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We are going to miss Yoshi in so many ways next year. The guy is aces. Not just a good player, but he's a SOLID teammate. That kind of unwavering support of your teammates doesn't come around all the time.

Depends on what time the game is. If it's a 7pm game almost everyone will pack up and leave. A lot of people tailgate and never go into the game at all, so there should be folks around the lots if it's an afternoon/11am game.

I give a lot of credit to the QB. It will be interesting to see how well they fare next year without Moore. I think it will be a similiar result to what you see in TCU without their QB this year. I love both TCU and Boise St and what they have done. I don't see either team going away. I think we would lose to Boise this year ... TCU as well. I agree that Moore is a HUGE part of their success. I don't know how well Southwick will do when he takes over next year. He'll lose Byrd © and Potter (RT) from the line, and Shoemaker at WR and Martin at RB, but I think they'll be just fine at skill positions and on the O Line. The big difference will be Moore.

The poll was conducted from 9/30/11-10/2/11, the day before, during and day after the Wisconsin loss.

Boise's worst ranking in the four major offensive and four major defensive stats categories is #35, and that's in Rushing Offense. They are top ten in Scoring Offense, Passing Efficiency, Total Defense and Scoring Defense. They've compiled this against the #29 schedule in the country. At the moment (and this will change as they go through conference games) they've played a tougher schedule than six of the other nine teams in the top ten. Boise is legit this year. I understand and agree with the argument that they have an advantage in that they don't have the conference grind that AQ schools have, but that doesn't automatically mean they're crap. I am usually on the "Boise is a paper tiger" bandwagon, but this year they aren't. They're pretty good.

Thought this excerpt was pretty interesting. You have to wonder how silly both Oklahoma and LSU feel right now:

From Public Policy Polling.

Booooooooo!

I wouldn't bet anyone's money on this or any other Husker game. You never know which team is going to show up, and this defense has underperformed so badly that you cannot count on shutting down an otherwise hapless opponent.

We have Rex Burkhead. Advantage = Huskers.

Prior to this game Michigan State's SOS was #112 in the country. Those defensive stats aren't that impressive. I think their defense is just fine, and probably as good of a unit as there is in the Big Ten, but you have to take all factors into account when boosting them up.

Amen, brother! This conversation should have died a week ago. I think we're all ready to move on.

Are these two things wholly unrelated? Bo is displeased on the sidelines with the refs/how his team is playing/whatever. So he reacts by going ballistic. The fans are displeased in the seats with the refs/the players/the playcalling/the execution/whatever. So they react by booing. I think there's a similarity there. Bo expresses his displeasure by going off, the fans express theirs by booing. I think those are pretty similar...? Personally, I wouldn't go ballistic to the level Bo does. I have also never booed the players/coaches at a game. But that doesn't mean I don't understand why each does what they do. I chose the second "neither." I think Bo is right about the booing (shouldn't be happening), but he's also not the best person to talk about other people's behavior. Bo has earned his reputation for going ballistic about things. I get why he gets so mad, but that doesn't mean I don't think he takes it to an extreme. He needs to dial it down a notch.

It has been my experience that no party is ever wholly in the right. There's usually some measure of "wrong" on both sides. That's where settlements become everyone's friend, and why settlements in cases like this are strongly encouraged throughout the process.

It must be sweeps time. These kinds of "news" stories always come out around that time of year.

http://www.nytimes.c...int&oref=slogin I'm not saying it isn't true, but I have a hard time believing that any American business did anything but minimize damage when it came this. Statements like this drive me nuts. It's no different than 'Forced Diversity'. If you are not hiring someone because they are in a wheel chair or a non Caucasian race, then you are an idiot and you should be fired. I would say more often than not these rules are used for lawsuits. It's funny that you bring up a cold. Something that has recently come up is a version of FMLA that has been labeled as 'Intermittent'. The version allows you to miss a day here and there instead of a block, say a month, or time. Basically, a Dr. can write you a note saying that you will periodically miss work over an extended time period, usually 6 months. Since FMLA allows you to miss up to 2 months out of the entire year, can you imagine how disruptive it is to let people just come and go as they please? Because FMLA is a law, some employees count every single absence as FMLA. The can miss 60 days in a year a guess what.....they have the same attendance as the guy/gal that didn't miss any work in 275 work days. I wish people could understand that some Doctors will write a note for anything. It's yet another thing that makes American business less competitive as I must keep a larger than necessary workforce to cover such blatantly poor attendance. That translates into higher product/service costs. You then put an entire organization on the hook because of a handful of people that are working the system. Unfortunately, I see the UNK issue as something similar. I am familiar with UNK from a previous life and my guess is they are talking about the university apartments that are adjacent to the campus on the NW side. You can't let people start making their own rules. It sets a terrible precedent and ultimately brings the system down. Moving away and going to college is difficult for many kids for a lot of different reasons. This girl and her family need to show some accountability. I know all about doctors writing notes for anything. "Dr., I have pain." "OK, here's a note." Boom, done. But it's not that easy to prove discrimination, just because the doctor provided a note. The doctor does not enforce anything on the employer, nor does the employer have to follow the doctor's note. Accommodations must be reasonable and they must be something both parties can agree on. Accommodations must not produce an undue burden on the employer. That means that the doctor's note doesn't give the employee carte blanche to demand whatever they wish. Often the accommodation provided won't be to the employee's liking, and that's too bad. The employee does not have blanket protection. I cannot tell you how many times I've had to explain to people that their employer is not bound by that doctor's note. It is shocking to people when they find this out, as often they truly believe that the employer has to do whatever the doctor says.

The bizarre thing, to me, is that industry was behind the revamp of the ADA. The ADAAA of 2009 took a near-complete 180 from the ADA, to the point where a cold can now be considered a disability if it keeps the employee from work for a couple of days. I really doubt this was the intent of the amendment, but that's where we are. Everyone is perceived to be disabled now if they have any kind of medical condition. They've already met the prima facie elements just by being impaired. It's a world gone mad.

If that's the case, come to my house and I'll make "runzas" that will blow Runza's runzas out of the water! Runza! My mom made, by all accounts, the "best" runzas ever, and I hated them. Something about hamburger roasted with cabbage in a bread pocket just has never appealed to me.

Except that Marvin himself said O'Hanlon messed up. But, and this is the point, nobody here knew why until that defense was explained. One pull-quote from an article doesn't mean people grasp the subtleties of defense.

Earlier. Like 7am at the latest. A lot of folks come to the game from Omaha. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the interstate between Lincoln and Omaha is under construction (widening), so that's the biggest factor in my recommendation to leave early. Since you're staying at the Super 8 next to the outlet malls, you could just take a right as you leave the outlet mall complex and take the very next left, and take Highway 6 into Lincoln. It'll add maybe 10 minutes onto your drive, but you'll drive through a couple of small towns and get the feel of more rural Nebraska - if you're into that kind of thing.

I think, in general, it's easier to talk about the offense, which is why people usually do. I get the impression from many conversations that the nuances (no pun intended) of the defense are harder to grasp. For example, so many of us simply presumed O'Hanlon blew coverage on that late play at VA Tech years ago, then someone came in and explained his responsibilities to us and we were all like, "Oh... OK."

I get the fascination with Ron Paul, I just think his ideas won't work in the real world. Kucinich should have gotten more questions, if only so that he could have stayed in the race longer and we could look at his wife more often.