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  1. 2 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    tap the brakes people.... this test STILL REQUIRES a lab.  it's not like a pink/blue pregnancy test.  it is a lot less expensive, but unless you have a lab set up on site, the sample still has to go to a lab.  it is NOT instantaneous unless you are at a lab, or the lab is where you are, like inside the bubble.... that doesn't exist.

    may I interest you in my latest invention?

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  2. 1 hour ago, Dewey said:

    I think it's a nice touch that they left because of Texas being the big bad bully. Now they're in a conference that has schools such as Iowa, Purdue and Northwestern all of whom have more pull than Nebraska,  especially after this last episode. The very bottom 

    Since joining the Big Ten, Nebraska is 3-6 against Iowa with 5 straight losses including one by 30 and one by 42

    That doesn't sound very competitive. Against the other two:

    * 5-4 against Northwestern

    * 4-3 against Purdue

    So that's really their appropriate weight class. It's mostly a bloodbath otherwise-- 62-3 against Ohio State, 56-10 against Michigan, 70-31 against Wisconsin, that sort of thing

  3. 10 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    uhhhh......do you really not remember?

    I remember that he needed to be fired. The fact that we botched the replacement hiring doesn't change how stale the program had gotten by 2015 after years of stagnation. 

    For all his success at Tennessee-- which is "one conference co-championship and one Sweet 16 appearance in five full years"-- Barnes is also only about a million dollars or whatever the buyout differential was from being the head coach at UCLA and having Knoxville too in his rearview mirror. This seems to be a marriage of convenience more than a renaissance for anyone involved. 

    Given that Tennessee is coming off a 14-loss season, we might want to wait to see what Barnes can manage on the court this season (assuming their is one) before confusing "signing an elite prospect" with "getting jack shit done on the court", because we were still making that same mistake right through the point Barnes mismanaged Myles Turner and the 2015 season. EDIT-- my point there being, he signed a 5-star guard; that's awesome for him/them, that should make a difference, but recruiting well isn't the finish line. 

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  4. 9 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

    Three days after Pac-12 football shuttered for the first time in history, we’re left to make sense of the decision.

    Why did the presidents hit cancel instead of pause?

    Why not trudge on like the SEC and Co.?

    perhaps the use of that word is innocuous, but more likely it's revealing, like he thinks playing is "trudging". That's not the word most people who get actual joy out of college football would use to describe it

     

  5. 2 minutes ago, Born Burnt said:

    I let my kids do lots of things that worry me. I'm just saying COVID would not be my #1 worry as a parent.

    well, sure, that's kind of my point-- I feel like to the extent we've proven anything about CTE and football, a college football player's more likely to suffer long-term consequences related to CTE than COVID. I guess to the extent either's worth worrying about, I'd be more concerned w CTE. 

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  6. On 8/9/2020 at 6:17 PM, Brothahorn said:

    Watching the 2009 game against UNC. I thought for sure we were on our way to being a legitimate basketball school after that game. We ran them out of the building..good times. One of the games I've ever seen in person.

    Thought the same, but by the time we scraped by A&M a few weeks later, that magic had gone-- I remember being really really frustrated by how hard everything looked against A&M. At the time, I thought it was me. The way the rest of the season went, though, just proved I was instinctively onto something.

    Corpus Christi was the harbinger, but that was just one game and as bad as we were that day, we still had some good performances to come. But starting with the A&M game, the way that team played basketball wasn't the least bit joyous, free, or aggressive. We were somehow rushing and late at the same time. Aggressively making errors, tentatively blowing open opportunities. It's the most Jekyll and Hyde season I've ever seen out of a team that didn't have an obvious reason for it (e.g., a one-man team whose best player gets injured, like Tate Armstrong at Duke or Jay Burson at Ohio State). 

    hey thanks for the memories, thanks for bringing it up, ASS

  7. 23 minutes ago, Cornfusion said:

    In reality, Nebraska isn't going anywhere until the present conference model crashes.  We all know that.

    Do you think Nebraska fits better with the Big 12 or Big Ten, geographically? Curious. I personally think the circa-1996 Big 12 was ideal, if Nebraska-OU could have been preserved, but I can see where the more Midwestern flavor of the Big Ten West might be to someone's liking, if they didn't particularly want to be in a conference with Kansas State or Iowa State.

  8. 10 minutes ago, Cornfusion said:

    Nebraska was talking a  hookup, not marriage.  The present Wifey has too much money to leave her...right now...

     

    under that analogy, Nebraska seems more like a skeevy middle-aged businessman soliciting runaway boys at the Greyhound terminal

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  9. 10 minutes ago, kopp0e said:

    If all goes well this season, Notre Dame/ Oklahoma/ Texas/ SEC & Clemson have the most to gain in recruiting:

     

    so stupid, the Big 10 and Pac-12 coaches (and the recruits) still operate under the same recruiting restrictions as usual (notwithstanding any ADDITIONAL COVID related restrictions). Ryan Day can't decide "oh I'll just do more recruiting", there are still limits in place that apply even if he's sitting on the sideline like a big thumbsucking baby while the rest of us play football. 

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  10. 20 hours ago, Jabberwocky said:

    There is no point in even having a discussion about nebbie from this point forward. It is very apparent that they were delighted to sell their highly regarded athletic program for a one-fourteenth share of BTN, some research grants, and a place in the line between Minnesota and Northwestern to get a chance to cower on their knees in front of Michigan and tOSU and suck the royal rod.  They will be an afterthought for the rest of CFB history. At least those cowards will not be pushed around by the big 12 anymore though.

    their thinking can be summed up as, "we can't win in the Big Ten but it will be marginally better for our bottom line, and we'd rather lose to Ohio State by 50 every year than lose to Texas by 1 ever"

    short-dick syndrome, exactly the same reasoning as A&M's move to the SEC

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  11. 18 minutes ago, ouflak said:

    This is kind of what I think is happening. It's not so much that there are going to be people who traceably contract it directly as the result of a football game being played, and that their class action suit is subsequently frivolous. It's how much are the PAC and Big Ten willing to pay deal with the potentially massive class actions due the domino effect infection rates of a highly contagious disease? If the number you calculate for a settlement/victory/case-thrown-out is larger than the amount of money you (by whatever means) calculate is less than what youare willing to lose by postponing the season, you play. Otherwise, you postpone.

    there is no limit to the wall of cowardice you can build with the phrase "well we don't want to get sued"

    "we'd play, but we're afraid of lawsuits" will be the Big Ten's epitaph

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