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Return to Husker Football Glory?!?
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Tom Osborne will be announced as the interim Athletic Director at the University of Nebraska in a press conference later today. Does this mark a return to glory for the football program? I definitely hope so.
Tom Osborne and Bob Devaney defined what Nebraska Football was and in many people’s minds; what Husker Football should be. Tom was head coach at UNL for 25 years winning 3 national championships in his last four years. Under Tom the football team was always in the hunt but just couldn’t seem to get it done until Tom’s last few years.
Now with Osborne as AD what does that mean for Callahan? I have heard that Tom was not happy with the hiring of Callahan, so now with the Football program in shambles does Tom make a move, I think yes. I believe that Callahan will be forced to make some coaching changes and I have heard that Charlie McBride in among the names for the Defensive Coordinator position for the end of the season and that Callahan will be fired after the Colorado game.
So if Callahan is let go, who will be the next coach at UNL? Turner Gill, Tom Rathman, Monte Kiffin? Not sure but I hope it is someone with a sense of the traditions of Nebraska Football.
Let me know what you think, should Tom stay, if not who do you think would be a good fit? Should Callahan be fired and if so who should replace him?Labels: Football
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Time to fire a couch
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So Pederson gave Callahan a new contract and then Callahan goes on to have a season that looks a lot like the season before Solich got fired. If Callahan is such a great recruiter why is it that our defense can't stop anyone? Where are all these recruits?
I think it is time for chancellor Perlman to step down, Pederson to be fired along with Callahan. Maybe we can get Solich back, at least he has been on a National Championship coaching staff.
The three men who may have ruined Nebraska Football, Chancellor Harvey Perlman who hired Pederson and let him fire Frank Solich after hiring a whole new coaching staff. Funny, Bo Pelini is couching the hell out of that LSU defense and we can't stop anyone.
Steve Pederson, the AD that came to Nebraska and destroyed 50+ years of tradition. I don't know, 5 National Championships under the old system, but I guess that 5 was to large a number for Steve to count.
Bill Callahan, the man who is such a coaching genius that he got rolled in a Superbowl because he didn't change his play calls. This guy is said to be a great recruiter but all his top recruits end up playing for other colleges. He hasn't won a big game since taking over and has had his 4 years and the team looks worse in some cases than it did under Solich.
I have an idea, lets coach and recruit some defense. All the defensive coachs should be fired ASAP.Labels: Football
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The History of My Love for Cars
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As long as I can remember the sight of a Corvette, Ferrari or Lamborghini has always been an exciting experience for me. Growing up in rual Nebraska there weren’t a lot of exotic cars. I grew up with stories of my father’s ‘55 and ’57 Chevy’s. My uncle’s 56 Chevy. The stories of racing on Saturday nights with the cops blocking off the road so the kids had somewhere to do it safely. My grandfather always worked in a shop. Always was working on his car, little things, big things. I grew up going to see him at the shop he worked at and being totally amazed at the machines in the garage. I grew up with all the stories. That is where it all started for me. I knew I needed a fast car.
Anyway, I started reading car magazines. I would memorize the stats of each car. My best friend Pascal also loved cars and we would go back and forth about which car was the best. It was a lot of fun actually.
When I turned 16 I expected to have a ’67 Chevelle with a 350, but I ended up driving my mother’s ’88 Caviler. Not my idea of the car I should have had at that time. At 18 my parents bought me my first car and the only car they would buy me, thank god! I got an ’86 Red Camaro. Problem with this car is it only had a V-6 and wasn’t much faster than my mother’s Caviler. My father wouldn’t let me have anything faster and being the kid I was I didn’t fight him much. Good thing, I promptly wrecked it. I was chasing one of my buddies around a left hand corner and started to spin into traffic going the other way, I over corrected and spun the other way onto the sidewalk and drilled an adopt a mile sign with the left front quarter panel. I went home and told my dad thinking I was dead. Just made sure I was ok and we got the car fixed. I did a number on that car though. Flattened 3 out of four tires bent the frame plus some descent body damage.
I drove that car for a long time. I got it in 93 and drove it till 2001. My next car I had a total of a month and a half. I got a raise at my first real job. Enough I could afford a new car, so I went down and bought a brand new 2001 Camaro. I got it fully loaded, but again it had a V-6. Well I was driving to work one morning and went under a bridge. Right where it went from light to dark there was something lying in the road. I swerved to miss it and then swerved back to get off at my exit. Well when I swerved back the rear end slid out and I hit the side of the tunnel head on at about 70 MPH. It shortened the car up about 2 feet. Flipped it back into traffic, bent the hood up high enough you couldn’t see over it from inside the car and when the air bags went off it blew the windshield out of the frame. The cop that showed up told me to drive it up off the freeway. I told him to look at the car, I didn’t think it would run. But to my surprise it did. I popped the T-Top up sat on the back of the driver’s seat and drove it off the freeway. I walked away with no injuries.
While they were trying to decide if they were going to total the car or not, I was driving my parents brand new Trailblazer to work and rear ended another car. It was a bad month for my driving.
Well the insurance company finally decided to total my Camaro and I got a check and went down to buy my next new car. This time I got a 2001 Z28 Camaro. My dad was so upset, he thought I wreck the other one because I couldn’t handle the power. I told people I got a Z28 because I didn’t hit the wall hard enough. I drove that car for 5 years. Got rear ended in it twice, but luckily I never hit anything in it.
After all of those Camaro’s I didn’t know what my next car would be. GM stopped making Camaro’s so that was out of the question. I got a big raise at work and decided I needed something nicer.
I sat at my favorite hangout one night with a few of my friends and talked about what I wanted for a car. Everything from a Lotus Elise, BMW M3 and many, many other cars. I mentioned I always wanted a Corvette and the C6 Corvette Z06 just came out. I got a ton of shit from the girls. I went to work the next day and started making calls. Dealers wanted $150,000 for the car. I couldn’t do that. I went to a dealer that I had done some work for and they made me a deal that looking back on it was kind of a bad deal but I made it work.
The deal was that I would buy a 2006 Corvette Coupe. I could order it however I wanted. Doing so they would jump me to first on the list for a 2007 Z06 Corvette, I said ok. I got my Corvette Coupe in November 2005. I was scared to death of that car. It was a 6 speed. I didn’t know how to drive stick, my cousin Josh taught me to drive it in the parking lot of our office. Nice car to learn to drive stick in. I left it at work 2 nights then I finally got the balls to drive it home. That was the last time I left that car anywhere except the dealership.
I feel in love with that car as soon as I drove it. I took it with my cousin Josh out of the parking lot and hammered the foot feed as we came out. The car just stuck and launched like a rocket. My cousin Josh said he had never seen a bigger smile on my face.
Well I learned to drive the car well enough to run the tires off the car. The worst thing GM could have done to that car for me was put a G meter in the heads up display. The G meter tells you how many time the force of gravity you are pulling as you corner. I got it up to .9 G’s. It was the most fun I have ever had in a car.
I took it to my parents house to show my Dad. He has always wanted a Corvette. We stood in the drive way forever and messed with the car. He was actually pretty proud of me. I was pretty proud of myself as well.
7 months later the dealership called and said it was time to order my Z06. I was freaking out. This is where they tried to screw me. How many people could afford to buy a new car less than a year after buying a new car? I was upside down in my Coupe as pretty much anybody would be unless you paid cash, which I didn’t. I had a plan though.
So I went down to the dealership and loaded my Z06 out. I went to my parent’s house and my Dad and I made a deal that when my new Corvette showed he would take my “old” Corvette. Well my new Corvette showed up quick!
About a month and a half later I drove down to the dealership late one night and checked it out. It still had all the stuff on it from transport. My new Z06 was the most beautiful car I had ever seen. I did all the paper work that night, put down every cent I had on it and came back the next day and picked it up.
If I was scared of my Coupe, this one was terrifying. More than 100 Hp more, but I got it back to the office nicely, stood in the parking lot taking pictures of my two Corvettes side by side, I should say both cars are bright yellow. I must have stood there for over an hour. I had to eventually go back inside and get some work done. But shortly the rides started. Pretty much everybody in the office.
I took the Coupe up to my Dad that weekend after spending 3 hours detailing it for him. I am not sure I have seen him quite so happy with a car. He buys more stuff for that car. It is really nice to see him happy with something like that.
Well the Z06 is the latest car I have bought. I can’t imagine driving anything else. Lost only one race in it, it is ok, the car the beat me cost 5 times what my Z06 did.
I don’t know, but I have always loved cars. The ability to have a machine that can go so fast, change direction in an instant. I love it.
Don’t know why I love it so much, I think it is in my genes, but I do.Labels: Cars and Racing
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Moguling.com
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Labels: Blogging, Technology
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Gas Prices
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Ok, so the American people are getting screwed by the gas companies and our government. Prices are way up because the gas companies are scared that there will be a shortage. Which is looking like it won't happen. Also prices are up because the oil companies have been raking in profits and not re-investing in their equipment. They let thing go till they break then it cost the American people because the oil companies have to jump into crisis mode and fix shit.
We need more refineries and actually need to get some new E-85 and E-100 refineries and cars.
I was watching a show on the history chanel and they were saying that Coors Brewing produces the most ethanol of any company in the US. I don't know where all of that is going, but it definately isn't going into our cars. They also had a stat about the number of E-85 stations in Chicago which was something like 85 and 0 in LA. Funny how that works. Where are gas prices highest in the US, oh yeah LA, why put and E-85 in LA where the oil companies are just raking it in?
Why is our government letting these companies kill the US economy? All it would take is a little matanience on the oil companies part to keep prices down a ton, and build 2 new refineries and all the sudden, guess what, the price of gas is below $2 again. All the refineries which are running at 89% right now according to reports I have read, the government is saying they should be running at 95%, but why when the oil companies can run the price up? But 2 new refineries and the current ones don't have to run as high and if there is an issue it won't effect supply nearly as much.
I personally am tired of being railroaded by the oil companies and our government doing nothing about it. At some point the people of this nation has to be a higher priority than big business making big money.
The new goal since oil is getting to expensive, get the American public hooked on ethanol. That way the oil companies can keep stealing form people.
E-85 would be good for America though. Farmers would be back to making money, not that they don't now. Goverment subsidies to farmers should be lower because there is no reason to leave a field bare to keep prices up, so our tax dollars won't be needed there.
Oil and the oil companies are bad for the American people as they are currently run. In the US it is supposed to be illegal to run a cartel or to price fix. Isn't that what the oil companies are doing?
I don't know, but personally I am fed up with it all. Labels: Cars and Racing
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