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56 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

 

It does depend a bit on where you go. We were in San Antonio- which is much different than many Texas cities, but one of my favorites, heavy women excluded. There were just 3 that had to make the walk of shame, and there were maybe 50-60 in line the time we rode the water tube ride with the weight limit. Not a fair comparison though- as it was 300 lbs AND there were several prominent signs saying they would not allow 300 lbers up to ride. 

 

There were plenty of big gals, but one would hope they would self exclude due to the swimsuit situation. Having lived in Texas and traveled it extensively they have a slimmer populace than we do- but not by much at Sea World. Go to New Braunfels- 40 miles away and tube the river-Or Mustang Island 2-3  hours away totally different deal- mostly slim. 

So scientifically speaking, if we take the 3 nasty fatties who had to walk back down, and guess that at least half that didn't even try because they saw the signs, then that means that the population of San Antonio is 7.5-9% female whale betas.

So if we graph this out Nebraska has a 51-52.5% higher morbid obesity index than San Antonio, Texas does.

10 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

Went to Sea World Texas recently with kids- they have a 300 lb weight limit for some of the water slides. Signs are all over the place. They have scale you have to get on. Couldn't believe all the big gals who had to walk back down because they weighed over 300- most with big smile- grins walking past all the lines and their men walking right behind. WITDH?

How many big gals did you see have to walk back down? 2? 16? How many women were there total did you count them all? Curious if the math holds up, or if Texas is better or worse or the same as Nebraska in terms of ugly gross female fatties per capita.

34 minutes ago, Nebraska55fan said:

Counted all the women I estimated to be over 200 lbs- then counted the full number of gals in the room. I should have had a scale at the beginning of the cake line- because almost all of them hit that disgusting stuff up at least once.  The experts say 60% of our Nebraska gals are overweight or obese, with about 30% being obese. Unfortunately this group had a few more than that. 

 

There was food at this event- so that could have skewed the data a bit. I didn't have a control group- but you can go to many places and see similar results. For the most part our local gals love that bad food and hate exercising. 

 

If you travel a bunch it's very noticeable- especially if you go to France- Netherlands- Italy. Heck even NYC and Denver for that matter. It's a lifestyle defect. 

 

https://dhhs.ne.gov/Title V Documents/2_Obesity_MCH_Assessment.pdf

Do you have the numbers of women over 200 lbs and the total number of women int he room? Did you write them down or anything? Curious what the percentage was based on your scientific approach.

3 hours ago, Nebraska55fan said:

I thought about this thread and made a quick but scientific inventory of the room. 

In what way was it scientific?

13 hours ago, Hilltop said:

You do realize we have signed top 20 classes the past 2 years and that the vast majority of our team are underclassmen. 

The past 4 years.

53 minutes ago, Toe said:

 

Which one? Are you talking about when Michigan left the conference in 1907? Or when Nebraska petitioned to join the Big Ten back in 1900, and again in 1911? Or one of the other realignments that have been going on for as long as college athletic conferences have been a thing?

I think he means when Penn State joined the Big Ten and made it the Big Te(leven)n

48 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Not sure where you saw that but he's a lot older than that.  Pretty sure he was the sports guy in York some 25 years ago when my wife was in high school in the area.  So he's got to be pushing 50 now.

From the WOWT article it said, "According to the complaint filed Monday in Nemaha County Court, the incidents occurred from December 2017 to February 2018 and involved sexual penetration with a victim between the ages of 12 and 16. Rosenthal was at least 25 years old at the time, the documents state."

But yeah that makes more sense I was going to say he looks like the definition of middle-aged white dude. 

Awful news all around

3 hours ago, Bledred said:

They are neither.  They are the physical embodiment of the Fallen Angels.  Man is not alone in 'the fall'.  Believe and proclaim with your mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and become Born Again today.  Time is short. 

I'm sorry are you claiming the nephilim are floating around in saucers?

That guy was 25 years old in 2018?

2 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

OF course culture flew the coop a long time ago when ESPN started building conferences that put Missouri in the South and West Virginia in the prairie. 

Missouri is a total culture fit with Kentucky and Arkansas and Council Bluffs. 

1 hour ago, JJ Husker said:

Maybe you can explain it to a person who never has understood places east of the Mississippi calling themselves the Midwest. Doesn’t it have to be somehow relative to the geography of the country? What exactly are the boundaries of the Midwest region? I’m 58 and it’s never made sense to me.

 

The East is East, west is west, southeast is southeast, northeast is northeast but somehow the Midwest is east of over 50% of the country?

re: the bold, it was when the term was coined. The United States started out on the east coast, so you already have a 'naming' bias of everything that would be added later being contextual to where we started. Then, with the Louisiana Purchase, it became the 'west' or even the 'northwest'. But over the 1800's, with knowledge that it wasn't the westernmost part of the continent, and then with the acquisitions of even more land, it became the middle west as distinguished from the "far west", hence, midwest. 

It's similar to how the middle east isn't that middle or that east when you look at the whole map of europe and asia, but it was given an england/europe-centric based name. 

We need something to refer to the trans-appalachia area of our country and I guess midwest is the best we have, although the term is more of a cultural construct term than a geographical term these days, if you ask me. 

1 hour ago, Toe said:

@In the Deed the Glory I get it, you're frustrated with the performance of the football team. And so, like a 2-year-old when it's tantrum time, you want to lash out at something. And the sellout streak is what you've chosen to throw your tantrum at.

 

But the problem is, ENDING THE SELLOUT STREAK ISN'T GOING TO DO A GODDAMN THING TO IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM. The little tantrums of 'fans' like you and @Cdog923 over this are about as helpful as those of a 2-year-old.

 

I seriously can't believe I have to explain this s#!t...

There's no need to try and get around the rule-breaking by indirectly insinuating someone is acting like a 2-year-old.

Especially when you're the one restoring to caps lock, italics, bold, and cussing and the other person isn't  

On 7/24/2021 at 1:09 PM, Mavric said:

 

Partly typical offseason fluff but love everything I'm hearing from Allen. There's no getting around the fact that we have a solid core of veteran leadership who are obviously willing to do anything to make this team better. Hopefully they've got the right coaching leadership and approach to foster the right stuff in those coming after them.

1 hour ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

I've never thought of the great plains as part of the midwest.  Part of the culture of the midwest is rust belt industry which sort of fades away west of Missouri.  

It's funny because we generally don't consider the rust belt midwest. 

2 hours ago, RedDenver said:

One of my favorites is telling people from Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio that actually I'm in the Midwest (Colorado) and they're from the Mideast. They almost always start arguing, and then I show them a map of the US and ask them to point the center. I think several of them had a brain aneurysm at that point. It's fun to keep responding to any of their arguments with, "You know that's east of the center, right?" or "Which way is west again?"

The 'midwest' moniker has nothing to do with their actual relative position to the entire continent. I'm guessing you know that and are just being pedantic with your friends or lightly ribbing strangers but it would be a strange thing for anyone (you or them) to take super seriously.

Appreciate all the in depth conversation in here that's way over my head X's and O's wise. Fun to read.

9 hours ago, Bledred said:

Adding USC (gag), Washington, Stanford (double gag), UCLA, Oregon and Colorado would make our conference 20 teams.  Could have a 5 team pod of USC, UW, Stan, UCLA, and Oregon with Colorado joining a midwestern pod of Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.  New conference name: MEGA Conference. 

 

Would have to call it the prairie pod or the heartland or something - places like Illinois/Indiana/Ohio consider themselves more the midwest than us.

2 hours ago, All Hail Herbie said:

All of this said, collegiate football needs a media counterweight to the Bristol monopoly!  ESPN leverages significant weight in conference memberships, media contracts, university administration, coaching contracts, athlete recruitment / retention, as well as participation in post-season playoffs, tournaments, and regionals.  This constitutes a monopoly on its' face and may even constitute anti-trust proceedings.  ESPN tampered with the Big XII in 2010 and did so again this year with the SEC.  

As long as ESPN is owned by and leveraged behind Disney there's no realistic chance of an on par competitor. A really good lawsuit would be, and maybe needs to be, the solution for that.

As far as the other members, I don't think any of them ever supported Texas as much as they knew they didn't have much bargaining power to stand on their own and latched themselves to the only realistically available wagon they could.

17 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

I guess people are going to continue to try to claim this no matter how many times it's shown to be false.

 

We simply didn't have many big bodies when Frost got here.  But he has consistently said and shown in his recruiting that we needed to get bigger.  Right from the start.

 

People claim that he has only recently discovered that he needed bigger linemen in the B1G.  But the first OL he signed was Will Canty who is 6-6 (though he didn't make it to campus).  In his first full class, he signed 6-9 Bryce Benhart, 6-7 Brant Banks, 6-7 Jimmy Fritzche, 6-6 Michael Lynn and 6-6 Matthew Anderson.  He initially recruited exactly what he wanted - guys with B1G frames.

 

Also in that first class - put together in two weeks - were several tall receivers in 6-6 Justin McGriff, 6-3 Katerian LeGrone, and 6-1 Andre Hunt.  It wasn't that he wasn't going after bigger receivers, it's just that the ones he was able to land in that short amount of time didn't work out.  Also in that very first class were 6-5 DE Casey Rogers, 6-3 DB Will Jackson, 6-3 DB CJ Smith, 6-3 DB Braxton Clark, 6-3 LB Caleb Tannor and 6-2 DB Cam Jones.  In a couple weeks he greatly increased the number of 6-3+ players we had on the team.

 

Along with the five OL who were at least 6-6 in that first full class, there were also 6-6 WR/TE Chris Hickman, 6-6 LB Jamin Graham, 6-6 DL Ty Robinson, 6-5 DL Mosai Newsom, 6-4 DL Jahkeem Green, 6-3 LB Garrett Nelson, 6-3 LB Jackson Hannah, 6-3 LB Nick Henrich, 6-3 LB Javin Wright and 6-3 LB Myles Farmer.  

 

It is true that we didn't manage to put any tall receivers on the field for a couple years.  But that wasn't because Frost didn't think he needed them.  He was after bigger bodies everywhere.  We just failed miserably to recruit receivers for FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS.  There were only two contributors in a five year stretch of classes from Riley through Frost - Spielman and Robinson.  They were both short and neither finished their career here.  But it wasn't from not wanting to recruit those type of players.

I don't think all of his linebackers and defensive backs have anything to do with the conversation on scheme vs playcalling and Frost adapting his offense to the big ten. Otherwise I agree.

Impressive quote from Alberts as far as I'm concerned. Values the importance and pride of the sellout streak but doesn't see any value in it or at least won't be deceived into a false sense of optimism if it's largely being artificially propped up.

I feel bad for all the non-blue blood Big 8/12 teams. They really have no power or control over anything, just have to beg for scraps and hope they land on their feet.

Couldn't be more thankful we're in such a solid and strong position especially with how poor our performance has been across the board for the last handful of years.

We will be just fine you guys. We have way bigger and more immediate and local problems than the B1G not matching the SEC punch for punch...how about we perform better than 10th-12th best team in the league before we worry about their realignment moves?

1 minute ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

 

Two terrible additions. Neither of those schools move the needle in their own states, let alone nationally.

 

Football is why the B1G added Nebraska. It's why the SEC is adding Oklahoma and Texas. Making moves because of football, with an eye to new markets, is why the SEC is kicking the B1G's a$$. 

 

 

They were great additions for money, which is the more primary motivation than football success.

How is the SEC kicking the B1G's a$$? We make a decent amount more money than them.

5 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

 

Football drives expansion. Period. Not that what you mentioned doesn't matter, it does. There are a few schools, Notre Dame specifically, who meet all of thos goals.

So we added Rutgers and Maryland for their football?

5 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

 

It's the reason that Miami, Florida State, or Clemson weren't added in the 2010 shuffle. The SEC defers to the school they already have in-state for approval. 

 

There's no bylaw for this, there's only a gentleman's agreement that A&M isn't a part of.

Unless you've got a link to the bylaws that spells it out, it's a B.S. claim in my opinion. If it was in the bylaws, those would be accessible by journalists, and A&M having a very easy ability to cancel Texas joining would be being reported on.

41 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

The goal here absolutely HAS to be to keep up with the SEC. Specifically, on the football field.

That doesn't have to be the goal and that isn't the goal. The goal is bargaining power over media rights for money, and also academic research and grant money. Those are the only real goals at the end of the day, massive football fanbases of successful programs just serve one of those but aren't the goal in their own right.