of the speech that got that reaction from the team? 

it rhymes with "DUCK THEM UP"

20 hours ago, nic said:

How many of these fights did Israel start, going back to 1948 when the British mandate ended and the UN divided this land up? Seems like everytime someone picks a fight, Israel wins and takes more land as a result.  They took the Golan Heights for security. They built walls to protect against suicide bombers. That actually worked. Then they had to build the Iron dome for the rockets. Now that got overwhelmed. There are Israeli Arabs with full rights in Israel. I suspect they could get along peacefully if everyone around them wasn't trying to annihilate them.

Who started what is never an easy thing to answer, and also personally not that interesting to me past the age of 9. Every skirmish and bombing and dust up and uprising and blockade and terrible moment since 1948 has factors that preceded it. 

27 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Yeah! We know that Michigan and Ohio State have a competitive advantage over us they shouldn't be allowed to play 

32 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm actually very surprised that anyone, other than people associated with CU football would have access to the locker room while they are using it.

 

Maybe Prime needs to be looking into his equipment and training staff?

If you walk around with a ladder or a clipboard and look annoyed and in a hurry you can get pretty much anywhere in the world.

2 touchdowns and 2 field goals allowed off 11 turnovers in the last 6 games is an incredibly impressive stat and performance turned in by the Blackshirts. I absolutely love to see it.

46 minutes ago, Enhance said:

If only there was some kind of system in place to help cover the cost of lost, damaged, or stolen goods... specifically those that are privately owned that people choose to take with them places.

The word escapes me... perhaps it rhymes with... assurance?

If only they had a mentor figure around them who gets paid to be a spokesperson for something lik-- I'm sorry, what? oh...

27 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

The time frame from 2000-2005 would beg to differ. Agreement in place, Hamas takes over in 2006 and kicks out PLO, blockade partially instituted in 2007.

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/timeline-long-history-israeli-palestinian-conflict/story?id=103875134

 

A second Intifada (2000) from Palestinian forces, which ended in 2005, led to the Palestinian people's autonomous control of the West Bank and Gaza.

In 2005, Israel disengaged from the Gaza Strip, uprooting its settlements in the region.

The following year, Hamas won an election to control the Gaza Strip, kicking out representatives of the PLO. The armed takeover of Gaza by Hamas in 2007 prompted Israel to impose a blockade on Gaza.

 

Israel imposes blockade; Following the armed takeover, the surrounding countries of Israel and Egypt imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip which greatly restricts the movement of people and goods into and out of the area.

In 2005 Israel was already well into their disengagement plan under then PM Ariel Sharon, with the useage of Hamas as a tool to weaken the PLO as a key part of that strategy. 

From the prime minister's main legal advisor in 2004:

"The meaning of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the political process... When you freeze a political process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and you prevent a discussion on the issues of refugees, borders and Jerusalem... basically this whole package called the Palestinian state has dropped off the agenda for an indefinite period of time . The program provides the amount of formaldehyde required so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians."

16 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Another option would be for Israel to kill every single member of Hamas and then Gaza elects a respectable government that values cooperation instead of destruction and those blockades go away like before, which Israel already said they would agree to.  

Oh they said they'd agree? That's good, we should definitely take them at their word. No need to look at history to see whether they're completely full of s#!t or not. Only one major problem here being that many in power in Israel have zero actual interest in a two party system or any legitimate standing of an autonomous Palestine.

Israel finding it expedient to make moves to prop up and empower the group that would then later lead to a horrific horror attack against them is not the only parallel we can draw between the current scenario and the U.S. leading up to and after 9/11.

54 minutes ago, commando said:

how is Israel suppose to negotiate with these guys?   their constitution calls for the destruction of Israel.   i don't like the methods isreal has to use to fight these people.....but does Israel really have a choice given the Hamas goals of Israeli annihilation and their tactics of using the palestinian people as human shields?

There is no negotiating with Hamas, and there is also no easy way out of this scenario. I don't know what the best way out of it is now, but the current plan is terrible and aimless. Israel's indiscriminate boot-on-the-neck policy is obviously not conducive towards their own self-interest in peace long term.

Like let's say the IDF kills every single militant member of Hamas today, and then leave, but still continues to control borders, movement, utilities, imports/exports and infrastructure of the place. Is there any scenario where a new bloodthirsty hate-filled terrorist ideology pops right back up amongst members of the people still there who lost entire families? There's an entire new generation of hatred towards Israel already being born in front of our very eyes.