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Investigation is complete. Sounds like case closed.

No charges being filed, according to the Lincoln police chief and Lancaster county attorney at the press conference today.

 

Mostly it's because in every thread about bowl chances and projections, there's a few people who come in and hijack it with their meaningless views on what they think the bowl system should be like. Really, we've heard it all, and many of you are just repeating yourself in every freaking bowl thread, and who really gives a damn about what you believe? Can't there be one thread where we stick to the topic and actually talk about possible bowl games, and how each week's results affect them? And if people are excited or interested, why do some (not specifically you) need to piss in their punch bowl?

 

Go start a thread about how you think there are too many bowl games and 5-7 teams shouldn't be in, and what the system should be. I promise I won't come in and call anyone a bad fan, which I haven't done anyway.

 

 

I will assume that much of this post is directed at me. You have a good point. This thread is not about debating the merits of the bowl system. Sorry for taking it off-topic. I just really hate the bowl system and can't help myself.

 

In the future just quote me if you have a problem with my post. I'm a pretty reasonable guy.

 

Carry on.

 

Thanks IA State. It certainly wasn't directed primarily at you, but it's nice when someone "gets it".

Two suggestions:

- Add an Ignore Thread option.

- If I have a poster on ignore, ignore the threads that poster starts.

Both help clean up the thread feed nicely, and helps keep one out of threads you shouldn't or don't want to be in.

I've seen this on other forums, so I'm hoping it's easy to implement these here.

Well, you sure can't doubt yourself for not pressing on anything, since you got so much time with him. I mean, if you'd have asked him WTF happened at Illinois and Purdue, Riley, being a good guy, probably would've given a polite answer, but then scooted away. Instead, you got a lot of time to just chat. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

At least people can stop talking about Nebraska firing a 9 win coach...

 

 

Boosters have already agreed to pay the $15 million to $20 million needed to buy out Miles and his staff, the source said.

 

Miles, coming to the end of his 11th season at LSU, has won a national championship and two SEC championships and averaged 10 wins per season while producing 64 NFL draft choices.

He has a 110-32 record at LSU, and his .775 winning percentage is the best of any LSU coach -- including Nick Saban (.750) -- in the past century. Overall, Miles has a 60-27 record in SEC play.

 

"If we were competing for a national championship this year, well then, we wouldn't be having this conversation," the source said.

 

Yikes. Talk about needing a touch with reality...a little over one hour before judgment day for Lesticles.

LOLZ at the bolded part. It's not that they're being unreasonable, he simply needs to have them in the playoffs!

 

Maybe add LSU to the list. Saw a spot on sports center and Joe Shad says its pretty likely Les Miles will be out as the Bayou Bangles head guy. Presser today; nothing official as of yet.

 

Shame. I kinda like Les Miles. He's quirky, so that makes him one of the few remaining true characters in CFB.

 

Other than him, there's Leech at Wazzu, then Saban, whose curmudgeon attitude makes him a character.

Jimbo Fisher is a sleezeball, and I can't find myself liking that fella, but he's kind of a character too.

 

Other than that, can't think of too many other guys that are oddball.

 

Spurrier, but he's gone now too.

The very very very cold weather, probably favors their larger line-- I would sadly, be taking those other guys.

32 degrees is very very very cold? Are you in Florida?

I think we have too many bowls and I think trams should have minimum 7 wins to get into one. That is the college football fan in me. I think the boel system needs to be reset and reformatted.

 

The Husker fan in me doesn't care if we are 0-12, I wanna go to a bowl game. Another chance to see Nebraska play is aces in my book.

 

Yet when I say at 5-7 we shouldn't go to a bowl I usually get met with I'm a bad fan or that I just shouldn't watch. My personal opinion of the bowl system isn't mutually exclusive with my Husker fandom but it gets lumped in with it during discussion.

Mostly it's because in every thread about bowl chances and projections, there's a few people who come in and hijack it with their meaningless views on what they think the bowl system should be like. Really, we've heard it all, and many of you are just repeating yourself in every freaking bowl thread, and who really gives a damn about what you believe? Can't there be one thread where we stick to the topic and actually talk about possible bowl games, and how each week's results affect them? And if people are excited or interested, why do some (not specifically you) need to piss in their punch bowl?

Go start a thread about how you think there are too many bowl games and 5-7 teams shouldn't be in, and what the system should be. I promise I won't come in and call anyone a bad fan, which I haven't done anyway.

Whatever you think, the reality is that a 6-6 Husker team is definitely in a bowl, and a 5-7 team may be. Not sure I see that much excitement, but there is interest as to when and where a 13th Husker game would be. A few are excited about the prospect of a nearby, easy to attend game for them. That's about it. Put me in the "interested" category, and I'll definitely watch whenever it is.

All the bowls they are taking orders for have Big 10 tie-ins. Whoever said that we could go anywhere is apparently mistaken.

No gameday on Friday bro, otherwise, great rumor!

Crap, that was the best shot to keep the SEC out of the playoffs. Man, it was just pouring on that last set of downs too, then let up as soon as FAU missed 4th down.

Florida should've been flagged for holding on 2nd down and PI on 3rd.

Florida scored first in OT but missed the XP. FAU 1st & goal.

South Carolina had a 93 yd TD pass, 4th & 7, under a minute, called back for a false start. I looked at the reply highlight and didn't see anyone move. They didn't make the 1st down and lost to Citadel.

Apparently FAU is a notable game for Florida as well. 0-0 at half.

A place to discuss all non-Husker sports - Big10/Big12, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, and on and on and on...

I wish ESPN was going to do game day at Virginia Tech for Beamer's last home game tomorrow.

SI did a nice feature on Arthur HS football a few years ago, but I can't find it anymore.

Accuweather says high of 37, 16 mph wind (gusts to 29), no rain or snow. Weather.com a bit colder and not quite as windy, 50% of snow up to an inch. Not sure what the OP is looking at. 7 day out forecasts are pretty worthless especially when trying to look at a 3-4 hour window.

 

 

 

 

''One thing youll love about him is his ability to cradle the football like a newborn baby just smacked on its rear."

 

What does that even mean?!?

That's a good one. I have 3 kids and none of them have been smacked on the rear.

 

These are also good:

"It’s like cooking a turkey for every Thanksgiving and then serving up savory prime rib or seeing a peacock working a power drill."

"This dynamic duo has the potential to take a comically oversized mallet to them like something straight out of Looney Tunes."

 

My thought in response to this article:

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

 

 

the baby smacked on rear comment is about a new born and how they were smacked on the rear to get them breathing. it's no longer a practice they use as there are other methods. might not be the best metaphor but is an interesting one.

 

So he'll be able to cradle the ball like he's started breathing? I don't get any sense of what this is a metaphor of. I don't find it interesting either. The writer tries to be too cute and fails.

 

How about comparing them to some of the top tight ends we've had, like Junior Miller and Johnny Mitchell? I have little doubt their stats will be better, since those two played on mostly running teams.

 

 

ffs, you'd hold a newborn baby in a way that nothing would happen to it. kind of like how a football player wants to hold a football.

 

my comment was that it wasnt an abusive situation, that many have insinuated, he was using but rather an out-dated practice. i cannot believe the amount of people being willfully obtuse about it.

 

Oh ffs yourself. It's still stupid and having to explain it a couple times, the first time not really explaining anything, doesn't help. It's been a long time but my recollection of holding a newborn was being nervous and uncertain and afraid to squeeze very tight. Oh yeah, nothing could make me drop my baby, but it was nothing like carrying a football. Yeah, Grantland Rice couldn't have written it better. Anyway, I'm moving on. ffs

Belongs in Rumorville, and it would be nice to change the title to show the OP was duped. Why was it in Husker Football to begin with?

 

 

''One thing youll love about him is his ability to cradle the football like a newborn baby just smacked on its rear."

 

What does that even mean?!?

That's a good one. I have 3 kids and none of them have been smacked on the rear.

 

These are also good:

"It’s like cooking a turkey for every Thanksgiving and then serving up savory prime rib or seeing a peacock working a power drill."

"This dynamic duo has the potential to take a comically oversized mallet to them like something straight out of Looney Tunes."

 

My thought in response to this article:

It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

 

 

the baby smacked on rear comment is about a new born and how they were smacked on the rear to get them breathing. it's no longer a practice they use as there are other methods. might not be the best metaphor but is an interesting one.

 

So he'll be able to cradle the ball like he's started breathing? I don't get any sense of what this is a metaphor of. I don't find it interesting either. The writer tries to be too cute and fails.

How about comparing them to some of the top tight ends we've had, like Junior Miller and Johnny Mitchell? I have little doubt their stats will be better, since those two played on mostly running teams.

There's no doubt he'd have been tossed for hitting the ref. He only got a flag, so he clearly only came close.

 

 

 

Is that with a thought of us going 5-7?

 

If the PAC is sending their entire conference to a bowl game, does that mean even a 6-6 Nebraska team may be left out?

 

No chance. Fact, not opinion. The Big 10 has too many spots for that to happen. He's got us losing to Iowa, I'm sure, or he's an idiot.

One thing I notice about bowl projections is that some of these guys don't think through the mutually exclusive possibilities. Like, before the days when there were so many bowls that 5-7 teams could make it, there would be a pair of 5-6 teams that finish against each other and they would have them both in a bowl, ignoring that one of them must lose. Maybe not exactly that but things like that.