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When I lived in California I missed the people back here. But I never missed the weather. I'd like to have the people of Nebraska with California's weather. That would be perfect.

This is a typical character assassination you hear from "the other side" when the OTHER other side is in power. If you believe Obama can't speak without a teleprompter you probably believe Dick Cheney was really running the whole show and Bush was a figurehead, or some other such nonsense propaganda the Left was putting out when Bush was president. It's all bunk. No it's not a character assassination. He literally can't speak coherently without a teleprompter. The news even showed it and since then he has never spoken without a teleprompter.

I'll be excited when he's on the field playing. Until then, this is still a long, long, long shot.

Do yourself a favor and go find one of the players that have played against us, or Texas, or Florida, or USC, or Notre Dame, or Ohio State, etc, etc, etc. Ask them if we should feel bad for them, or if they had a blast playing the game.

Hmmmmm...... Our toughest non-con opponent, at least offensively, kicks a kid off the team for what's rumored to be a similar reason Q got kicked off the team a year ago. You don't think there's any chance we're pumping this kid for information on what the Huskies are planning on doing this year, do you? Certainly that's not the only reason we went after this kid, but you gotta wonder...

While I agree with both of you, none of this means Alex is big or buff. The kid is slender by any measure, and even more so for a football player. Why is this a bad thing?

I suppose someone had to say it. Good on ya, G.

I'm just saying I've met Alex twice and he's not a big guy. He's very much not a big guy. Put him up against Joe on the Street and he's a little more buff, but he's no bigger. He's tiny for most football players. I will also mention that it's possible that his listing isn't entirely accurate. I'm 6'3" and he was not looking me eye-to-eye. But as I said before, nobody really should care how "big" Alex is. If he's got the skill to play that's all that counts. Muggsy Bogues was "too small" to play organized basketball, but he had a 14-year career in the NBA. Size matters not.

A Communist N. Korea means there's a buffer between extremely US-friendly South Korea and China's border. It also keeps the US occupied and spending money in other places than focused on Beijing. There are probably a dozen more benefits, but those are good for starters.

Certainly there's reason for concern, but Kim isn't so deluded as to have lost all sense of self-preservation. If he ever gets that far I expect China to replace him. A Communist N. Korea is a useful tool for Beijing. An uncontrollable madman isn't.

This is why I moved this to Rumorville. I haven't heard a thing indicating he wasn't at practice yesterday, or today.

You're right - I meant roster, not depth chart.

It's difficult to believe that they would use nukes. They know if they do our retaliation will be swift and complete, so they would gain nothing but 15 minutes of "victory." It would be difficult to see China retaliating on behalf of an unprovoked nuclear attack by North Korea - they are so intertwined with the US now that, although we are ideological foes, economically we're more than married. To attack the US, or cripple the US in any way whether that be militarily or economically, would cripple China as well. China's position is not secure. With over one billion mouths to feed, a war against the US would become extremely difficult extremely quickly. A hungry populace isn't prone to being enamored of their overlords. They'd almost have to fight a war on two fronts - both against us and their own people. If Tienanmen Square taught us nothing else, it taught us that there is a sizable portion of their population dissatisfied with those in power. It won't take a lot to fan the flames of that dissatisfaction. So even if N. Korea decided their saber-rattling was at an end and it was time to do something significant, they cannot count on Chinese backing this time. The world is a very different place than it was 55 years ago, and bedfellows have changed quite a bit.

That, or this is all just overblown and he's a QB and on the team and we can chalk this up as offseason boredom. That's my ideal resolution to this. But we'll see. All too often these guys with these rumors aren't BSing. I wish sometimes that they were more often, but we see too many of these rumors turn out to be true.

There's a lot of truth here. Especially when you look at what we have at QB in the stable and committed, we're pretty loaded. If he's not willing to help out the team and he's going to transfer, we haven't lost much except potential. And every guy on the roster has potential. True, but my reasoning is it just looked like to me in the spring game that he just that "it" factor at just making plays. But realistically he hasn't proven anything yet like you said so we'll just wait and see where this goes... I was at the Spring Game, too. I know he's got talent, and that "it" factor, and it seems pretty odd to me that we would transfer our #3 QB to another position, but that's what Bo's quote sounded like to me.

There's a lot of truth here. Especially when you look at what we have at QB in the stable and committed, we're pretty loaded. If he's not willing to help out the team and he's going to transfer, we haven't lost much except potential. And every guy on the roster has potential.

Do you have Cox service? If so, I hear you. The DVR works great, functionality is great, but the amount of memory is horrible. TimeWarner. Same diff.

I see the North Koreans have taken their public speaking cues from Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. I miss that guy.

yea it helps when Phillips was didn't play most of the season. Except that Ahman was playing before Phillips went off the reservation. He scored twice in our first two games, both of which Phillips played in. Just like DT, RB is a position where having many guys ready to play is at a premium, and true Freshmen playing doesn't necessarily mean you have no talent on the depth chart.

I have heard that Martinez has quit/will be quitting the team. Take it for what it's worth. From whom? Where? When? This whole thread is now going to Rumorville until something substantial happens. Nothing personal to all the "insiders" but this thread is exactly why we made Rumorville in the first place.

He's listed at QB on the depth chart right now, but who knows if that changed? I could be reading way more into it than what was said in an informal, unprepared statement, but it just struck me as odd that all the QBs were there, but Martinez wasn't. Unless Bo thought the press didn't know Martinez was absent, or just had a momentary brain cramp. I don't want to read too much into an off-the-cuff statement, but it stood out to me.

I have long held this belief. There's something you get from being there that you don't get on TV, but overall the viewing of the action is better on TV. That is absolutely true. If I could be at the game and in the crowd but have the game on a T.V. right in front of me, that'd be perfect. Or record the game and have it be available for playback for a while. I'm tired of having to ruthlessly budget my DVR because I want to hold on to some games and watch them a couple more times. I've held the Holiday Bowl on DVR for quite a while, but it's taking up a lot of space, and frankly, we don't record many shows. I have the Holiday Bowl and the Alamo Bowl vs. Michigan on my DVR, plus several episodes of No Reservations, Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs, and I'm almost out of space.

Maybe Martinez was upset that he's not a quarterback anymore. Maybe I'm reading this wrong or maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but the underlined parts of Bo's quote don't jive. If all the quarterbacks were at practice, but Martinez wasn't at practice, maybe he was told he's not a QB anymore and that was an issue?

Ahman Green played significantly as a true freshman and we had Lawrence Phillips at the time. Playing true Freshmen doesn't necessarily mean you have "problems," especially in a position like DT that requires a lot of depth due to the constant pounding involved.