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My thoughts on Tim Lester

I have seen many posters on here praising him whereas I have reserved opinion. The OL line is a little better this year and KJ has become an elite runner; thus, the offensive stats were going to improve regardless; plus, we didn't have Hill at QB anymore. The play calling and overall offense has still been pathetic. The game calling yesterday was about as bad as I have ever seen. Did Lester make all those boneheaded calls? How many dozen times do you try to run it up the middle after being stuffed every single time but once before you realize that that play is not working? If Lester called that game, he is a moron. My gut feeling is that Captain Kirk made the calls. Until I know the answer, I cannot make judgment on Lester.

Anyone see this pile of crap in The Athletic by Mitch Sherman?

SIAP, but this weasel of a reporter blames IOWA for NE’s captains refusing to shake hands at the coin toss. He claims that NE was justified in their bush league, grossly and embarrassingly unsportsmanlike display… because Iowa had celebrated after beating them repeatedly, and because Iowa wouldn’t allow them to huddle on the logo at midfield before the game (those pregame rituals typically happen in the end zone for the vast majority of teams anyway).

The article is a steaming pile of dung, and Mitch Sherman deserves a slap in the face from Iowan and colleague at The Athletic, Scott Dochterman, for being an idiot. Assuming Mitch is a Nebraska alum and/or Fusker fan. If he’s actually an objective observer, he’s even more of a fool for publishing that waste of cyberspace.

IOWA vs ARMY grades

CRUZ UR vs 22 Thought cruz wrestled tuff, he just is not there yet 70

133 AYALA #6 vs 23 Like the quick attack to 1st TD!! Crazy scramble to army cradle refs made the right call. Thought stall call against us was BS Quick escape to start 2nd, was that crazy scramble that they looked at for locked hands or something but they were outa bounds!!!Good work in third to counter kids shot and get a TD stayed on gas to finish match !! 98

141 Schriever UR vs 29 Impressive 1st with good work on 1st TD, could not ride kid , then gave up a TD but kept working and got an escape to keep match even. went back to shot that scored for him but kid cut corner, escape early in third and we have us a match!!! Shot across body (bad shot) and gave up a TD with about 40 seconds left, got out again to give himself a chance but could not score. good match 75

149 PARCO #4 vs 26 CRAZY 1st TD maybe even CRAZIER 2nd TD POWER on display!!! Thought Parco was gonna pin him, then kid pops out, match was nutz!!! Did not get why he went to the mat edge when he lifted him into the air in the 3rd??? WAS almost like FS but kept working and got TD, kid is a MONSTER!!!! Wins belt gets major 99

157 Kael Voinovich ur vs ur Nice shrug or slide by for 1st TD, I like him wrestling aggressive, good action with both kids getting after it, announcers did not know the new rule was kinda funny, gets a nice reverse with leg coming in--- then disaster struck!!! NO grade!

165 Caliendo #2 vs 13 lot of hand fighting in 1st felt we pushed the pace mostly, Army down to start 2nd and escape in 15 seconds, finally got thru kids D with a Super Duck type shot!!!Kid cuts him in 3rd then Mikey gets on the GAS!!! TD, tuff ride to bring it over a minute and wear kid down, cut him, shot off counter to secure major 99

174 KENNEDY ur vs 31 Was shooting and getting stuck/stalemates but just kept coming!!! pushed pace gets 1st TD rides a bit then cuts him and another TD and tuff ride out, kept getting stronger as match went on, looks better and better! Cant see brands beating him right now but I guess we will see how it plays out 90

184 ARNOLD #8 vs ur the 1st scramble might have shown where his body type is at a disadvantage as the kid seemed to use his greater height/length to his advantage, also 2nd scramble where we could not score. Back to work in 2nd with a nice pop double, then another TD with short time. west point chooses top, BRANDS with good challenge on cut back to get us a point. Arnold was sloppy but kept his cool AWESOME snap to seal the win at end give him the 8-3!!!

197 BUCHANAN #2 vs UR BLAST double, MAT RETURNS, SUPER DUCK this dude is SCARY!!!!

Heavy Fleshman ur vs 27 zeros in 1st, riden out in 2nd, gives up escape in third and thats all folks!!! 65

Have to tip my hat to ARMY!!! just to go and serve is something, but to Wrestle too!!!!! I had many friends/teammates who played LAX their and always thought about how they managed? Forget how wrestlers do it with training and Army training, and school !?!??! and they wrestled well!!!

Announcers said Tom got his 300th win against Princeton so CONGRATS!!!

Democrats shouldn’t try to find ‘common ground’ with Trump

A depressingly high number of elected Democrats are declaring their intent to find “common ground” with President-elect Donald Trump and his crackpot Cabinet picks. Their naive, tone-deaf declarations epitomize an infatuation with bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake. Sometimes, it’s better not to bend the knee before the bidding even gets underway.


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Democrats strain credulity if they imagine they can find common ground with someone who vows, among other mind-boggling schemes, to imprison opponents, deploy the military against immigrants, snatch the power of the purse from Congress and pay for tax cuts for billionaires with cuts to entitlements and other programs that serve ordinary Americans. (What would common ground even look like? Deport just 5.5 million people, not 11 million? Cut Social Security only a little bit?)
The fruitless search for nonexistent common ground instantaneously normalizes Trump. Democrats should not propound the dubious assertion that Trump can operate rationally and in good faith. Mouthing this platitude makes Democrats look weak, foolish and unprepared to stand up to an authoritarian agenda.


Moreover, what is the point of declaring their “common ground” aspirations now? Similar aspirational statements were made before MAGA Republicans reneged on the budget deal (later giving up the effort to suspend the debt ceiling when Democrats stood their ground). That should be a wake-up call: There is no bargaining with people who break deals. Democrats must not be in the position of chasing after Republicans. They will find themselves negotiating against themselves to reach the mythical “common ground.”
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Moreover, why is isn’t the onus on Trump — as it consistently was on President Joe Biden — to “unify” the country? Trump has shown no inclination to moderate. (Certainly not by choosing Kash Patel for the FBI or Putin mouthpiece Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence.)

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There might be times when Trump accidentally stumbles into positions Democrats previously held. After all, even a broken clock is right twice a day. And when Trump by happenstance betrays his base or reverses a ridiculous position, Democrats should know when to say yes. (Consider the times Biden ate then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s lunch in negotiations.) But looking for common ground assumes Trump has an end goal that falls within the realm of normal, acceptable democratic policies. Let him prove his bona fides first.

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And there will be times, as I’ve described, when Democrats are forced to swallow a legislative poison pill: voting to pass a vital bill even if Republicans slip cruel and unacceptable measures into it. Making practical, hard concessions to preserve long-term political viability is not finding common ground. To the contrary, it’s an opportunity to point out how Republicans resort to legislative blackmail to enact unpopular policies.
Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times recently admonished Democrats to be not simply the minority party but the opposition party:
An opposition would use every opportunity it had to demonstrate its resolute stance against the incoming administration. It would do everything in its power to try to seize the public’s attention and make hay of the president-elect’s efforts to put lawlessness at the center of American government. An opposition would highlight the extent to which Donald Trump has no intention of fulfilling his pledge of lower prices and greater economic prosperity for ordinary people and is openly scheming with the billionaire oligarchs who paid for and ran his campaign to gut the social safety net and bring something like Hooverism back from the ash heap of history.
And frankly, if Democrats think democracy is in peril, their leaders should act like it. (“Either democracy was on the ballot in November or it wasn’t,” wrote Bouie. “And if it was, it makes no political, ethical or strategic sense to act as if we live in normal times.”)


Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) understood the role of an opposition party when he vowed to make Barack Obama a one-term president. (McConnell managed to pick up six Senate seats in 2010, as well as a net six governorships and 63 House seats to win back the majority.)
What do I expect Democrats to say? How about this: The nominees and proposals advanced by the president-elect should frighten every American. They will hurt ordinary, hard-working Americans. It’s our job to protect the rights and interests of our constituents. I will do whatever I can to block crackpot nominees and schemes. (If they cannot manage to say something along those lines, then better to say nothing. Democrats should learn when silence is preferable to prostrating themselves before Trump.)
If Democrats eschew “common ground” gibberish, they might get credit when they manage to quash Trump’s nuttiest initiatives. There’s no point in setting up Trump to refashion humiliating defeats as magnanimous acts of compromise when he cannot get his way. Forcing Trump to back down, rather than striving for some mythical middle, would be a good way to rally the party for 2026.


Trump falsely claims he has some overwhelming mandate to accomplish a host of rash, antidemocratic moves. As I (along with many others) have written, he does not. He barely won, in part because many of his voters thought he would not do the radical things he promised. But Democrats do have a mandate: to stop him when they can. Instead of “find common ground,” maybe they should strive to “give no quarter.”

The Pentagon…lol

So the Pentagon comes out and says they just found out we have double the amount of troops in Syria than they thought.
Good management going on it appears

Weird stuff going on in Bennington, NE.

I've seen updates for several days on this story, and it looks like the police are making progress. Multiple people have reported that while driving a night they came upon debris in the road, and had to swerve to avoid hitting it. In one case the driver could not successfully avoid the debris and wound up in a ravine. Each driver reported a man walking up to them after the accident. The immediate speculation being that the man was putting the debris into the road to cause the incidents.
https://www.wowt.com/2024/12/18/sea...estigation-into-bennington-crashes-continues/

Biden commutes most federal death row sentences to life in prison

“Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole,” Biden announced in a statement released Monday.
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Notably, the president did not commute the sentences of three people whose crimes included mass shootings or acts of terrorism: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers responsible for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing in 2013; Dylann Roof, a White nationalist who massacred nine people at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Robert Bowers, who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018.
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The majority of the 37 individuals whose sentences were commuted Monday were convicted for less high-profile offenses, such as murders tied to drug trafficking or the killings of prison guards or other inmates.

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in his statement. “But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

The move comes as opponents of the death penalty are bracing for Trump’s return to the White House. During the 2024 campaign, Trump indicated he would restart federal executions and work to expand the pool of crimes eligible for capital punishment under federal law, which generally allows for the death penalty in cases of murder, espionage and treason.


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Payton's Struggles

At this point, I think it's clear the Payton is struggling this year. He's had a couple of good games, played decently against Northwestern and Michigan, but really fell apart against Utah St and Iowa St. This is supposed to be the leader of the team and right now, he has the 3rd best efficiency rating and is shooting 31% from 3 (27% against top 100 teams). I hope he can turn it around because he might be hurting his draft stock if his season keeps going this way.

Big Ten Men's Scores, Standings and Schedule (12/22)

December 22
#24 Michigan 89, Purdue Fort Wayne 58
Illinois 80, Missouri 77
Wisconsin 76, Detroit Mercy 53
USC 82, Southern 51
Nebraska 66, Murray State 49

Standings
1. Michigan (9-3, 2-0)
1. Michigan State (10-2, 2-0)
1. UCLA (10-2, 2-0)
4. Illinois (8-3, 1-1)
4. Indiana (9-3, 1-1)
4. Iowa (9-3, 1-1)
4. Maryland (10-2, 1-1)
4. Nebraska (8-2, 1-1)
4. Northwestern (9-3, 1-1)
4. Ohio State (8-4, 1-1)
4. Oregon (11-1, 1-1)
4. Penn State (10-2, 1-1)
4. Purdue (8-4, 1-1)
4. Rutgers (7-5, 1-1)
4. USC (9-4, 1-1)
16. Minnesota (7-5, 0-2)
16. Washington (8-3, 0-2)
16. Wisconsin (10-3, 0-2)

Games for Monday, December 23
Seattle at Washington (9:00 PM - BTN)
Nebraska vs. Charlotte/Hawaii (at Honolulu) (9:30 PM - ESPN2)
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