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7 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

I'm also old enough to remember when you paid for one service and got everything. Then, people complained about how expensive that was and wanted to just buy certain channels to be cheaper. 
 

Now we are at the point of having to subscribe to multiple services to get what we want and it’s then back up to what we were paying before….or more. 

Not even close

The average DirecTV bill is $124/month

YoutubeTV - $65

HBO Max - $10

Netflix - $10

Disney+ Bundle (Hulu, Disney+, ESPN+) - $8

AppleTV+ - $5

That's a package that even has redundancies and youtubetv is a pricier option than something like sling. Plus you get access to way, way, WAY more entertainment.

1 hour ago, Loebarth said:

 

If we put ourselves in Whipple's shoes and see what talent he saw while coaching Pitt.. 1. A first round QB and 2. A superstar wideout that nobody could cover... well, I think we'd likely do what he did and "throw the ball".. 

That explains last year. Doesn't explain the multiple years before it.

14 minutes ago, commando said:

i agree

 

 

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

But....why would a game need to be supplementally shown on Peacock if it's already on a network everyone gets?

@ColoradoHusk nailed it. In that scenario, Peacock would be for people on tablets, phones, laptops, etc. that are some combination of not owning an antenna, not owning a tv, not having cable or a cable alternative, etc. 

46 minutes ago, Street Novelist said:

 

Exactly! Which is why this is terrible news! Imagine having to sign up for several streaming services just to catch all of Nebraska's games. And having to pay for each service, at that. Now, we're literally back to pay-per-view. The way it is now is the best we can get. You don't need any streaming. Every Husker game is either on Fox, FS1, BTN or the ESPN/ABC family. This would f#&% everything up!

Can you like....calm down a bit?

We are not literally back to pay-per-view. The deals aren't even finished or announced yet, so we don't know where we are. Even if half our games are on Peacock and Paramount+, that's at most $30 total for the three months of football and you can cancel or start anytime. Pay-per-view games were at minimum $30 for one game, and that was 20 years ago. 

You know ESPN, BTN and FS1 aren't free, right? All of our games on Peacock and Paramount+ would be significantly cheaper than all of our games on ESPN and FS1.

I know there are possible ways this could play out that won't be perfect for everyone, and I don't want to have to sign up for more stuff either.

But, overall, this is about as good of news as you could possibly hope for as a fan of a B1G team. 

Three nationwide, network, over the air games per week is huge. These are free to all with an antenna, and that's nearly half of the conference games of that week. Then you have B1G and FS1/2 which most of us as sports fans are likely to have already.

There's a chance that the occasional game ends up paywalled behind a streaming only platform, but I think it's a very low chance overall, and a higher likelihood that those will be offered as supplemental options instead of exclusive ones.

1 minute ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

No it's not an honest question.  It's diagnosis of the mind of the liberal who apparently projects what he does. 

 

You persecute advisors to your political enemy on any pretense; conservatives do not. 

You harass Supreme Court Justices when Constitution is read plainly; conservative do not.

You raided a former President's home; conservatives do no such thing.

 

We have met the enemy and it is you. 

Three simple questions:

1. Who hired the director of the FBI? 

2. What political party does the director of the FBI belong to?

3. Does Donald Trump have decades of history of being found guilty and/or settling lawsuits for defrauding people?

Let's try something a bit more abstract and removed from the details (often depressing) of discussing actual political stories in the real world.

I'm very drawn to learning about and talking about political, anthropological, and spiritual ideas in the abstract, and a lot of time when you're in the weeds on specifics it's hard to explore big ideas of how things could fundamentally be different, because the machine is so big and has been going for hundreds of years so obviously this is "just the way it is". But, doesn't mean we can't harmlessly dream and theorize about alternate realities.

So...

If you were lucky enough to be in a position such as the founding fathers/Continental Congress found themselves in at the birth of our country, how would you go about it? What systems would you fight for? How would you design safeguards? What values would you care about the most? How would you determine who's in charge? How would you codify how to deal with laws and how the state can and can't enforce order? What things exist in our current reality that you would take great lengths to avoid? 

Let's say, just to give this some rails, that this is a new 'country' removed from the global conflict of 10 million random people, in the year 2022. A complete fresh start in a vacuum. 

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I think it would be nice if Gov wouldn’t get too involved in trying to fix something and let the natural course keep going with what the Fed is doing. 

Honest question - what part of what the federal reserve is doing, or even existing, can be deemed as 'natural'?

14 hours ago, TheSker said:

Based on your criteria, Tom Osborne stood still too.

You're kind of right but missing some pretty big context.

Osborne did mostly stand still for his first 7-8 years, but he stood still at being a top ten program, major bowls, and conference championships. His big hump of staying still was beating Oklahoma, which he finally did in year 6. After that, he started turning 9-10 win seasons into 11-12 win seasons for a while, then regressed back a bit (still to being a top ten team winning championships), then he finished with the best run in history. 

So if you're trying to make a point in regards to equating the two, it's a stupid point.

14 hours ago, Born N Bled Red said:

 

Ummm... hate to break it to you but Bo routinely competed for championships and should have had at least two B12 champs.

I think you meant to respond to me. The point is he didn't win any, and after year seven we were as close or further away from that goal than we were in year one.

1 hour ago, HANC said:

I am not dwelling on this but Bo was successful and had Neb going in the right direction.

There's not much 'direction' involved in being as far away from competing for championships in year seven as you were in year one. That's much better than where we're at now, but it's also standing still.

1 hour ago, HANC said:

Funny thing is that to a man, his players loved him and would run through a wall for him. Culture is on the inside, not necessarily for public viewing.

This really doesn't matter at all. Bill Callahan's players loved him too - Zac Taylor put an op ed in the paper defending him. Scott Frost's players love him too. It's exceedingly rare that a coach's players don't love him and wouldn't run through a wall for them.

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

"The ban includes limited exceptions, including in cases of rape and incest, and to protect the life and physical health of the mother. 

The exceptions for rape and incest are limited to 10 weeks post-fertilization, meaning victims could not get an abortion in Indiana after that. "

How do they determine if the claim of rape or incest is real?

Can anyone just say they were raped? Or do they need to have someone found guilty in the justice system within 10 weeks?

Yeah I don't see how you can reliably evaluate teachers in a conducive way. Too many variables, too many subjective perspectives to evaluate from.

On 7/31/2022 at 6:00 PM, nic said:

I am more  curious what excerpt from the books the board member’s post contained and why Facebook deemed it inappropriate. 

Was it an accurate excerpt? I do not know. 

I doubt it's anything interesting. Facebook's algorithms are pretty poorly designed and completely incapable of detecting nuance or context most of the time. 

It's as good of a chance as any that the excerpt said something like, "It's wrong to call gay people faggots" and then the post got banned for calling gay people a slur.

On 8/1/2022 at 12:01 PM, GSG said:

I don't have my Athletic subscription anymore, but I saw a headline from them quoting the Pac 12 commish about USC/UCLA already regretting their exit from the conference.

 

Can anyone offer a summary of what they said?

 

Thanks!

He didn't really offer a reason, just said he thinks they're already regretting it "given the pushback that they’ve gotten from almost every corner of their communities. I think they will regret it more as time goes on.”

anyone have a tl;dr of whats included in the PACT Act?

Part of the context that this conversation is missing surrounding the hot mic leaked audio is, well, the context.

Sure, we all b!^@h about customers sometimes, or about our bosses. But usually that b!^@hing happens after really bad experiences, or in bad environments.

Bo's comments, while being overblown and not being as big of a deal as people wanted to make it out to be, do still speak to his mindset. He just led our team to the biggest comeback in school history, against his alma mater, and after getting blownout by Wisconsin and avoiding an 0-2 conference start. He had every reason and opportunity to be happy and/or excited and/or proud as his general mood - instead he couldn't help but be bitter and pissy towards a small subset of fans.

That's who he is, and that's why he had a ceiling, got fired, and isn't a coach anyone wants anymore. He didn't say anything outrageously unreasonable or shocking, but it's one data point among many that show him to be a vindictive a$$h@!e looking for slights instead of rising above them.

5 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

Oops yeah. Well i can remember Tommie Armstrong threw it or am i wrong on that?

Yes, Tommy threw him that on a long 3rd down from the 1 yard line.

Same bowl that we played Clemson in, just five years off

3 hours ago, Huskerfollower4life said:

I don't know why Espn feels like they have to come out with their best team lists or defense list. Nobody gives a crap what you think Espn your biased anyways towards us. Your opinions are laughable at best bc of how much you kiss Alabama's a**.  That's fine we don't need their validation at all!!!! 

Clicks = ads = money.

Controversy = conversation = anger = clicks = ads = money.

It's that simple.

4 hours ago, Bigred_inSD said:

Sam Keller played a role in losing NCAA football games.  I will never forgive him 

He got paid to be a figurehead for some law firm that was going to do it with someone else. Honestly, good for him getting a fat check for doing nothing and in support of something that would have happened anyways.

The thing people forget about the Keller/Ganz saga is that Sam Keller was not a bad quarterback. He was setting and on pace for setting a bunch of records in his one season here before going down with a broken collarbone. 

Obviously he loved the checkdown and our offense and entire team had massive problems, but those were so much bigger than him, and Joe's hype was also somewhat over-inflated (in '07 at least) from Callahan deciding to essentially go full air-raid in order to try and prove that his system worked. 

On 7/28/2022 at 8:44 AM, teachercd said:

A lame a$$ AD and leaked audio got the ball rolling.

That was a pretty slow roll from September 15, 2013 all the way until November 30, 2014.

1 hour ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

Yea. Sadly the Huskers have fallen so far.  As somebody posted, only rated in the top 20 a couple times in this century!   Ugh - hate even thinking about.- almost a generation away from great football.  

If we're going by weeks, we've been top 20 literally 96 times this century.

4 hours ago, TGHusker said:

WWJD??  Not that video.  Sad how far the American church in many sectors has gotten away from the clear intent of Jesus's teachings.  Man's religion has overshadowed true spirituality.  I can understand why many are turned off by the Americanized, Political evangelical/fundamentalist 'faith' so often presented by 'the church'. Sad thing, it blocks people from seeing Jesus's teachings for what they really are - life giving.  

That videogame does unwittingly present a good representation for how evangelicalism missed Jesus.

That entire framework is predicated on building up a castle against the evil forces of the world. Whereas Jesus was a pretty chill nomad, inviting people to walk with him through the wilderness, risk the weather and the chaos, be ready to encounter naked beggars on the side of the road, etc. 

1 hour ago, JoeHuskers! said:

So, with Warren's comment about the B1G being in four different time zones, does that hint that a Colorado/Utah/AZ/AZ st. could be added?

 

Unless  of course they are looking at Hawaii or Boise St? lol

Maybe they just mean western Nebraska

On 7/24/2022 at 6:22 PM, DevoHusker said:

 

 

The fact that this is becoming more of a story is... frustrating.

Not because I disagree with the principle, but because this entire topic of conversation originates from some random twitter user/stalker using a flight tracker to find out that Kylie Jenner's plane flew a few miles away.

The thing they didn't find out is whether or not she was actually on it. Overwhelming odds are that the plane was flying to where it usually stays, or flying to a location for maintenance. And now we have this "news".