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49 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

This game really sucked to be at. It was so fun until it wasn't, and it was hot. 

Especially because we were wearing black.

UCLA had like a 3rd and 17 or something before halftime. We got great pressure and should have had a sack, but Brett Hunley escaped and got a first down en route to a score before half. I predicted in that moment we were about to fold and lose that game. 

As far as best results:

2014 - Florida Atlantic, W 55-7

2016 - Wyoming, W 52-17

2010 - @ Washington, W 56-21

2012 - Idaho State, W 73-7

2010 - @ Kansas State, W 48-13

2013 - @ Purdue, W 44-7

2010 - @ #16 Oklahoma State, W 51-41

2011 - #9 Michigan State, W 24-3 /// 2010 #7 Missouri is honestly a toss up here as well

2009 - #20 Oklahoma, W 10-3

2015 - #6 Michigan State, W 39-38

2007 - Kansas State, W 73-31

2011 - Iowa, W 20-7

Bowl - 2009 Holiday Bowl vs Arizona, W 33-0

As far as drama and entertainment:

2015 - BYU, L 28-33

2019 - @ Colorado, L 31-34 (OT)

2016 - #22 Oregon, W 35-32 /// 2009 at Virginia Tech is a close second

2014 - Miami, W 41-31

2009 - @ #24 Missouri, W 27-12

2011 - Ohio State, W 34-27

2012 - @ Northwestern, W 29-28

2013 - Northwestern, W 27-24 on a Hail Mary (can we do the same team more than once?)

2012 - @ Michigan State, W 28-24

2012 - @ #12 Penn State, W 17-14

2013 - @ Penn State, W 23-20 (OT) /// Honorable Mention 2018 Michigan State W 9-6 (coincidentally 2010 Texas A&M was also 9-6)

2008 - Colorado, W 40-31

Bowl - 2008 Gator Bowl vs Clemson, W 26-21

2 hours ago, kansas45 said:

 

Thank you. I also predict that:

 

2. I will make predictions based on the best available evidence from multiple sources and extrapolate what that could mean; one can easily see trends occurring. 

How much you wanna bet

Would all those potential babies be living if people used condoms, which prevents pregnancies.

Amazing.

1 hour ago, Savage Husker said:

Sorry, Knapp, but the democrat leadership chases trends for power and control by pandering. We listen to msm and turn “China Virus” into another racist comment by Trump, yet here we have a guy who generalizes republicans but then refers to pot as “Mexican” and it’s crickets. Is that because it’s not racist or because “he’s one of us?” Let’s pick one and stick with it or stop pretending to be offended. 
 

@Guy Chamberlin I couldn’t careless about that lame duck candidate, if anything it would be his successor because he’s most likely won’t even last 4 years. 
 

I don’t even have a B or C game, Guy. I’m a slow witted individual, but keep up the hypocrisy. 

54 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

One group is made up of voters. The other is the people they elect. 

 

Once elected, Democrats typically trim their ideology to fit the  lobbyists. They are marginally better at representing the little guy, but tend to take credit they haven't quite earned. 

 

Forgot to mention football. Love the sport and hope we can pull off a season. 

Take it to P&R

I didn't realize which thread this was that I was contributing political discussion in. Keep it in P&R.

5 hours ago, Savage Husker said:

Democrats embracing corporate elitists, I’d admit I never expected to see that. 

Democrats are corporate elitists.

6 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

'WaPo' the Jeff Bezos owned newspaper settles with  the Covington Catholic kid.  However he is still going after others in Silicon Valley. 

 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-settles-nicholas-sandmann-defamation-lawsuit-in-covington-catholic-high-school-controversy

Good for him. The media's role in that whole thing is an incredibly ugly and disgraceful black eye.

5 hours ago, Moiraine said:

I would say this is usually true but I think a truly bad president can have a stronger affect on more people.

Pretty much what I meant in regards to the most important thing about a President being the mood/tone/attitude they set. Trump's an exceptionally divisive, arrogant, out of touch with reality present, and now look at the state of the citizens and how pissy and combative and ignorant they've all become. And brazenly and boldly.

2 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

I've always argued, and still do, that people give way more blame to the president and way more credit to the president than any president deserves.

 

That said your first line here is pretty inaccurate. The president is the most powerful person in the country/world. You should come to that conclusion just seeing what the president can do with executive orders. What the president is never wholly responsible for (with blame or credit) is something like the economy. The president is a factor in many things but not usually the only factor.

I meant more specifically the Presidency isn't that important as far as affecting your day to day life in any meaningful way.

Obviously there are exceptions to this (especially for people on the margins) and I don't mean it absolutely, but most of us continue on relatively the same way throughout presidencies.

22 minutes ago, admo said:

 

First of all, to me, as a republican, it means I lean a little bit more to the right.  I've always been somewhere in the middle.  My family tree is democratic.  I started out as an independent.  

Believe it or not, there are some good things that I've liked about the POTUS, esp early on.  But in the past year, it hasn't been so hunky-dory.  And even as a repub, I'm not so sure that another 4 years would be ideal for our country right now (IMHO).  

So, if a new office and administration can lead some positive efforts for progress, forge a peace plan, eliminate some division, then yes.  Can it be done? I think so.

And by the way, I would love to see the leadership of our country with a black woman veep.  I think it is long overdue, for all parties.  We are in need for new healthy changes to our country, and positive action is required. 

No one can say in good faith that Trump has done zero good things. It would be virtually impossible for a President to not do a single independent good thing in a vacuum. But your desires towards being together/mended/cooperative speak towards the biggest single failure and worst result of Trump's presidency.

The President isn't really that important for anything (imo) except for one thing; setting the tone and mood. Trump set a mood of hostility, bullying, petulent childish tantrums, and framing everything as us vs them. He's the least "togetherness" minded President in history. Everyone except his base is an enemy, and his political party and constituents have risen (or rather sunk) to the bar that he's modeled.

4 hours ago, Decked said:

What ever happened to ... being mentally tough? 

One thing that has happened is that society has realized that sometimes being mentally tough actually just means being mentally unhealthy. Often the least healthy and most healthy responses to trauma and struggle look the same from the outside.

56 minutes ago, Undone said:

 

They get a check that they can deposit into their bank account?

Yes. Not only do they get a 'cost of living' stipend (a few thousand dollars), but they get other money in a lot of other ways as well.

Their scholarship includes room & board. At UNL room & board is $11,430. However if they live off campus, then they get a check cut for the total amount of room & board. Players usually live in houses together so say they live in Lincoln year round for $500 rent/utilities, that's $6,000. That means the player has $5,430 left over that's just theirs.

There's also the Student Assistance Fund, which provides players money for things they need but aren't covered under a scholarship - flights home, child care costs, summer school, graduate test fees, etc. And they get several hundred dollars to purchase non-athletic clothing such as suits.

None of that goes into the non-monetary value of professional world class strength and conditioning, nutrition, tutoring, life skill training, physical therapy, opportunity to travel, bowl game gifts, clothing, publicity, and so on.

Oh, and now players are allowed to get paid actual money for their own likeness as well.

12 hours ago, admo said:

Probably.  I was shocked he won.  Happy, but shocked.

12 hours ago, admo said:

Our country needs mending, a feeling of togetherness and brotherhood, and new leadership badly.

Is this you saying that you've changed your mind about Trump as a former supporter?

1 hour ago, 307husker said:

 

We cannot say this for certain given the multitude of variables in play.

 

We have to compare Option A, "playing football" to Option B, "something other than playing football".  

 

We know that Option A would include extensive testing and symptom monitoring, a heavily controlled environment,  heavily structured and controlled lifestyle and living conditions.  It would also include high exertion respiration in close contact to a large number of other people.

 

What we don't know is much about Option B, but would have to make some assumptions that it would be "normal college kid stuff".  I don't think anybody really thinks Option B is staying home in a relatively safe/sterile environment.  If option B is spending time at house parties or in the bars, then Option A may be much safer (assuming that team rules would prohibit such activities).

 

This is why we can't say that Option A "playing football" is less safe than Option B "something other than playing football" in terms of Covid transmission.

If all variables listed above were constant between Option A and Option B, then not playing a contact sport would very likely be safer, but that's not realistic.

 

Option A still includes Option B inside it, as well as hundreds of people traveling and using planes/buses/hotels/restaurant made food and interacting with all sorts of people across different states.

52 minutes ago, Mavric said:

The logical fallacy is you assuming their risk of getting COVID goes down significantly if they don't play football.  That taking kids out of a very structured situation where everyone they are around is being monitored and tested and they are receiving guidance about what to do is somehow significantly more risky than having those things removed from them. 

This does not take into account the added risk of hundreds of people traveling to several other states, staying in hotels, getting in busses and airplanes, interacting with hundreds more outside of their own quasi bubble.

42 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Not in our response to this virus.

Or our education system.

Or our healthcare.

Or our gun violence.

Or our median standard of living.

Or the corruption and opaque nature of our political system.

But the military and the economy tho

"You can't compare the United States to other countries..."

For some reason I only see people use this as an argument and defense when we suck at something? We suck a$$ at dealing with a pandemic, YEAH BUT IT' SD IFFERENT HERE. We suck at letting a s#!t ton of people get mowed down by mass shooters YEAH BECUZ AMERICA IS FREE ITS NOT LIKE EUROPE. Suck tremendously at healthcare YEA WELL THATS BCUZ WERE NOT SOCIALISTS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

Weird that I never see people warning against comparison when we're supposedly good at something, it's only a contortionist twist to not have to admit that we're garbage.

1 hour ago, BIG ERN said:

Millions and millions of people have had, have, or will have the virus. The # of cases is insanely under estimated. The mortality rate is less than 1% - fraction of that if you are under 65 years old. Of course no one wants to get sick and obviously not die - you could say that about any disease or virus. My mind is boggled that people truly think the best thing to do is bunker down for 12+ months. No open schools, close all restaurants, shopping malls etc. Then when they throw a vaccine at us we will all take it? Then we can all go back to normal?

Hey way to drastically switch tactics and garbage points to focus on after several people embarrassed your last one.

What's the next one, assumed risk of driving kills people? Bill Gates is responsible? There's more abortions than covid deaths? I'm ready, you just keep lobbing them up.

Honest question I don't know the answer to, and also realize is far from a perfect analogy...

Should Baker Mayfield not have been allowed to play in the Rose Bowl when he had the flu?

28 minutes ago, nic said:

This thread has to be a record.  Does anyone know how many of our 140K deaths due to COVID (or died with COVID) are ages 24 and under?

These were the numbers in May:

0-17 - .06% of deaths (9 total, 6 confirmed with underlying conditions)

18-44 - 3.9% of deaths (601 total, 476 confirrmed with underlying conditions)

45-64 - 22.4% of deaths (3,413 total, 2,851 confirrmed with underlying conditions)

65-74 - 24.9% of deaths (3,788 total, 2,801 confirrmed with underlying conditions)

75+ - 48.7% of deaths (7,419 total, 5236 confirrmed with underlying conditions)

This was through June 17

Healthy children can spread covid, but thus far are not significant drivers of spread. 

In this issue of Pediatrics, Posfay-Barbe et al6 report on the dynamics of COVID-19 within families of children with reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction–confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Geneva, Switzerland. From March 10 to April 10, 2020, all children <16 years of age diagnosed at Geneva University Hospital (N = 40) underwent contact tracing to identify infected household contacts (HHCs). Of 39 evaluable households, in only 3 (8%) was a child the suspected index case, with symptom onset preceding illness in adult HHCs. In all other households, the child developed symptoms after or concurrent with adult HHCs, suggesting that the child was not the source of infection and that children most frequently acquire COVID-19 from adults, rather than transmitting it to them.

These findings are consistent with other recently published HHC investigations in China. Of 68 children with confirmed COVID-19 admitted to Qingdao Women’s and Children’s Hospital from January 20 to February 27, 2020, and with complete epidemiological data, 65 (95.59%) patients were HHCs of previously infected adults.7 Of 10 children hospitalized outside Wuhan, China, in only 1 was there possible child to adult transmission, based on symptom chronology.8 Similarly, transmission of SARS-CoV-2 by children outside household settings seems uncommon, although information is limited.

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/07/08/peds.2020-004879

1 hour ago, Undone said:

 

Link? Seriously - provide me some evidence to show this is actually a true statement.

 

The CDC has nationwide and statewide estimates for number of total beds, ICU beds, etc., occupied:

https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html

Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arizona and Nevada all have over 70% of ICU beds filled currently.

6 hours ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

Says whom?  You did see The Patriot?

Ah yes my favorite documentary.

37 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

How cool is Hillary Swank in person?

She is just as cool and down to earth as you would actually believe based on her acting. I would be smoking cigarettes in the alley with some of the grips/PAs when she would be coming in and out of set and had a handful of fun playful interactions with her. Was very accomodating and patient on set and doing media as well.

Michael Shannon is about as strange as you would imagine and maybe caught him on a bad day but outside of when camera rolled he didn't seem to enjoy anyone or anything. Except I bummed him three cigarettes, those seemed to make him semi-happy  One even made it in the movie.

15 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Hillary Swank

Nope! I was on set with Hillary Swank and Michael Shannon doing EPK press interviews for the film What They Had.