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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?

1 hour ago, funhusker said:

This is what drives me nuts about American “media” or just social media in general.

 

The committee says the identity is to be kept private for “real” security concerns for a hearing TOMORROW!  And people are racing to be the first to expose them for no other reason than being the first person to correctly guess.

 

Hunans deserve the nonsense we put ourselves through!

Not only that, but this practice tends to dramatically overhype narratives that don't deserve it.

Nothing has been established that this person is going to be some bombshell smoking gun witness. Yet that's how we all feel just based off all these tweets and speculations in the name of 'news', isn't it? 

1 hour ago, nic said:

If a fathers daughter gets raped and hides it for two months out of shame or something, and it took her a month to realize it. Every father would be onboard.

In that situation the daughter would be a minimum of 12-13 weeks pregnant.

4 hours ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

He was fired for leading a prayer after a football game. He is a victim, at least on some levels.

Being a victim and playing the victim are two separate things, and can both simultaneously be true of someone.

19 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Yes - go to the prayer closet instead of parading it around like the Pharisees.  Of course there is a place and time for public prayer.   In this case, a voluntary prayer of thanks after the game shouldn't be an issue.  If he was all alone and seeking attention that would be more Pharisee like.    

I think the circumstances proved that this was attention-seeking when, after being asked to do it privately (which may or may not be fair), he refused and doubled down on the insistence of doing it at the 50 yard line. 

3 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

OK, how do you use CBD oil?  Do you rub it on your skin?  Swallow it?  What?

Your preference of any of the above. Topically, under your tongue, inhaling/vaping, transdermally with patches, orally via pills or oil added to food/drinks, etc. are all common.

I use it semi-regularly. I'm not really an evangelist for much of anything in the world, but I think for most people who suffer from things like what you're describing it's honestly a life-changing substance. I've felt enough benefits personally and know way too many people who have regained the ability to do x or enjoy y to ignore.

2 hours ago, knapplc said:

Seeing a lot of complaints about this online, but I actually agree with this decision. 

 

With the caveat that I would disagree if the coach punished players who don't participate in post-game prayer, I see no harm to anyone if this coach prays in a public place. 

 

It's been happening at Nebraska for decades and there isn't any public info that it's harmed anyone. 

 

 

Assuming this is the same coach I started a thread about a few months ago, I feel the same way in terms of that being legally protected.

But I also think that coach is hella gaslighting the situation painting himself as a victim through the events of the story and seems like a huge douche.

2 minutes ago, funhusker said:

But in states like Nebraska they want zero abortion for any reason outside of mothers life at risk.  Even that 1% of raped women and children  will be forced to carry.

You have a source for this?

4 hours ago, teachercd said:

Where does that % scale come from?

 

Isn't, in this case, the social component that to be a "real football" player you need to use PED's and therefore he felt he needed to use them to fall in line and since "everybody" was using them it was okay and not really cheating?

 

No need to answer, we all know how this goes.  I was kidding, I did not think this would get more insane haha

Bro no worries I was kidding too! But just kidding the way that analogy doesn't work is PEDs has an organization categorically saying "you aren't allowed to do this" and in terms of identifying as another gender there's no controlling organization doing that. All jokes haha

6 hours ago, teachercd said:

I am going to quote myself but why not...If a guy can identify as a girl and so on (I am 100% for this!) why can't you just identify as a drug test passer?

 

I guess what I mean is, how could they say "no"?

No joke but there's no social component to whether you pass or fail a drug test in the same way that there's a social component to being masculine or feminine.

So to answer your question the reason you can't do that is because you can't do things that make zero sense and get away with them. Being born male anatomically and identifying as a woman isn't actually related to your anatomy and makes at least 1% of sense. If someone was born with a penis and testicles and then tried to claim, "I identify as someone that was born with a vagina", they would clearly be rightfully called out and held accountable to that.

5 hours ago, nic said:

Why are they torching pregnancy clinics? What do these clinics do that is so bad? Do they offer adoption options or something?

 

https://www.facebook.com/LongmontFirePoliceOEM/posts/pfbid0s1bAeKadB42BytPr5MrXkw7wzxBTvpeEm1AWg6PT1LJYMKsbp4F6wFKahUoJJb2Ll

 

The answer is because they are angry. It's inexcusable and rightfully condemnable, but it's not hard to understand the why.

3 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

 

Bias isn't racism, though.

If you ever have any bias related to or informed by race, that is 100% racism, but depending on what the bias is and how it manifests it might be very very minor innocuous racism  

The first thing that shows up on google when you search 'bias' is 'A bias is a tendency, inclination, or prejudice toward or against something or someone.' If that definition is even tangentially related to someone's skin color, then that's at least tangentially racist.