Chicken

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I thought Nebraska fans were a "the buck stops at the top" kind of group. I mean when Solich, Callahan, Pelini and Riley struggled, some here said it was entirely their fault, because they were poor leaders, motivators and trainers. If anybody brought up other factors that might impact our success, they were castigated as whiners and making excuses. It wasn't "Missouri's" fault that we lost. It was our coach.

This thing started in China, but isn't China just another "Missouri?" I mean, doesn't a great coach, a great leader, create a strategy to defeat their opponent? Doesn't he look at what works and implement those strategies to maximize the team's strengths and minimize their weaknesses? Doesn't a great coach/leader put together the best staff he can of people who really understand how to do their jobs and give the team the best chance for success? Doesn't a great coach/leader motivate and unify the team toward one goal? A great coach doesn't make excuses and blame others. He doesn't splinter his team into factions. He pulls his group together, let's them know he has their back no matter where they come from or what they believe, and builds them into a united bunch that can't be beat.

We are talking about China now, aren't we?

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If its not China, its Russia. If its not Russia, its Texas. If its not Texas, its Iowa/Wisconsin.
 
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How dare Scott Frost, a football coach, his assistant coaches and players want to play football this fall. How dare anyone want our country to get back to normal. I"m really tired of this unscientific nonsense. You want real risk, put them in an automobile where their risk of dying is 1 in 120. Have them cross "O" street on foot where their risk of dying is 1 in 530. What has happened to sanity in the world?
 
How dare Scott Frost, a football coach, his assistant coaches and players want to play football this fall. How dare anyone want our country to get back to normal. I"m really tired of this unscientific nonsense. You want real risk, put them in an automobile where their risk of dying is 1 in 120. Have them cross "O" street on foot where their risk of dying is 1 in 530. What has happened to sanity in the world?

I'm tired of unscientific nonsense.
 
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I thought Nebraska fans were a "the buck stops at the top" kind of group. I mean when Solich, Callahan, Pelini and Riley struggled, some here said it was entirely their fault, because they were poor leaders, motivators and trainers. If anybody brought up other factors that might impact our success, they were castigated as whiners and making excuses. It wasn't "Missouri's" fault that we lost. It was our coach.

This thing started in China, but isn't China just another "Missouri?" I mean, doesn't a great coach, a great leader, create a strategy to defeat their opponent? Doesn't he look at what works and implement those strategies to maximize the team's strengths and minimize their weaknesses? Doesn't a great coach/leader put together the best staff he can of people who really understand how to do their jobs and give the team the best chance for success? Doesn't a great coach/leader motivate and unify the team toward one goal? A great coach doesn't make excuses and blame others. He doesn't splinter his team into factions. He pulls his group together, let's them know he has their back no matter where they come from or what they believe, and builds them into a united bunch that can't be beat.

We are talking about China now, aren't we?

(sigh)
outstanding post. I still hate misery.
 
I'm tired of unscientific nonsense.

Yes, there is risk assessment and science and then there is fear. We are at this point operating on fear. 18-24 year old athletes in top physical condition are NOT medically or scientifically at risk from the coronavirus. Testing positive for the virus doesn't mean you are sick from the virus. This is not about politics, it is about common sense.
 
So now it is settled. No fall football for the Huskers or other Big Ten teams. I understand why Nebraska wouldn't want to damage their relationship with the conference. Too much money at stake. The economic impact to the people of the university towns be damned. But we live in pathetically spineless times. But I do understand. I'll check with you guys after the first of the year, if there is actually going to be football in the spring. Not holding my breath.
 
How dare Scott Frost, a football coach, his assistant coaches and players want to play football this fall. How dare anyone want our country to get back to normal. I"m really tired of this unscientific nonsense. You want real risk, put them in an automobile where their risk of dying is 1 in 120. Have them cross "O" street on foot where their risk of dying is 1 in 530. What has happened to sanity in the world?
I think is is closer to 1 in 103 over our lifetime.......and I assume that includes all the drunk driving crashes
Chance of dying from fireworks is 1 in 386,766 - we need to legalize the Baby Poop out of fireworks - don't like the noise - fudge off - at least nobody is getting killed. Unless the fireworks warehouse is next to 2500 tons of ammonium nitrate......

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So now it is settled. No fall football for the Huskers or other Big Ten teams. I understand why Nebraska wouldn't want to damage their relationship with the conference. Too much money at stake. The economic impact to the people of the university towns be damned. But we live in pathetically spineless times. But I do understand. I'll check with you guys after the first of the year, if there is actually going to be football in the spring. Not holding my breath.
With the metrics that are being used, there shouldn't ever be football again.
 
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I think is is closer to 1 in 103 over our lifetime.......and I assume that includes all the drunk driving crashes
Chance of dying from fireworks is 1 in 386,766 - we need to legalize the Monkey Feces out of fireworks - don't like the noise - fudge off - at least nobody is getting killed. Unless the fireworks warehouse is next to 2500 tons of ammonium nitrate......

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There's no way the fire next door was fireworks. Munitions would be more likely. Either way, that was the biggest explosion in most of our lifetimes that didn't come from a nuke.
 
I'm wondering who the key players are in Nebraska's decision. Is it just BM, and SF?

What about the possibly of having TO's input as well? He's a wise man. I couldn't fathom making a bold decision to go against the Conference without at least posing some ?s to TO as well.

The Conference can't kill Nebraska, so it can only make us stronger.
 
There's no way the fire next door was fireworks. Munitions would be more likely. Either way, that was the biggest explosion in most of our lifetimes that didn't come from a nuke.
I don't know about that, as natural explosions can make that one pale in comparison. That was a tragedy, sure, but on the scale of things its just another cock up in a long long list for that part of the world where human life is an afterthought.

This whole China flu thing disproportionately affects blue hairs. They are going down at a considerably higher rate than other demographics. And that far higher rate gets us to .... <insert drum roll> ....0.2% of those infected. The Spanish flu claimed almost 6%. My have we become soft with living. The rate is far lower in countries using methods that are politically unpopular with our own polarized nationalized healthcare system. India is fighting the symptoms with science and an eye on treatment costs, with visits hitting under $1,000 per patient. Here in American we throw bills of $1.25 million at survivors, yet we lost a ridiculous number.

We've simply taken the notion of safety to an absurdity level never before seen in human history to the point where living life is truly suffocated. None of it is based in science, but rather (un-)hinges on emotional rhetoric. Football funds all other college athletics, so in this regard the commissioner for the B1G killed his patient.
 
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