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I think if you're born and raised in Lincoln / Omaha people tend to pay less for tickets. I know out of staters who are fans that don't think twice about dropping $200 for reasonable tickets. The most I would personally pay would be around $300 a ticket and those seats would have to be pretty damn good. Even that is a steal for the atmosphere and such. You can drop $300 on an NFL ticket and it is no where near the same.

Most likely not... but I can definitely see Cassidy getting into the 60-90's depending on his play.

Evanston is close to Chicago but I find chicago such a hastle. Hence I ranked Minneapolis and Columbus higher. Northwestern does have an awesome location and beach right on the lake that is hard to compete with.

If we are using politics in the rankings then I would put Ann Arbor or Madison at #1. The thing is, Lincoln may be boring, but it offers a hell of a lot more outside of gamedays than 1/2 of the Big 10 towns. IE: Bloomington, West Layfayette, Iowa City, State College etc.

That area of the country is absolutely beautiful, but so is the grand canyon. I would never want to go to Grand Canyon community college. Hence, I ranked college station pretty low on my list.

As an alumni of UNL and a current student of Iowa can I say that there is no way Iowa City should be higher than Lincoln on any ranking of these. Iowa City is ok as a college town at best. Lincoln offers the best of the city and college town. Iowa City is severely limited in shopping, restaurants, housing, and anything to do that isn't university related 12 months of the year. Lincoln offers you concerts, decent shopping and eating, reasonable housing, and Omaha is a stone's throw away. My ranking would be: 1. Columbus 2. Madison 3. Minneapolis (campus sucks but the city offers a lot) 4. Lincoln 5. Evanston 6. Ann Arbor 7. Champaign 8. Iowa City 9. Bloomington 10. East Lansing 11. State College 12. West Lafayette

I think our new Oklahoma is going to be OSU, Penn State, or Michigan. I'm guessing it'll be Michigan.

If I were ranking the hotels to stay at downtown on a game day.. which actually correlates from distance to the stadium it would be. 1. Embassy Suites 2. Holiday Inn 3. CHusker Marriot

This +1. We haven't played many games against B1G opponents for years. Huskers fans are found all over the old Big 8 states we have a history with. Once we're in the conference and we play them day in and day out our brand will export more so to the Minneapolis / Chicago markets. I mean, Minnesota fans generally tend to adopt another team apart from the Gophers since they are so abyssal. I see a lot of GG fans rooting for the Huskers over Iowa and Wisconsin since both of those teams have a long history of bad blood. I was in Iowa City a few weeks ago and even the hawk fans there were excited about Nebraska. Many of them said Nebraska is as big of a program to them as OSU / Michigan. Case and point, go to the Hawkshops all over the city. One owner told me they have backordred every Nebraska article of clothing there multiple times. The minute they land on the shelves there the locals in IC buy up all the Nebraska stuff. I'm sure a lot of it is filling conference collections like minihelmets and the likes. If I were making a top 10 it would be and in no sole order. 1. Alabama 2. Penn State 3. Notre Dame 4. Michigan 5. OSU 6. Texas 7. Oklahoma 8. USC 9. Nebraska 10. Florida State 10. LSU 10. Tennessee 10. Miami 10. Florida

My roommate at UNL got his PhD at U of Chicago. Lived across the street from Washington Park. So yeah, I have an idea what you're talking about. U of C was my first thought when I found out one of the Big Ten voted us out. I get voting your conscience, but this is a little ridiculous. I am not overly familiar with AAU membership processes, but I believe it's a multi-pronged courtship. There is probably some "official" method, just like "officially" we applied to join the Big Ten, but the B1G recruited us as much as we approached them. It's one of those fun gray areas. Ran into Harvey after Dinner tonight just off of campus, he was coming out of the parking lot and I was finishing my meal at Applebees. Since we were headed the same direction at the light on the corner I asked him if we would appeal the AAU decision. He said there is not an appeals process for UNL, the decision is final. He said it would be a great number of years, a decade or more atleast before we would even be considered for membership.

The problem with Pakistan is the internal government is fragmented. Their intelligence agency (same as our CIA) is at odds with their military. Their military is at odds with their civilian control and the military often sides with Tribal leaders. So, we've been giving them $1 billion to the civilian, military, and intelligence agencies but the agencies have been working against one another. It's hard to say we're being played by Pakistan. More so, we've been getting played by the Military while the intelligence and civilian agencies are on our side. However, they're really only on our side because the military chooses to be undermining to our interests.

The waited until May because the seal teams had to practice the operation multiple times a day to get it to perfection. Trust me, they ran through every scenario that could have happened there. Multiple choppers down, multiple casualties and wounded. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a ground transport team available in case the entire thing went haywire and other various extraction plans if needed. Real life isn't call of duty where your team can just run and gun. I don't care if they knew about where he was for a year and they didn't strike until now. They got him with 0 casualties on the mission and with minimal collateral damage. Not to mention that by not bombing him they just unearthed a goldmine of information. It was also put up on twitter from one of the residents who live tweeted about the events without knowing in Abbotobad that the Pakistani military was conducting house by house searches of the surrounding area to uncover any other possible connections or leads.

Seal teams are absolutely nuts. First two of them land simultaneous headshots on two pirates in the open sea while bobbing. Now a helicopter raid in under 40 minutes to capture Bin Laden with no casualties at a facility with 12-18 foot walls. If only we knew some navy seals with a few years of NCAA eligibility left... Man our team would be stacked then.

Not exactly. I took a great class on this issue and terror from one of those 'worthless academics' at the now non AAU institution who was a former captain in the U.S. Navy. The problem with Al-Qaeda and it's sister network in Somalia Al-Shabaab is that they are decentralized movements. Because of this it makes it very hard to defeat. Sort of like trying to sweep up a bag of sand when it's spread over the entirety of a Walmart parking lot. You can't defeat all of them but you can make sizeable reductions in their numbers and funding. Without centralization of their network, they cannot project or coordinate attacks. Hence, after 9/11 their funding was frozen and many of their leaders were killed. The problem in today's age though, is that it doesn't take more than a couple people to wreck havoc. However, such events are much less likely.

Umm... I don't, nor have any of my bosses (not that I've had many bosses, but the couple I've had have not) Sorry, I should clarify. The consumers (choosing students) and the academics hold USNews in the highest regard. This isn't to say the ranking is even a good one but it is generally judged as the supreme ranking of schools. If UNL's rank goes up then more consumers will seek it. A good example of this is the huge surge of college counselors in Minneapolis / Denver/ Chicago areas overwhelming university representatives this year. More students means more $ for the university. There have been more than a couple dozen deans of graduate schools and undergraduates alike that have been fired over slips in USNews Rankings.

Thats exactly what they are going to do, with DNA identification. Yahoo News They've confirmed with dental and I imagine DNA as well. I have no reason not to believe it. We've spent more money on trying to kill him than anything else we've invested in as a country. Lets start bringing some of our boys home, they've earned it.

National Address at 9:50 CST. Also, he will announce that Nebraska will win the 2011 BCS.

The average fan doesn't care, but the universities in the Big 10 do. Not enough to revoke our membership, but it's still not good. The universities in the Big Ten might care about it, but the AAU says nothing about what kind of education anyone will receive at UNL. That's all anyone should care about it, and the AAU doesn't measure that even remotely effectively by counting the amount of research dollars pouring in to only part of a school. Nebraska fans/alumni should stop being butthurt about this and should instead use this situation to point out how ridiculously out of touch the academic system is. As an alumni I certainly care about the school's academic ranking. Probably more than its football ranking. It is not the academic system that is out of touch, but rather the state legislature that they can continually squeeze university funding without some sort of result. In my honest opinion, I think UNMC should be lumped with UNL. There is no need for redundancy of higher up administration and we should abolish UNK and roll that funding into UNL's and grow the size of the university. The majority of wasted money in the state system comes from having multiple buildings across the state for the same function. Plus, rolling the 6,500 students into UNL would raise the size of the university to be more on par with other B1G schools. I'm an alum too, and I do care about maximizing efficiency, and you might have a point as far as combining the separate campuses throughout the state. However, I really don't care about "academic ranking." It's the University of Nebraska, not Harvard, and membership in the AAU is not going to change UNL's academic prestige to the point where alumni get more respect nationally. Nobody gives a damn about the AAU except for a few other academics. The best way for UNL to increase its prestige is for its alumni to succeed in their chosen field - it's never going to get that much respect in arbitrary academic rankings which favor research funding over job placement. USNews which everyone pays attention to certainly uses job placement. I feel like UNL gets ragged on a lot despite it being a decent university. I'm sure a lot of us here would agree, but all of us on this forum are homers. I feel like the university is under ranked for what it offers, but it can't do much moving in the rankings without a large boost to it's ACT/GPA #'s. That's not really possible at a state university- especially one in such a small state.

The average fan doesn't care, but the universities in the Big 10 do. Not enough to revoke our membership, but it's still not good. The universities in the Big Ten might care about it, but the AAU says nothing about what kind of education anyone will receive at UNL. That's all anyone should care about it, and the AAU doesn't measure that even remotely effectively by counting the amount of research dollars pouring in to only part of a school. Nebraska fans/alumni should stop being butthurt about this and should instead use this situation to point out how ridiculously out of touch the academic system is. As an alumni I certainly care about the school's academic ranking. Probably more than its football ranking. It is not the academic system that is out of touch, but rather the state legislature that they can continually squeeze university funding without some sort of result. In my honest opinion, I think UNMC should be lumped with UNL. There is no need for redundancy of higher up administration and we should abolish UNK and roll that funding into UNL's and grow the size of the university. The majority of wasted money in the state system comes from having multiple buildings across the state for the same function. Plus, rolling the 6,500 students into UNL would raise the size of the university to be more on par with other B1G schools.

Welcome. Enjoy your stay in the Husker corner of the interwebs. You'll soon find that it is the best fan board on the net. I'm a little biased.

They just started a sponsorship agreement with the University. The 27th Hyvee has a ton of husker stuff being redone / added to the store. Even the parking lot signs state they are the official grocer of husker athletics. Very cool.

UNMC isn't a part of UNO. It is considered its own campus and entity for state funding.

Because it is a separate campus with separate funding. When you talk about educational quality attending UNK or UNO is not considered attending a Big10 school despite it being in the same system. The state has 5 separate campuses, UNL, UNO, UNK. UNMC & UNCA. If UNMC drew their funding from the same overall pool as UNL like the law school, dental school, nursing school, and pharmacy school then it would count. Also, the fact that the school isn't even in Lincoln would somewhat disqualify it. IMO we need to overhaul our state university system and do some consolidation of budgets and programs so we don't have unnecessary redundancy between UNO/UNK/UNL programs. If they want to jump in USNEWS and other research rankings they should really pool the budgets of all 3 campuses.