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At least Hillary isn't President..... On a serious note, If this passes, I'm curious to see what it does to small towns with parochial schools. For example, West Point, NE. I'm pretty sure West Point CC is already bigger than West Point-Beemer High. What happens when even more people choose to go to CC rather than public? Or what happens when those currently paying tuition can redirect their tax money? Those tax dollars will leave the public school system and I'd assume public schools would be left to wither away. Nothing like seeing "progress" when your alma mater is boarded up and torn down... Small town people have a hard enough time with consolidation. I am not sure what would happen. That is interesting though.

Me too!

Cause they want you to go through what they went through! It is a parents revenge! Ha

Can you explain "Riley Factor" that's new to me? Oddsmakers looking at his career coaching record basically and predicting .500 since we have a new QB and new Defense. Yep, thank you.

Pay people what they are worth...what they deserve. Period. I have no clue if the guys on the list are high/average/low...but treat people fairly and pay them accordingly. I would assume that NU is doing that.

In year 3...losing to NIU, Ark St, Minny, Purdue or Illinois will have nothing to do with Bo.

This could be a patented Riley season. Where his team gets 5 or 6 wins...but gets a huge upset. Like knocks off a top 5 team but still gets beat by 3 crappy teams.

How much of this O/U being at 6 is the Riley factor? If my site ends up having it at 6 I will take the overs...big time (for me...so that means like 50 dollars) but clearly this is an issue. In my opinion. Anything less than 9 and SE is canned first. Riley is gone two days after the new AD is hired. Anything less than 7 and SE fires Riley first in hopes of saving his own hide. I would not blame him.

Billy should collect his checks while wearing a ski mask and holding a switchblade...

They were so big when I was in high school and college... Of course they hardly ever made the play list at our frat parties...that was always dance stuff!

Why keep dead weight? Fresh new/better coach and hopefully no more toxicicity or sandbagging, what's not to love? Cue response of what there is to not love... But what if Diaco is going to sandbag and be toxic?!?! Cue the scary 1920's music.

Sure thing!

For those of you that do this...fill us in on your method. I like a sweeter sauce so I will usually take a pretty basic pizza sauce (usually a cheap canned one) and add some brown sugar and sometimes cream cheese. I usually use a pre-made crust but sometimes I just buy the dough and roll out my own. I will add some olive oil on the crust and put down my sauce...I add the cheese and sometimes more cream cheese in little squares. I have not done the mozzarella in the small squares yet. I add some meat and it is ready. Toss it on the grill, usually indirect heat, for just about 5 minutes or so. Comes out really really good. I do have a pizza stone but I don't use is all that much. I have seen some people that use bricks.

That is awesome!

Or Banker was adequate to good when he was hired, but then he didn't adjust his philosophy as offenses innovated, and he became a mediocre DC. Oregon State fans wanted him gone for years. Hell, they came over to this board told us he wasn't going to be good enough. Or he was seen as good enough for a lower-tier team in the defense-optional Pac-10 and Riley wanted to be loyal to a long-time friend but was exposed when the situation changed. Riley had him on his staff at San Diego, keep believing your fantasies. Which was a lot of years ago, which goes to saunders' point. And for a lot of years after that, Banker was kept on Riley's staff. Obviously, Riley didn't view Banker as a bad coach for all those years or he wouldn't have kept him. And we know for a fact that Riley is capable of firing his friends if they aren't performing up to expectations. I get what you are saying but at Oregon State he COULD keep those guys on staff because lets face it, there was really not the pressure from fans/press. It is kind of like Northwestern...the Chicago press is not spending a lot of time and resources on NW coverage and even though I have never checked I am guessing that the NW message boards are pretty dead. At Oregon State...an upset of Oregon, USC, UCLA or Washington ALMOST buys you a free pass for the season. Riley, not until his last season at OSU, didn't really have a ton of pressure to change assistants. Basically if he made a bowl game every other year he was pretty much fine. I get what you're saying here and I believe Riley himself has spoke about the difference in expectations here at NU. And in fact, I believe he told all of his assistants when they got here that things had to be done differently because the expectations were so much higher. (Paraphrasing that last sentence.) At least two of those assistants imo, Reed and Banker, did not live up to their increased expectations. I would imagine he told them that too. I am 100% positive he did not want to can two long time friends, clearly he did what he thought would be best. It had to be hard to be (probably) close to retirement and fire your "best" friends...I mean...who knows if they will ever be buds again.

When your boss tells you that you need to improve in certain areas, you'd best improve if you value your job. Banker didn't do that so now he is gone. But he couldn't improve because the best players on the team were loafing and sandbagging...and toxic. I mean...if we all know that how could the coaches miss it?

Yes he made a lot of great plays, that's why I was a fan of him.But like you said he had 2 pretty good seasons that could have been great had his efforts in the classroom been better. There's no real reason he should have missed any game time last year, other than a bullsh#t targeting call.And to El Diaco's resposnse, I don't think he was exactly a Pelini holdout, but he used that mentality as an excuse. Word is he had the same tude when Pelini was coach. And the problem I have with that is that as a coach, if it's really that bad, you tell them that they have a choice to make, and if they don't correct it, you bench them. You cannot allow the inmates to run the asylum. It's anecdotal, but we had to do that with a kid on my son's baseball team this year early in the season. Yep...which means either...1. The coaches did not think that Gerry was sabotaging the team and not trying. or 2. The coaches (a staff with over 60 years of coaching experience) somehow didn't notice that Gerry was hurting the team on purpose. Hmmm Or... 3. They saw it, and didn't do anything about it. 4. It's just a small character flaw and his lack of effort academically is unrelated AND benching one of the best players on defense, even when not giving 100% would be a bad deal. They did bench him...at the start of the season.

Yes he made a lot of great plays, that's why I was a fan of him. But like you said he had 2 pretty good seasons that could have been great had his efforts in the classroom been better. There's no real reason he should have missed any game time last year, other than a bullsh#t targeting call. And to El Diaco's resposnse, I don't think he was exactly a Pelini holdout, but he used that mentality as an excuse. Word is he had the same tude when Pelini was coach. And the problem I have with that is that as a coach, if it's really that bad, you tell them that they have a choice to make, and if they don't correct it, you bench them. You cannot allow the inmates to run the asylum. It's anecdotal, but we had to do that with a kid on my son's baseball team this year early in the season. Yep...which means either... 1. The coaches did not think that Gerry was sabotaging the team and not trying. or 2. The coaches (a staff with over 60 years of coaching experience) somehow didn't notice that Gerry was hurting the team on purpose. Hmmm

I totally forgot about that.

Oh my goodness...does this fit so many.