HeyBurke

You might not be following it very closely. It mainly centers around the fact that they offered him when half the NFL wouldn't touch him...which is leading to a deeper look at the organization and other things are beginning to come out. The Patriots, more than most organizations are beginning to realize that signing all of those questionable players (Ocho, Moss, Dennard, Mallett, Tate, Haynesworth, Talib, etc) is starting to catch up with them in regards to the orgs image. I can find dozens of articles discussing how their image is taking a beating right now. I don't think that should make the Patriots look bad. Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick want to to give these guys a second chance. They do that with many players, like Wes Welker, for example. The correlation between them signing players like that should not affect their image. These guys are adults and are responsible for their own actions. You can't blame the Patriots for what they decide to do off the field.

Anything close to their idols will work out just fine. I'm surprised that a kid born in the mid-nineties admires Walter Payton. He's got his head on right!

The image of the Patriot's organization is far more valuable than any contribution Dennard could have made this season. It's an image that has taken a beating lately, and to further damage it by allowing him to remain on the team is just bad business. How has their image taken a beaten lately. If anything, I'd say that the Patriots' image has gotten better recently because they released Aaron Hernandez as soon as he got arrested.

Okay, I agree that Fonzie is stupid for driving drunk while on probation, but why should he be cut? What does him being a Patriot have anything to do with this? Aaron Hernandez murdering dudes has nothing to do with Alfonzo Dennard being an idiot and driving drunk. The Patriots and their players should not be under extra scrutiny because one of their players decided to be a thug. They disowned him from their organization and whatever happens to him from now on has nothing to do with the Patriots. If the SOP for players who get convicted of something like driving drunk while on probation is to cut them from the team, then he should be cut. But, just because he has a tangential relationship to Aaron Hernandez, he should not be cut.

I have to admit, I didn't notice how faded the old turf was until I saw this. Wow, what a difference!

How is he a "wishy washy bad example" of your faith by saying that Hell is a concept invented by the Church? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the modern concept of Hell that most Christians know isn't in the Bible.

Ummmm..... Alt Uniforms are one of the factors that make us able to go after some of the higher ranking players. That's because players like the Alt Uniforms. Sure, the Alts are popular with the fans, but they also help raise exposure for our school in the minds of top tier talent. I disagree. Having to produce gimmicks for program exposure is a sign of weakness. Well, I guess Alabama is showing weakness every time they wear their Pro Combat uniforms, then.

They seem to be a little less obvious from those pics. I think it's harder to see from ground level.

We won't be using them anyway as rarely as we score. This is still 2010, right? First half, or second half of the season?

Are you trolling? This has got to be one of the most ignorant and misinformed posts this board has ever seen.

I wouldn't say that's his legacy. He's the all-time school leader in total offense. That's his legacy. I would agree however that the main statistic separating him from greats like Frazier or Gill is turnovers. Taylor's basically on par or better in every other category. In other words, his turnover problem is part of his legacy. . . thus far. The good news is we seem to remember of these guys mostly by what they did their senior season. Hypothetically, if he puts the team on his back and carries them to a championship this year, that would be what he's most remembered for. No, his legacy is being our starter for four years and being one of the greatest athletes in this university's history. The only Husker fans who consider turnovers to be T-Mart's legacy are bitter about the losses his turnovers played a major part in, such as the 2010 Big XII Championship Game and the Ohio State game last year.

I have no idea. Then why make that presupposition in the first place, and base a thread topic around it? "I don't know if HeyBurke stole those 50 tokens from the fat kid at Chuck E. Cheese's, but if he did it was wrong". Listen, buddy, I sent you a PM asking you to stop making jokes at my expense. Be a man and stop. Though, I shouldn't expect much from you after that whole debacle you had with EZ-E. I wasn't making a joke. I was using that as an example of how ridiculous it is to presuppose things like that. It's almost like asking a loaded question. "Are you still beating your wife?" And EZ-E and I are friends now. Let it go. The fact that you and him are buds now doesn't cancel out the awful joke you made at his expense. You thrive on this board on insulting people and very, very rarely add anything of substance to any topic.

I have no idea. I would sure hope not. If there's one thing I think Bo Pelini is really good at, that's enforcing the rules he lays out for his players. Some posters here seem to think that he should just let things like failed drug tests slide, though. That's not cool in my book. Who in the holy hell said that? What players have failed a drug test? The problem here is that you're mixing your opinion of how real things should be handled with speculation and innuendo. I, for one, stated that I didn't think a first occurance of marijuana use should be a situation that gets a kid kicked off the team. That is not the same thing as a failed drug test. That is not the same thing as a speculated 4th infraction. Who said Bo should let failed drug tests slide? Who has failed a drug test? Are you even beginning to see what the problem is here? Someone in the thread connected this to drugs. Everyone got in a funk about how drugs aren't bad m'kay and I said that if the team rules are zero tolerance for drugs and they failed a UA, they should get kicked off. I know the team rules in 2010 were zero tolerance and I don't really think Bo has changed his rules.

I have no idea. Then why make that presupposition in the first place, and base a thread topic around it? "I don't know if HeyBurke stole those 50 tokens from the fat kid at Chuck E. Cheese's, but if he did it was wrong". Listen, buddy, I sent you a PM asking you to stop making jokes at my expense. Be a man and stop. Though, I shouldn't expect much from you after that whole debacle you had with EZ-E.

Laughing stock was the wrong phrase. I don't know how exactly I can word that better. What I mean is that schools like Florida and LSU made exceptions to their drug testing policies for a bunch of players and now the media has those two schools under a microscope. I don't want that to happen to Nebraska. I like lying low on the national scene when it comes to anything not specifically football related.

I have no idea. I would sure hope not. If there's one thing I think Bo Pelini is really good at, that's enforcing the rules he lays out for his players. Some posters here seem to think that he should just let things like failed drug tests slide, though. That's not cool in my book.

No idea. That was all speculation. I never implied that any of those guys did fail drug tests. I just said that if they did, they should be kicked off the team for breaking team rules.

I had a friend who played on the team in 2010 (not gonna say who it was, but he transferred to Kearney after that season) and he told me a few years ago that they did have to sign some sort of agreement on the team rules. Now, that was back in 2010, but I imagine Bo has the same policy in place today.

The purpose of this thread is to explain to some of the members of this board what exactly I was trying to say yesterday about the incident with our team. I put it in the politics/religion sub-forum because it has more to do with politics than it does football. Now, before I even start, I'm aware that the latest information coming out on the incident is saying that drugs weren't necessarily the reason these guys are getting in trouble. It has more to do with fighting. Anyway... I was trying to say that in the real world, if these players of ours had failed a drug test at say, a job, they would have been fired without a chance to even explain themselves. The law is the law. If you have traces of any illicit drug in your system on a UA, you're going to get fired. I don't care where you work or what you do, no employer is going to hire you if you fail a piss test. Personally, I don't believe things like marijuana should be illegal, but that's not how the world works. Pot is illegal and if the national media found out that Bo Pelini was letting a bunch of guys stay on the team after failing multiple drug tests, our university would become a laughing stock. We would become like what Florida was under Urban Meyer. I know that a lot of you guys are defending our players because you have probably been in similar situations at some point in your lives, and that's just fine with me. To be honest, I couldn't give two bothers about a bunch of college kids smoking pot. My best friend used to smoke a bowl everyday until he got a real job. Not my life, not my problem. But, if we've got guys on the team who fail multiple drug tests and have been given multiple warnings, then they deserve to be kicked to the corner. If getting high is important than playing football, then have fun just being a normal student at the university. You guys are still gonna flame me, but I don't really care. I have my opinion and you have yours. Just because mine might deviate from the usual HuskerBoard circle jerk doesn't mean it's any less valid. Anywho, have a good day everyone! I hope this news is all overblown and no one gets kicked off the team. GBR!

Dang, that south endzone needs some work! It'd be great to do a mirror image of the north endzone, even if it was just for the big screen and sound system. It kind of looks like they took the bleachers out of the south? New ones being put in??? They're still there. Just hard to see in this picture.

So if this one holds true, it will suck, but at least we can hang onto Santos and Rose. I expect both of those guys to have large roles this year. That's good news. Jonathon Rose has been tearing it up in practice, according to insiders. I can't wait to see him play next year.

I agree with this but those are some pretty big "ifs" and "pretty sures". IF they signed a team contract and subsequently didn't live up to their end of the bargain then, as we used to say in the frat "your bags can be found out on 16th street". I am struggling with a potential zero tolerance policy for underage drinking or marijuana use though. These players are also college students, aren't they? I understand that if they know the rules then shame on them but, if those are the rules, seems a bit stringent to me. IMO, those should be at least 1 or 2 warning offenses before serious repercussions. Who cares if you're a college student? The law is the law and team rules are team rules. In the military, if you get caught smoking weed, you're going to go to jail, lose rank, lose privileges, and lose money. Getting kicked off a team after repeatedly breaking the rules seems like a pretty light punishment, if you ask me. I said I agreed with you IF they broke team rules they had consented to. Problem here is; 1-this is not the military 2-there is no indication anybody repeatedly broke any rules 3-there is no confirmation anything at all actually took place yet and 4-it sounds to me like you really have no idea what the team rules are or if there is a zero tolerance policy for any of these alleged happenings. And, being a college student is relevant. You cannot ignore the fact that these are still young adults, some only one year removed from high school. The college years are when normal people tend to experiment with some of these things. Just because they happen to play football for good ole Nebraska U does not instantly transform them into some sort of super being that is immune to societal and peer pressures. IF there is a zero tolerance policy for under age drinking or marijuana use then I will state, as a matter of fact, that policy is too strict. So, unless you have a copy of the team rules showing this to be the case, you need to back the truck up. Lighten up, man. I've made sure to say "supposedly" in all of my posts. I have no idea what happened. I'm stating my views on the matter and you're stating yours. I personally believe that the "stresses" of college are no excuse to experiment in drugs, but that's me. I know a lot of people won't agree with me, but I hold myself to a high standard. There are some people who have legitimate reasons to use drugs and these football players are not part of that group.

I agree with this but those are some pretty big "ifs" and "pretty sures". IF they signed a team contract and subsequently didn't live up to their end of the bargain then, as we used to say in the frat "your bags can be found out on 16th street". I am struggling with a potential zero tolerance policy for underage drinking or marijuana use though. These players are also college students, aren't they? I understand that if they know the rules then shame on them but, if those are the rules, seems a bit stringent to me. IMO, those should be at least 1 or 2 warning offenses before serious repercussions. Who cares if you're a college student? The law is the law and team rules are team rules. In the military, if you get caught smoking weed, you're going to go to jail, lose rank, lose privileges, and lose money. Getting kicked off a team after repeatedly breaking the rules seems like a pretty light punishment, if you ask me. Comparing the Uniform Code of Military Justice to consequences for civilian kids playing football seems like a pretty extreme comparison, if you ask me Is it extreme? Yes, it is. I'm just trying to make a decent comparison. The fact is that if these were just some random kids that got caught smoking pot, they'd get put on trial and face legal consequences. If getting kicked off the football team is the only consequence our boys are facing, I'd say they're getting off easy.

I agree with this but those are some pretty big "ifs" and "pretty sures". IF they signed a team contract and subsequently didn't live up to their end of the bargain then, as we used to say in the frat "your bags can be found out on 16th street". I am struggling with a potential zero tolerance policy for underage drinking or marijuana use though. These players are also college students, aren't they? I understand that if they know the rules then shame on them but, if those are the rules, seems a bit stringent to me. IMO, those should be at least 1 or 2 warning offenses before serious repercussions. Who cares if you're a college student? The law is the law and team rules are team rules. In the military, if you get caught smoking weed, you're going to go to jail, lose rank, lose privileges, and lose money. Getting kicked off a team after repeatedly breaking the rules seems like a pretty light punishment, if you ask me.