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That's good news! Things have definitely changed in the Catholic church, then.

Under. Judging by how fast we turned on Dubbs, it'll take far less than that. Like every other team out there, when someone doesn't speak eloquently about our team, they're bagging on us and persona non grata. Ubben's honeymoon lasted all of one week, I think.

You're talking about a tiny fraction of people "not happy" with Bo's handling of the Sanders situation. Message board conversations tend to gravitate towards black-and-white interpretations rather than the actual intent. Suddenly everyone who had "an issue" with Bo's handling of this situation is madly anti-Bo, when the reality is that most folks were "somewhat miffed."

Benny, I'm not Catholic so maybe this is off base, but doesn't the Catholic church have issues with non-believers being married in a Catholic ceremony? I could swear I've heard of people being denied church weddings because they were Protestant or non-believers. Have you guys considered this as an issue? What will your fiance do if the church says no to you taking part in a Catholic wedding? Or am I way behind the times on this, and it's not an issue?

Mechanically, I cannot throw a spiral. For whatever reason, I'm just not built to be able to do that. But with enough takes, I could make every shot this guy makes. It may take 1,000 attempts, but I could do it. That doesn't mean it isn't cool. It is, and I'm glad it was posted. I like this stuff just like I like the Dude Perfect videos. We all know they practice a billion times and do the shots 50 times until they make them, but it doesn't make it less cool.

Robsker, I cannot disagree more with the statement that Christ's main purpose was to display the glory of God. If that were the case, Christ would not have humbled himself to be born in a manger, live the mean life of a carpenter, then give that up to live the even lower life of a servant rabbi, and ultimately die on the cross along with common thieves. That is most definitely not representative of God's glory. It's representative of Christ's model of subservience. Christ washed the feet of his disciples - what is glorious about that? God's glory is just the overwhelming awesomeness that is part and parcel to God. He has no need to send his only begotten son to Earth to act as a walking billboard of his glory. The "glory of God" was best represented in the majesty of the host of angels who appeared at Christ's birth. Walking around being glorious is a waste of Christianity. It is a light held under a bushel, or salt without its saltiness. It is of no profit to you or to God to simply model Christ's innate glory. Jesus' purpose on Earth was simple, direct, and well-explained by the Old Testament: Prelude: God creates everything, and Creation is perfect. God creates man to govern it, and allows man free will. Man uses that free will and turns from God. Man, of his own doing, is no longer right with God, and has created an unbridgeable chasm between himself and his Creator. God provides a covenant through which man can once again be made right with God, bridging that gap. Man breaks the covenant. Lather, rinse, repeat several times, through several covenants, all of which man breaks. Enter Jesus: Because man cannot, by his sinful nature, maintain a covenant relationship with God, and therefore cannot ever be righteous with God, God takes it upon himself to do the bridging. He creates a New Covenant, a final covenant, the most binding covenant of all, which man cannot break. God sends his only-begotten son to act as a perfect sacrifice, a final sacrifice which will erase all sin which stains man. Christ comes to earth, lives a perfect life, provides the perfect model for how God wants humanity to live, and finally, amidst his perfection, he is killed as that final, perfect sacrifice to atone for sin. That was Christ's purpose here - to be the perfection we could not be, and ultimately to be sacrificed as a perfect offering to God as atonement for our sins. Jesus showed that as a Christian, you must do good for your fellow man. Paul explained it quite succinctly: Faith without works is dead. (James 2) Works are to Faith as holes are to swiss cheese. Without those holes, it's just another cheese. Works do not make you right with God - faith does that - but works are so part and parcel to faith that they cannot be separated. They are one and the same, both utterly necessary.

Eh. Rittenberg is fine. I don't pay a lot of attention to bloggers - they're just posting their opinions like we do here. The fact that they get paid for it doesn't make their opinions more valid than ours.

We've officially been handed off to Adam Rittenberg's Big Ten blog by ESPN. No more Ubben jokes.

WHOA there god of everything that is husker. I didn't justify anything I just reciprocated what I have heard sporadically around. I'm a student too, as are 20,000 others. Sorry to rain on your parade. And btw, on your espionage of Mr martinez. The fact that you saw him crack a smile with the quarterbacks says just about as much as your post does in regards to him switching positions, zero. What's with the animosity? He's passing along info just like you did. Let's all be Husker fans together, eh?

Not in college football it isn't. In the pros it is, but this is the land of QB ratings in the 150s and 160s. 115 is nothing.

I just don't see the point in ridicule or argument. The combative tone in these discussions makes no sense to me. It's very accusatory, and I see no point or merit in it. I've recently "switched teams," but I have no animosity, anger or resentment towards Christians. When I called myself Christian I had no animosity towards Atheists or Agnostics, either. Nor against Buddhists or Muslims, etc.

The point of a church is not to sit in a pew on Sunday singing hymns preparing for the afterlife. If that's what you're teaching your congregation you're giving them half a loaf. Your role as a pastor is to model Christ to your congregation, giving them a living example of their goal, which is to model Christ to the world. Stop me when I'm wrong here. The model Christ gave you was not one of sitting around waiting for the afterlife, it was a model of direct contact with those most in need. Christ toured the slums of Palestine healing the sick, teaching the uneducated, working miracle after miracle, providing lesson after lesson. He did not sit on his hands, in one spot, basking in His righteousness. Christ's whole purpose was to change the world - to justify it and make it right with God. That is what you should be teaching your congregation, not some mantra about worship. Worship takes many forms, the least productive of which is to sit in a pew on Sunday. Worship can take the form of building a house for a poor family, gathering coats for the city mission, volunteering at a soup kitchen, or simply talking to a friend in need. These are the actions that naturally spring forth from a Christ-centered life, not a means to justification. I am NOT advocating righteousness through works; rather, I am stating that your faith should naturally produce such works. These actions are not idolatrous in the least. If they were, Christ himself would be an idolator. Again, stop me when I've said something not in keeping with sound Christian doctrine. So, you have (hopefully) a congregation intent on emulating Christ. Where are they going to do this? Heaven? Eventually, but not now. Now they're here, on Earth. Here on Earth is where you are doing your ministry, not in Heaven. Worry about Heaven when you get there. While you're here, do what Christ did.

The reason I put Turner down as a redshirt is I'm not predicting a position switch. I have no idea if he'll stay a QB, but in a simple analysis it's easier to pretend he stays there. It depends a lot on how durable Taylor is, and what Cody does. If Carnes wows everyone so much that Cody switches positions, we may keep Turner from redshirting just so we have depth. If Cody stays at QB then we have Martinez, Carnes and Green ahead of Turner. With three years of Martinez and four of Carnes, it doesn't make sense to have Turner burn his shirt this year.

Every time I see Bo at the coffee shop he's on the phone, too. They're either legitimately on the phone and constantly busy (not hard to believe), or they've got those phones in their ears as a way to ward off Joe Blow coming up to them with stupid comments/questions/suggestions.

No evidence either way on that. We do have evidence that Cody Green approached the staff talking about possibly moving to TE last year, so that's one. Here's where I see everyone in 2011: Taylor Martinez - The starting position is his to lose all year. Cody Green - #1A backup, most likely to switch positions Brion Carnes - #1B backup, most likely to take over TMart's gig Kody Spano - Likely will never take another snap at NU. Knees. Ron Kellogg III - LaTravis Washington 2.0 Nice guy, won't see the field. Jamal Turner - Redshirt Bubba Starling - Signs with the Cubs as the #9 pick in the MLB draft.

He's not saying that Beck is flashy. He's saying his resume is "not mediocre." "Flashy" is not the only antonym of "not mediocre." Gus Malzahn was a high school coach five years ago. This year his offense (and some QB named Newton) led Auburn to the Heisman and a MNC. It's not a truism that a High School coaching career will equate to failure in college.

Isn't the whole point of the "spread" that you spread the defense across the field, negating the need to "power" through their massed DL and LBs? I think you're making a valid point. Regardless of what the terminology is, I just want to see us be capable of lining up and running the damn ball. If that's out of a spread, Wing T, Wishbone, Power I or whatever makes no difference to me. Just run it however you can and be effective at it. Same goes for the passing game. I'm really easy to please - just don't shoot yourself in the foot and move the ball.

Charles Jackson did not know that Sanders was gone before he signed, and his dad never said he knew. Jackson found out via a Facebook post from a friend. He then gave the "guy code" quote, which showed he wasn't happy how it went down. "Not happy" can encompass a range of emotions between one degree past surprised to homicidal road rage. Personally, I'm guessing he was a lot closer to one degree past surprised. Presumably, the family had time to talk it over, and Dad Jackson gave an interview in which he stated that all was fine, the OWH misrepresented the level of "not happy" CJ evinced, and everything was fine. The biggest quote was probably that CJ would have signed here no matter what. That's about as dispassionately as I can describe this. All else is, I think, reading into it. The reason I've said this wasn't an ideal situation is that the "reading into it" will be done by opposing coaches in upcoming recruiting battles, and the fruits of this situation won't be seen until later. We can't discount it as nothing, but we shouldn't lose sleep over it tonight.

Why should your wife/girlfriend have the same interests? Or all of the same interests? My wife of 19 years knows I am passionate about football. I know she's not. I talk to her about football stuff sometimes and she listens and she can carry on a conversation, but frankly, she doesn't care. She goes to the Spring Game with me but no other games. She has interests that I am NOT interested in. Those are her things, and she does them in her spare time, and it's all good. If you're focusing on whether she likes football or not, you're most likely not focusing on the important things in your relationship.

Nah. It's good fun humor in what has otherwise been a tense week.

This is a joke.

These are the only qualified guys I can think of for RB coach: Ahman Green Calvin Jones Correll Buckhalter Dahrran Diedrick Dan Alexander Derek Brown IM Hipp Jeff Kinney Kenny Clark Mike Rozier Roger Craig Roy Helu

I'm sure that depends on the person. I certainly don't have lingering psychological torture from a belief in hell. I can't think of a single Christian I know who really focused on it. I'm sure some do, but I have no idea what the percentages are. Near as I can tell, hell at any church I ever attended was given about as much focus as Santa's list of who's naughty or nice, and that we should "be good, for goodness' sake!" I just don't have any animosity towards Christians or the Christian establishment that I was a Christian all those years. I think they were beneficial in making me who I am today.

I was a protestant. Here's a question, though. How would you feel if you were to find out that a priest or pastor or rabbi was teaching your daughter that Hell is a real place and that she will go there if she does not accept authority or dogma X, Y, or Z? About the same as I feel about teaching them about Santa Claus.

I wonder if former Catholics are more prone to be anti-religion. I was raised Lutheran and I have zero angst towards my former faith. In fact, I think they do the world a service, and I hope they stick around a long time. I see a lot of former Catholics who are very strongly anti-religion, while those protestants I know who dropped their faith seem to view it as mostly a non-issue. Is that just my anecdotal experience, or have others noticed this as well? The stated purpose of organized religion is to do good in the world. It's not a lot different purely as an organization than a football team. The problem comes when you have a person in authority who misuses that authority for nefarious purposes. If a football coach does this, it's a shame and we all think poorly of him, but it pretty much ends there, because his gig is to coach football. If a pastor/priest does something bad to a person, it seems like so much greater a betrayal, because they're in a position whose sole purpose is to help/comfort/support/teach people. Abuse is the polar opposite of what a priest is supposed to be, which is why I feel people take it so much harder when a pastor/priest mucks up their lives.