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Yesterday (March 1st) during his normal segment on Severe & Benning, Jay Foreman explained what his role is and why he's doing it. Essentially, he outline your former point as his main purpose. He expressed that he was lucky enough to have some former husker players (from the 80's) give him some life advice while he was playing. He said he wants to give back to the program by offering up his life experiences and make himself available to them as a resource. Obviously, it's probably easier to just listen to what he said rather than read a brief synopsis from some random board member. He starts talking about it at the 4:20 mark:

If we can agree that words matter, then I apologize for getting after your post. I say words matter bc had you used a different word, I would read your post much differently.

I thought it was obvious, too. That's why I was pointing out that I don't agree that they were forced to play 9 games in 9 weeks. I, too, appreciate the players putting in effort and playing through adversity this season. I just think it does then a disservice if we (as fans) insinuate that they did it for any other reason than the fact that they wanted to. That was my point.

We're the players forced? I'm going to call BS on that. Any player could have opted out of playing at any point this season. Not to mention that every player on this team expressed that they wanted to play football. Seems like you're trying to start some narrative that the University/coaching staff was coercing the team to play. If an that's the case, please provide some evidence... Otherwise, miss me with that trash. If you're trying to say the B1G was awful in its planning for this season and did its teams no favors...well, then I agree with that. But, I still don't see the players being forced into anything since they were always free to opt out.

I guess I was more going off of some of the talk from Damon Benning and Gary Sharpe on 1620. DB has been saying for two weeks that he hoped AM would be able to move past (emotionally and mentally) being benched for LMC. Then, I believe it was Tuesday, Sharpe was talking about AM making the remaining games his audition for the transfer portal. I don't know if either of them were talking from a position of knowledge, or if they were just speaking on their own gut feelings. I am just gun shy because of all of the players we've seen leave this program over the last two years. I'm not saying that I'm down on those players leaving. Players who leave because they have no foresight, patience, or feel entitled are better off going elsewhere. People who don't want to be here will only hurt this team, so I say "have a good life". It's really like trying to convince a significant other to stay in a relationship...they may stay, but the relationship will never be solid and is pretty much a lame duck. It's just better for everyone to move on and find happiness. Ultimately, it probably really depends on how the coaches handled it in-house over the last two or three weeks. If it was handled appropriately, I think AM takes that as a chip on his shoulder and hopefully it translates into better play on the field.

Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but I would say Adrian's attitude seems to have evolved quite a bit over the course of this year; obviously, there are plenty of things that play into that. But, I really like what I am seeing from him and how he has responded to his own adversity this year. To me, it's easy to see that he has a fire burning in his gut and I think that will serve him and this team well down the stretch. I, for one, really hope he sticks around because I think this team is going to need that kind of leadership over the offseason and definitely into his "senior" season...whatever we're supposed to call that now.

Usually about 2-3 false starts per game.

Not to be nit-picky, but the math comes to 10.95 players (@ 7.5% of the population) which means - as far as I understand it - if they have 11 players/coaches test positive on the 7-day rolling average that game won't be played.

Did he miss a game that I wasn't aware of? My guess is that he put that picture out there to try to quiet the narrative that he's not around the program.

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This article sure seems to imply that UW football will (or should) be blamed for any further spikes in cases in Dane County, during the upcoming season, rather than putting the responsibility on the adults who choose to gather at watch-parties. To me, based on the tone of the article, county health officials are saying that fans who gather just can't help themselves and they shouldn't be held responsible...it's those damned football teams. Maybe I'm reading it with the wrong tone?

I half expect the next post to simply be: A/S/L??

Antigen <> Antibody Antigens are substances the induce an immune system response. Antibodies are proteins in the body that recognize and bind to antigens. At lease, this is the way I understand the information here: https://www.technologynetworks.com/immunology/articles/antigen-vs-antibody-what-are-the-differences-293550

There's a max capacity of 100 attendees in the session. I couldn't get in, and i'm guessing that "room" has been full since it was announced.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sidearm.sites/iuhoosiers.com/documents/2017/2/6/Big_Ten_2016_17_Handbook.pdf I'm pretty sure there had to have been a vote. According to this 2016-17 copy of the B1G Handbook, which I "found on a Google" (Thanks, Bo!) : Rule 4.1.3 Duties and Responsibilities: Matters Reserved to the Council. D. Enforcing any of the Conference's Rules, Agreements, Appendices or Bylaws which would (i) reduce the amount of revenue to be received by a member; (ii) terminate personnel at a member university; (iii) reduce the number of sporting events in a member's schedule; or (iv) deprive participation of a member's team in either a post-season sporting event or in a telecast of a sporting event; I'm guessing this decision would reduce the amount of revenue to be received by a member....or all members.

Doctors in South Korea are trying to figure out if these cases (222 of them as of today) should be classified as reinfection or reactivation. Seems like they think it is more likely to be reactivation of the virus because the symptoms went away, but the virus did not. I'm wondering if this is something like mono, where the virus remains in your system....OR, if the people being touted as "recovered" were prematurely diagnosed as such.

I don't think staff turnover, on its own, is the issue with the program. I think it's safe to say that the subsequent, poor choices for replacements are more of the issue. I mean, sometimes change is necessary for progress. BUT, there is also an increased importance on the decision-makers when hiring new staffers.

Snyder left that program in a much better situation for their current staff than what was left for Frost & Co. Some may scoff at that notion. But, if nothing else, Bill Snyder brought consistency in approach and culture. To me it's pretty obvious that we have lacked consistency for far too long.

I see what you're saying - to a point. However, as a manager/leader of people, you (Frost, in this case) have to be able to vary your leadership style based on the people you're leading. I'm not sure how much this team, as a whole, actually trusts the coaching staff at this point. Until that "trust equity" is built up, this team probably won't be able to hold up or understand why they're being chastised.

Just in case there needs to be more validation.....Same here. I was at a conference in Grand Rapids, MI and many folks who were going through Chicago were delayed or cancelled.

I believe the term is "take one for the team"....but, I'm guessing you avoided it for a good reason. All kidding aside, I would also be willing to take that metabolism off his hands.

Yeah, I was just getting ready to edit my post because I just came across that interview with Held too. I just hope he'll be durable enough to last at that smaller size. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert, but it would probably help if he would improve his ability to avoid contact (based on last year's games, anyway).