Guy Chamberlin

I like how Bo toughens up the fanbase by continually subjecting them to bad weather.

I honestly don't know what will happen tomorrow. But if Joe Biden wins, you will be allowed to own all the guns you want, worship your God however you want, and hate whomever you want in the privacy of your own home. Our economy and economic ideology will continue largely on the same path it has been on through Trump, Obama, Bush....basically most of American history. If you are one of the people who will have to pay slightly more in taxes, congratulations -- you are earning over $400,000 a year and your tax rate will still be considerably lower than it was during those decades when America was Great. The federal deficit -- which soared under Trump as it does most Republican administrations, — will soar at a slightly lower rate. China will remain a powerful adversary and valuable trade partner and because of this conundrum, Joe Biden is likely to be as inconsistent in his China policy as Donald Trump. Under Biden, the American military will remain the most powerful in the world by an exponential factor. People with better experience and greater respect will take over cabinet and advisory positions to the benefit of all. There will be an attempt to better fund social programs, reinstate regulations that were vindictively over-turned, and seek environmental solutions that are long overdue, and potentially beneficial to the economy. You don't have to view them as infringements on your personal freedoms. In most cases they make our world a better place. There aren't many card carrying Socialists out there, but they would laugh at anyone describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialists. There aren't many true fascists out there, either, and most of us would like to keep it that way. There are two sides to every story, but right now one of them is dangerously insane. If you love America and can't bring yourself to vote for Joe Biden, it would be sporting of you not to vote for Donald Trump. He's that bad.

Well that's why I didn't over-promise, simply suggesting Biden would come up with "a bit more cohesive" federal response. I think that would entail mostly rhetoric: supporting the scientists, urging (but not mandating) state adherence to protocols, possibly helping fund the quick turnaround COVID tests that athletes and politicians can access making them available to more people in the workforce, in education, travel, etc. I mean, we know what lowers the infection rate and what makes it surge. Winter doesn't help things. Either President will be stuck with a bad winter. Either President will benefit from a comparatively better spring and hopefully good news on the vaccine front. Let's face it, the conspiracy train isn't going to stop running regardless of Tuesday's result. I've seen a lot of folk, a few here on Huskerboard, who believe COVID will rapidly decline starting November 4, because it was always a plot to get Trump out of office.

There are plenty of threads on Huskerboard. If you see one titled "Bo to LSU?" and you find that topic tiresome, don't click on it. If someone wants to start a thread about Zac Taylor getting crazy numbers from his rookie quarterback (last year's LSU quarterback and guy who wanted to play at Nebraska) we could veer off-topic in that direction.

I miss the Big 8. I don't miss the Big 12. I miss my college football team being in the hunt every autumn. I also miss being young and fast, dating college girls and having the future stretched out before me. You can't go home again, as the misquoted saying goes. If you expect Nebraska football to restore dominance by going back to the Big 12, you haven't been paying attention.

Bold prediction. Biden becomes President in late January, there is a bit more cohesive federal response to COVID, the Spring of 2021 brings a substantial decline in cases regardless of individual state mandates, and the conservative base will serve it up as evidence that Democrats were controlling the coronavirus for political purposes all along.

I just got back from a week in Lincoln, trying to get my dad in hospice care. So I was coming back to a COVID hotspot and physically entering multiple senior care facilities that housed the most vulnerable populations. At my parent's senior independent living facility, the man who drives the van for the residents came up to me, pulled down his mask so I could see his smiling face, then extended his bare hand for the first handshake I've had in seven months. Then he got inches away from my 93 year old father's face -- maskless -- to tell him how great it was to see him. Two days later, on the supposedly "no visitors" ward at Eastmont, a senior level hospice worker gave me my second bare hand handshake in 7 months. The young Senior Care workers who were coming in and out of 8 hour shifts at my parents apartment 24/7 mostly wore masks, but some didn't and others let them slip. I asked if mask-wearing wasn't absolutely mandated by their large senior care employer, and one of them told me it's really up to the client -- the often dottering and attention starved seniors -- to ask them to wear a mask. Or not. My last night in Lincoln there was a tenants meeting at the Independent Living facility -- 20 elderly people with in-and-out privileges sitting in a small room, not a single mask between them. Strict COVID orders were posted everywhere, and my brother and I were warned about the higher levels of caution we were about to face in skilled nursing care, but we saw almost none of it in action. Hy-Vee had much better compliance. These are all lovely people. I genuinely like the Nebraska-friendly vibe , and totally appreciate them bending the rules so I could say goodbye to my father, but wow ---

My brother told me this was the "real story" behind the debacle, but when I asked him where he heard about it, we realized there wasn't a legitimate source. The World Herald would have had no trouble running that story if there was any truth to it, so I'm thinking this was a rumor with no legs. Anyone else have a piece of back-up for this tweet?

That's why Stephen Miller's Squirrel Boi Army has been trained to attack these electrical systems. Wake up, NDJ.

Whatever. I'm sticking with my Deep Squirrel Conspiracy.

The power went out at a polling place? Just like it did last week at other polling places? Where the technology being used is a pencil? How often does the power go out in selective buildings on any given day? If this election goes to the Supreme Court, which will be asked to ignore the many, many irregularities that favor Donald Trump, the American experiment is over.

California resident here. Actually those high housing prices are the result of supply & demand as practiced by the free enterprise system you champion. Regardless of regulations and taxes and liberalism, people keep wanting to live here, and because they continue to pay more for the privilege, you gotta figure many of them are pretty successful capitalists. And if you focus on the super-liberal Bay Area, you'll discover the greatest concentration of venture capital in the history of the world. Out in the valleys you'll see the largest agricultural output in America by far. Ask Republican farmer's and ranchers in California if they'd like stricter immigration and they'll tell you the same thing as a Nebraska meat-packing plant: no f#&%ing way. They can't afford to hire legal Americans who don't want the jobs anyway. Sure, if you wave tax breaks, lax regulation and cheap labor at corporations you can get some of them to relocate. It's been that way for decades. And yet here we are, one state with the sixth largest economy in the world, bailing out Red States year after year. We're pretty good on the money stuff, thanks.

Protests aren't supposed to make people comfortable.

Are you talking about the culture of the states represented, or the administration of the athletic conference, which suffers collectively under Warren, whose career is likely cooked? Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio have more in common with each other than they do with Texas. Penn State, Maryland, and Rutgers are also latecomers, but Nebraska is the better fit. Michigan isn't quite the same breadbasket state, but Colorado wasn't, and West Virginia isn't either. The Big 10 followed the Pac 12, assuming all the dominos were falling and no one would be blamed for putting the safety of students first. Then got burned when the rest of college football carried on. When Nebraska and Ohio State got parents and players fighting to save the season, they earned a lot of admirers -- and got their share of s#!t -- but they prevailed. The fact that the Big 10 administrators were publicly embarrassed doesn't mean the conference is a bad fit for the Huskers, and the decision not to let the Huskers go rogue for a game would likely have been the same in another conference. Also, we're just talking football. Our volleyball team still brings prestige, and the advantage of getting Big 10 research grants outweighs everything.

It should also be capitalized when starting a sentence.

So you were happy spending less time with your family as long as football honored policemen?

I think the BIg 10 is just as good a cultural fit as a conference that's chock full of Texas, with a side of West Virginia.

BTW, if you thought college football observers have been tough on Nebraska recently, they would be relentless if we limped back to the not-exactly-stellar Big 12. And they'd be right.

Wouldn't "voluntarily cancelling" be what we used to call "forfeiting?"

This is certainly a reasonable way to look at it.

Yeah, the Cowboys weren't allowed to wear the patches honoring fallen officers, and the NFL didn't allow players to wear shoes or patches in support of mental health awareness or breast cancer either. They let them honor owners with patches upon their deaths, but that's about it until the recent protests. But if you find it offensive that a league with 80% Black players changes its mind during a pivotal moment in our nation's history, you may want to make some adjustments yourself. Also, "former" Cowboys fan? What did they do to lose you?

Sadly, you're going to have to give up college football as well. We will try to muddle along without you. https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21284501/college-football-race-iowa-george-floyd

A conference where one school controls most of the decisions. And they hate you, too.

Man, there have been some great NFL games and plays this season. No reason you can't enjoy both.

The University switched conferences. Not just the football team. Making a switch solely based on football isn't what smart universities do. And maybe you forgot......Texas?