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That couldn't be any further from true.

I learned that they apparently changed the targeting rule in the offseason because we had two times that a player got targeted by the definition of the rule we've known for the last 9 years and neither was determined to be targeting.

Oh, you sweet naive, hopeful man

No officer don't check my baby's crib. When has my baby ever been known to be involved in my drug empire to make it probable my baby's crib would be hiding contraband?

It's exceptionally weird when right wing anti-establishment populist types side against the children and families who have been lied to and manipulated and trapped by the government and establishment.

Why are we talking about this? There's no evidence that the FBI touched Melania's underwear. At least not in this thread. All we have is a gossip column claiming that they searched her bedroom and closet (without a source), and then claiming that "a pal" said "...Who knows who touched her underwear during the raid?" Even those mocking it are embarrassingly giving it more legitimacy than it deserves.

On the right side, the idea of self-determination and endorsing group behavior at the expense of a weaker group is in some ways a primary biological instinct of social primates. I agree with this. But I will also say, the undercurrent paradigms at work in much of the center of left-wing activism, especially on behalf of popular marginalized groups, is foundationally built on a far-left lens, whether the folks taking part believe it or not and whether or not it's couched in language of love and helping out the vulnerable. Marxism and it's worldview have a very attractive elevator pitch, and don't seem "far left" until the hindsight of history shows us the cost. That's part of the problem; "far left" is hard to identify and quantify as too far in the present tense.

You're editorializing the kindest interpretation of movements and applying it as if it's the foundational truth across a big diverse spectrum of folks that make up trans rights/BLM/etc. Which, I mostly agree with, but for example you can't do that and then contrast it to examples in the rest of the world being unapologetically marxist. Foundational parts of some of the communities involving BLM/trans activism/critical race scholars/etc. are also unapologetically Marxist. Even leftist movements which aren't explicitly linked to some marxist origins still practice some heavy marx-inspired-but-rebranded worldviews and tactics of class (read, privilege or race) warfare and denying the concept of individuals and objectivity in favor of any person being a subjective, representative avatar of their respective power dynamic.

I would have some major conflicts staying on as a fan. I'd probably find some way to justify it, as Urban seems like he's more of an a$$h@!e than a monster, but it'd take some mental gymnastics for me personally.

He was also Mike Riley. Look, there is no realistic path to a national championship for us. Sorry but there isn't. That's not even a knock on Nebraska, although it is harder for us than many. That's more the reality that the top talent is more concentrated than it ever has been (even Oklahoma, as consistent of a top 10 program as you can find over the last decade, isn't even close), and the best course of action for an AD is to get a coach who will build a strong foundation, find success, capitalize on the success (ie, wins turn into exposure turn into higher returns on recruiting), and then wait and hope for the stars to align some year. It's not hard. Look at the evidence. All of the Nebraska head coaches with brand name value and recruiting hype over the last 20 years failed spectacularly, and all of the coaches who were focused on building found much more success.

I'd push back on this. Maybe politically that's true, but there's certainly immense social power in far left ideologies in modern America

I think at this point the "THEY'RE NOT EQUALLY AS BAD" retort is boring, predictable, TRUE, and also effectively shutting down any chance at a conversation of getting into the meat of the not-as-bad side. I say this as someone who's offered that response plenty of times.

Yeah he was recruiting top 25 classes as Mike Riley - an old man nobody had ever heard of that didn't inspire confidence. Your obsessive hard-on for recruiting is hilarious

Most of us had to google who Mike Riley was when he was announced as our coach. He did fine recruiting.

It's one loss that is showing too many of the same fundamentally broken trends of self-sabotage by our head coach that we have seen for four years before that one loss. Incessant privileged winning attitude? What the f#&% are you talking about? Frost averages 3 wins per year. It's not privileged whining to expect more than three wins a year. THREE. Still waiting for you to give me an example of a really good coach who had 15 wins in 5 seasons.

You remember the last time Husker fans wanted to get rid of a coach who had 15 wins in 5 years? When was that? You just admitted to being more happy that a Nebraska guy is the coach than you would be being a decent football team. Weird priorities but if that's honest to you then kudos I guess. Can you give me an example of any other time for any other program ever that wins eventually came after 5 years of averaging 3 wins per year? Osborne won 9+ games a year. Osborne beat bad teams, and he also beat good teams too ('72 Notre Dame ranked 12th, '73 UCLA ranked 9th, '74 Florida ranked 12th, etc. etc. etc.). Osborne won championships. Osborne went to bowl games. I was raised in it too. Doesn't mean I'd be a good head coach. You were obviously raised in it too. Does that make you qualified to be the coach? I'll ask again. Can you name me any coach in the last 80 years of football who had 15 wins in their first five years and was a really good coach?

Did I jump into a time machine back to 2019 or 2020 or 2021?

You're right - Cosgrove's defense was the stronger of the two units in Callahan's two good years. The '06 team had a defense play at a championship level against top competition when the offense couldn't do anything.

No, people wanna throw the loyal coach away after 45 games, 15 of which we've won, over five years. Five years - zero bowl games. Five years - two wins against teams with winning records. Five years - 5-21 in one-score games Five years - 30 losses, most of which are the results of acts of self-sabotage by our head coach himself. Can you name me one great coach in the last 80 years of football who had 15 wins in five years?

Frost had four top 20 classes in a row. Look where we're at. Riley wasn't amazing but wasn't awful at recruiting. Look where he went. Pelini was a worse recruiter than either of them, but a better developer. Look how he did. Development, culture and identity come first, and when those lead to you maximizing your potential in the form of wins, then recruiting success with the brand name/money/history/fan support will follow. Getting a top 5 recruiting class and then being unranked with a losing season is easy (Callahan did it, Texas is great at doing it, USC has done it). It's much harder to take a #40 recruiting class and make it a top 25 team, and the foundational building blocks that allow that to happen are what our division opponents do great as they're currently kicking our a$$ every year while we beat ourselves with better recruiting.

You're both right on the money here. There was nothing from him in Week 0 to help the "Adrian wasn't an accurate enough thrower" crowd's narrative. Honestly outside of not having any designed run calls he looked remarkably similar to what we've seen the last 4 years.

It's both.

I think he was being sarcastic, as both of those songs are very explicitly critical of America yet flag-boner patriots love to use them as anthems, oblivious to the irony

all hail beer snake

The thing is, at least with credit cards, if you fall on hard times and can't afford to pay the credit card bill, here's what will happen: • They say "hey you owe us money!" and you say "i'm sorry i just literally can't afford it" • They sell the debt to a debt collection company • They say "hey you owe us money!" and you say "i'm sorry i just literally can't afford it" • They say "hey you owe us this much but we'll settle for this much" and you say "i'm sorry i just literally can't afford it" • They say "hey we offered you to settle for this much but actually we'll settle for this much" and you say "i'm sorry i just literally can't afford it" • They say "hey actually for the third time we'll actually settle for this much" and you say "hey I actually just got a decent check and saved some money so I can afford that sure that sounds good" And then you settle for 10-30% of what you actually owed.