Lorewarn

Twitter is not the public town square lol. It's not even close. 

If all of the speculation is true I really hope people don't demonize the kid. Football is extremely valuable for a lot of things, but it's not and shouldn't be an all encompassing weight and identity in life (at least outside of a season), and if Betts has already figured out what's most important to him then that should be nothing other than celebrated.

I don't know the kid or the situation and all its details, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know that something demanding more than you need or want to give isn't worth it for you.

1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

That’s actually an opinion.  

I mean have you seen his face? Looks like factual garbage to me.

13 minutes ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Most scholarships include $ available to players if they want to live off campus.  They don't need to live in the dorms to get the financial aid.

That's what I'm saying. The estimated room & board cost at UNL for 2021-22 is $11,920.

If players live off campus, they get a check cut for $11,920 or something close to it because that's part of their scholarship. They're then free to spend that on whatever they want and if they get 4-5 people in a house to make rent cheap, that's a whole lot of free money left over.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

News flash.  Most people after their freshman year don't want to live in University housing.  I'll try to put this lightly.  This is a horrible idea and would be a complete waste of money for the AD department.

All of that doesn't even mention that all the off-campus players get a check cut for several thousand dollars when they're not using the 'room & board' their scholarship includes.

24 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Neither one was as qualified as this one.  But, there probably was not a clear and honest reason to vote against them.  With one, it probably depends on if you believed the sexual assault allegations.

Even right wing news made several mentions about how the main woman's accusation was credible. And despite the truth or lack thereof of the allegation, the way he acted and responded like a snively emotional little b!^@hass and started ranting about essentially a deep state conspiracy should've been enough for folks.

2 hours ago, ndobney said:

As far as programs go a lot of fcs schools are in a better place than we are right now

That's because their competition is FCS schools.

There are also DII and DIII schools in a better place than we are right now. There are also high school programs in a better place than we are - because they're more well positioned in relation to their competition and their goals.

Do you think you're making a point here?

Apparently we're getting new turf this season.

Same design all around except no more alternating greens. That'll be the first design change to the turf since 2005.

10 hours ago, Hilltop said:

The crazy part is the serious uptick in the 2000s.  1 in over 100 years and then 6 in a 20 year stretch.

It used to be a standard 11 game regular season and then a bowl game.

Then you add a 12th regular season game, then a conference championship (13), then now an extra 'bowl' game in the form of the playoffs and the dominant teams are playing 15 game seasons compared to 12.

1 minute ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

I’m not a biologist.

Don't think you need to be a biologist if it's clear.

You're beginning to sound an awful lot like Judge Thomas  

Just now, B.B. Hemingway said:

It’s pretty clear, in almost every case.

Okay so then define it.

2 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

If you were born a male, you are a man. Full stop.

 

I would of leaned on the biological truths. A woman is someone born a female, and is physically capable of birthing children, etc. 

So now you need to define what being born male/female means, which based on 'biological truths' is not always exactly clear.

2 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

Lol. Come on. The answer to that question at least hints to where you might lean on future cases involved with trans people, etc. 

I'm struggling to imagine a ruling dependent on if a trans person is a woman or not. 

What would be an example of that? 

1 minute ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

You don’t think the Supreme Court might eventually  be involved in deciding if men can continue to compete against women in athletic competition?

How would you define men in this case? Or, I guess a better question is if you were in her shoes what would your answer have been?

41 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Incredible video.

 

Check out the video at :23.  It appears that three object drop in the water towards the bow of the ship trying to escape.  Wish those would have hit their target.  Another one falls a little later.

 

The ship in the background trying to escape is already on fire.

 

The Orsk is the ship at dock and was sunk.

Wow. The birds flying past frame made me surprisingly emotional.

War is evil, avoidable and devastating. 

1 hour ago, ColoradoHusk said:

Benning's podcast goes into detail in that Betts doesn't make his life around football and athletics.  It's not his "identity", and he just plays football because he's been very good at it, and he's trying to use it to get a college education.

 

I don't think there's anything wrong with that type of personality and priorities in life, but that may not do well with the demands of big-time college football.  Maybe he takes some time to figure things out and he works out a path with Frost, Whipple, and Joseph to come back, or maybe he's done for good.

If that's the case, not only is there anything wrong with that perspective but it's actually probably healthier and better for him overall as a person, but yeah, probably not conducive towards a high stakes pressure cooker environment at this level.

28 minutes ago, Axl_sued_me said:

That makes it sound like he's had a spiritual awakening while on a psychedelic mushroom trip and now he's integrating. 

I thought the same thing

Good for him if so. More people honestly need something like this in their life haha.

8 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

We’ll have to agree to disagree on the woman question. I think it had to be asked. She gave them the answer they wanted, but that doesn’t make her answer any less ridiculous.

Regardless of how you answer the question, her answer was refusing to participate in the gamesmanship of these partisan sound byte charades. There's nothing ridiculous about that, in fact it's exactly what judges should strive to do imo.

Eric Crouch also wasn't a part of the team for a little while 

#glasshalffull  

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

You go from saying Joe is right to saying he is wrong in the same post .   Thoughtless garbage content by lorewarn with that one? 

Nah he'd be wrong either way. It actually just turns out that he was double wrong on this one, first by defining an entire non-homogenous group only by its most extreme fringe, and second by referring to a completely separate entity than Judge Jackson.

3 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

 

58 minutes ago, Enhance said:

It's been a long time since I read much about the Black Hebrew Israelites, but I thought they (for the most part) were not a group of "vicious and violent Jew haters" and that the reputation was largely the result of some extremist fringes of their group.

 

Like, to be a Black Hebrew Israelite I don't think it comes with the qualification of being a vicious, violent Jew hater. But like I said it has admittedly been awhile since I looked into them.

In much the same way that Westboro Baptist Church doesn't define Christianity, the hate group extremist sects of Black Hebrew Israelites do not define the movement as a whole. There are no doubt sects which are radical, hateful, violent and dangerous (including the ones from the Covington Catholic high school incident at the capitol a few years ago), and all of this is easily found by looking at SPLC's list of hate groups, the anti-defamation league, really just any single google search.

BUT. Here's the kicker... none of those groups are even related to the African Hebrew Israelites Jackson is referring to completely separate entities, the latter being a wellstanding community in Israel, recognized by their Foreign Ministry for being effective contributors to the country, and are pro-Israel.

Archy thoughtlessly bringing some seriously garbage content into this thread with that one.

"Loudest stadium in the B1G"

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

asexual people not being able to get laid is a choice that seems like a forced choice in that they want to live as a Priest/Nun or they can’t get laid and want to be labeled something so I guess that group created asexual.   

Surely there are asexual people who actively choose it.

There are also certainly others who through no choice of their own have little or zero sex drive at all, and instead of 'want to be labeled something', find comfort in a community knowing that they're not alone and not the only ones, when they've probably spent most of their life feeling like there's something wrong with them. 

1 hour ago, suh_fan93 said:

 

Our own fans love to rag on how lame Memorial can be, but opposing coaches and players never have anything but effusive praise about it being an incredible and/or intimidating atmosphere.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

So????  
 

I fail to see how this makes ok fir her to then compete in women’s swimming. 
 

I just don’t get it. 

Just offering more info.

5 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Is anyone actually asexual by choice? 

4 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

Everything is a choice except eventually dying.  

Guess we answered this one. Good work today everyone.

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

If he’s that good, keep competing there after transition. I’m sure she would find a level she could compete at and be happy. 

She did compete in men's swimming the first year of transitioning and undergoing hormone therapy, and has lost over 15 seconds on her 500 time. Per her account in an SI article, she actually was hesitant to begin hormone therapy for some time because she was fearful she'd lose the ability to swim competitively (not in terms of not being allowed, but in terms of losing so much ability.