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3 hours ago, The Scarlet Pimpernel said:

Just proves my point that for the right coach, kids will go anywhere to play. Hate to say it but our other coaches just aren't on the level we need them to be recruiting-wise for us to be consistently successful.

FYI recruiting ability isn't correlated at all to coaching ability.

If anything there's more of an argument that we've had coaches on staff who have punched above their weight recruiting wise but couldn't do s#!t to actually coach. It's exceptionally rare to find coaches who can do both.

Oh look, if it isn't exactly what we knew it would be:

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/03/1109613520/alabama-abortion-rights-gender-affirming-care-law

2 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

I’m from a small town.

 

I think abortion is killing a human but I think it’s worse to force a rape victim to carry her rapist’s child than to kill a human that hasn’t been born. I think the life of the mother is more important. I don’t like any of the extreme pro-life takes on abortion. E.g. giving a pre-teen only 6 weeks to understand what’s happening to her body or to decide how safe it is to tell an adult she’s pregnant when it was an adult that hurt her. I don’t think the government should be very involved in regulating abortion (I.e. making it illegal) other than maybe a few restrictions. Not every sin/“sin” needs to be governed. And there is no way in hell contraception should have regulations. I don’t like the exteme pro-choice takes either, e.g. people saying my body my choice and thinking it’s that simple. The people you are arguing with believe there is another human involved besides the mother. Stop pretending you don’t realize that. 

 

So I’m not pro-life politically I’m just pro-life in thinking it’s killing a human.

I feel pretty much the same. It's probably murder, or something close to it, and I think we should be allowed to do it.

Starting to feel like 24 is the B1G's ultimate end goal. Could work, four pods of 6 teams, you play your 5 plus another pods 6 in an 11-game conference schedule. Possible to play everyone in a three year cycle.

3 hours ago, nic said:

That means we might agree that Democrat policies do not favor the long term interests/profits of oil and gas companies. I would agree with this. 

Yes the Democrats are generally opposed to people who are financially motivated to have us keep destroying our planet more and faster than we need to, you are right about that.

49 minutes ago, nic said:

I was making fun of the title from CNN which implied they were sueing to keep CRT in schools. This plays into the thought that elements of CRT are being taught in schools and I thought that was funny and dumbof them to do. I read the article but now I think it's funny that people are sensitive to this.

"Families sue Ohio school board over critical race theory ban" isn't the hilarious implication you think it is.

6 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Coincidentally Mr. Hyperbole has been conveniently absent for a few days.

Probably would say or at least secretly believe that if the 10 year old rape victim wants an abortion so bad she should just move to Indiana or Illinois instead of Ohio. What's the big deal????

1 hour ago, hskrpwr13 said:

While I know ND has been playing Stanford annually for a while, just not seeing the financial draw. Struggle to see ND reducing everyone's future payout (compared to what other programs could bring) just so Stanford can join. 

The amount that Notre Dame would bring in FAR exceeds the amount that Stanford would take away.

58 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

College football died when they okayed transfers and NIL. Morphing into a pseudo mini NFL was inevitable. It had nothing to do with Nebraska leaving or staying in the Big XII. Leaving was required for survival and it’s a good thing we did it when we did. I’m not sure we’d be allowed into the B1G today. There are two choices, join a superconference and cash that check or don’t and start cutting sports.

College football died when the Supreme Court ruled that the NCAA couldn't stop schools/conferences from negotiating their own media deals.

29 minutes ago, Red Five said:

And let's not pretend that Stanford is some historic rival of ND.  Their annual meeting only started in 1988.  And ND playing their last game of the year at Stanford (in odd years) only started in 1999.

How is a 35 year straight history of playing each other not a historic rivalry?

8 hours ago, teachercd said:

From a Big Ten board.  It really is amazing how many of them seem to think this has anything to do with academics.  What is that line from The Program..."I don't see 60,000 people showing up to watch a kid take a chemistry test"

Nobody cares about people showing up for a chemistry test or a football game. It's about money, which in terms of sports is based off of TV/media packages.

But news flash to whatever dips#!t wrote that...academic grants bring in way more money than even the $100 million+ we might all be getting yearly with our new super conference.

26 minutes ago, KingBlank said:

Tom started this.......

Texas started this. Either in 2010 or in 1995 depending on how you look at it.

Honestly, I'm glad to be safe in all of this but I'm also just...wildly bummed out. College football is dead. I'll keep watching, because I'm an addict with stockholm syndrome, but all of the things that made me love the sport outside of my fandom for my team are gone. 100+ year rivalries, regional fraternity and brotherhood and animosity, familiarity with your yearly enemies, etc.

All of that doesn't even start to explain how bad I feel for non revenue student athletes. UCLAs press release had some bulls#!t about helping their student athletes...piss off. Yeah your women's soccer players are really going to be served so well having to fly to New Jersey and then Michigan during the school week one week then Pennsylvania and Ohio the next.

3 minutes ago, Born N Bled Red said:

If the Big isn't done, and if not Oregon and Washington, maybe Florida State and Miami come along? Maybe Kansas? 

Doubtful for those two imo, as neither is AAU as far as I know.

I'd guess UO and UW, and outside of that any 2 out of Virginia, Kansas, UNC, Duke, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech.

2 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Iowa and Nebraska do actually have a long history.  The series is 29-20-3.  So, long term we have some competitive balance.  There is animosity between the states.

33 of the 52 times we've played were before World War II ended. I don't think that really counts for anything.

Other rivalries that are lopsided are still rivalries not because of the competitive balance but because of a long shared history, usually in-state.

We don't have that, so that's when you move onto new defining criteria, such as animosity and competitive balance.

That new map commercial is gonna be crazy.

I guarantee Oregon and Washington are making calls wanting in as well.

50 minutes ago, admo said:

We will win one and then things will really heat up between the 2 states.  

I hate losing to Iowa but I almost dread the day that we finally win one and then the worst of our fanbase immediately starts talking some obnoxious delusional big game more  

52 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Agree 100%
 

There is a reason Frosts buyout drops astronomically after the first month of the season.

 

TA used Frosts ego against him to make firing him cheaper.  Now, I’m sure TA is 100% rooting for SF to win, I don’t believe he wants to fire him.  BUT, he definitely hedged his bet…

I don't know if I think describing that as Scott's ego is fair.

Frost agreed to it when he didn't have to. He essentially bet, what, $7 million on himself succeeding? I guess you can interpret that as ego, but I actually interpret that more as a tough spoonful of humility admitting that he has thus far failed and thinks he can fix it. If his ego was totally unchecked he wouldn't have agreed to a restructure at all imo.

13 minutes ago, ZRod said:

I mean I can defend Romney and Cheney (though I could never vote for her policy). But not Graham, Cruz, Jordan, etc.

 

You can defend the RINOs but not the real patriots? 

/s

10 minutes ago, Scarlet said:

Are you guys who think nothing will come from this still sure?  If you're right we are truly and wholly f#&%ed.  

 

I'm not gonna hold my breath. It's nice to hope, but let's have some perspective.

Donald Trump before 2016:

• was sued by the DOJ for refusing to rent to black people, two separate times

• Ordered black workers off his casino floor when he came in

• Took out a full page newspaper ad calling for four black teenagers (who were later exonerated) to be killed

• Was quoted as saying he hates black people counting his money, and affirmed that the quote was probably accurate

• Had openly bragged about watching minor underage women change in the dressing rooms at his beauty pageants

• Has had at least six affairs while married

• Started the racist 'birther' attacks against Obama, claiming he was a Muslim Kenyan

• Dodged the draft four times

• Has had dozens of allegations/complaints/lawsuits from contractors because he steals and cheats and doesn't pay his workers

• Defrauded tons of people with Trump University

• Had bankrupted multiple businesses

• Has brazenly admitted that even though he LARPs as a Christian, he's never asked God for forgiveness

• Said "I moved on her like a b!^@h... I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pu&&y. You can do anything."

• Routinely and consistently praised dictators, authoritarians, fascists and trolls in our country and across the world while routinely and consistently criticizing and mocking 'weak' politicians like John McCain.

• Asked Russia to hack the Democrats

I'm sure I'm missing plenty of bullet points, but all of that was before he was even elected. That's the person that we elected President, and it didn't get any better once he was. I'm already exhausted from that but you could make another list post election about how often he stoked the flames of white racial animosity, coerced foreign leaders to get dirt on political rivals, disrespected pretty much every tenant of freedom and equality and rule of law enshrined in the constitution, was accused of sexual assault, engaged in schoolyard bullying and divisive political rhetoric, and a million other things. 

And still a large portion of our populace, and a whole bunch of power hungry, knuckle dragging, sycophantic government officials support him and what he stands for. So after 4-5 years of him as president and candidate, and decades of him proving to be a habitually lying power hungry narcissist, and no accountability, it's hard to believe that all of the sudden something is different. 

It's not like Trump hasn't been brazenly breaking laws his entire adult life.

The crazy part is none of this is even a little bit surprising.

It's nice to have it on record, but only because we've so deeply devolved into a gotcha/technicality/alternative facts/post-truth reality that the only way people might have any chance at believing something they don't want to is if it's overwhelming and crystal clear. Even though it already was in 2016

6 hours ago, funhusker said:

I edited my post, but you’re right.  Pelini continued to do what he did. 

His consistency across Osborne and Eichorst sort of argues against the idea that he got fired because of lack of AD support.

Football coaches survive based off of successfully solving the equation of wins acquired and level of a$$h@!ery. Bo was too much of an a$$h@!e to balance out with the number of wins he got. It's really that simple. If he would've been closer to championship level football in year 7 than he was in year 1, his a$$h@!ery could've been accepted and balanced out.

10 hours ago, knapplc said:

There are dozens of CBD shops in Lincoln. The signs on each shop seem to indicate CBD helps with a different malady. It just seems too good to be true. 

Some of it is marketing B.S. and snake oil grifters jumping on something new, but some of it is also that our culture spent so much time with the internalized lie that it was bad.

The medicinal benefits of a naturally occurring plant wouldn't be controversial or suspicious without the needless legislation and propaganda against it setting the backdrop. It'd be like all the sudden being wary of aloe vera.

1 hour ago, funhusker said:

Bo Pelini’s downfall was due to a lack of commitment from admin. 
 

If Trev Alberts was AD then and gave the same vote of confidence to BP as he had SF, we would rule the West!

 

Pelini was a hot head, and his fuse was lit from within the dept.

So what's the excuse for the years with Tom Osborne as AD defending him at every turn before Eichorst was part of the equation?