teachercd

There are lots of mentally challenged people in this world.

 

 

 

This place isn't one of them but there are some boards (and newspapers) that are very anti TO and anti UNL. Its mostly full of mouth breathers who try to bully everyone into thinking that way by stating lies and half truths and negative opinions over and over until people eventually start to believe them. People often figure if there is smoke there is fire but what they don't know is really some jerk off is pulling the fire alarm or starting an arson fire because they like the attention, drama and a chance to say I told you so when someone finally does make a mistake.

 

 

That sure sounds a lot like HI. There lots of very good posters there too but there's an extremely hardcore anti Bo/TO veteran bunch that are relentless. Thank goodness for HB!

We have a winner! I can pretty much tell you which poster it was from HI

The biggest problem is getting more girls to T-gate for those 11am games!

Doesn't bother me any.

 

Then again, I've never been one to subscribe to the silly notion that one must wait until noon local time to consume alcohol.

I LOVE this answer!!!

Sam McKewon is doing a chat on the OWH this mornning. Any guess as to which huskeronline member asked it? I have a guess!

Comment From CookiedogX CookiedogX: ] Welcome to the OWH. Can you comment on how the Husker Athletic Department is better under Tom Osborne than it was under Steve Pederson. Conference titles are few, BO embarrasses the state, and NU has taken on a lot of debt with the construction of numerous sports facilities. How is TO an improvement over Pederson again?

How do people actually think SP was any good?

Just curious, who likes them and why and who dislikes them and why?

I personally do not care for them because I either miss the start due to my own teams Saturday obligations. It is also tough to party for them.

I know some people like them because it gives them a chance to get home sooner, if they have a longer drive.

Translation: BC and his staff sucked

Ummm you know that in baseball you get paid every penny of your contract, no matter what happens, right?

Football, not so much.

Sometimes these guys just get listed wrong. Call goes into a coach and the coach goes "well he is really more of a pass first kind of QB" then BAM you are a pro-style QB, his is tall too, so that plays into it.

Now, I can tell you just from coaching for awhile that I dont really know of any high school (clearly I dont know or see them all) that uses just a pro-style QB anymore.

Basically if someone likes your post, for whatever reason, they hit the + sign on your post and that adds to your rep. We turned off the negative rep feature because it was being abused and we had guys with huge negative points because they made an unpopular comment about a player/coach/The Beatles (that last one was mostly AR Husker Fan's doing).

 

 

The Reputation system, as we use it, is just another way of saying, "I agree," nothing more. It doesn't mean anything, and posts by people with higher rep points don't carry greater weight and aren't more important. Same goes for people with high post counts or Starting Lineup avatars, etc. Basically, your words in your post stand on their own, and whether you have 5,000 rep points and 10,000 posts or 0 rep points and 2 posts, your post has the same merit.

Ahhh, got it! Thanks!

Can anyone explain how this works? I tried to find it on here but couldnt. So how does a poster get a good or bad reputation, when it comes to the "points" they get?

I just have not seen that on other boards.

So then, if/when Mr. Starling winds up in Lincoln as a two sport athlete for the next few years, which of you (mealy mouth nay-sayers) are going to think "what a dumbass!"? or will you turn around and think "what a gutsy kid!"? If Lincoln turns out to be this kid's Mecca, as we should all hope, which of you supposed Husker fans will mock his decision, in word or in thought?

That is a fair question. Here is my answer, if I had a friend with a winning lotto ticket and he decided to drive to the lotto office with it with it hanging out the window up against his hand, daring something bad to happen, I would think he was a moron. Assuming nothing happend and he cashed it, I would still think he was a moron but we would sit around laughing about it, while he was rich.

So, the same goes for this situation, I will think its a bad call but if he comes to NU then I hope that I hope it all works out really well for him so that I can laugh about it later. "Man, remember when I thought he should have went and played baseball right away, I was totally wrong".

I would ask you now, what will you say (assuming you want him to pass up the millions) if he comes to NU and either never lives up to the hype and doesnt get drafted in either sport later on or gets hurt and can't play. What would you say then?

Appreciated the kind words. We need to get a Huskerboard tail gate going for tOSU game.

Well I will be down in lincoln drinking but if you are not a hot girl, I probably wont make it to your section haha

If I was in his position I would go pro and take the money. Its too big a risk to go to college with the possibility of career ending injuries or a decline in your production. If pro baseball doesn't work out he can always go back to college and play football.

Suh's family thought the opposite.

 

And the minor league baseball life is sooo attractive - ask Michael Jordan

There is a difference, Suh had one year to go, 13 games. This kid would have 3-4 years to go if he doesnt take the money now.

EZ, you are totally right. The "freak out kings" on the other sites think that most of this staff just sits around and wont talk to the kids.

I appreciate your posts EZ, you seem to have a good grasp on things and a good understanding.

This is GREAT!

How rocking will Lincoln be for the OSU game?

7pm start, hopefully its a clear crisp day and hopefully I can head down to Lincoln from Omaha by about noon.

I just dont understand what people dont see here. He could come to Nebraska, mess around at the rec one night and johnny gym rat gets under his foot while playing a basketball game and BAM, he tears up his ankle or knee. Unlikley? Of course, but you know whats not unlikley? CASHING 5 Million Dollars!

 

 

Sign the contract. THE WORST CASE is that he flames out of baseball in 4 years and then goes to college, with millions.

 

I know people say he could be a Husker legend and this and that, well thats great but isnt having millions in the bank better?

 

exactly, and a +1 to higher education being not the end all be all.

You can always go back to school too! Thats my point. Why drive to the lotto offices while holding the winning ticket out the window? Doesnt make sense to me!

I dont even really care to much to get into the games, I just like being on Campus during the games. Hitting the bars and Champions Club is a blast.

I just dont understand what people dont see here. He could come to Nebraska, mess around at the rec one night and johnny gym rat gets under his foot while playing a basketball game and BAM, he tears up his ankle or knee. Unlikley? Of course, but you know whats not unlikley? CASHING 5 Million Dollars!

Sign the contract. THE WORST CASE is that he flames out of baseball in 4 years and then goes to college, with millions.

I know people say he could be a Husker legend and this and that, well thats great but isnt having millions in the bank better?

lol, large leap going from ... "I tried to call them other other day but I didnt get a hold on anyone"... to.... "kids were calling and calling and the NU staff was refusing to call them back"

Thats my point!

I work with kids everyday. "She hates me" means, "so and so told me to tuck in my shirt", "He gives soooo much homework" means "I didnt finish it because I was facebooking all night", "I tried like a million times to call my project partner" means "I think I called once"

Lets examine how those interviews went with those kids who "called NU and couldnt get in touch with a coach"

Reporter: "So what schools are looking at you and what school are you interested in?"

Kid: "Blah blah blah, and NU"

Reporter: "What kind of interest are you getting from NU?"

Kid: "I visited them once and I think they like me, I tried to call them other other day but I didnt get a hold on anyone"

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There you have it, kind of a big difference from the lemmingers that claimed these kids were calling and calling and the NU staff was refusing to call them back.

Lets face it, we know thats how the story really happened.

There is a delicate balance from "working" a kid and annoying them.

I thought this was a thread that was only on huskeronline, where Jaw can come spread his posts about how so and so isnt calling people and so and so isnt calling people.

I teach and we are basically told note to have facebook or twitter.

 

You don't teach spelling do you?

 

 

/jk

Well, the spelling is correct, its just the wrong word. I think that is even worse! haha

I teach and we are basically told note to have facebook or twitter.

What % of players in the top 100 come from Florida, Cali and Texas? Around 35%?

I believe that MLB (even farm contracts) cover injuries. I think that you also cant "Cut" a guy in baseball or any sport that I know of, while they are injured, they have to go on the IR list, so they are still getting paid and treated, even in the farm system. I think, but I am not totally sure.

The 3 million (after taxes and agent cut) will take care of a kid much longer then any school will. Now, NU "took care" of Blake Lawrence sure, but how much did they take care of him? Two more years of free school at UNL? Whats that come to now, 30,000?