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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.

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.

I thought he did that on purpose so his halo would show better.

Wow. Those could be trainwrecks. It'll be great tuning in!

I'd like to say I'm surprised, but...

Actually, you brought up your sh**ty life, not me. You also accuse me of lying, of giving you special treatment, of being a proponent of childishness by advocating security blankets and of stating that you'd respond to my points by telling me to, "Go f*ck yourself." After doing all of this, you have the audacity to throw out red herrings about ad hominem attacks against your person in lieu of responding to a host of points. Cry me a river. If you believe your spouse is faithful and you live your life in the comfort of that belief and die happy knowing your spouse held fast to their wedding vows, what matter if they secretly cheated on you the whole time? You'd die happy, unaware, no harm done. Not all errant beliefs are harmful. And that's where the problem with discussing religion with you lies. "But…" nothing. Everything after "But…" is a reality of this existence, and nothing you can do or say will take it away. As with other members of this board who so totally focus on one thing and one thing only, that thing is your bogey man, and the only thing against which you rail. Incessantly. But, take that thing away and all the harms and all the joys and all the pains and all the stuff that makes existence what it is will still exist. Focusing on one thing and saying, "Let's remove that, to make life better" is preposterous. It won't make life any better, it will just make life different. And the effort expended to remove that thing isn't worth the reward – one less thing to believe in, with all the harms remain untouched. Meaning? What is meaning? Is meaning absolute or does it vary from person to person?

Yeah - it was nice, wasn't it? Aside from the cannon fodder at the front end of the schedule, we haven't dominated a team like that in a long, long time.

Funny thing - I am a hardcore Lazlo's fan, but I do not like Fireworks. I've been to their current location twice and their former location several times, and it just didn't do it for me. I need to get to Venue and Carmellas. I've heard good things, but I've never been. I cook at home mostly now, and I get all balled up having to pay twice as much for food/wine that I can make at home for half the cost.

There's no need to apologize. It's a serious subject and it's affected a lot of people in a big way. We're cool.

If having Bo at the helm has proved nothing else to us, it's proven that NO OFFENSE is impervious to a proper defensive scheme. The Spread was so much the next great thing on offense that half of Div1A went to it - and Bo promptly shut it down in nearly every game he played against it. The Option was a hell of an offense, yet time after time after time we saw a team capable of shutting it down. The biggest flaw in the Option, as we saw demonstrated so well by Iowa in the Orange Bowl. For every offense you run there's a defense capable of shutting it down, just like for every defense you run there's an offense capable of exploiting it. Sometimes a team just out-executes a great offense. Returning to an Option-based offense wouldn't solve any problem Nebraska has now, it would just be a return to what we're used to. Just like on defense, we need a system we can execute and the personnel to do it. Once we have those, it won't matter what system we use, we'll score.

If we're going to approach catharsis, this is the moment. Belief in a nonexistent god doesn't harm someone? Oh really? What if you thought that God wanted you to die in a holy war against those that didn't believe in him, would that harm you? What if he wanted you to kill every male of a certain tribe, mutilate your flesh, or not take medicine when you're ill because it would be a sign of a lack of faith? Your over-simplification is so baselessly absurd that I can barely believe you've managed to formulate it into a sentence. If you tell people God's watching out for them in their suffering, that he ordained all events, that there'll be a final reckoning, etc., etc., etc., and you can't demonstrate anything of the kind, you are not speaking honestly. You think it's okay to make something up instead of seeing the world for what it is. This is not a respectable way to go about life in my view. Incidentally, why does God allow entire tribes to be murdered? Why does he allow famine, pestilence, genocide, and torture? Doesn't he have the power to stop it? What are you going to do when people start asking you these questions? You're a believer. You're the expert. I don't tell anyone there is a god. I don't tell anyone there isn't. I don't think anyone knows. And that's the truth, the only one that matters. If truth isn't your concern, our conversations are as pointless as your philosophy of meaninglessness. Ignoring your usual victim mentality and whining about ad hominem attacks , I think you're missing a point here. I'm not telling anyone anything about any god. I'm not proselytizing here, I'm discussing security blankets. It's been a while since I've described myself as Christian, and that description hasn't held true for me for some time. Your whole paragraph containing examples of the harms of belief in a nonexistent god is a contradiction. If the god is nonexistent, the harms you describe originate from the man who dreamt them up. You erroneously put forth that, in the absence of a god, these harms wouldn't occur. They would - they are human creations, and as long as we have humans, we'll have these harms. In the absence of a god excuse another excuse will be used, but the war will still happen, the genocide will still happen, the mutilation will still happen, and the refusal to take medicine will still happen. The god being nonexistent, you can't blame the harm the human does on that god. You have no monopoly on truth. Your head is in the sand every bit as much as those Theists you target. You continue to believe that life will have meaning if you simply speak Truth, if you stop lying to yourself and others - yet you refuse to face the truth that at its very basis existence is an accident, devoid of meaning, destined to end in nothing. You still seek meaning in your existence just like Theists, you just seek a different meaning. Good luck on your quest, but you'll never find your answer until you stop lying to yourself about the very basis of your search.

zoogies, I think a healthy dose of pessimism is good for us right now. I think looking at the guys we have it's easy to get excited for what's to come. It's easy to get too excited, and that leads to unrealistic expectations, and that's when coaches catch more heat than they should, and the whole situation sours. I was just thinking the other day about how difficult it would be to face a D Line composed of our second string. You could line up Josh Williams, Terrance Moore, Thad Randle and Jason Ankrah and field a heck of a good D Line. With the secondary we're supposed to have, this would be a formidable unit. But those are the backups, and we're starting guys "better" than this - Allen, Steinkuhler, Crick and Stache. That's a unit deserving of a top five ranking, nationally, and could prove better than that come season's end. We have the guys available to pound an O Line all game long, and still be ready to pound like hell come the fourth quarter. They'll be rested and ready to go because of depth, and depending on how many three-and-outs we get this year, these guys could be fresh all season long. It's a scary thought.

You must remember that this is the same organization that employs Dennis Dodd. That alone ruins any credibility they might have.