Scarlet Overkill

@Dilly Dilly Ok, I'm busted and so is @Branno at 7-5 but like I said I really felt it would be worse.  I was ready to move on from Riley early in the season when it was obvious to me that we weren't where we should be as a program.  Fire Riley talk was discouraged but whenever the fledgling Frost train came up (usually after a loss) I tried to push it along.  As UCF's season took off and ours tanked, the Frost train became unstoppable.  By season's end I can only think of 1 poster that thought we shouldn't fire Riley.  My only concern with Frost was that our defense would become soft(er) practicing against his offense.  The coaches stress being physical so I'm no longer concerned.  I'm pessimistic about next season since I don't believe 1 off season will undo what wasn't done the past 3 or more years as far as development particularly in the weight room.  Changing offense, defense is minor compared to attitudes, habits and mentality.  7-5 this season would be amazing and regardless of how good we look in the spring game, I won't be more optimistic.

I wasn't here to bust you - i just couldn't believe anyone saw a 6 or fewer win team.  I saw that happening before Callahan's last year (when everyone had such high hopes and thought the sky was the limit).  In both coaches' last seasons, they were worse than I could have even imagined it would be.  Hope that changes this year, but i'm willing to be patient.  Takes while to build that thing back up.

@4skers89 my exact post was “I see 5 losses, 5 wins, and 2 toss ups. I really hope I'm wrong, but I see us as 7-5 max but possibly 5-7.”

Please tell me how that means my claim that I saw the team going 5-7 after the spring game is busted. 

i've never been called

Maybe my luck will change this year.

Mine is feb 20th for district court 

Kraft...but Velveeta is better as fish bait. 

Kraft mac & cheese was a staple in our household when I was growing up.  Velvetta had a weird texture to me for whatever reason.  I bought some about a year ago and it just wasn't the same as how I remembered it.  I was surprisingly bummed I didn't enjoy it more since I had such fond memories of it growing up.  The other problem is my SO makes absolutely dynamite homemade mac and cheese so my taste buds have been elevated slightly haha. 

@Xmas32, my entire palate has changed since my wife began learning to make meals from scratch. I can't eat hardly any of the prepared/processed foods I ate growing up.

Ha!  Well played!

I have actually heard of people painting their lawns, especially where it is really dry

@huKSer We aren't the only regulars! Now your'e on a Where's Waldo hunt.

@JJ Husker I counted three drops that could have been game changers in the third quarter. I think had we done ANYTHING to disrupt the momentum in the third and everything changes. Love the team, love the hustle, love that they're playing their hearts out right now. I think we just had some bad luck with both RBs being beat up and some drops. 

Obviously everything changes. Do we win? Idk, it's more likely. Everything after that changes though, so who knows. 

@ScottyIce Hey, no qualifying your hypothetical. 

Didn’t Diaz just get tarred and feathered by Wisky?  What I am missing?  

Edit: Oh I see Diaz was not there for the bowl game, ok I guess I’ll give him a shot. 

Let's not pretend Richt wouldn't have been a substantially better hire than Riley.

Riley led to Frost > 4 years of 7-10 wins under Richt with some top 25 recruiting classes before retiring

Interesting question, @huKSer - i went in search of, and found an article that said us and VaTech were the only P5 to never have had a 1000 yard receiver, but the article was three years old and i am too lazy to see if they had one happen since 2015.

@Dilly Dilly I just looked VT had a 1000 yard receiver in ‘15 and ‘16. 

Still setting records #mediocrity

Yep, best thing for cleaning lenses is a good clean microfiber cloth. Even the larger ones they sell for cars work great. Dont use paper towels, kleenex, etc, also shirts with polyester in them arent good, has to be 100% clean cotton shirt.

Lens wipes are the best for cleaning glasses - or any lens really.

Lens wipes, IMO, are the worst and is likely the sole reason my scratched lenses are as bad as they are.  (Plus, they’re two prescriptions ago, so perty old). The microfiber is all I will use now.

Yeah, my typical day is about 7-5:30. The only times I have left before 4:30 has been for the kids sports events or I like to schedule doctor/dentist appts for about 4:00. But if it's a particularly rough morning I may snooze it for an extra hour. I  probably wouldn't make it at a job if I had to be there right on time. Gotten spoiled setting my own hours.

They say we're supposed to be available by 8:30, but my boss is extremely chill and doesn't care when we come in and when we leave as long as we get our job done and don't owe anything.

@teachercd - my first plan of attack is actually applying (in a round about way) to the place i was before i took this 7th circle of hell position, so they MIGHT pick up on the fact that I wasn't there for the past 2.5 years.  (Or they might not??).  

Whatever it is will be temporary only till we move back to the Midwest in late summer/early fall.  Just need it to pay the bills until then.

Yeah, UCF is trending down now.

I lurk on their forum occasionally, mostly to see how Frost had done things his first season there and because it's the off season. Some of it's pretty funny. E.g. they've convinced themselves their new coaching staff is an upgrade

Same, @Moiraine.  I pop over sometimes if I'm super bored.  They're going to score more points than they did, play faster than they did, have better coaches than they did -- considering Heuple comes from a deeper coaching tree and whatnot, and bonus -- they have clown cars full of talent.  They reminded me of Kansas Fan after their orange bowl season.

51 degrees and EMCC is dressed like it's 10 below. It's probably a good thing the Ariz Western coach will be at GCCC next year.

Agree with the coaching decisions being head scratching in this one.  But, hey, it's a football game.  And if you like defense, which I do, it was entertaining for what it was.

Yeah, the defense was good on both sides. But I wanted to see Mills get loose. Just seems like GC shoulda tried a few things to break the log jam. Not very creative.

How experimental are we talking about? Putting pot in Runzas experimental? Dropping LSD and doing the Tunnel Walk experimental? Having your MILF wife hook up with a co-ed on campus while you record it on your phone experimental? 

All of these are acceptable answers for collegiate experimentation--I just didn't know how far you wanted the ADs to experiment during Spring games. 

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I like it, kid friendly beer sales....or did I miss something there

Well, maybe if Nebraska can lead the way by removing the stigma around alcohol for children by letting them buy beer, we won't have as many alcohol-binge drinking issues going forward? 

Sign me up!  Ha

I wish it was just for that.  Love him, but my dog whines about everything

I have 2 pugs.  8yr old gives no craps, just goes about his business, he's a sweetheart.  6yr old girl goes bat s#!t, like she is some sort of bad ass.....she is not.

@Moiraine That makes me think of this cartoon I saw the other day:

The highest rated of these 5 guys would have been our 24th best recruit last year. If we had brought all of them in, I assume there would have been some “diamond in the rough” comments, but I would think there would have been just as many “we need to do better” comments.

I think that Minny is recruiting right about one notch above where they had in the past.  Basically they will take big classes with all 3 star guys.

Not sure if I've shared this before or not, but I've purchased the Sunday Scaries brand of CBD gummies for humans. They also make Fomo Bones, CBD dog treats: https://www.fomobones.com/ 

Probably going to try some version of CBD on our dog next time he goes to the vet. Last time we had to give him 3 oral sedatives before we went and he still wouldn't let them touch him. Had to trick him into getting a shot to put him under so they could draw blood and give him his other shots. Yeesh

@Scarlet Overkill @JJ Husker

Thanks for the recommendations.

Should have had a crop duster spray the stuff over Memorial Stadium during the Riley era

My first jury included one of my Sped students as a fellow juror.  Seriously, he was 19 years old senior at the high school I was teaching at. He was on my roster.  I did his annual IEP for goodness sake.  The court would not excuse him.  The kicker was after my taking meticulous notes for five days about the case-a man suing geico because he felt they didn't pay out enough, I was informed at the time of jury instructions that I was the alternative juror and was released without ever casting my opinion or even finding out the outcome.  And no free lunch either. 

I didn't mind jury duty the one time I was chosen for an assault case. Took all day but it was interesting. A murder case would be pretty cool imo. But generally jury duty equates to wasting half your day sitting and waiting and not accomplishing anything other than wasting your time. Boring as H-E-L-L is absolutely what it is 98% of the time.

I sat on a murder case that lasted 8 days about 5 years ago.  It was really interesting to see how the system works and actually gave me some optimism in the system to see how serious the 12 of us from all corners of society took our role.

I would be much happier about a Nebraska v Purdue classic if it was bc Purdue won.  SMH!  

#sprinkles

Oh the shame.  lulz

Maybe we could get that fiber optic turf and really dazzle ‘em.

I believe these are laser projectors and the cheapest is about 25k.  Betting something for a football field is probably in the 500k to 1 mil and would probably need about 10 of them.  I have a buddy who does it for the Golden Knights and they spent in the 15 mil range.  The software and hardware to run it in sync costs a pretty penny in itself.

That's super cool, @HuskerInLostWages.

A train derailed half a block from my house and I slept through it.  What do you think?

I slept through a tornado once.

Ha! A Boeing 727 once crashed into the living room of the house I was sleeping in. Imagine my surprise when my alarm went off in the morning. 

Yeah, i saw they will be doing Dog Bowl at some point, for the older dogs.

14yrs this thing has been going, holy crap

Dvr’d It and watched it live 

*walks in room*

"TAXATION IS THEFT!"

*walks out of room*

Too funny @The Dude - i *think* that's the very episode that was playing on my netflix as i drifted off to sleep last night.

Reducks.

@The Dude

This is how your question sounded in my head. Pop culture has addled my mind. 

@The Dude You aren't playing enough Minesweeper, then.

You've got 2% left...... what's the hurry?

@knapplc Golf Clash all day.

It's not that I think Burrow sucks.  I think LSU just doesn't develop them well or have good game plans for any of their QB's.  Burrow is better than what he's showing, I know he is.  And yeah, he's not looked overly terrible the past few drives.

I’m not sure if the refs aren’t in on it. Feels like the game not being played on the field 

Burrows getting some talk from the booth but he's currently 10/23 for 133 yards and no TDs.  That's pretty pedestrian.

Ya know, @teachercd, you are right!

According to this report Blake is still going to be with Big Red Wrap Up (Although this report is from April of this year.  I couldn't find anything that said he had left?

I'm pretty sure that when Jay was on Sharp and Benning, they discussed him being on BRW.