Danny Bateman

Or… it’s just hard to win football games, period, but good coaches win more often than they lose? That’s a good place to start because we haven’t hit that benchmark since Riley.

I would suggest Kade is not the caliber of player we should want starting at NU, but nonetheless good for him and it speaks extremely well of Klieman that he gets the absolute most out of him.

Ahh yes, blue collar, All-American Joe Everyman in real America watches breathlessly to see what the Dow does before deciding which lever to pull this fall.

To his credit, Frost realize AM was an excellent QB prospect. He was too inept and focused on getting hammered and having a good time to help him realize his potential. And the kid played hurt anyway. And Frost lied about it. f#&% Frost.

Tonight he looks like a guy who knows how to effectively utilize the talent he has. Which, of course, Frost no more understood than he recognized his a$$ from a hole in the ground.

Should Klieman be a dark horse at this point? I mean I understand why he’d be the least sexy hire but hard to argue he’s not a competent program builder and talent maximized watching the way he just walked into Norman and kicked their a$$ with AM tonight.

f#&%ing “Row the boat” is currently undefeated. It drives me nuts he’s a good coach because he’s also such a turbodouche.

And yet, that same guy is the new heir apparent to the best center in the NFL. (Go birds!) NU is a toxic suckhole that drags everyone down with it at this point.

Dude I’m so happy for Adrian. Not his fault we’re a dysfunctional program. So fun watching him dominate at his best. Kleiman a far superior coach to Frost, too. Screw OU.

I didn't catch all of the KU game but I was impressed with it too. They handled business and beat a team they were supposed to beat. Said elsewhere it reminded me of the old Watson offenses under Bo. I'd take that back in a heartbeat. Consistently top ~20 in rushing offense, beget stronger OL play than we've had a some time and can be extremely dangerous with the right QB. Plus putting lots of RBs in the NFL helped attract more talent there.

More importantly, Leipold covered. Trev is smart so he's probably evaluating all of these dudes. Any of them would be a good hire.

I'd argue we need the opposite of a flashy hire. The "celeb" candidates could very likely attract some top tier talent to Lincoln. What we learned from Callahan is that won't matter unless you have a rock solid staff around them and don't just hire buddies. Bit Frost in the butt, too. And while our recruiting has generally been above average to pretty good despite all our stumbles, our actual talent development has been dogs#!t ever since... Bo? We need a program builder who's given free reign to burn things down, stray from tradition and stop being obsessed with appeasing boosters or accruing leverage with power players. One who is committed to making us competent again and fixing the broken culture here. That's how we get sustainable success. Urb, Deion, et al. ain't gonna do that.

This is not at all how Trev is conducting this search. I'd bet every last dollar I've got. He's a process-oriented guy and his process does not consist solely of results on one Saturday afternoon. @junior4949 Mendenhall would probably be worth kicking the tires on. You made some good points. Though it's concerning his best seasons were when BYU was still in the Mountain West. Definite risk he was topped out at that level. His record would once they went independent and at Virginia would concern a lot of Husker fans. I don't want to overreact to a couple drives, but my initial impressions are that Leipold's offense would fit very well here. It looks a lot like the offenses under Watson during the Bo years. Run oriented, lots of zone read with an athletic QB, an interesting mix of horizontal and vertical passing game. KU is currently 7th in the nation in rushing, which sounds like a Watson-esque ranking. Fitting they'd be so run oriented since Leipold was an assistant at NU during the Solich years. Obviously results moving forward do matter a lot but we need to serious keep an eye on this guy.

Thanks for the tip. I do remember doing that last year and you’re right it was a lot more stable. It’s definitely JUST the mobile app too, because this year I’ve been doing the audio via my computer downstairs and there are zero hiccups. Works great. Plus I’m a big baseball guy and had difficulty finding stations carrying the baseball games. Hopefully better luck this year - for the ball team too

It's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but their streaming audio is super unreliable. It will play for a bit before cutting off randomly and need manually restarted within the app. Just godawful programming and it's embarrassing for a university the size of NU to just never fix it. Made following teams on the go impossible for us outside the homeland.

I mean I was already aware of Warnock's background, just not his education. So that's neat to know. I would never call Warnock flawless, nor any elected official, nor any human being. And obviously I'm not an unbiased opinion as it would take some kind of act of God for be to pull the lever for any R at this point. But I like to think I can still evaluate things logically after acknowledging my own bias. And it seems to me so much of the Republican strategy at this point hinges on convincing people to believe both sides are equally bad thus don't worry about the flaws of the R because the D is just as bad. Which is generally a load of crap. Also, be afraid, be very afraid. Because scared people are generally good at making rational decisions and hard to manipulate.

These two things are not the same.

I caught a little bit of Michael Smerconish on SiriusXM when we were driving back home last night. I like him because he goes to great lengths to entertain views and arguments legitimately from across the spectrum at face value and is pretty honest about evaluating them rather than just presenting them uncritically or giving only one view. Would recommend. I definitely get headaches listening at times but it's got to be good to be exposed to stuff I don't agree with. His take is this stuff is clearly a stunt using humans as pawns - but nonetheless it is important to call attention to the problems with our immigration process. What do we make of this take? Personally I strongly disagree with the last bit. There are much more effective ways to go about fixing the problems, if that's the actual concern, than trolling blue states by manipulating migrants. For DeSantis trolling the libs is the whole goal.

I mean isn't it basically their version of Vietnam at this point? I mean I'm not historian but it seems like from what I could gather with a quick search that war's various offenses and escalations lasted a lot longer than this has so far, but the demoralization of Russian ground forces, way they're getting their asses kicked by the enemy on their soil and wavering public support domestically seem largely the same. It will be fitting if this is the hill Putin dies on. A completely pointless one chosen out of sheer arrogance.

The circular arguments about this, that and the other reasons DJT should not be held accountable for being a sloppy crime lord are embarrassing. He was already there, but good to see Dersh keeping his spot on the massive pile of hacks debasing themselves at the altar of Trump warm.

Because he's an a$$h@!e playing political games so people like you will bend over backwards to sing his praises.

Have we considered that right-wing media sources have just focused on this issue much more heavily since they found out they've got an increasingly anti-immigrant voter base they're reaching? It's a bit of a chicken & egg situation. Which happened first?

That would require tweaking the immigration system so it was more functional and beneficial for the migrants and the country as a whole. Who the f#&% wants to do that when you can score some political points using human pawns to own the libs?!

With the shenanigans the right pulls EVERYWHERE they have power, I think they've kind of ceded the ability to whine about Dems not playing fair.

I disagree. I don't think the rest of us deserve to watch the country circle the toilet preparing to be sucked down the drain because one of our two major parties collectively decided to lose it's damn mind, either being incapable of or willfully forfeiting critical thought, and decided to cozy up to fascism out of spite and fear. MAGA, as a movement, needs snuffed out, so the people it has ensnared can return to living semi-normal lives not fueled by a constant stream of anger and resentment.