Was Patrick Ryan Wrong?

[Turk_rivals223269]

Dropping millions on the practice facility and declaring "If we will build it they will come" has been a failure.

Unfortunately, thats only in the movies.

Now, God bless him, Mr Ryan is doubling down on his investment and dropped hundreds of millions on his namesake stadium.

But will all the cosmetic changes and plastic surgery of this program be enough to finally attract more than 2 or more combine level athletes a year?

Will the dictatorship of Fitz be allowed to sabatoge the program due to the Problem of Fitz? He is keeping JON even when a fool would know he needs to watch him go.

Why does fitz have sole and exclusive power?
Fans wanna know

 

[Rebel_]

Dropping millions on the practice facility and declaring "If we will build it they will come" has been a failure.

Unfortunately, thats only in the movies.

Now, God bless him, Mr Ryan is doubling down on his investment and dropped hundreds of millions on his namesake stadium.

But will all the cosmetic changes and plastic surgery of this program be enough to finally attract more than 2 or more combine level athletes a year?

Will the dictatorship of Fitz be allowed to sabatoge the program due to the Problem of Fitz? He is keeping JON even when a fool would know he needs to watch him go.

Why does fitz have sole and exclusive power?
Fans wanna know

For sure! We need to run the program like Alabama, Clemson, and The Ohio State University. Because they would never let the coach be the final arbitrary source of decision making in regard to their football programs!

 

[cattul]

The Cats are, what? Six games removed from the B1G‘s annual “Ohio State Invitational” end-of-season match in Indy?

Some of the NFL’s top rookies played for NU?

Yeah, chicken little.

The sky is simply plummeting!

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What I assume/expect/hope from this bye week:
- “back to camp” message…focus on fundamentals
- “every position open”…how could the competition not be open?
- simplify the defense. Stop trying to trick people. Hit them.

 

[phatcat_rivals223240]

The Cats are, what? Six games removed from the B1G‘s annual “Ohio State Invitational” end-of-season match in Indy?

Some of the NFL’s top rookies played for NU?

Yeah, chicken little.

The sky is simply plummeting!

———

What I assume/expect/hope from this bye week:
- “back to camp” message…focus on fundamentals
- “every position open”…how could the competition not be open?
- simplify the defense. Stop trying to trick people. Hit them.

I nominate Cattul for DC. for this part.

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

I nominate Cattul for DC.

I nominate Turk. Fans wanna know!

 

[Aging Booster]

I nominate Turk. Fans wanna know!

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

 

[Purple Pile Driver]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

Didn’t think my swipe at Turk would resort to Rant Board resurrection.

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

Oh the ole "Masses are the problem" trick. Let's just go full blown commie right now. Sheesh!

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

Didn’t think my swipe at Turk would resort to Rant Board resurrection.

Pay no attention to ole grumpy dude. Your comment was fine. Give me a break, this is a sorta coffee house with us all in it. If aging had his way, he would mitigate most of us with mandates so we couldn't post.

 

[PurpleWhiteBoy]

Oh the ole "Masses are the problem" trick. Let's just go full blown commie right now. Sheesh!

No offense, Turk, but it is the capitalists who say "the masses are the problem."
The "commies" say "the people with all the money and power are the problem."

 

[Hungry Jack]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

And Facebook sucks

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

No offense, Turk, but it is the capitalists who say "the masses are the problem."
The "commies" say "the people with all the money and power are the problem."

No offense taken. Kindly consider the expression of speech or figure of speech.

 

[phatcat_rivals223240]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

Private or not, unless they want to play privately (i.e., no fans), they should have a little respect for their audience. This isn't field hockey. Tens of thousands go to the game and spend money, and hundreds of thousands more watch remotely. It's one thing to be secretive (injuries, etc). It's another to just not give a sh1te about the fans.

 

[Arlcatsfan]

Dropping millions on the practice facility and declaring "If we will build it they will come" has been a failure.

Unfortunately, thats only in the movies.

Now, God bless him, Mr Ryan is doubling down on his investment and dropped hundreds of millions on his namesake stadium.

But will all the cosmetic changes and plastic surgery of this program be enough to finally attract more than 2 or more combine level athletes a year?

Will the dictatorship of Fitz be allowed to sabatoge the program due to the Problem of Fitz? He is keeping JON even when a fool would know he needs to watch him go.

Why does fitz have sole and exclusive power?
Fans wanna know

I believe Fitz has as much power as he does is because he has earned it.He stuck around at NU when he had viable opportunities to leave the program.How would that have been for NU if he left for Michigan or another school.Everyone on this board would be calling him a traitor.Other schools would say see NU Can’t even keep one of there own.Other than Wiscy,Iowa and the Cats What other programs from the West have gone to the BT Championship game.He has built a good program.Ups and downs for sure ,however besides dOSU who hasn’t had been up and down.Is he perfect of course not.Too secretive absolutely.But Fitz is at the helm and NU is better for it.

 

[CatManTrue]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

Okay, fine, I’m getting off your lawn.

 

[Gocatsgo2003]

Dropping millions on the practice facility and declaring "If we will build it they will come" has been a failure.

Unfortunately, thats only in the movies.

Now, God bless him, Mr Ryan is doubling down on his investment and dropped hundreds of millions on his namesake stadium.

But will all the cosmetic changes and plastic surgery of this program be enough to finally attract more than 2 or more combine level athletes a year?

Will the dictatorship of Fitz be allowed to sabatoge the program due to the Problem of Fitz? He is keeping JON even when a fool would know he needs to watch him go.

Why does fitz have sole and exclusive power?
Fans wanna know

You’re not even a funny or entertaining troll anymore.

 

[cattul]

I nominate Cattul for DC. for this part.

Having exhausted my wisdom, I’m sure I will not be considered (unless I fail upwardly to almost Kiffinesque proportions.)

I will say that my elevator pitch for hiring me as OC, instead, wouldn’t be much different. Stop trying to be so tricky. Hit someone. (That shaky NU goal line sequence was easily lost in the flood of Nebraska golden memories, but next time, please act like a Big Ten team and punch the ball in from one foot out. If you can’t, you hardly deserve to win anyway.)

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

I believe Fitz has as much power as he does is because he has earned it.He stuck around at NU when he had viable opportunities to leave the program.How would that have been for NU if he left for Michigan or another school.Everyone on this board would be calling him a traitor.Other schools would say see NU Can’t even keep one of there own.Other than Wiscy,Iowa and the Cats What other programs from the West have gone to the BT Championship game.He has built a good program.Ups and downs for sure ,however besides dOSU who hasn’t had been up and down.Is he perfect of course not.Too secretive absolutely.But Fitz is at the helm and NU is better for it.

The 2 coaches before him won 3 bigten championships in half the time. Fitz is full of hot air.
Look, if you support madness of keeping JON then you are part of the problem. Nothing wrong with that provided you are embracing the suck until he fires his terrible buddy.

NU owes Fitz nothing. It is paying him 12x what Walker made. His recruiting has blowed. He has a $500 million practice facility, walker had a ditch behind W/R.

 

[StreamCat]

You’re not even a funny or entertaining troll anymore.

Says the guy who’s a laugh a decade.

 

[StreamCat]

Look, if you support madness of keeping JON then you are part of the problem.

Right, because what we say, goes.

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

Right, because what we say, goes.

What we say matters. Fitz has monitors on social media and he often mentions fans in a negative punching bag way.
Fans matter and what we say on social media matters more now than ever.

 

[Arlcatsfan]

The 2 coaches before him won 3 bigten championships in half the time. Fitz is full of hot air.
Look, if you support madness of keeping JON then you are part of the problem. Nothing wrong with that provided you are embracing the suck until he fires his terrible buddy.

NU owes Fitz nothing. It is paying him 12x what Walker made. His recruiting has blowed. He has a $500 million practice facility, walker had a ditch behind W/R.

First off no one supports this hot mess we have seen so far from our D.If this continues I expect a change will be made. To compare the championships the 95,96 and 2000 teams won is not comparable because the criteria for winning the Big is completely different now then it was back then.Not one of those teams played Ohio State and only the great 95 team won the conference outright. As far as NU owing Fitz,well loyalty is a two-way street.The compensation he receives and the much needed facility upgrades are the price of doing business if NU wants to be relevant in this crazy arms race called college football.Fitz ain’t perfect but he is not as bad as some people think he is.

 

[NREPP Fraud]

Dropping millions on the practice facility and declaring "If we will build it they will come" has been a failure.

Unfortunately, thats only in the movies.

Now, God bless him, Mr Ryan is doubling down on his investment and dropped hundreds of millions on his namesake stadium.

But will all the cosmetic changes and plastic surgery of this program be enough to finally attract more than 2 or more combine level athletes a year?

Will the dictatorship of Fitz be allowed to sabatoge the program due to the Problem of Fitz? He is keeping JON even when a fool would know he needs to watch him go.

Why does fitz have sole and exclusive power?
Fans wanna know

A couple points Turk, my bff. Ryan doesn’t get taxed on his donations! Both Ryan and NU, a non profit benefit greatly by their tax exemption status. Fitz is a coaching genius and legend!

 

[Turk_rivals223269]

A couple points Turk, my bff. Ryan doesn’t get taxed on his donations! Both Ryan and NU, a non profit benefit greatly by their tax exemption status. Fitz is a coaching genius and legend!

Doesnt matter if he did. NU is his passion and no doubt he gives cheerfully and wishes the program the best.
You always need someone to dress up the Christmas Tree. But the cosmetics dont make them come. Lipstick on a pig?
Fans wanna know

 

[zeek55]

Doubt there's ever going to be a better time for our wealthy alumni to give to the university than now (coming off a 50% rise in equities since the pandemic) if they're handling estate planning matters or want to lock in profit.

Average billionaire in Pat Ryan's range (the $2-10 billion bracket) probably saw their net worths increase by 30-50% at least the past 2 years.

Ryan himself probably made at least 4 times the number that he's gifting to the university ($480 million).

 

[NJCat]

Doubt there's ever going to be a better time for our wealthy alumni to give to the university than now (coming off a 50% rise in equities since the pandemic) if they're handling estate planning matters or want to lock in profit.

Average billionaire in Pat Ryan's range (the $2-10 billion bracket) probably saw their net worths increase by 30-50% at least the past 2 years.

Ryan himself probably made at least 4 times the number that he's gifting to the university ($480 million).

"average billionaire".......LOL

 

[zeek55]

"average billionaire".......LOL

20 or 30 years ago, it'd have been weird to say when they were a small group, but now there's 700+ alone in the US with roughly $5 trillion in assets.
And that's just people that are known, I'd venture there's a lot of unknown billionaires as well whose data is completely off the radar.

 

[Jaguar 88]

Fans have no right to know! One of the major problems we face as a society is that people no longer know their place. For generations, parents told their kids that anyone could grow up to be President and used the example of Lincoln to buttress that conclusion. But, grandiose dreams were always tempered by the recognition, sometimes implicit but oftentimes explicit, that talent, hard work, and some luck were needed to succeed. In addition, people respected and deferred to elders, experts, bosses, police, and political leaders. The first rule of success in any business context was "make your boss look good". Today, people with no knowledge, training, expertise, or skill berate those more educated, sophisticated, well-trained, and expert than they; they have no respect for authority and no recognition of their true place in society. They are delusional, and computers and boards such as this encourage their delusions. Wanting to know does not create a right to know. I for one, champion private schools' freedom to privacy, coaches' authority, and recognizing that relative ignorance should encourage relative silence.

Really? People need to shut up and let their so called betters rape not only them but the rest them of the nation blind with countless boondoggles and outright theft? This nation has let a bunch of spoiled brats and grifters lead us to the cusp of economic oblivion, and your grandkids and great grandkids will be paying for it after we are all dead. These are our betters? As for fans wanting to know what is going on with their team, they do have a right to know, as their hard earned money is what is making the whole enterprise tick. Without their attendance at the games or watching at home, buying merchandise, what would be the point of fielding a team? You want to make the Wildcats more relevant? Expand the fan base, and the best way to do that is to win. Those in charge are under no obligation to say anything, but it would be unwise to ignore the fans. The fan base is small enough already, why ignore them and lose fans? I used to be a passionate Washington Redskins fan, but the lunacy, and disregard for fans erased the passion I had, while the name change killed my interest altogether. The program needs all the support it can from the little guy, for without them putting their butts in the seats or watching at home, helping to drive up viewership, and increasing media coverage of the program, there can be no growth of the brand.