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  1. I question the value of a methodology that says there were 46 better tournament coaches than Bob Knight.
  2. 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. 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.
  4. what do you think 'outrageously bad' looks like, specifically?
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. Oklahoma State as the Avenger people care the least about was pretty good too
  8. what's the annual trophy awarded to the winner of the Nebraska-Bethune Cookman rivalry?
  9. didn't McNeese come within a sac hair of beating them?
  10. 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
  11. "Man, we were really making progress on COVID, we almost had it under control, until they played high school football that fall"
  12. is this another one of those topics where people who haven't watched or followed a second of it, who could not have given a single fuck about it before March, now suddenly have STORNG OPINIONS!!!! that need to be expressed?
  13. 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.
  14. under that analogy, Nebraska seems more like a skeevy middle-aged businessman soliciting runaway boys at the Greyhound terminal
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. "Stubborn Six", I'm sure that's going to be an even-handed examination of the issue
  18. give it time, I smoked regularly until I was 26-27 and then quit and never went back, and I was not 26-27 recently.
  19. "and FUTHAHmoah, I say FUTHAHmoah, we the jury find that the dang COVID come from Nick Saban hisself!"
  20. 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
  21. hey but I know a lawyer! I know several lawyers!!
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