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Wow, way to show that you're hair privileged. I think you mean "follicly challenged."

The color commentator is horrible. He clearly didn't watch any game film of us. An I'm not sure why he's praising MSU's shot blockers for being fifth in the SEC while saying Nebraska doesn't have any rim protectors. Ummm, we had the second most blocks in the B1G, so....

Well I'd certainly rather visit Oxford than Starkville...

So how does this work? Does that mean the game is on now since 8:00 CST = 7:00 CDT?

Tough one to pick, since this is all about who is more motivated rather than who is the better team. I think we play flat. MSU 67 NU 55 0 wins

So you're saying I went 21-9 ATS, 22-8 on Over/Under, and 28-4 on the money line? Dang it, now I wish I had put my money in Vegas rather than my 401(k).

That's unfortunate

Here's the plan: Say all the right things in interviews leading up to the game. Hop on the flight to cousin-kissin' country. Do pre-game warm-ups like normal. Do player introductions like normal. Then, just as the ref is about to throw up the opening tip, the whole team looks straight at the camera, blows a kiss and waves, and quietly walks back to the locker room. Now that's how you say "screw y'all."

In terms of basketball alone, I agree. I miss driving down to KC for the Big XII Tourney and hanging out in the Power & Light District. Plus lots of close road games. Now we've just got Iowa for close road games and the Conference Tourney is in one of the last places on earth I'd ever want to visit.

I REALLY like this pickup. His junior year game film is exceptional. That alone would probably be enough to get me excited about signing Davis. But perhaps even more important is the experience he gained this last year in Florida. It shows that he wanted to challenge himself, rather than just being the biggest fish in a small pond. It gave him an opportunity to compete and learn every day from some of the best high school players in the country. And perhaps most important of all, it gave him a glimpse of college life already by moving away from home. He has essentially lived out what most players experience during their freshman year: learning to live outside the nest and transitioning from "big man on campus" to "just another guy on the team." My guess is he is a year ahead of his appears in the maturation process. I'm stoked!

The NCAA basketball tournament is NOT about crowning the most deserving team in college basketball; if the NCAA really wanted to make sure the best team won the national championship, the format would be totally different. It would look much more like an 8-team double elimination tournament, rather than a 68 team single elimination tournament. What we have instead is a competition designed for maximum entertainment value. As such, when deciding between a more "deserving" bubble team and a "better" bubble team, the Committee should select the "better" team, i.e. the team that passes the eyeball test. This is in stark contrast to the other money-maker sport, college football. With only a 4-team playoff, the format lends itself toward crowning the team that has the best resume over the season's entirety. College football produces merit-based champions, where the best team and most deserving team are often one and the same. College basketball produces a weekend of chaos and maximum entertainment, which sometimes allows the most deserving team or best team to hang a banner (but more often does not). So, how does this tie back to Nebraska? Clearly we are a team that is better than our resume, with talented play-makers all over the court. By virtue of a schedule that saw the Huskers play most top opponents on the road, and allowed a couple deadbeat opponents to drag overall metrics down, and that was blitzkrieged by flopping into the loser's bracket of the holiday tourney, we are not one of the "most deserving" bubble teams. But a bubble team's role isn't supposed to be to compete for a National Title, so why should that matter? Rather, a bubble team's role is to cause chaos and provide entertainment. This Nebraska team is tailor made to do just that.

I'd be stoked to play that no-talent egg-laying Nevada team . Couldn't ask for an easier way of getting that first NCAA Tourney win.

Why not take it a step further? Get a tattoo of that starting lineup above the words "Nebrasketball: 2019 B1G Champs"

Cool. Now we can all go back to arguing over whether Nebraska will sneak into the play-in game in Dayton.

That's a whole different layer of complexity. As part of my job I review company overhead rates, accounting practices, etc and I actually have one public University that I have to review. They have a super weird set of rules, and I don't know how to answer that in a brief way. So for simplicity, let's just say that being a public University does not impact whether this is a free market issue.

I think my last response should answer this. Let me know if not. Competition is not restricted since anyone in the joint venture can leave at any time and compete against the NCAA. Nebraska could convince the whole B1G to leave the NCAA and start a competing collegiate sports organization, and they would be well within their rights to pay players in that new association. But if you want NCAA benefits, then you play by NCAA rules.

Here's what I think you're conceptually missing. Nebraska isn't the business, the NCAA is. Sports associations have legally been determined (in multiple courts, in multiple states) to be joint ventures. What this means is that Nebraska is a business partner with Ohio State and Iowa U, not a business competitor. That's not my opinion. That's the opinion of a bunch of judges who are way smarter than me, and is a fact based on case law.

Whether players should be paid is a matter of opinion. You're entitled to disagree on that. Whether it is a violation of free market principles is not a matter of opinion though, it factually is not. Your argument that players should be paid whatever a NCAA-competing school wants to pay because "free market, yay!" is the logical equivalent of saying you're a Husker fan because you like that green is the school's color.

No, not for disagreeing with me. For demonstrating a complete inability to understand what free market means. We already had this discussion a couple weeks ago. And for the record, I was an econ and finance double major.

Take a couple econ classes and you won't disagree anymore.

Dang it, I should've read the rest of the thread before responding to him. Basically said the same thing as you.

Cool. Then start your own league and pay players. You can try and recruit the best players straight out of high school and compete against the NCAA for viewership.

Of course

Dom would've walked in the offseason as a free agent anyways. But yeah, I have to think that if SKC had held onto him through the end of the year we could've parted ways with Dwyer while hoisting a trophy. I'm intrigued by playing Salloi as a false 9. Hopefully he gets some opportunities while Shelton is hurt, because Rubio sucks. Thought the new Scottish left winger showed some promise too, although he kind of dribbles like a bull in a China shop.

Totally off-topic Swoof, but our soccer teams both crapped the bed yesterday. Ouch. Not a great way to start the year. At least your boys were able to score a goal to make it interesting in the second half.