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Out of curiosity, where was this sentiment when the Big XII was formed? Where was this "loyalty to your brothers" when votes went 11-1 over and over, with Nebraska the lone dissenting vote? Where was this when Tom Osborne warned the Big 8 about a Texas takeover? Those ears were deaf then, and it screwed this conference. The machinations taking place now are not Nebraska's fault. They are the result of a decade and a half of willful ignorance of the consequences of letting the Texas schools and legislature run this conference. They are the result of the global landscape of college football today, and they are the result of the billions of dollars available in this market.

Done! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzV87pflcII Let's unleash some hell!

He's a homer. This is about what I expect of him.

Which pales to Les Nessman, who is a five-time winner of the Ohio radio news trophy, the "Buckeye Newshawk Award," “Mr Rodriguez finished the round three under par. Hopefully, Mr. Rodriguez will play up to par in the next competition." Wasn't that "Chy Chy ROD ri gueeze"? Exactly. The lines I quoted were from Les right after Johnny corrected him.

I take it your history books don't go past 1996?

Wow. If I'm Baylor I'm embarrassed about this guy. How were these emails obtained? FOIA wouldn't apply because they seem to be private emails.

Why do you think that? They don't have the greatest win/loss record in college football by accident. The fan base they have, the athletic department they have, the history and resources and track record and alumni they have won't let them stay down long. There probably isn't a school in all of college football that is less likely to remain down long than Michigan. Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, Alabama, Auburn, Miami, Florida State - these are all prominent programs that had rough patches in the past 20 years, yet rebounded. And not one of them can boast a better support structure than Michigan. It's safe to say that I do not agree with your assessment. Kinda meant that sarcastically. I just havent seen them get any better with RichRod running the show. If they dont win this year, then they will never win with RichRod. Just my thoughts. That makes sense. I thought maybe you'd gotten ahold of some bad wonton and were hallucinating for a second there.

As a kid, WKRP taught me the structure of an atom. What sitcom does that today? Did you ever wonder if DeLoss Dodds' hero was Mrs. Carlson? Remember this quote: "Everyone plays very hard and in the end I win."

Why do you think that? They don't have the greatest win/loss record in college football by accident. The fan base they have, the athletic department they have, the history and resources and track record and alumni they have won't let them stay down long. There probably isn't a school in all of college football that is less likely to remain down long than Michigan. Oklahoma, Nebraska, USC, Alabama, Auburn, Miami, Florida State - these are all prominent programs that had rough patches in the past 20 years, yet rebounded. And not one of them can boast a better support structure than Michigan. It's safe to say that I do not agree with your assessment.

Which pales to Les Nessman, who is a five-time winner of the Ohio radio news trophy, the "Buckeye Newshawk Award," “Mr Rodriguez finished the round three under par. Hopefully, Mr. Rodriguez will play up to par in the next competition."

Since when has Nebraska been afraid to compete?

I posted a link some dozens of posts back that showed proper brewing temps of coffee. I have a "cheat sheet" on my office wall from my Bodum presser that tells me to brew it at the same temp. That temp? 195-205 degrees. You don't have to believe me. Go to several local coffee shops in your area and have them stick a thermometer in their joe. Or just google proper brewing temperature for coffee and read for yourself. These standards haven't changed since McDonald's was found guilty, and if Leibeck vs. McDonald's was really showing us what reckless disregard for customer safety was, you wouldn't see vendors brewing and serving coffee at these temps today. Clearly they are, which you would find if you did some simple legwork, so something is wonky with the assertion that McDonald's was reckless. I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong when it comes to chemistry. Clearly you're the expert here. But give me some credit for being, at least in this conversation, "the expert" in coffee. I could dismiss your chemistry information as easily as you're dismissing my knowledge of coffee preparation, but that wouldn't make me right. It doesn't matter how much I try to ignore it, chemistry is what it is, and you're right about what you're saying (near as I can tell). Same goes for coffee - I know my coffee, and have for years.

You're going to have to define a "true champion" before people can answer you. That's the million-dollar question - what method best crowns a "champion?" I don't think a method that doesn't give Boise St. a shot is the best method. The BCS essentially says that nearly half the teams in the division have no chance, no matter what they do, to win the title. Boise St. went 14-0 last year and had no shot at the title. Same goes for TCU - undefeated regular season, no shot at the title. How is the BCS crowning a "true champion" when those schools can't even sniff the championship?

I'm not going to try to tell you your opinion is wrong. You like what you like and that's cool. Sports do reap monetary rewards from tournaments, but they also do it because it's the best method. Your local beer league softball has a tournament at the end of their season, and that's not for money. I've played in dozens of volleyball leagues through city rec and private clubs, and you don't win anything but a plastic trophy when you take home the title. It's all about ease of determining the champion, and there's drama in tournaments like there is when KSU has to beat an actual football team to get voted into a bowl game. If you like that, that's cool, but it's not the method that most sports use. The only other major sport I can think of that uses votes to determine a champion is figure skating, but they're making judgments based on skills, not head-to-head competition.

I watch BRW some, but not all the time. It's just not my favorite format.

You do know that other Divisions have more than 119 teams and can still decide the national championship on the field, right? If all this is about a playoff or crowning a true national championship, we would have seen it a long time ago. However, it is about money. It's ridiculously cumbersome to have that many teams in one division. There isn't enough talent at any level to have 119 competitive teams. There is no way a team like Florida Atlantic should be in the same division as Nebraska. It's just not good football, for one thing.

I think mostly it's my car. I know Kugler from Big Red Wrap-up, but I don't watch that much, either. I prefer the Bo Show which has more Xs and Os. 1620 sounds good on the webz.

A lot of the folks who post here don't live in Kugler's market area, so they probably wouldn't know his sense of humor. I can barely get 1620 on my car radio here in Lincoln, so I don't know much about him. And he's the premier sports journalist in Nebraska? I did not know that, either. I woulda thought it was Shatel or... not sure who else. Sipple gets bashed a lot but he's a pillar of Nebraska sports reporting. I'm clearly out of the Kevin Kugler loop.

Tell me with a straight face that Indiana, because they're in an AQ conference, deserves a shot more than Boise St. We can play that game all day long. Playoffs aren't perfect - they're just the most equitable solution to determining a champion. That's just an opinion. Alabama did everything they were supposed to do and a playoff probably would've ruined that for them...how many think Duke was the best basketball team in the tournament this year? It's the opinion of most every sport, major or minor, in the world.

I know nothing about this rumor so what I'm saying here isn't in support of it. But... The UNL Board of Regents meets this Friday. So perhaps the meeting being referred to is upcoming, not already past? Most every Board has the ability to take themselves into Executive Session, at which point discussions are off the record. Every board I've been on has done this, and I would be shocked if the UNL Board of Regents' discussions about switching conferences weren't held in ES.

ira, you're right that there would still be conflict. You will very rarely have a champion in any sport without some disagreement about something, somewhere. The simple fact is that a tournament setting provides the least amount of error possible in picking a champion. Not no error, not perfect resolution, just the least amount. That's why nearly every major sport in the world, and most of the minor ones, use tournaments to determine champions. It's all about the least path of resistance, and that's what a tournament provides.

I am actually approaching this from a reasonably unbiased perspective. I have nine year's worth of experience in overcoming biases and applying dry logic to evidence. I am not unbiased, but I am able to set aside my biases as well as most anyone. I told you I'm not an attorney, but I deal with evidence every day. Evidence analysis and application of the law to that evidence is the main thrust of my job. If I were investigating this case I'd find that coffee is served at the temperature that McDonald's served coffee to this woman at locations all across the country, every day. It's an industry standard, and no matter what McDonald's motive was for serving it this hot, it's not unusual in any way. As I've shown, coffee is brewed at 195-205 degrees. It is served from that brew at temps ranging from 197 - 170 at the places I frequent, which is one national chain and one local seller. McDonald's cannot be guilty of placing their customer in more danger than can the national chain or the local seller. Either all are guilty or none is guilty, because all are doing the same thing.

If the Pac-10 expands to 16 that'll set off a domino effect in which other conferences who intend to stay on top will have to expand. That'll include the Big 10, and we are very definitely on their "List of Five." So if the Pac-10 absorbs the B12 South, we're just about guaranteed to go to the Big 10.