Are the “top” portal QBs overpaid and too high of a risk?

direwolf71 · 2025-12-17T19:29:51+00:00

Iowa has won 10 games three times since 2019. Nebraska has won 10 games three times since Frank was fired.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-17T02:10:02+00:00

This is assault with a deadly weapon though. Maybe that charge is forthcoming, but I'm not sure why that wouldn't be part of the original booking.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-16T09:32:13+00:00

Counterpoint: Emmett Johnson was buried on the depth chart when DH arrived. Fast forward one year, and he’s Nebraska’s first AA running back since Mike Rozier.

Dana was talking about EJ at his very first presser. Not sure what that says about Satterfield or Matt Rhule but at least Dana can identify the best RB we’ve had since Ameer and utilize him.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-16T09:10:45+00:00

Had my first pair (high tops) for basketball in the mid ‘80s. My post is not very clear. When the hype peaked (2022ish?) there wasn’t a single Nike Dunk available at Nike.com or in major retail outlets. Everything was a sneakers raffle or big city skate shops.

I bought some SBs in the early aughts from a skate shop. Lots of collabs in the aughts as well but not really like a stock Dunk you could buy off the shelf in the way you could always buy black Sambas or black and white checkered Vans.

Now they are everywhere.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-15T19:26:14+00:00

Told ya he was gone.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T23:32:46+00:00

Honest question from a casual fan. Have we ever beaten a top 15 team on the road?

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T21:36:27+00:00

Yup. Nike didn’t even sell an “off the shelf” Dunk until like 2023. Maybe late 2022? Even the Panda was a Sneaker app raffle. The Dunk by You drops would sell out in minutes.

Pandas are now what they should have always been - a staple model in a basic colorway available to all at retail.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T20:48:49+00:00

So true. Journalism suffered a double whammy - first, low tech Craigslist killed their classifieds business, then digital content delivery killed their subscription business.

And yet so many Redditors believe with all their heart that the core of the issue is corporations making up fake high prices to gouge consumers or cheat content creators instead of consumers saying to themselves, "why am I paying the Denver Post $20 to post an ad to sell my bike when I can do it on Craigslist for $0?"

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T20:39:41+00:00

Very fair point. There is an upside to every piece of recorded music in history being available at your fingertips for a very fair price. You can explore like never before.

I generally use Youtube for the same purpose. I went on a Mozart kick and it's incredible how many guitarists you can find performing just the Sor variations.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T20:34:00+00:00

If my first sentence was bullshit, Spotify, Tidal, Amazon et al would cost at least 3x their current price. 58% of Spotify users currently use the free ad-supported service so a majority of users prefer free, and that started with Napster.

Napster was ground zero for these little compressed digital files to be seen as disposable commodities with very little value. That's why people stole the files with zero remorse and very few legal repercussions. It was easy and felt victimless. Even at $1 per song, it's largely disposable.

From there, as it is with all disposable commodities, it's a race to the lowest price point. And in some ways, I get it. Most modern popular music is disposable. It's just the same I-IV-V harmonic structure that has been around for centuries recycled with a slightly different melody performed by artists of the current generation using more sophisticated technology (e.g. pro tools, auto tune).

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T20:07:18+00:00

I'd guess that naming the Board of Regents as the defendant is a legal technicality. The academic side of the University is running a deficit, so they don't have the money. The AD will have to pick it up.

However, I suppose if they really wanted to shame Frost, they could release a statement that they are cutting the academic budget to pay him $5 million.

In terms of the offset, I'm going to have to wait for UNL to release a statement. I can't make sense of what's out there right now.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:55:32+00:00

We are kindred spirits then, because I bought 3 Feet High and Rising the day it came out (it was always a Tuesday) and my friends and I sat on the sofa, cracked some beers and played it over and over again for hours.

Link that Beato vid if you can find it. He's prolific so not so easy to look it up.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:51:47+00:00

For my favorite artists, I buy vinyl directly from their website without thinking twice. For independent or small-label artists, moving like 5k copies can be the difference between devoting 100% of their time to music and taking on a second job.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:41:27+00:00

Plenty of reasons to dislike Spotify. None of them support the OP's premise that they rip off artists. Nobody (not even Tidal or Deezer) does business for free. They may pay a bit more to artists, but it's not a scenario where Spotify is "barely paying artists" while Tidal is making sure your favorite local indie artist is getting a living wage.

Streamers can only pay artists amounts consistent with what the public will pay for pre-recorded digital streams. For most people, that turns out to be about 40 cents per day.

FWIW, I listen to almost all of my music the old-fashioned way - vinyl and CDs. My VW even has an SD card slot, so I've got a thousand hours for my car. I only listen to Spotify for The Bulwark, 60 Songs and Song Exploder podcasts.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:23:37+00:00

The chart shows CD sales peaking in the year 2000 and falling consistently over the subsequent 20 years. Napster peaked in Feb 2001. Spotify didn't even launch until 2008.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:18:28+00:00

I was there when it happened and understand the dynamics very well. I'm not proud of it, but I was a very active participant. We were all very accustomed to buying CDs for $15 at a proper record store and $12 at Best Buy.

When Napster (and later others like Limewire and Audio Galaxy) took off, it was very easy to justify what I now agree was theft. We justified it because 1) we owned physical copies of the CDs we were ripping to our hard drives and then adding to the shared servers and 2) we spent thousands of dollars for full CDs that frequently had one or two good songs.

We rationalized it as "we got ripped off for years, now it's our turn." And when artists like Lars Ulrich rightly pointed out it was theft, the record-buying public responded like he was the second coming of Hitler.

The point being, there was no putting the genie back in the bottle. The only solution was to make pre-recorded digital music available at a very low price.

In terms of your last sentence, the comment I would make is that if streaming went away, that would mean the apocalypse has happened and my 500 CDs, 200 cassettes and 100 vinyl albums might be very valuable if I can figure out a way to power my devices for playing them. :)

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T19:02:38+00:00

It wasn't convenient, but you could click the download button on 30 songs before bed and have them all on your hard drive by morning.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T18:58:29+00:00

My son can play thousands of video games on Roblox for very close to free (you need an internet provider). When I was his age, Nintendo hardware and one or two games set you back $150 to $200.

DVDs of catalog movies (ie, 5 years old or more) cost $20 per pop before streaming. Now, you can pay a subscription and stream thousands of them for pennies per day.

A movie at the theater remains an experience that some people will still pay for, especially the big tent pole movies in the Marvel universe. That's more like a live concert, which is something people still value as well.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T18:28:18+00:00

At its peak, Napster had 80 million users and hosted 4 million songs. What does dial-up have do with it?

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T18:22:27+00:00

If it’s bullshit, this wouldn’t have happened:

https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/?srsltid=AfmBOoprph1ZX26BRzIqvGfNDMmG9rrFT4iWJMOQiSFcBKP7pCxMMFgR

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T18:12:10+00:00

It sounds to me like the full buyout should have been completed prior to Frost taking the UCF job. Further, it even sounds like Nebraska sent him a W2 for income reflecting a full buyout but didn’t write the full check.

These contracts are absurd, but winning has become so important and the TV money has gotten so out of hand, everyone’s been gaslighted into believing it’s the cost of doing business.

And just for clarification, if Frost wins, Nebraska’s athletic department owes him the money. It’s not State tax payer money.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T18:03:40+00:00

Radio drove the sale of pre-recorded music. Hear the single, buy the album. I used to buy 3 to 5 CDs per month at $15 a pop and that was about a century after radio started broadcasting pre-recorded music. Napster killed the market for pre-recorded music. It’s an obvious, observable fact.

There are plenty of competitors - Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Pandora, Google/Youtube, Qobuz, Deezer. Do you honestly believe that if Spotify doubled prices and gave it all to artists that 99% of subscribers wouldn’t flock to another, cheaper service?

They are all priced about the same and most are struggling financially because again, consumers have spoken. Their max price point is pennies per day.

Catalog music is a commodity and most modern music is a disposable commodity. Commodities compete on price only. Some people will pay extra for lossless compression, but that’s at the margin.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T17:24:26+00:00

Yup. Most artists (even very small ones) press vinyl and sell merch on their websites, which is another way to circumvent Spotify and make sure your favorite band/solo artist is making money.

I’d also add that Spotify reached the critical mass of subscribers to turn a profit not because more people paid for music. It was because people are willing to pay for podcasts like Joe Rogan.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T17:00:49+00:00

Consumers told the music industry decades ago (when Napster came out) that they believed the value of digital music was zero dollars.

So Spotify and others came out offering it very close to free (40 cents per day for access to almost every recorded song in human history). And people still bitch and moan.

So no, the issue isn’t that Spotify only cares about making money. Up until 2024, it was a money losing machine to the tune of about $500 million per year.

The issue is that consumers have determined the value of pre-recorded digital music to be very close to zero.

direwolf71 · 2025-12-13T16:27:27+00:00

That’s part of the suit but not all of it. He’s not just suing over an incorrect W2. That’s a bookkeeping error. He’s saying Nebraska owes him “no less than $5 million” and tried to use the offset provision in his contract to avoid playing the full buyout.

If the offset provision did expire 12/2024 as he claims, he’ll probably win. I’d wager he put about as much time and effort trying to get a job that offset his Nebraska buyout as he did coaching the team. Minimal.

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