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Because I can't get the hook out of my mouth, I clicked the link. First thing I noticed - the line: IN MY OPINIONColumn by Dirk Chatelain / World-Herald staff writer Dirk/the OWH would have saved themselves a lot of grief over the last several days had they added that tagline to several previous articles. I applaud that move. It shows they are listening. As for the rest of the piece, props. That's what I wanted to see. A simple mea culpa, Now the nice thing would be for someone at Stadium Drive, preferably Bo, to make a call to Dirk (or take the call if he calls personally) and clear the air. Then they could all move on, and get back to focusing on football.

The band is for old people. The older I get, the more I like the band. It's weird. It's like they use some kind of Jedi mind control on the weak-willed. And when I've just come into the stadium from the tailgate, and I've had waaaaay too many Elk Creeks, I am that weak-willed person.

He looked fine today. I don't think he's bad off. He came back in the game after that dinger, didn't he?

We'll see a pretty healthy rotation against Minny in two weeks. Whoever looks best in that game will get the bulk of the reps against Sparty, but we'll definitely be seeing a greater rotation for the rest of the season.

I think he only had collision. Not bumper-to-bumper. Wait - what are we talking about? alot of high draft picks that come back for their senior years put insurance on their body. that way if they get hurt they still get paid.. I know - I was trying to make a funny.

If there's an elephant in the room nobody's talking about, it's the defense. We've been talking about Marty since the season started.

In fairness, he only played with a torn pec for a few plays at the end of the OSU comeback. He played with what we can all pretty well believe was a concussion for a couple of weeks, though. He also played with the remainders of his Spring knee injury all season, which is probably the single biggest factor in his play this year.

that's your response to my diatribe? i am disappoint. It's my response because I don't truly believe that former students deserve preference to current students. I believe they should coexist with mutual respect, and that each has their place at the table. My responses have been only to one specific thing, money.

Your feet smell and you really need to comb your hair. So there.

C'mon, sd'sker. Read my second paragraph you quoted. Where do you think I want the students to sit?

Again, it's important to note that I support moving the students back where they were when I was dodging sabre-toothed cats to get to my seats. I'm just responding to the argument that tuition or economics should play a role in the decision. They already do - that's why boosters sit where I used to sit. Hercules I totally agree with the comparisons to the Cameron Crazies, et al. Imagine this - we build skyboxes on the east stadium, sit the students back where they were when Osborne coached, and have the noise they make reverberate back and forth from the skyboxes on each side. That would make a heck of a lot of atmosphere.

They have. And to be fair the label "poverty" is really different there than here. But it's interesting to note. Still, those are some awesome buildings.

I think he only had collision. Not bumper-to-bumper. Wait - what are we talking about?

It's not ONLY the student's team. It's everyone's team. Tell me when you're ten years out of school that you'll suddenly care less about the team? Or that they won't represent you like they do today. Or that the Huskers don't represent this whole state, even the vast majority of folks who live here but never attended UNL. Maybe unique amongst college football teams (with the possible exception of Ntre Ame), Nebraska represents this whole state. It's bigger than just the enrollment at UNL. If it wasn't, they'd be Kansas. Now, having said that, read above in this thread where I said that I think the students should be moved back to where they sat when I went to UNL, which was in the east stadium north of the band. So I am on your side in that argument. I'm just skewering the notion that the students are owed more because they're students today. Today's students haven't done as much for this university as yesterday's students. It's a simple matter of economics. I've given more to UNL than any student today, so if we're using the argument that students "pay thousands of dollars" then I've paid more thousands, and that argument is invalid. That's all I'm saying there.

Fantasy football sucks. I played for years and vowed never again a few years back. It took me a while to quit all of my leagues, though - I kept getting pulled back in. I was the Commish of my main league back in the day. Had Tomlinson from his rookie year through the rest of the decade, had the best WR corps in my league, had a top defense every year, and always scored a ton of points. I had a three-year stretch where I set the season scoring record in my league in back-to-back-to-back years, and only made the playoffs once in those three years. And this was in a league that has been in existence since the late 80s, when the former Commish used to compile the stats from the box scores on a spreadsheet on Tuesdays and let us know who won that way. So anyway, after years of frustration and losses due to stupid crazy flukes, I gave up. But I forgot about one league, this ESPN free league I'm in, and I didn't bail on it early enough this year to let them find someone, so I figured I'd do it one more year. I completely half-assed the draft. I was 8th out of 12 teams, and I didn't do a lick of research prior to the draft. I used ESPN's rankings and I put a bunch of guys on my queue and let the computer autodraft for me. I'm currently 4-1 and I'm the top-scoring team in my league. I drafted a QB and a WR in my first two picks, ended up with three QBs (Rogers, Stafford and Sanchez), three place-kickers(one of whom is Henery), two defenses and two TEs. That's why fantasy football sucks. It is so completely, totally random that it's nearly impossible to win consistently. When a guy can completely punt the draft like I did and still win, that's a problem. In that league where I set all the scoring records, one of the years I had (again) a top-scoring team a buddy just quit on his team in mid-October. He didn't change his lineup from about the middle of October until the season ended. He won the championship. And he had a mediocre team, too. He just lucked out that his opponents had bad games, and he kept winning. What fun is that?

Here's some 411 about this injury, courtesy of Sean Callahan: Pectoralis Muscle Strain

So? I paid thousands of dollars to go to UNL, too. After that I've paid thousands of more dollars for those seats. And thousands more for the tickets. If we're going to put people in seats based on how much they've given the university, students are going to lose most every time.

I think it is safe to say that you're missing something. It's not a finished product, but it is definitely an improvement over last year.

This will probably be my lasting impression of Crick:

I think he got this injury late in Saturday's game. He clearly got a dinger against Washington, which is why he sat out against Wyoming, and he was injured (knee) in the Spring. He's been banged up for pretty much all of 2011. Terrible way to end a college career. Here's hoping for better luck in the NFL.

Bo had better name Crick a Blackshirt before he cleans out his locker. It would be a crime to deny him based on some coach's motivational ploy.

You could have said the same thing about the Democrats in 2004 after Bush squandered the "Bill Clinton" economy (which had zero to do with Clinton, but I digress) and after he'd pissed off pretty much the whole world, gotten us into two stupid wars, etc, etc, etc. Actually, come to think of it, the Dems just about did run a corpse against Bush, and they still got beat, badly. It's not always about the condition the country is in. The challenger has to be better than the incumbent. The Dems had nobody better than Bush, and at the moment the GOP has nobody better than Obama.

Highly unlikely, and unlikely that he'd apply. He's already earned his degree and he was close to entering the draft last year. I don't think he will have so adversely impacted his draft stock that he'd need to come back next year and "prove" that he deserves a higher ranking. Also, to get a medical I think you have to miss two years. He's already redshirted (2007) so a straight-up redshirt isn't an option.

It sucks that this had to happen since he skipped out on the draft last year to come back for his senior season. Crick earned his degree in History this summer, too.