Jake

Bass has looked alright, getting in the backfield a bit

Cutler 16/23 with 229 yards gets booed Bears fans are the f***ing worst.

We've looked totally clueless since getting near the endzone

Somehow nobody knew what play was being run

The fact that they called his return questionable makes me hopeful that the on-field tests didn't scream torn ACL

Looks very similar to Melton injury

Cliff should be going to Illinois because

4 total yards for Giovani Bernard so far

Unaccceptable breakdown

Huge drive

Major Wright can't let that ball get caught

Forte and Bushrod trying to get Cutler killed

Looks like Saints are the team having the most trouble with footing

I don't know why anyone would think to compare Robin Ventura and Dusty Baker, short of the fact that they both have managed Chicago baseball teams

Not sure if anyone will know him, but tomorrow I will be eating lunch with conservative philosopher Roger Scruton. I'm pretty excited.

I think it is fair to cheer for opposing kicker when he's on your fantasy team

Nobody -- QB, OL, RB -- knew he was coming

Forte....

Call me crazy, but I'm starting Phillip Rivers over Cam Newton

I think we need to toss out the binary of failure or success. She clearly is not an example of a success of the mental health system or a full-on success of the criminal justice system (we didn't REALLY want to kill her if we didn't have to). That doesn't mean that it was a failure by either of those institutions. We should be able to look for improvement without assuming there is something bad about the thing we are hoping to improve.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 6, 2013 -> 07:14 AM) BTW, those students assisting professors on patent-able research projects, and the professors, also have made billions for universities. me! me! we do that because we get a degree at the end.

I'm an Illini fan so I guess I mostly make sense. I used to be a big Duke fan for bball, and I still like them, and my reasoning was that I liked an elite academic school being so good in athletics. Now I just don't really care that much, it's not like the team is filled with Rhodes scholars

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 5, 2013 -> 12:25 PM) OK, Notre Dame haters, I'm going to serve one up on a platter for you: One discussion board I belong to is a professional board for ND alums. I've been getting hammered on there for blaming the Republican House for the shutdown. I pointed out that my family was without 100% of our income and one of the irreversible effects is having to 'furlough' our babysitter during the shutdown. One response: "You're lying. If you need a babysitter then your wife is working and you aren't losing 100% of your income. If your wife isn't working then you don't need a babysitter." I'm guessing Soxtalk can outsmart the ND alum and figure out at least one circumstance where my wife is neither gainfully employed nor available to take care of the kids. You talked it about it earlier -

I still think we're seriously undervaluing what it means to go to college for free. I'm happy to make some tweaks, increase some benefits, but I don't think they should be getting compensated like professionals. They are getting a tremendous benefit already. I think we should make sure they can make the most of the value of being in college, but I'm not particularly fond of turning college students into a college's highest paid employees. I think it harms the student community. People often don't like the special privileges given to athletes, but knowing that the athletes are doing something that ends up benefiting the school in general usually evens things out. Turning college students into free market assets is not what college is about, IMO.

People from within the system during Kenny's time as GM have talked about the problems - they not only had to identify the best players, they had to find the best ones they could afford. Mix that in with the normal high probability that guys don't work out, and stuff probably won't work out. Kenny has never been highly involved in scouting as GM, though, especially in terms of amateur talent.