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Speed, you really think NU gets this guy? I think that NU ends up with him too but I just wanted to know your thoughts.

His high school uniform looks a lot like ASU's new ones which are AMAZING, if you ask me. Not saying that will make him want to go to ASU, I just wanted to give some props to those uniforms.

Thanks for the thoughts.

It really sounds like most of the people with pools hate them!

Maybe its one of those things that is just a better idea in my head then actually in the ground.

Is it really that much work? I just can't picture it being that much work to keep up, what am I missing? People with pools fill me in please.

No kids man, I am single

So you are saying you are not really sold on the idea of a pool??? hahaha

My folks bought a really nice in ground pool. It is a big investment but I love having it, even though it is only for a few months a year. Lots of work to keep it nice but worth it.

What do you mean by "lots of work", like an hour a day, 10 hours a week, what are we talking here? I am trying to get an idea.

Anyone here have one at their house? In-ground or above? If you do, can you tell me your experience with them, maitnence, cost, do you love it, do you think it is worth it?

Anything at all, thanks

Dont laugh. I have Xbox Kinect (I think thats xbox, right?) can you play that online? I hardly ever use it and I have not bought a college football game in probably 7 years.

Man, I remember when this game first came out, we were in college and the amount of time we played, the number of classes we skipped, the number of beers we drank while playing, all the controls we broke in a fit of rage, the funiture that was smashed. Man, life was good!

I'd like to see the Husker staff tell him to decide first, or not to show up.

 

Nobody should treat this program as a second class choice, and Husker football is nobody's "negotiating tactic". He may be a great athlete, and if he wants to play football I'd love to see him in red, but he needs to quit using Husker football as a tool.

 

 

I agree if he is using it as a negotiating tool. But in thinking as a coach, I would let him come and try to persuade him in staying. Hell, just being with kids his own age might have a change of heart with him. (just that .001% chance alone, I would let him come).

There is a chance that he might not totally know what he wants to do yet. Yeah, the money would be great and I would take it and I would hope he takes it too but maybe right now he is still a bit undecided, so why not let him come to pratice. I dont think he is treating NU like it is second class, he is not comparing it to another football program, he did that already and NU won out. Now he is comparing it to his possible future job.

They are all down to earth once you know them. Like fans of other teams, you hate them until you get to know them.

Get this kid in for a trip and show him Boys Town, tell him that during his time at NU he can speak there over and over to reach out to kids that messed up like he did.

I am not totally sure but if this kid is NOT a US native, I think it helps NU. Those kids will tend to make choices based on what their parents think is best for their future and their parents are usually a HUGE influence.

Really its just that Rivals doesnt know everything. Thats really it. They probably have not talked to the kid yet to update it.

Wow, impressive story!

If you ever saw a short lived tv show called Glory Daze, that one kind of showed frat life in the 80s and didnt make it look all about crazy hazing. It was actually kind of a fun show.

You mentioned the philanthropy part and you are right, the greek system does most of that on campus.

I always disliked the old "you have to pay for your friends" no you dont, there were guys in my house that I could not stand and honestly never really even knew more then their last names, other guys have become life long friends. It is like a dorm room, you might have 3 roommmates and two of them you never talk to after the first year.

Honestly, my frat hazed, it was things like this

Drink a shot (Ummm okay!)

Clean the bathrooms

Stand there facing a wall and get yelled at

Sometimes I wish I would have been in college back in the 80's I had heard stories from friends older brothers about kegs all over, the lack of "fear" from the school over drinking. Man, that must have been sweet!

I could only imagine what it must have been like to be sitting on the big deck or in the front yard, with a drink and not worrying about getting "busted". Or having the doors wide open on gameday when alums come in and out of the house and grab a drink or two.

I know there are some places that still embrace that, some of the Big 10 schools are still like that and lots of the schools in the south.

I will let you guys know when I know.

I'm either at Champions or at a lot that is west of the stadium...I believe it is on 7th or 8th street on the north side of the tracks.

Do you have your own champions passes or do you just get them from people? I wish I had my own but I just get them from friends all the time.

Were you at UNL? If so, what frat, if you dont mind saying?

 

 

I think lots of times people that didnt pledge dislike the easy access to parties that frats have. I mean, you are on the campus, you have the girls houses usually right down the road, you have all this space in a huge house and girls flock to the house parties, not because of the super cool guys in the house but because it is close by and you have free beer.

 

 

Theta Chi. 626 N 16th Street, right next to Kappa Kappa Gamma.

 

They lost their charter, though. It was always a small house, and a few years after my time there it closed down. Phi Mu owns the house now.

 

We had plenty of girls at the house all the time, but not because we were so cool or because of the free beer. It was pretty laid back. I think the girls showed up because it was a pretty safe environment, unlike a lot of houses where the guys were all predators. I mean, we were predators, too. But we were nice predators.

Yeah, plus wasnt that house really close to the girls houses? Man, I bet you guys could totally play up the "safe" vibe! I LOVE the nice predators line!!!

We had that huge deck at Beta on the top of our house, of course, we could not party up there because UNL decided it hated fun starting in 1995

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That is not bad!

We are a Catholic School and for years I have wanted CARDINAL FOOTBALL on the front and on the back

"SAY YOUR PRAYERS"

Ohhhh, I know that area. I guess I don't remember it being called the North Bottoms when I was there in the mid-late 90's. I guess I always just called it the other side of campus.

Its almost all houses there right? I dont remember to many apartments.

I can't believe someone said Brothers for a bar. The only good thing about that bar is has scooped up the type of people that would go to a bar like that and gave them a home. There are more popped collars per capita there than in Jersey on all days that end in "y".

 

I would also like to thank the group for not bringing up the eyesore that stradles I-80 in Kearney.

I am not in college anymore but when I go down to Husker games and stop in at brothers before or after the game, its just filled with Husker fans wearing Husker stuff. That being said, the dudes working at the bar seem to fall in line with what you said.

What is or where is the North Bottoms?

I am either at the bars, Embassy, Bridge or Champions.

I have still never understood the pissing match between frats guys and non frat guys. Who cares, just have fun!

 

It's just your basic "us vs. them" mentality. Humans are wired for this (as are other animals), so just about any arbitrary groups you put together will develop this mentality over time. You can even split the groups, mix the members and make two entirely new groups, and eventually you'll have "us vs. them" again.

 

You see this in sports fandom, in politics, in nationalism, in.... everything.

 

I pledged a really, really down-to-earth fraternity. Great guys, but no different than any guy in a dorm room. Same people, different living arrangements. That's it.

Were you at UNL? If so, what frat, if you dont mind saying?

I think lots of times people that didnt pledge dislike the easy access to parties that frats have. I mean, you are on the campus, you have the girls houses usually right down the road, you have all this space in a huge house and girls flock to the house parties, not because of the super cool guys in the house but because it is close by and you have free beer.