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I'd either mostly or entirely leave. For better or worse.

2 minutes ago, OH HSKR FAN said:

Fair point. Cosgrove also called that 2007 defense which was atrocious.    Folks forget about the better D the year prior.

2007 was an anomaly in the form of the poorly poured concrete foundation of a dam breaking. Similar to 2017. The statistical results of those seasons should be treated as such and focused more on the fundamental failings imo.

8 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

 

I'll bite. Bill Callahan actually would have been a good hire...had our AD been able to get through his head that he needed a new DC. If Callahan had done the right thing and cut Cosgrove loose, BC would have been successful and could have still been HC to this day. 

 

 

Interesting. 2006 was our best year under Callahan - tell me, was it the defense or offense that struggled against the top competition that year?

#4  USC - Defense held them to 28 points (under their average), offense scored 10 points

#5 Texas - Defense held them to 22 points (under their average), offense scored 20 and lost the ball giving them the game winning score.

#10 Oklahoma - Defense held them to 21 points (under their average), offense had 4 picks and a fumble on their first play en route to 7 points.

#10 Auburn - Defense held them to 17 points (under their average), offense scored 14 total including 7 on the opening drive, which means 7 total points in the remaining ~58 minutes of play.

2005 was our second best year. In 2005 we were 25th in the nation in points allowed per game (67th in points per game), and led the nation in sacks (can't find the stat but I wouldn't disbelieve if we were last in the nation in sacks allowed).

12 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

In Nebraska's second year in the Big 10, we entered the Conference Championship at 10-2, playing an 8-5 team we'd already beaten, with a Rose Bowl berth and Top 10 ranking on the line. 

 

Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Texas finished that year the Top 20. Wisconsin remained unranked. They even lost to Mike Riley's Oregon State that year. 

 

The Husker defense definitely started trending south after 2010 (after 2009, really) but you might chalk that up to the quality of defensive recruits rather than conference strength.  There were probably more dangerous teams top to bottom in the Big 12 than the Big 10 at the time. Nebraska came into the league at the perfect moment, but couldn't capitalize. 

Not sure what you're getting at in your first bit other than the conference was bad that year.

The bolded is an important point to mention, especially since it's impossible to extrapolate the worsening talent and the period of time in which we changed conferences.

But the Big 10 was also unusually down then (the original point being that usually the B1G is a step above). It was somewhat of an anomaly. Yes, Bo maintained 4 losses consistently, but we got Ohio State in their only losing season since the dinosaurs, we got Michigan in one of their worst stretches ever, we got Penn State in theirs, we got Wisconsin in their worst year of the last decade, etc. 

I'd change your last sentence to read Nebraska came into the league at the perfect moment, and Bo Pelini capitalized perfectly by being lucky enough to continue having the same W-L records. If Bo enters the B1G in 2015 there's zero chance we'd still go 9-4.

44 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

In the transition from the Big 12 to the Big 10, Nebraska went from a four loss team to a four loss team. 

We went from a 4 loss team inches away from two conference championships and not getting blown out to a 4 loss team finishing  3rd/4th in our division, losing a championship game by 40 points and setting NCAA records for abysmal defensive performance.

32 minutes ago, jaws said:

 

I can agree with that. Now, who gets to define the culture of a football team? 

 

I don't think something like culture is a thing that someone 'gets' to decide as much as who does define it. And the answer would be everyone. Coaches instill certain things top down, the players gel  and form relationship ground up and it all coalesces.

On 8/2/2020 at 2:48 PM, Moiraine said:

Someone summarize Bogus Journey for me (that'd be more fun than wikipedia). I feel like I saw it but have no recollection whatsoever.

Future them create a utopia. The gym teacher sends robot replicas back in time to stop it from ever happening. The robot versions kill them and take their places, and then the grim reaper loses a game to them and is at their command. They get better robot versions to beat their evil robot versions, then they win battle of the bands on their way to fulfilling their destiny.

2 minutes ago, Mavric said:

 

Honest question: is it the difference in the word ending in "a" instead of "er"?  The former seems to be acceptable in the contexts you mentioned.  But the latter causes much consternation.

To me the difference is, at least in it's simplest terms for white folk, are you using the word against someone or referring to someone(s), or are you reciting/referencing the word? 

What Patterson did was dumb, but there wasn't anything 'wrong' with it further than that imo. In contrast, if someone said "a bunch of dirty n-words moved in on my street," we wouldn't be like, "oh cool he didn't say the word so he's obviously not racist"  

The only part of Patterson's apology is the "in any context is unacceptable" part. That's not true, and that's not something we should believing.

Obviously we already don't believe it because black communities say it all the time. Hip hop uses it all the time. So there's at least some contexts. As far as contexts for white people, should we censor actual quotes from the slavery south? Modify old literature? Depict our racist past in film but not honestly? If your conflict is sanitized and PG, so is your redemption.

4 hours ago, jaws said:

So who gets to pick and choose what is acceptable for a culture or subculture? The consensus of what is acceptable has to be more than "it is part of our culture so it is ok". There is some crazy stuff that happens in this world that is accepted in some cultures.

Why does it have to be more than cultures defining things for themselves? Seems pretty simple, live and let be. Unless you're going to respond with, "But what about cannibals and genital mutilation!?", in which case, you let people be until there's an immediate threat of harm. 

That is absolutely insane. Looks like a scene from Armageddon.

7 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

I find it highly unlikely this wouldn't have been at 100% capacity had he died at any other time.

Agreed, but that's different than whether or not social distancing was enforced at the funeral, which it wasn't, although a decent amount seem to be anyways.

2 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

 

Ok on them getting an exemption, but this is false.

 

 

That's a lot of people in those center sections. Not sure how that photo does anything other than confirm it.

On 7/31/2020 at 3:34 PM, Huskers93-97 said:

If this cocktail that seems to be working didn’t contain something trump promoted some of you wouldn’t be so against it.

If this cocktail didn't contain something trump promoted you would have never heard of it.

5 hours ago, commando said:

they all did wear mask though....i thought social distancing was wear a mask if you can't stay 6 feet apart.    you never see a mask at a trump rally and 6 feet apart isn't required,   even with the exemption they were doing better then a trump rally.

The CDC recommends social distancing of at least 6 feet and wearing a mask. If people aren't wearing masks indoors they should be up to 10 feet away from each other.

7 hours ago, Moiraine said:

Not sure why people always jump to this conclusion unless they are just saying all Trumpers are trolls, and a lot of them are.

I guess we all find it hard to believe that people who think and act this way actually exist and vote.

5 hours ago, commando said:

what in the actual f#$k are you talking about?  to be more specific...who's funeral was there no social distancing...especially compared to a trump rally?

John Lewis' funeral had no social distancing. George Floyd's funeral also had no social distancing. ND Joe's weird flex about Trump's small crowds is not worth engaging, but it's pretty frustrating for  many who have recently lost loved ones and legally aren't even allowed to have a funeral  because of COVID, and then seeing that.

13 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

I don't know anything about this guy, but if he came to Hawaii as someone bringing a foreign culture and religion and hoping to transplant the local customs and culture, that is being a colonizer by definition haha.

It's funny that this came out now because Nathan recently quit to go freelance, but this is my roommate/business parter/good old friend:

15 hours ago, Decked said:

I would say it’s about time to switch ad companies 

maybe time for us all to switch messageboards

12 hours ago, BigRedMax said:

 

It is a new agency and they have been paused. 

i noticed you didn't say 'stopped'. interesting choice of words.

8 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

It isn't brain surgery and it's not supposed to be a cash cow.  I'll have a couple of my friends look into creating a new site for HuskerBoard followers. 

we should chat.

15 hours ago, WyoHusker56 said:

Also, since we keep the politics to one area of the board can we not do the political ads?

@BigRedMax already promised no political ads outside of P&R in the past. one of many b.s. false promises

I count about 8 very prominent ads on this one page.

14 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

I'm seeing some pretty crappy Game 4s, and some uninspired choices from 2014.

 

I think Branno's the only one to list Nebraska vs. Miami, Game 4, 2014, when Miami came in like the arrogant s#!t-talkers of old and Nebraska gave them a satisfying beat down at Memorial Stadium to go 4-0.  

 

How does thrashing Idaho compete with that? 

I included Idaho in my 'dominance' list and Miami in my 'entertaining' list.

Also, let me take the time to pimp myself:

1 minute ago, knapplc said:

 

So not a "massive overstatement?" 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'll rescind 'massive'.

Just now, knapplc said:

Because it's being pushed for purely political reasons

By Trump, not by everyone.

We've got studies showing it's effective. We've got studies showing it's not. We've even got one study (since redacted I guess) showing it causes a steep increase in deaths.

It's probably not effective in any meaningful way. I don't believe it is. But everyone is in a rush with so much pressure, there is also push against it for political reasons not just for it, there's plenty of room for error in methodology of food & drug testing, and consensus takes time.

I'm not claiming that guy is RIGHT, but accomplished and distinguished professionals greatly differ in their conclusions still. So in the spirit of that, here's the dean of Yale not necessarily agreeing with him, and an op ed that calls him out as dangerous.

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/07/24/harvey-risch-defends-hydroxychloroquine/

On 7/28/2020 at 1:34 PM, knapplc said:

Great that you survived COVID. Hydroxychloroquine did nothing to help you. It's ineffective against this virus. 

That's a massive overstatement.

3 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

Sorry but ignoring experts and sound medical advice has consequences. Who could've guessed.

Agreed.

Harvey A. Risch, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, recently published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, analyzing five studies (7 more have come out since then) showing that when hydroxychloroquine is given early in high-risk patients, especially in combination with azithromycin or doxycycline and zinc, it's highly effective.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093/5847586

Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reports and public media, and outpatient trials results are not expected until September. Early outpatient illness is very different than later hospitalized florid disease and the treatments differ.

Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease. Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.

https://watermark.silverchair.com/kwaa093.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAArEwggKtBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKeMIICmgIBADCCApMGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMMWjvMWnLTR_KwAkNAgEQgIICZCfHFws7vw2Q7jRFJkwJen5FLZkNS2OcBS7vYz_QDt1W1Dcror2yNH7KRpI-neY7InOcvAOMseJ-oMf7gGUJGQJ2uFlUF8iacyN1g1MdxfTnSFv0kaZKPBJzen_KTm8yMCDa6COESBHk1rpLhuyghRrchNI6H10uFycuO_g5PJZ4wAEOATMFkGlvmI37dEhoBwkYgqX2Ho1tKTowhstaBERjmWekeMqWKNERX4TiE9l5HjHB40hInU-wXYnoj-KB0xCegainrftt56X-hNZF5kCeP6Ckbl1hDccIPeKVrZPArTay7ma9tYh0wYcjynDokKeQKQ9l8OE5D-ZQohOCbwK1wMt2nALrzwWmuN3-gI_geZVU4UOA6fGwMbM2CbY9mRxy7UUkV8Kmz2cVxWNHMWilZY4XcdbZYxgk5iGHMWkAEIE2hAMyuXfr1RJ8fGQ_dzSIT5mrz_wNvWD2bLQdFskPwEtZ8iysaybQ6RIm1er8ni6zdv4opVKXoBYiO8OTgSmtekiMomfSwNcwXayMhlcdrBABOd7V4Kp2wzNtgBiRM4z8OwV93ILroik9jUxeyHKVfvGVzPWCgmhQye1j6E48uD7IAs08WZblxJPtrfZcTWQdhgIXPIgympfltdFTOMLVJlZI3EMs9yMZVeVbhPMw1-sRKGw0UYSZxDbvFlXfLqYsY69MUSThdPLeUgAP1yaon7uyuDm81KD4yOfWmd_fQlX77U6As8mDJJ6zekxFFbo7poH7HAlIUqcv79CDrJY7Icm9Dci_5i22x4Ww_3VOua2ZQMphDjFpo_oc-Fcig0Y2yg

5 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

Ugh forgot it was a blackout! Whose idea was it to have a blackout for an afternoon game early in the season? 

 

That was the worst part about it and kind of sums up Husker football over this time frame in general. We had them beat it seems and then we fold after a backbreaking play. There were a few of those late in that first half it seems like. 

IIRC, the blackout was because of the black alternates, decided well in advance of the time slot of the game being decided. Everyone was pretty outraged and surprised it ended up as an 11:00 kickoff, especially since it was a top 25 matchup.