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1 hour ago, Hilltop said:

He wasn't perfect but he played well enough for us to win.    

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

2 hours ago, Husker in WI said:

 

Fun fact, we were a top-25 scoring defense under Cosgrove in both '05 and '06 before falling off a cliff in '07. Hindsight is 20/20, and there was a lot of talent that walked out the door after '06 that Cosgrove didn't replace. But when would you have fired him? And I think Callahan was tiring of the college game already, a good DC probably bought a few more years before he left for the NFL.

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.

1 hour ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

 

I don't think anyone is expecting that. Top 15-20 classes would be a good goal. Point is, you've gotta have someone who can give you an edge when it comes to recruiting. MJ has proven that for the right coach, kids will come here to play. Put a no-name guy in with no name value, and our recruiting will be even worse than it has been. Forget Iowa and MSU; we need to compete with Michigan and PSU and Ohio State and the upper echelon. It's only going to get worse when the PAC teams arrive.

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.

3 hours ago, Mavric said:

I'm curious to see more on a rewatch.  After the first quarter, I was pretty unimpressed with Thompson.  His accuracy wasn't very good.

 

3 hours ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

He was throwing behind or high to everyone.  Got worse as the game went on.  

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.

1 hour ago, Terrabus said:

That's not my argument at all.

 

My argument is if a coach coming off a national championship can't make it work after five seasons then maybe it's not the coach and maybe there's something wrong with the school.  Maybe there's something about the program.

It's both.

12 hours ago, suh_fan93 said:

Hmm.  I can see John Fogerty and Bruce Springsteen not wanting any of their songs played at any Republican rallies me thinks.  

 

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

5 hours ago, teachercd said:

I am 100% cool with college being free and loans being wiped out...

 

Can I ask...do you think other loans should be gone too?

 

Like...my home loan?  My car?  Mry CC?

 

I think they should all be gone.

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.

Storytelling is lies in service of the truth

For the record, I am pro subsidizing farmers, pro child tax credits, pro student loan forgiveness, and pro lots of other 'unfair' tax expenditures that help primarily vulnerable, stuck, or important citizens.

And let's not act like the argument that it's actually punishing people who made smarter choices is anything other than total horses#!t. The super-duper smartypants who avoided the pitfall of student loan debt are still paying their taxes no matter what - if it didn't go to loan forgiveness it would go to the military or farming or clean energy or roads or education or something else. The money is already there, it's not "ope now that we made this decision all you citizens need to give us more money to give to these other citizens". There's no punishment; there's only a smarter way of allocating already existing resources that ultimately helps all of us.

Anyone know how I can protest the unfairness that some of my tax money goes to farmers?

It's not my fault they chose a profession that can't make money and needs the government to bail them out constantly, don't punish. me for being smart enough to not be a farmer.

Does anyone know who I can talk to about getting all my taxes refunded that went towards paying for the tens of millions of people who get child tax credits?

Don't punish me because they chose to have kids.

It's unfair to people who don't live in hurricane zones to punish them by making them bail out people living along the Gulf Coast. They chose to live there.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I still don’t see how the rest of us, which included millions upon millions who never went to college, basically help pay the debts of those who took out loans for school.   It’s penalizing those who paid off their loans and or paid for school directly, didn’t go to college.   
 

Maybe we should allow the rest of us to take $10-20k off our mortgages or credit card debt if one has it? 

Everything tax money is used for is unfairly penalizing somebody for something.

That's what taxes are.

He's also more behind them than the photo suggests.

Funny photo though.

1 hour ago, Loebarth said:

Say what you want but remember to watch for important opponents getting favorable officiating "every time" they play Nebraska.

Do you also watch for any time we get favorable officiating? 

4 hours ago, funhusker said:

Good for him for learning a pretty simple lesson.

 

Im glad he changed his mind, and I’m also glad he didn’t sleep for weeks after hearing about the young woman.

I'm gonna wait to be glad until he uses that change of mind to actually try and do something about it.

The "is social media bad for us?" conversation is a great and important one to have.

I posted this thread months ago and nobody responded to it. Not claiming to know why, or really care, but at the very least I think the article is well worth a read if you have the time.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

If Trump is guilty, then try him in court not through the media.    

If he's innocent, then prove it the same way. It's an even easier burden.

6 hours ago, Hilltop said:

Adrian played a good game against Oklahoma but I wouldn't call it better in any way.

Neither would I, and also...nobody did.

Why are y'all bringing up Casey's game against Texas when the original comment that started this was Adrian vs Spencer Rattler?

6 hours ago, Undone said:

If the 'skers win a lot of games this year I doubt it'll be on the back of a bunch of individual amazing performances by Thompson. It'll be because the offense finally puts all of the pieces together

Agreed, but that won't stop a massive amount of our fanbase using it as unnecessary ammo to s#!t on Adrian in a direct comparison.

Those are some POOFY beds

1 hour ago, suh_fan93 said:

That is one big a$$ plane.  Hopefully no one gets sick.   

 

 

 

Is this in Omaha? Curious about the logistics of traveling from Lincoln eventually overseas, because even Omaha can't really accommodate planes big enough generally speaking.

3 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

I'm actually kinda disappointed to hear that blackshirts aren't going to be handed out to you unless you have played a game for Nebraska first. So even if you played like a blackshirt in practice your not getting one until you play your first game. For me i think that is the wrong message to send to them. First off if they are doing everything right outside of football and everything right on the practice field why not hand them out?? I tend to think that by handing them to all the players before the first game actually can and will led to more success to win not during the season or certain players. To say certain players earn some and others have not to me seems crappy. If 12 members on the defense have blackshirts before the first game then it gives the team pride to hold on to them not to work harder to gain one. I think if 12 members of the defense have them as well then they play harder as one unit one group not having individualism. 

I think you're confusing getting a blackshirt with being a captain.