Bowfin

Well if Rose-Ivey is doing something constructive and out of the public eye, that's a positive thing. The kneeling thing, not so much. We can agree on the former and have a disagreement on the latter. My apologies for misreading your post as calling me out. Much of my churlishness about such things comes from the feeling that the needs around us so far outnumber those willing to address them to the point it seems a losing battle. A person could use up all of their time and money and energy and not even make a dent, so it seems.

That's like saying we don't know if Secretariat was a good race horse because he ran only 21 races. Most who watched Gdowski run and pass would say it was a mistake to have had Taylor starting in front of him. As I said before, the KFAB announcers even said it on the air during his Senior year.

Actually, running was his forte: "He competed on three Class A State Championship track teams where he earned two All-Class Gold Medals as a freshman, two more as a sophomore and four as a junior, the first athlete to accomplish this feat in nearly 50 years."

Not really. Remember way back when the two guys ran out on to Wrigley Field to burn the flag, and Cubs outfielder Rick Monday dashed over and snatched it from them? They didn't get to sue Rick Monday.

I will gladly give you the name of the guy teaching at CCC-Platte who asks me to come talk every year. I can give you the number for the Columbus Rescue Mission and you can talk to the Chaplain there. I can also line you up with Mayor Mike Moser and see if he remembers me going around with police chief Gumm on whether he can "ruin someone's day". However, if my "background check" proves out, will you disappear from the forum for a year? I mean, if you call a bluff in poker and it's not a bluff, you lose, right? That will be YOUR skin in the game. Are we on, Landlord? Put up or shut up time! I'll disappear forever if it doesn't check out. Do any of the moderators want to "referee" this bet, so it can be validated by a neutral party?

Fought with the police chief at City Council meetings over his threats of "over enforcement", I talk to the Government class at CCC-Platte on government / LEO overreach every year, called, written, and e-mailed U.S. and State legislators about the problem, write letters to the editor at various newspapers and got in the face of that State Trooper on his attitude at the employee safety meeting and then talked to his boss (got an @ss chewing from the VP from my company on that one, but those are never fatal ) I've been doing this since Waco and Ruby Ridge, which would be close to 25 years. That being said, shootings are not my A-1 concern as much as keeping people from actually interacting with law enforcement officers in an official capacity, so most of my work is at the local Rescue Mission. I like to try to help prevent the problems and lifestyles before guns are pulled. So is that as good than kneeling for a couple of minutes, in your opinion?

I pointed out that the President and the co founder of Black Lives Matter disagree with Landlord, they say it is only a black problem. So who do we believe?...

Oklahoma had a hard time beating hapless Texas to escape the Red River Shootout or go below .500 Tulsa and Bowling Green speak for themselves, so I am still not impressed. Indiana will give us a common benchmark, playing each other will settle it, so no use going any further when we are bound to find out.

Former presidential candidate was shouted down and booed off of HIS OWN stage for saying "All lives matter." http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/martin-omalley-all-lives-matter/ Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: ‘All Lives Matter’ a Racial Slur, ‘White Folks Gotta Give Up Something’ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/23/black-lives-matter-co-founder-all-lives-matter-a-racial-slur/ Every Time You Say “All Lives Matter” You Are Being an Accidental Racist http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-damiani/every-time-you-say-all-li_1_b_11004780.html Obama Explains The Problem With ‘All Lives Matter’ "...“I think the reason that the organizers used the phrase “black lives matter” was not because they were suggesting nobody else’s lives matter,” he said. “What they were suggesting was, there is a specific problem that is happening in the African-American community that’s not happening in other communities. And that is a legitimate issue that we’ve got to address.” --Barack Obama https://thinkprogress.org/obama-explains-the-problem-with-all-lives-matter-780912d54888#.dtnb7120l So landlord, if you disagree with me, take it up with the founder of Black Lives Matter and your president. Oh, and the Black Lives Matter crowd to which your link pointed is mostly white, so that might be damning to the point you are trying to make. As for the second link, I think All Lives Matter and I said something when it happened, so that article is disingenuous and discredited. I have been pointing out the disturbing trends in police shootings before Rose-Ivey was born, back in the time of Waco and Ruby Ridge, but I do want to thank him for his kneeling to make me aware that I wasn't really aware.

Where do you come up with the theory that anything worth accomplishing should always come without a price? Ever hear the phrase, "Freedom isn't free"? I'm sorry, but unless you have skin in the game, nobody takes you seriously. For historical reference, see the battles of Lexington and Concord, or the marches in Birmingham. I want to see someone willing to pay a price for what they believe or it is just theatrics. I don't want to see someone post on Facebook about litter or write a letter to the editor, I want someone to show up on a Saturday morning with a pointy stick and several trash bags. I want Michael Rose-Ivey to go to the police station and talk to the police. I want to see Michael Rose-Ivey go to North Omaha and talk to the young men there. I want to see Michael Rose-Ivey get together with the police and young men together and start a dialogue. That's what I do, that's what I expect from everybody else if they want to be taken seriously. The only thing kneeling gets is a bunch of pro and con drivel...20 pages so far. Take the uncle I mentioned. He was less than 15 miles away from two Warsaw Pact Armies, and his unit didn't have a fallback position. Nobody there was going to get the luxury of falling back as a unit, although a few might straggle back as survivors. That's skin in the game. Being willing to stay there and get shot to pieces while a counterattack was forming was the deterrent. That uncle sees Michael Rose-Ivey and people equating five minutes of kneeling with years or serving or months of combat and thinks the world has lost its mind.

I believe it isn't prejudice with skin color, I think that many police become so jaded and develop an "us against them" attitude towards "civilians" (which sets me off every time I hear a cop say civilians). I sat part way through a State Trooper doing a presentation on meth and meth labs, and every word out of his mouth was "losers" "idiots" and "dummies"...talking that way about the same people I see over at the Rescue Mission every week. In a mindset such as this, I think they don't necessarily see a "black loser", "brown loser" or "white loser", just "losers" and all are treated as such. The problem with Black Lives Matter is that they don't see the kid who ended up dead for flashing his lights at a cop who forgot to take his brights off or the two Catholic high school girls shot at 29 times for trying to leave a parking lot before they were caught smoking weed. AnyhowI got up and left halfway through and complained to higher ups about this trooper. I also told him he doesn't need to blouse his jump boots unless he is planning on jumping out of a C-130 in the near future, since I think the militarization of the police forces adds to these bad attitudes.

Nebraska isn't even close to reaching its potential, but the things that can use improvement are the things that can be fixed in practice. The biggest bugaboo that is out of Nebraska's control are injuries, and fate is very fickle in that department. I will say Nebraska goes undefeated in the regular season. Just as plausible as anything else. I think the Cornhuskers have played as tough a schedule (if not tougher) than Ohio State so far, so how is there "0" defeats any more impressive than our "0" defeats?

They actually did more thinking than feeling. Kneeling in front of the Montgomery buses would have been counterproductive. Boycotting the Montgomery city buses worked, but it took a lot of planning and coordination and effort to get everybody to work without using the buses. A lot of thought was involved making the boycott work. Kneeling and rioting doesn't involve so much effort, which is why we are seeing more of that and nothing concrete. I will know Kapernick and Rose-Ivey are serious when they start boycotting games, instead of playing for face time on the cameras. Then again, that would involve some risk and loss on their part, I don't know if either want to really go there.

Only they aren't standing...that's the problem. I can think of a lot of different ways one could have made the same point without raising a sh!t storm...but then again, we are back to the "thinking" vs. "feeling" dynamics again.

Some people have a hard time figuring out the difference between "What I think" and "How I feel". Mostly, Conservatives think and Liberals feel. Don't believe it? Go see how many times those two words are used in political forums and by who. I think this little bit of theatrics has done more harm than good. First off, there are WAY TOO MANY police shootings of all types, but making it into a "black only" thing sets people at odds with each other that should be on the same side, and also minimizes the problem. The six year old white kid shot by two black police officers doesn't count in the Black Lives Matter narrative...because they go ballistic if anyone says "All lives matter". So people are faced with choosing "Black Lives Matter" or "All Lives Matter"...I know which one I choose. I think that hijacking the national anthem at a ball game drags a lot of people into this controversy that don't want to be there. I would love to hear what the band members at East Carolina who just want to be band members think of being a prop in someone else's "kneel to justice" drama and whether they wanted to be a part of it...but they didn't get a choice, did they? As my uncle said, "There is a State Capitol not too far away from Memorial Stadium, do your protesting, politicking, and excercising of rights there." Of course, many hear "feel" that Michael Rose Ivey's five minutes on his knees equates to, or even trumps, the four years my uncle spent in Europe on the border between East and West Germany waiting for a war that never came, so "feel" free to discount the disparity and say whatever "feels" right. This has all been said, so the only new stuff I brought was the East Carolina thing. I would love to say I care about how everybody feels about this, but I really don't. In other news, here is a headline from this morning's Chicago Tribune from when I last posted less than 12 hours ago: 40 shot, 5 of them fatally, in Chicago over weekend Yeah, I will leave it big in the hopes of attracting Rose-Ivey to a bigger problem for his star power to address.

.Including Hank Hughes?

Payback is a b!tch. Some members of the East Carolina marching band pulled this same stunt and as a result: They were loudly booed through their halftime performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDSlwMscOg The Fayetteville radio and TV station refused to carry the following week's game between East Carolina and South Florida. The University made a public announcement that future demonstrations by the band and failure to perform as practiced would no longer be tolerated. Sometimes in life, it isn't always about what YOU feel...most times, actually. In other news, no controversial police shootings since Rose-Ivey kneeled in Chicago, and only 16 blacks murdered there in the same time frame, both a precipitous drop off, so there IS that...

Who am I going to believe?...You, or my own lyin' eyes?

Explain to me again this "cupboards were bare" legend. Three linemen (Collins, Valentine, and Gregory) that would have been seniors this year are good enough to play in the NFL. The other two defensive linemen that left were good enough to play or start on many teams and a third is starting at Nebraska now. Nebraska has the same starting quarterback in Tommy Armstrong (who Riley has now figured out). The starting running back (Newby) was in the cupboard. Westerkamp and Reilly are from the previous staff, as is Alonzo Moore. Combined with #15 below, I would say that's a pretty full cupboard at wide receiver. Riley's three deep tight ends are all from before, with Cethan Carter having a shot at the NFL. They also left the top punt returner in the nation (Pierson-El) here when Riley took over, although he's not getting many opportuniites now. Sam Foltz was one of the best punters in the country and would probably be heading to the NFL after his Senior year. Now, the offensive line had only Alex Lewis, who played "not very well" at Nebraska his last year but went to the NFL, so I don't know whether to put him in the plus or minus column. So most of the movers and shakers on offense in this now Top Ten team were ones "in the cupboard" when Riley rolled in from Oregon State. I guess this is how urban legends get started...

There is no ceiling right now. A "better" 5-0 record is like killing something "more dead". The Cornhuskers can only beat the teams and win the games put in front of them, and they have. Also, what the Cornhuskers were last week and what they will be this week are two different things. There is no reason that coaches and players shouldn't improve every game. Next week's Cornhuskers should be an improvement over last week's Cornhuskers, with the exception of the toll injuries take.

What does Kansas State's Bill Snyder know about defending Hail Mary plays that nobody else in college football seems to know?... RUSH MORE THAN THREE MEN! Pick up a look at the 2:58 mark: Sorry, but these asinine three man rushes have always been a pet peeve of mine.

.Both very true. Nebraska can't really control the first one (although I hope Riley pulls his starters as soon as feasible), but not doing the second one might be a bad habit.

Oh, a linebackers coach??? I thought it was one of those cool things to say like "T-mart" or "Zig". I can't say Bray sucks, but the linebacker play speaks for itself. He needs to get the yards per attempt ranking higher than 102 out of 128 teams, don't you think?

I'm not real up on the insider talk. Who or what is a "bray"? Is that Banderas? As for "sucks" or not, Nebraska currently sits at #102 at allowing rushing yards per attempt. Please keep in mind that Wisconsin sits at #19. The disparity is even more telling when one factors what teams both have played so far. Where you draw the "suck" line is an opinion. I usually pick the bottom third of all FBS statistics as being in the "sucks" range, so #102 (down four spots from #98 from when thread was started) is definitely there in "sucks" land.

Maybe we should check yards per carry? Gerry Gdowski: 7.97 yards per carry See what your #1 pick has.