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Yeah, of all the people I'd look to for insider info. on the Husker coaching search, a former DB I don't remember just second-hand spilling rumors from a vague group of 'paid message board insiders' is pretty low on the list. It's comical to me how many people will lap this stuff up and have mild panic attacks about it while seemingly dunking on paid journalists. I mean, the journos are likely saying some dumb stuff too, but they generally will vet out the REALLY dumb stuff that just can't be verified.

Here's my poetic contribution, inspired by Bryan Wilson: Internet speak good Tell me coaching search make sad Source: message board crumbs

QFT because I think some people need to process this again.

This isn't directed at you Red, but that Twitter thread reads like a whole lot of nonsense. Not only is it written in an incoherently rambling format that makes some of our posters look like Edgar Allen Poe, but he later admits that his information is coming from a "paid" message board of people with vague connections. I'm not saying he's lying, but reading that thread makes me want to buy Lars Anderson stock... and THAT'S saying something.

You can't be wrong if you name every coach you can think of.

Mrban Ueyer would be disgusting.

Very true - that's why the 'just throw money at them' argument doesn't always hold a lot of water with me. Urban could damn near pick just about any school he wanted, if he was interested in getting back into coaching. I don't think Nebraska would be near the top of that list, but even if it was, he's got a pretty nice gig right now. He's already set financially for life. He doesn't need to coach. He'd probably want the right fit. That said, while I do find Urban's actions as Jacksonville's coach morally reprehensible, I think it only became a 'thing' because the franchise stunk. If they'd been winning at a high level, we probably wouldn't have ever heard about the stuff behind the scenes. That or it wouldn't have become as big of a deal. People let winners slide by all the time.

You've never tasted ranch dressing before? Do you have some kind of intolerance to something in it or it was just never appealing enough to try?

I can confirm that homemade Runzas (I think they're originally called pirog's, or something like that?) can be very, very good. I think the problem with the Runza sandwich itself is just the texture/consistency. If the bread had a nice crunch to it, that would help. Every Runza I've ever had though is mostly soft/soggy.

While I agree with your premise, I personally think someone like an Urban Meyer would cost north of $11-$12 million/year. This is not a hotly desirable job from a recruiting and location standpoint, and those are pretty big deals if you want to win at a high level in today's CFB world. And, personally, I'm skeptical that the university would pay something like that just for the HC let alone what they'd owe the assistants. It's all speculation, of course. I just think Nebraska's inherent talent/recruiting disadvantages may come with a high price tag that's a) bigger than we think and b) something we're unwilling to pay.

I agree with the take about Runza burgers. I've had just about every major chain burger out there and I'd put a Runza burger up there with some of the best. The "Runza" itself is a$$, though. I hate that our fans market this to visitors as something to try. It's genuinely embarrassing and tastes awful. For my other Husker hot take (and this might be unpopular, I don't know) - I don't think Nebraska will ever be a serious national title contender again. I think we caught lightning in a bottle with Osborne and optimized our advantages at the time. I think their ceiling would be rare CFP berths (assuming it doesn't expand to like... 16 teams or something).

The question would be willing to pay what. The highest paid CFB coaches right now are in the $10 million/year range and are at schools with massively better talent pools in the 500. mile radius. So, how much is Nebraska's relative lack of local talent worth? Nothing? An extra $2 million/year? An extra $5 million/year? I don't know the answer to that, but presuming we don't hire someone outrageously successful like Urban Meyer, it'll stand to reason that we don't have the finances to lure someone who is willing to take on the recruiting disadvantages, in addition to the millions their staff would demand.

Agree with this - I don't think the lack of an announcement is any indictment against who is or isn't the coach. At least, it's not a 1:1 relationship. IMO (I have no factual basis for this), I think he's doing what a lot of AD's do in these matters, which is play their cards close to their chest. I'm guessing he doesn't want to commit to saying anything that might influence or give away who he's aiming for. Outside of giving some vague generalities about what kind of coach he's looking for, he's barely said anything worthwhile.

FYI - you don't have to quote yourself if you wish to share a continuation of your previous thought. You can just click the three dots and 'Edit.'

Perhaps unsurprisingly, most (though not all) of the people who had ragers for Musk's takeover were conservatives upset about their content moderation policies. They never cared about Twitter as an app/product - they just cared about its capabilities as a platform. Here's my thing - Twitter's financial challenges have been well documented, long before Must took over. IIRC they've lost money in six of the last eight years since their IPO and their advertising capabilities are poor. My company pulled out of paid Twitter advertising in 2020 due to poor ROI and targeting opportunities. So, I get it. Twitter needed help. But Musk's apparent strategy to get a grasp on all this is to stronghand it like an unruly child, costing the company even MORE financial losses than they were already experiencing... in addition to a work force reduction of nearly 90% and no real clear strategy on how he plans to improve it. I'm not necessarily saying things didn't need to get worse before they got better, but he's making such cataclysmically moronic decisions that I have a hard time imagining he doesn't have some higher aim here in the early onset. It's just... weird. I think he could've accomplished his goals without overhauling everything from staffing, corporate structure, and revenue streams in the first 30 days. Most transitions like this are methodic, not bombastic. I'm not ready to jump on the "Twitter's dead" bandwagon just yet, though. Musk may be goofy but I don't think he's an idiot.

You gotta know that any alleged photo evidence of Rhule in Lincoln is going to end up looking like one of those sketch a$$ photos of Big Foot. We can take a high resolution photo of interstellar gas 7,000 light years away, but Rhule in Lincoln? You're getting 6 pixels and backlighting.

Speak for yourself. I think my last remaining brain cells disintegrated around page 350.

You're right - that is, objectively, wacky.

Eh, I personally doubt that. That's not really how the free market works. Universities want to lock candidates down with guaranteed money and a lot of the P5 has the resources to do so. A shift to performance-based contracts would require near universal adoption, otherwise the power players will continue to offer big guaranteed money to lock down the guy they want. Individual universities don't have any incentive to play nice with one another (or look out for each other's back) in the effort to save on overpaying coaches that flame out. It's eat or be eaten.

Personally I think the whole WFH issue is overblown. My company's corporate staff was about 60% WFH in 2018. We're now about 90%. And we're pretty damn good at what we do and don't have any kind of issues with WFH staff. We hit our KPI's. It's more about culture and having clear structure than the physical location you're working, at least that's my opinion. I think Elon is also a little misguided in his call-to-action that those who choose to say 'must prepare for working long hours at high intensity'. Most of a company's work force just wants to get a paycheck and go home. You can't force the employee to buy into the passion and the detail needed to make a company profitable and sustainable. If you do, you're just going to build a toxic work environment that nobody wants to be a part of. Elon's doing all this for a greater purpose than seems apparent. Some of the things he's saying and doing are too moronic to be on accident.

So, obligatory disclaimers. I realize this is just one person, it appears to be a business trip, and there's very little overall context. Maybe they're generally a hard worker. But, this video still cracks me up, and perhaps it does lend some credence to Twitter needing to be a bit 'trimmed.' Maybe. The only thing I can with certainty is that this woman did a lot of sightseeing at work that day and definitely had her post-work tap wine before 5 p.m. lol.

I think whomever made the bolded argument was being a bit goofy. Mid-season firings are less than ideal but still quite common. (Unless my memory has lapsed, and I made that argument. In that case, please don't find the receipts. Let's pretend it didn't happen. ) Hindsight being 20/20, Frost should've been let go after last season. I thought about using my time machine to go fix it... but it broke since @teachercd last used it. Something about