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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.

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.

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.

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?

it rhymes with "DUCK THEM UP"

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.

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

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.

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

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."

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.

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.

Conference champs are auto-bids in the 12 team playoff so yes.

This has been true of pretty much every single one of our opponents. At some point you have to assume part of that is a mental impact the presence of our defense creates.

My comments aren't even criticisms either, just observations. Like I said I'm plenty guilty of the thing I'm describing. While few people are saying Heinrich is actually an actively good quarterback, plenty are also overly soft in refraining from calling him a bad quarterback.

This is how I've understood the rule. It's either targeting based off using the crown of the helmet in any scenario, or based off forcible contact to the head/neck area specifically of a defenseless player.

I'm not talking about Sims at all. There's a whole very wide lane of criticism and frustration that could/would be significantly more amplified toward HH's play that would be only based on him and have nothing to do with Sims. But, we saw Sims first, HH has the feel good local story and has the grace of being the backup, so we take it pretty easy on him. He's a pretty objectively bad quarterback and I can't help but root for him a bit more and not mind when he does boneheaded stuff. Two games in a row we've seen awful turnovers from HH, and while we've all closed the book on Sims for good I haven't seen a single person claiming that Chubba should get a shot to see what he can do, for example.

This game showed me more than any other how much fans are willing to forgive for a perceived hometown (or home state) hero compared to an 'outsider'. Myself included.

imo the contact wasn't forcible - it was the crown, and it was to the head or neck area but it was mostly incidental or rather a glancing hit, based on the live look and the replay look (i don't hold this opinion strongly, just my gut vibe perspective). I didn't think that the crown of the helment portion of the rule included forcible contact, but enhance's breakdown of the rules makes me realize I either haven't ever fully understood them or that they've since reworded the ruling.

Can you make up your mind whether the opinions of the american people are a valid defense or not?

We're getting better for sure, even if that's in no ways other than the fact that we know how to win a little bit more than we did last year or the year before. The division this year is the worst it's been, maybe since it's existed? But it's still not easy, par se. While Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota all have had and do have occasional years of top 15 or top 25 level, the difference between their years with those squads compared to this year's squads is not a big one.

Not bias, but a massive L for the entire media apparatus. https://www.silentlunch.net/p/did-the-entire-media-industry-misquote