307husker

I'm excited that my 307th post was in this thread! I'm a simple man... (for those who don't know, 307 is the area code for the entire state).

No line on tix yet, but I'll be scanning my patient base and any available resource starting very soon.

Go Big Red!

AND

Powder River, Let'er Buck!

I can't wait. Will definitely be trying to get tickets to this one as I live in WY.

I wouldn't worry too much about the game though, Wyoming is not a good football team recently.

Bo ought to be able to feed the kids AND buy new shoes with those numbers. Nice bonuses @ the end of the year at 250k even though we ended up losing the 2 games (B12, and bowl).

I hope we just don't trash everything right off the bat

Let's just trash the parts that didn't work (the offense) and keep the rest... Actually, the running backs can stay and hopefully a healthy TMart (actual effectiveness still to be determined...)

CS;

Your name and avatar made my evening...

Awesome.

Amen.

This is why we need a -1 button.

I'm pretty sure that "some" people need to get a life. (Me included...)

The whole thing is a sham and if a person felt discriminated against the fake job posting would be worthless.

The whole requirement to post the job is stupid and the posting should never have to occur in the first place. Bureaucratic red tape with overlapping layers of legal advice is the new "American Way"...

Just a bit of devil's advocate...

If Frost's weakness is that he lacks experience, is the fact that Warriner has been a position coach for 27 years and not gotten the nod as an OC a cause of concern? To me, it is significant to have had that much time and exposure and not been chosen as an OC by any of the schools where he's coached.

Edit:

Oops, I screwed that up. He was the OC @ Kansas then moved to the OL coach at Notre Dame.

Perhaps, the overall idea of the post is still somewhat valid as a concern as a move to OL coach from OC seems strange, especially after success @ KU.

Wow, any other questions... LOL

Does anyone else think it's kind of strange that there is a job posting for an offensive coordinator position? I was under the impression positions were filled by whoever the university likes and wants to talk to rather than any Joe applying.

No, not strange. UNL is a huge business with policies that run across the board. The HC position was likely advertised as a matter of policy too. It's just meeting a policy requirement.

Shouldn't you be analyzing film of your bowl game or something?

 

Oh... wait...

I think I prefer the Texas bowl game (lack) to our "performance"...

I suddenly find myself humming the star spangled banner. Weird...

View Postgratefullred, on 22 January 2011 - 11:28 AM, said:

overreaction is what a message board is for

 

 

What the hell is that supposed to mean? This is the worst post EVER. Your shipment of fail should've arrived but the immense burden of your fail was too much for the tanker. Your fail is now polluting our oceans and creating ten-eyed fish. GRATEFULLRED = COSGROVE. *#^@ YOU

Irony is fun.

So, is "pig latin" a real language?

Of course it's a real language.

No. It's a lazy spin-off of a real language. There is a difference.

Carl

Once again, I didn't claim them to be the best predictor, only a valid predictor. U not read good...

I don't think anybody would argue that MC tests are an ideal format. However, essay exam format for something done on the scale of the ACT is entirely impractical.

I'm fairly certain the original topic (other than BH's eligibility) was about the ACT being a valid predictor of college success (this is the only debate I signed up to contest). Essay vs. MC exam procedures is yet another attempt to gain a "win" regardless of the topic...

Are we going to go further off course in an attempt to avoid the original debate?

So filling in circles is as academically beneficial as learning the anatomy of animals?

It's not so much the ability to fill in the circle, but to choose the appropriate circle.

And I'd say anatomy is pretty worthless for the vast majority of attorneys, yet competence (@ dissection/anatomy) displays the ability to learn/process and possibly to some extent a measure of a well rounded education.

Virtually nothing in the law is multiple choice/black letter.

Though the ability recall and apply case law does seem rather important.

Getting hung up on the multiple choice format (done for the sake of efficency) is a bit of a red herring, don't you think?

OP

Could you post the photo of the current state of the stadium from the same angle (IOW, pre-photoshop). I'm afraid that I do not have Memorial Stadium memorized.

So what we're debating here is the NCAA requirement for student athletes. It doesn't seem entirely fair to individuals like Braylon that are so close, but without the test score requirement imagine all the tricks schools could use to grease star athletes in. The whole point is to establish a semblance of an academic standard so there's not a race to the bottom that puts schools with high academic standards at a huge disadvantage.

Well said Krill.

I know what it takes for the military academies, its relatively high (and by that I mean the mid 20s ACT). Those are the people supposed to lead troops and all. That's not was I was contemplating and you know it. Academy requirements are an easy thing to find. Hell I've toured two of the academies in person before college and even googled it AGAIN before I made that assertion which you quoted... Welcome to the internet, where we research what we say before we say it so we don't look like morons.

 

Most recruits don't end up in an academy, and well are you kidding me?

Thank you for helping to prove my point. The academies do have higher standards and do value (somewhat) test performance. Whereas enlisted individuals are not held to the same academic standard. I thought the point was obvious enough... We're trying to debate the validity of the ACT with regards to academic performance. Why do you keep wandering off on tangents? I think I can answer that question, nevermind.

You are making assumptions based on the test score statistics.

Actually, the research supports the assertion that test performance correlates with college performance.

However I knew more then... dare I say (YOU) 307husker, and 95+% of your classmates...

Well I guess I'll just have to accept your bravado as fact... (Grammar errors look especially silly when trying to establish intellectual superiority. )

Are we relaying anecdotes? yes. Is that any worse then relaying statistics as some sort of gospel? no.

This tells me just about all I need to know. The answer to your question is YES. Relying upon anecdote over statistical analysis of data is unwise.

So redblood, let's recap. You are claiming that the ACT is invalid because, as an anecdotal example, you were a poor student yet obtained a reasonably good ACT score. The ACT score predicted success in college, yet you were unsuccessful. Because you were unsuccessful after the ACT predicted success, the ACT is therefore invalid as a tool of predicting academic performance. Is that it?

I'm from NP and my Dad teaches at the HS. I'm certainly among the new Patriot fans (though not in Nebraska anymore) and wish Danny nothing but the best.

His story is kind of like Rudy, but with actual athletic talent...

And I'm saying that being a "good test taker" is likely a sign of intelligence. Now if you are claiming that you were good at exams, yet displayed a poor GPA, then I would counter with the idea that you're likely lazy and unfocused, yet intelligent.

There are a million ways to succeed or fail. Brilliant people fail regularly and stupid people succeed wildly. Each with some degree of regularity based on a host of other factors.