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Ruthless a-hole? He played his second and third stringers and still kicked the shart out of the competition. If anything, that only solidifies his prowess as one of the greatest of all time. We were two deep at every position and three deep at some. Those guys were badasses cease they gave a sh#t and they had a drive and a passion for being the best. AND THEY WERE. They earned it on the practice field battling against the next guy on the depth chart who was probably better than any of the guys they would play against all season. Don't get those throttlings we gave confused. This was a brilliant coach displaying the depth of his roster, the brilliance of his coaching, his players passion for excellence and their commitment to each other and their coaches. That's got nothing to do with being a ruthless a-hole. His players were the ruthless ones. You try practicing against those same nasty bastards day in and day out. You'd want to beat the piss out of your next opponent too. A team tends to reflect the head coach. Osborne was ruthless. He had absolutely not issues with stepping on an opposing team's throat. And more than a few times he was accused of running the score up. He was absolutely ruthless, he would just be polite as he crushed the hope and will from the opposition.

Devil? No. Great President? Again, No. The foundations he laid are the core problems with wealth inequity now. And the attempts to deify him need to end. Particularly from people who are vehemently against actions he took. (Amnesty anyone? Deficit spending anyone?) People get warm fuzzies from memories because he looked and sounded good on TV, absolutely shocking, given he was an actor, I know.

Typically in the case of career ending sports injuries, the scholarships convert over to general academic for the duration of the four years. They no longer count to the scholarship limit, but get to continue with their degree work.

The hope I have with the SteamOS is something actually focused on gaming. Typically something Valve is passionate about turns out solid in the end. MS's perverted obsession with one unified OS is idiotic. My phone and my gaming rig have so little in common, a single OS is going to have issues with anything that it gets installed on. And lets face it, MS is not exactly solid in any form of mobile. I will have to see 10 in practice before I ever think of dropping 7, even with the free upgrade. The 'gamer friendly' aspects they have mentioned seem primarily aimed at working with an XBone. I don't, and won't, own a console of this generation, and have less than no interest in any form of integration. I have dealt with GFWL, and I imagine anything they bring in new will be in line of a replacement for that travesty.

He sounds like a Dad that is talking about his son...I think most of us know how that goes. He was backed up on the story by Nate Clouse, who saw parts of the recruitment process, like the camp story. And the narrative has been one we have heard repeatedly, by kids, parents, and even the coaches here in state.

First off, Nebraska kids go to high school to get a high school diploma, not to attend a recruit mill for NU. Secondly, a lot of coaches for track, baseball, golf, and soccer aren't going to go for losing kids to football practice. Kearney's track coach would never let the school have a baseball team for the longest time because he didn't want to have to compete with another sport for the best athletes...which is cool if you are a track & field kid, but would suck if you liked to play football. Also, I don't think a lot of the kids who play spring sports would want to have to choose whether to go to spring practice or go play a round of golf at a new course. Too much football also tends to be counterproductive. Columbus High School insists (or used to) on three a day practices, and most of the guys who should have been on the offensive line ended up in choir...seriously... Let's not lose perspective here. You are clearly on one side of the politics issue. And the "get their diploma" line is a total BS, as the NSAA just made it eligibility to play sports more strict. Spring football happens in the states we then have to go recruit from. So somehow the coaches and kids there are different that the ones here? Now the kids don't miss a whole sport, they miss a couple of weeks. The other coaches are primarily concerned with their own win loss records, not necessarily what is good for kids themselves. Kids who are angling for a college football scholarship would be all over a couple of weeks of spring ball, just like the do down south. And all parts of the high school athletics should be focused on what is good for them, not on padding the records and resumes of the coaches. Baseball and track are sports even less likely to yield scholarships (particularly full rides) than football as well from this state.

Most over rated President, and its not that close. The man was not a deity. And it can be argued that he did far more long term damage than good.

There was mention at one point of there being some 3 TE sets that show up now and then in Riley's offense. Also, from what people who have seen the QBs practice, Bush gets higher praise than some of the other guys, I don't see him moving.

Follow the link and listen to the audio, its about 8 min. Dave Bartoo is a numbers nut who broke down the Riley hire when it was done back in December. And he does live in Oregon. http://cfbmatrix.com/riley-pelini-huskers/

What will be fascinating to see is how the new mandated 4 year scholarships are going to impact recruiting. With 85 total, its not going to be the easy thing some teams have of 27 to 29 kids a year. That's a lot of attrition.

Perhaps the explaination is there just isn't as much talent in the state. The scouting services are seeing it. Coaches at other programs are seeing it. Basically the only reason not to recognize it is if you don't want it to be true (no pun intended). There is another angle to it though. Pelini's staff wanted to avoid in state talent, and given equal evaluations would still take an out of state kid. Clester Johnson's interview reaffirmed this. Now, given this is not exactly a high population hotbed for talent, the recruiting services do not necessarily put the same effort into evaluating every single high school player, the simple numbers are unrealistic. And there has been a stated focus on kids that attend the camps. So if Nebraska, who forever, scooped up all good instate talent, was showing no interest in a kid 50 miles away, it can sour both the recruiting services, and other schools. Even if its simply assuming the quality of play in state is so poor that the tape means nothing.

I disagree with the bolded. After 13 years of using/building HTPCs. I have not found that to be the case. The last one I built to handle 4K 3D on-the-fly transcoding is a pretty good gaming rig and way better than the alienware steam box. I went completely digitial 4-5 years ago and other than a $15 HDMI splitter, it's straight off-the-shelf hardware. If you want full-on serious gaming, I don't see anyone going with a pc console unit anyway. I use my desktop or laptop for that but spend more time on the HTPC steam box. It's definitely a viable alternative to the OP. Now if you want to run Linux on it instead of windows, than sure, not a beginner endeavor. Everything else is well established and not difficult. Water blocking a CPU is not that bad, GPUs involve disassembling parts of the shipped item, definitely not for beginners. The thing with those low end things, is they are sales pitching them as a straight up alternative to a PS4 or XBone, and that is just not the case. And unless someone has some knowledge of the ins and outs, and how fast everything changes, they will get screwed by Dell. They don't mention that what they are selling will not be able to run new games at 1080p at 60 fps. And the top one that runs above $800 to not have a 970 in it, is simply a travesty and complete BS. I am keeping an eye on the development of the SteamOS as a Windows alternative for my gaming rig as it comes along. Microsoft's gaming plans seem to be to tell PC gamers to go buy an XBone. I have used my gaming rig as a HTPC before, so I know it is absolutely possible to do both. Its just most of the builds I have seen for HTPCs are focused on doing silent performance video, and silent is typically not a hallmark of a gaming rig. Particularly when I have looked around forums focused on them.

There are free alternatives to the subscriptions. To fix what you might have, try MalwareBytes, its free and solves most issues. And honestly, there might need to be a discussion on what the hell she is doing to get infected with all sorts of things. You probably want to get her set up using Chrome or Firefox. Pro-Tip, never, ever use Internet Explorer. Depending on what you are running, you might just be looking at some upgrades and not a full new build.

HTPCs are just small for factor with minimal fans for quiet performance. Sometimes set up with a tuner card to be used as a DVR. Which ends up not being ideal for any kind of gaming, unless you are going to drop mega bucks for specialized parts, or going full in and water blocking both the CPU and GPU. Not a beginner friendly en devour. There are countless case options as well, I recently saw one that is designed to be wall mounted of all things. For controllers or any other peripheral, if it can connect to a PC, someone has drivers for it to work. For the most part, Xbox controllers are plug and play anymore. PS3 and PS4 require 3rd party software, but there is really good freeware out there for them, which basically makes Windows think they are Xbox controllers. Oddly, PS4 controllers tend to be easier setup than XBone. MS didnt want to release driver and interface info for a long time.

Don't. They look good at first glance, but there are some very serious drawbacks. I did one similar to that once, and lived to regret it, I wanted the small form factor. The issues. 1 - Proprietary parts. All of the internal parts other than the CPU and the RAM are custom in some way. And Dell, who owns Alienware, is going to gouge you to replace them if needs be. And at the premium price, you will still be lacking features that cheaper enthusiast parts offer. 2 - Upgrades are going to be very problematic. With the above, you options are seriously limited. They build those to very limited specs. 3 - You won't get as much for your money. And their website is hiding specs. They are not disclosing which video card they are installing, and the numbers they show tell me you will have buyer's remorse when it does not perform as advertised. The low end one of those is garbage. It will be under min specs of many new games in the next 18 months. A $400 PC is destined to be a door stop. Even the high end one does not include a GTX 970 or 980 which are the cards of choice for value to performance. They are selling a bill of goods. Steam has Big Picture Mode as a standard feature, they are advertising it on there like its something special. Everyone has it. A wireless XBox 360 controller pack is $60, and there are lots of other options for controllers out there. Building a gaming rig is always the best bang for your buck, and with the modular way everything is made it has never been easier to do it yourself. If you are interested, I could assemble some buying options for you to look at.

I was gone from WoW long before that. I ran with 3 other real life friends and we 3 and 4 manned most of the dungeons. Yet pugs wouldn't touch 3 of the 4 of us. Most of the other MMOs I have played I never got near endgame. Often progression would get blocked by needing a group, and not being whatever makeup was trendy at the time would sink me. Now my old EQ1 guild was the #2 on the server for quite a while. We were a full on raiding guild, and I was one of the officers. We had a reputation for completing content with less numbers, or non-ideal class breaks. often running raids with 20 men under the max(Raid max in EQ was 72, and VOIP wasnt really a thing yet.) Typically I ran groups outside of raids with old guildies, but now and then if I was doing a pug, my guild tag alone would trump things, even if my class was having neglect issues from the devs. And on the other side when we would fill out a group with the odd random guy, we didn't worry about what their AA spend was or the gear, just if they could follow directions.

Part of the issue is the spring sports coaches have blocked football from running a spring practice session like so many other states do. Benning has talked about this more than once on his show, where there are so many coaching politics that has thus far prevented it. The University needs to lean on the NSAA to get the ball rolling. Do spring football, help the Huskers. If this actually got front and central in people's minds in this state, I think we would have spring football pretty fast. But it really does not get talked about enough.

It provides good context for the reasons why we are where we are now. The simple fact of the matter is when you really get down to it, we have not had many highlights over the last decade. That recruiting class would be a prime reason why Solich was fired, why we got Callahan and so on. It really underscores how important recruiting is, and the catastrophe that can ensue with badly missing on players.

That's been a top factor on my leaving of every MMO have have played since EQ1, and its an absurd amount really. I was an officer in a high end raid guild back then, with some different dynamics than our competition. Maybe I just have a tough threshold, but I don't want to join guilds that take anyone through open chat. And that can make it a bit harder to find something.

Is this surprising? We don't have a head coach who is going to generate clicks for the "OMG he said/did WHAT?" We have never been a 'sexy' program to talk about. (Not having a metered market in the state is probably a giant factor with this, "if no one is monitoring, is anyone watching?")

Recruiting media have the number at 88. Riley stated 85 in the presser. So it is safe to assume we have 3 guys who the coaches know will not be back by fall that the public is not aware of yet.

Nope, I wasn't what people wanted class and gear wise before I walked away from the game. Was not part of a guild, and the pug people were so specific on everything. You know, can't have someone that will add 10 min to something learning it.

And there are new studies with links between Glyphosate and autism. And just off the bad the correlation between that chemical's entry into the market and the rise of autism makes a better argument than vaccinations. Now the Monsanto monster is going to try to keep more of those from being investigated, as that might well end them. Monsanto will never be ended. They have too much money, and money is all that matters. If there were ever lawsuits they'd win them. If scientists found out Monsanto was killing all the bees, they'd just buy off those scientists. Oh wait, that already happened. And a very large part of their empire right now is built around Glyphosate (Roundup) both the seeds and the chemical. Now say that gets outlawed, that money all drys up. Then the class action lawsuits start. If the link is proven, the billions and billions in settlements would do damage beyond belief. We are talking worse than Asbestos or Tobacco settlements. As the stock price tanks, the company sinks. They'll stop it from getting outlawed. All they have to do is pay off the politicians/judges. But it won't even get that far. They'll pay off the people researching it first. Not everyone has a price. If I remember right, the lead on this is a professor from MIT. Politicians will cave if a link is found. The "Wont's someone think of the children" angle will trump a company the public has a very bad view of. Politicians tend to be worried about getting reelected beyond all else.

And there are new studies with links between Glyphosate and autism. And just off the bad the correlation between that chemical's entry into the market and the rise of autism makes a better argument than vaccinations. Now the Monsanto monster is going to try to keep more of those from being investigated, as that might well end them. Monsanto will never be ended. They have too much money, and money is all that matters. If there were ever lawsuits they'd win them. If scientists found out Monsanto was killing all the bees, they'd just buy off those scientists. Oh wait, that already happened. And a very large part of their empire right now is built around Glyphosate (Roundup) both the seeds and the chemical. Now say that gets outlawed, that money all drys up. Then the class action lawsuits start. If the link is proven, the billions and billions in settlements would do damage beyond belief. We are talking worse than Asbestos or Tobacco settlements. As the stock price tanks, the company sinks.

I haven't played that in a couple years... have they made any decent changes? Yeah, they have overhauled a lot of stuff. The trait system hardly resembles what it used to be, and have not even gotten into it yet as it requires lv 30 now. I just started a new char as I was so out of it with my old Ele. And the way they doll out each part of the system is very different. Very much designed to ease people in a bit, but if you had unlocked some of the things they remain unlocked, as most things are account bound and not char. And there is a full free expansion coming soon, with class specializations. We will see how far I get with it this time. I may have to go check it out... It took me about 8 or 9 months to lose interest the first time it came out... The one other thing is they have gone to the "MegaServer" set up. Where for PvE and sPvP world is irrelevant, home world only matters for WvW. It can make zones feel much more populated than before, particularly at off hours on your home world. That's kinda weird? I wonder what prompted that? Common trend with MMOs anymore. Basically all players are pooled on one server and zones are instanced as the population demands for the moment. Has a real solid effect of making the game seem more populated than it might otherwise be as well. I know I have played games where I was the only person in a zone, particularly if you are not max level. I imagine it saves them a ton of money in the amount of running hardware too. But I bet that makes the daily farming in Queensdale a complete sh*tshow... It didn't seem that bad anywhere I have been. I saw times before when I played where there would not be enough players around to take down the world bosses when they came up. Lots of people there for them now. Though if you have a low end rig, I can see a need to turn down a lot of settings in that kind of situation. They seem to have a good handle on the numbers in a given instance before it creates a new one. There is also a notification you get if the map population drops very low that offers you a boon for moving to a more populated instance of that map. When I stopped playing that daily farm run in Queensdale was a mess. You had people jumping the spawns and throwing off entire groups "rotation"... The other thing was, I got tired of trying to do dailies for 4 characters. That got to be a bit tedious and time consuming... I think they have tweaked the dailies since then too. And back to an account list and not tied to a specific character. Everything is very account based now. There is a Wallet now that pools all coin, karma, and every other form of currency, and every char has access to it. I hope so, that was part of the reason I didn't play as much. I also like the sounds of that, keep everything centralized. Did you ever PvP in GW2? I did a little WvW, and an odd match here and there. But without being with a group of people I know well, pvp really does not do much for me. Pug pvp is generally a bad idea, but WvW can be ok now and then as the scale is so much larger. I concur, did they ever fix those event timers? I don't know. I never payed that close attention to them.