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Ever since high school...I've rather preferred eating pies!

I kinda like bar graphs about my favorite pies!

And the other 10% were practicing for beating traffic during basketball season?

“He’s like Moses, loaded all the animals into the Ark and has everyone headed the same direction.” Moses? Forget it, he’s rolling.

Standhardinger, is that you?

I and HB and a few others have been beating the drum about how not extending Miles' contract has hurt us in recruiting. If you were to plug in 2019 commits, it would graphically illustrate what we've been concerned about.

Way. The grey line for talent shows us at 11th for the coming season. I don't buy it either.

Let's be real. There are two dirty players involved. Can't believe the second one didn't draw a flag. You have the guy on the ground who tackled AM to begin with and he's twisting the leg, but the other guy, #53, comes in for a very late hit after AM is clearly down. And that's probably the injury. Guy on ground holding his leg while other guy comes in and lays into the defenseless player who's already "down." It was that late hit that made his leg bend the wrong way. It's like "you hold him while I hit him." Which makes the personal foul on our defense right before their go-ahead score all the more infuriating.

Depends on the JUCO late-add to the roster, Dedoch Chan. We'll have to wait & see. If I had to speculate, I'd say that there's a 45% chance he plays. 100% chance he wears #45.

My eyes hurt

Exactly. This coaching staff is not taking its foot off the gas pedal until it's in victory formation. The rule changes over the past several years favor offense and favor aggressive teams (see the penalty on Reed that wouldn't have been a penalty several years ago as an easy example). Even if NU tries to burn clock there, CU still would've had plenty of time to score, especially just needing a field goal. Remember, they still had a timeout remaining after they scored. They could've just used that timeout while we were trying to burn clock. When playing teams that are used to playing fast, giving a team the ball at its 25 with 60-90 seconds remaining is an eternity in today's game, even if they have no timeouts, especially when they'd just need a field goal. Hell, we moved the ball 40-45 yards down the field pretty easily in about 40 seconds with a backup QB who was taking the 4th D-1 game snap of his life at the start of the drive ... and we had a timeout still on the board when we reached the 20-yd line. Unless you have an elite defense, give me an aggressive offense every time in today's college game. So late in the game, I think teams have really changed their thinking regarding managing clock on offense from what traditionally has occurred. What's better than worrying about burning clock is just not giving the ball back. When Martinez went out, we either needed a couple of first downs to ice the game or a defensive stop, so I have no issue with them staying aggressive and focusing on trying to convert the first down in the most natural way for their offense, rather than worrying about the clock. Without at least one first down on our part, CU was going to have plenty of time whether we tried to burn clock or not. Once we get to a spot in a game under 2 minutes where burning clock will actually matter, I'd imagine we'll play it far differently. And completely agree about feeling very positive after that game. Can't remember feeling so positive about a loss since maybe the 2009 Texas game (after calming down about the 1 second fiasco) or the 2008 Texas Tech game that we lost in OT down there when they were ranked in the Top 10. Lots and lots of positives, and the mistakes/negatives are fixable. Football is fun again. Basketball is fun again. I like it.

I figured it was the entire state of Iowa sucking....

I would guess that it depends on what the coaches think of the abilities of Dedoch and Tanner to contribute this year and whether or not they think Brady can contribute this year. We definitely won't know until well after practice has started. Personally, I think he redshirts this year.

2021 seems so far from now.. For god's sake this kid still has braces.

My best guess would be 60/40 in favor of a redshirt at this point.. Those odds were probably 80/20 when he first stepped on campus in June.

I would argue many of the years you are blaming on " mistakes" were times we just sucked. Even in our good years we made a lot of mistakes in the first game. Not always enough to lose, but we often played cupcakes, unlike this week. Not playing the Akron game was huge. Ultimately whether we lose Martinez for a long period of time will have a greater impact on the season losing this game.

I wasn't able to upgrade at all... I'm just thrilled I still have a seat.