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Say this about Darin Erstad. He is fearless. He is factual, and he's fun. Nebraska's second-year head baseball coach was the punter on Tom Osborne's first national championship football team, and on Wednesday, he unloaded nearly two decades of self-confessed annoyance within five yards of the head coach he played for and the athletic director who hired him … none other than Osborne, the Hall-of-Fame coach and soon-to-be-retired AD.
"I begged Coach to put me on the football team, but I guess I was just a little baseball player," Erstad said when he stepped up to the microphone at Nebraska's All-Staff Holiday Luncheon in the West Stadium. Erstad then shared a story that set the stage for his determined defense of all the "little baseball players" in Nebraska and across the country.
Nineteen years ago, Paul Meyers, then an assistant Nebraska baseball coach and now NU's associate athletic director for the Huskers Athletic Fund, was sitting in Memorial Stadium's stands at the 50-yard line. He was watching Erstad boom one 50-yard punt after another. An All-America baseball player at Nebraska himself, Meyers understood what almost every athlete knows – just the thought of playing football at Nebraska widens a kid's eyes and stokes his imagination.
On that day, Meyers told Erstad he would introduce him to Osborne, so he could at least entertain the idea of switching his scholarship from baseball to football, so he could become the punter and compete for the placekicker job.
Erstad Was the One Who Broke the Ice
Erstad never will forget being called over to Osborne's office in the South Stadium after he showcased his strong leg. "I walked over to his office and sat there for 10 minutes, and he (Osborne) didn't say a word," Erstad told his fellow NU Athletic Department employees. "Finally, I decided I'm going to meet him anyway."
And finally, Osborne got around to asking the paramount question: "Do you want to play football?"
"Yeh," Erstad remembers replying.
"You want to play football for Nebraska?" Osborne then asked.
"Absolutely!" Erstad said.
That casual conversation annoyed Erstad because no action was taken that year. But it's not what really stuck in his craw, so Wednesday seemed like the right time to remind Osborne about what he said after that simple introduction.
Tom's Stubborn Mindset Upset Erstad
"We talked a little about how we would have to change my scholarship over from baseball to football to make that happen, but Coach made it very clear to me that baseball players are NOT athletes!" Erstad recalled.
Sharing that story with the Athletic Department, Erstad was straightforward, yet irritated enough that he screamed the "NOT athletes" so loudly into the microphone that everyone in the West Stadium banquet room laughed and laughed hard. Sensing he was taking over the room, Erstad didn't blink an eye. He kept his jaw jutted, his lips neutral and his focus intense. When the laughter subsided, Erstad went into military mode. "I decided," he told 230 Athletic Department employees, "what better time than now to let my frustrations out?"
With that, one of the Huskers' most hard-nosed coaches in any sport pulled out a cascading paper that had what Erstad called a big list of athletes who played other sports besides baseball. "Bo Jackson, Dion Sanders, Dave Winfield!" Erstad said, looking Osborne squarely in the eye with an ultra-intense measure of truth, honor and justice.
"Garth Brooks!" Erstad added. "Michael Jordan … a career .202 hitter in Double-A." Erstad made sure he enunciated like a professional broadcaster. "What about those NON-athletes who played baseball, Coach? I asked Coach when he might put a NON-athlete on the team so he could win a national title. We went back and forth and back and forth."
Did Bypassing Darin Cost NU a National Title?
Osborne declined putting Erstad on scholarship his junior season. "That (rejection) probably cost us a national championship in 1993," Osborne told me when he reflected on his decision. "Darin had a huge game the next year when we beat Miami for the national championship in the Orange Bowl."
A prep all-stater in football, baseball, hockey and track in Jamestown, N.D., Erstad punted seven times for a 41.1-yard average in that national championship game. To this day, several knowledgeable Husker fans consider Erstad's performance MVP worthy because he repeatedly kept Miami backed up and, at the same time, dramatically enhanced Nebraska's field position.
Wednesday, in full public view, Erstad released a lot of the negative energy he's held back for so long.
"I did some research, and apparently Nebraska has had a lot of 'NON-athletes' play both football and baseball," Erstad said, looking down at Osborne's head table. "I don't have time to go through the whole list, but I'm going to read a few names."
Gill, Solich, Fiala, Churchich, Damkroger Played
Erstad articulated each name as if it he were graduating from Harvard.
"Turner Gill! Frank Solich! Adrian Fiala!" Erstad shouted. "Bob Churchich! Maury Damkroger! Mark Mauer! Bobby Reynolds! Tom Novak! Harry Tolley! Don Purcell! Elmer Dohrman! Those are all people who played both sports at Nebraska! I mean, I could go on and on. What about Carl Crawford and Bubba Starling? Are they NON-athletes? (Crawford and Starling are multimillionaire superstars who chose Major League Baseball over Nebraska football).
By now, Erstad has everyone in the room in the palm of his hand, including Osborne, who was smiling from ear-to-ear and enjoying the strong argument from the defense team as much as anyone else. Knowing he won the floor battle with his spirited discourse, Erstad immediately shifted into his dry sense of humor to win the war. He roasted Osborne's low-key, matter-of-fact coaching style and connected it with the monster results it delivered.
Erstad cited two core beliefs that carry him into his second year of coaching. "First, do not let your most non-athletic guy win the first day of your conditioning drills in football practice," said Erstad, who achieved that as a senior at Nebraska. "Apparently, it wasn't a very good first impression, so when that NON-athlete (Erstad himself) won that competition, we had to run it again."
Erstad Put the Audience in the Palm of His Hand
It was fun watching a popular head coach take on an iconic figure within two weeks of his retirement. And make no mistake. An engaged audience multiplies the opportunity for humor because a full room listens to every word.
"The second thing I learned," Erstad said, "is at the most critical time of the year when a team is getting ready to experience its biggest moment, make sure you give your most boring, dullest pregame speech you can possibly give!"
Again, laughter erupts because everyone on the third floor of the West Stadium knows Erstad is referring to Tom Osborne because he's dialed straight into Osborne's eyes. When the laughter subsides, Erstad delivers the punch line. "And right after that boring, dull speech," he said. "you find people willing to run right through the wall for you!"
'Non-Athlete' Big Factor in Osborne's First Title
Erstad thought Wednesday was the right time to ask that boring speaker, who views kickers as NON-athletes, an important question? "Coach," Erstad said, looking squarely at Osborne, "do you now realize that a complete NON-athlete helped you win your first national championship?"
No laugh track needed here. The room has reached a Comedy Central kind of pitch. Everyone's laughing so loud and so long, it's time for the aggressor, who has made his point, to take his foot off the pedal. So Darin Erstad shifts from a sizzling funny gear to poignantly sincere.
"I remember one thing about being offered my head coaching job from Coach Osborne," Erstad said in a reverent tone of voice. "It was a big decision, and I didn't know if I could spend that much time away from my family. Then my wife asked me a question: 'Do you know what Coach Osborne has done for people just like you his whole life? He's sacrificed and affected kids' lives in a positive way for more than 50 years. Darin, do you realize that because of him, you're in a position to do positive things for kids, too?'
"That's pretty powerful stuff," Erstad said, clearing his throat and sharpening his focus. "That's when a light bulb went off in my head. I thought to myself, Yes, I might be in a similar position to do some of the same things. I can affect kids in a positive way myself."
After 14 years in the majors, playing 1,654 games, getting 1,697 hits and grinding out a .282 career batting average, Erstad is still standing. He was a star on a World Series Championship team, played in two All-Star Games and won three Gold Gloves. He's healthy and feels fortunate to learn from one of the world's best mentors. "You can stand here and try to say every word you can think of to describe Coach," Erstad said. "I mean, it's possible to do it, but the only way I want to do it is to say, on behalf of the Nebraska baseball coaching staff and my family and all of Husker Nation, Thanks, Coach!"
Erstad's Gig a Grand Slam for Nebraska Baseball
Erstad hit a grand slam, and everyone in the audience was circling the bases with him when he sat down. We should point out, however, that later, in the first 90 seconds of his own speech on this special December afternoon, Osborne made sure to set the record straight.
"Regarding Darin, I did not say he was a non-athlete," Osborne said. "I said kickers are non-athletes." It was good to hear the room erupt in laughter for the target at the same level it responded to for the perpetrator, who truly was one of the greatest, if not the greatest all-around athlete in North Dakota history.
Osborne went on to explain that on some
days, kickers practice between 10 to 15 minutes and might even drink
coffee or hot chocolate during practice. But why debate semantics?
Erstad is way too intense to fit that stereotype, and that probably
factored into Osborne's decision to hand Erstad the keys to the baseball
program even though it was his first official coaching job.
We know the big dream that lives inside Erstad's head every day. If Nebraska ever qualifies for the College World Series in Omaha with Erstad calling the shots, no one will be prouder than Tom Osborne. Who knows? If that happens, maybe Erstad will invite the most boring, dullest speaker he knows to help fire up his team.
Wouldn't that be something?
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Just read the Darin Erstad story from the Athletic Department luncheon. I absolutely loved it! I spent 10 minutes chatting with him at a gathering a couple of months back and never did he start scanning the room. He stayed into our conversation. What a superb human being. He's another reason why it's a great day to be a Husker. John Strope, Lincoln, Nebraska
I loved the stories on the Athletic Dept Holiday banquet in honor of T.O. and especially enjoyed the one on Darin Erstad. Thanks for your great writing and passion for everything Nebraska. John O'Reilly, Carlsbad, California
Really enjoyed the story on Darin Erstad and the great detail in your description of his roasting and toasting of Osborne. It makes me want to see the video. Steve Sinclair, Omaha, Nebraska


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Gabe is crushed into bloody paste when his car turns into a robot with him inside
Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) is a teenager in the market for his first car, which he plans to use as a tool to impress sexy high school ladies. He scores a deal on a beat-up Camaro, which turns out to be an alien robot in disguise. It turns out that Sam's great grandfather holds the key to finding the All Spark, an alien technology pursued by two groups of warring robots—the Autobots and the Decepticons. I'll let you figure out which ones are the good guys and which ones are the bad guys for yourself (hint: deception isn't an admirable trait).
Transformers defies my every attempt at logical criticism. The script is a nearly unmitigated disaster—the characters are flat, the plot is riddled with holes and unnecessary red herrings, the attempted humour is often jaw droppingly unfunny, and frankly, nothing makes any logical sense. The look is destructively Michael Bay-ian, placing giant weight on car and sports drink ad imagery rather than characters or narration, and the special effects drive every element of the production. Every ounce of my film critiquing education tells me that this is one of the sloppiest, stupidest and cataclysmically awful movies ever made, but I enjoy the experience.
Pretty much every rule of modern screenwriting is broken. The first two-thirds of the plot is based around a devastatingly text-book MacGuffin. Now, MacGuffin's aren't unusual in big budget sci-fi/action, but one that defines the term this precisely, and genuinely has zero baring on the outcome of the last act is rare outside of Saturday morning children's entertainment. And when the MacGuffin is resolved we're presented with... another MacGuffin. Two MacGuffins! In the process of developing these MacGuffins we lose several characters without explanation, and are needlessly introduced to new characters who also disappear with out explanation. The final straw, or what should be the final straw, is the Deus Ex Machina ending, where the thing everyone in the film is trying to get their hands on is shoved into the unstoppable villain's chest, killing him, and making every single step of the plot pointless. I could go into specifically what I hate about the film's sense of humour, but I'm pretty sure I can sum it up with two words—'My bad'.
Michael Bay's eye does find plenty of sweet spots throughout the film, especial when he takes his high contrast camera into almost documentarian level combat. Keeping it 'real' is the best thing he brought to the project, that and a powerful understanding of how to shoot a car chase (despite the film being crap, the highway chase in Bad Boys II is one of the best car chases on film). A lot of the realism can be attributed to Steven Spielberg's involvement, as his last two effects heavy movies (pre-2008), Minority Report and War of the Worlds utilized very realistically shot digital effects. Transformers looks like a car ad when robots aren't hitting each other, but when the action counts Bay mostly pulls through, and that's probably the films greatest saving grace.
The special effects are great. There's no arguing the digital artistry, and I can't think of very many films that blend their CG this naturally with their surroundings. The fuzzy animals of The Golden Compass taking the special effects Oscar this year was a travesty. Sometimes Bay's camera gets too close to the action, and though there aren't any inadequacies in the animation itself, the sheer volume of stuff is blinding, especially on the big screen. For the most part the special effects are filmed, framed and edited like the human characters, which pushes the believability of the stuff that isn't really there, and the larger than life sound design doesn't hurt either. The highway scene is a high point in modern special effects that zips by all too quickly.
The person that best works in the film's favour is Shia LeBeouf, who I was not expecting to pull off a likeable character. Sam Witwicky could've very easily been angst ridden and obnoxious, instead he's light and generally refreshing. LeBeouf is the only member of the cast that manages to speak his awful lines with any sort of dignity or charm. Megan Fox and Rachel Taylor are eye-candy-licious, so their flat dialogue and generally nonplused acting is pretty easy to take, but I find myself downright embarrassed on the behalf of John Voight, John Tuturro, and Anthony Anderson.
Transformers is one of the best looking, largely live action Blu-ray releases I've ever seen. Bay's use of piecing high contrast leads to some very sharp images, shorn of any ambiguous or messy hues. The depth of the black levels is almost awe-inspiring. The super-saturated colours sometimes look a little odd (the flesh tones are all a bit orange), but stylistically speaking it works for the film, and they're just so damn pretty. Grain and noise are just about invisible until you get inches from the set, but even then it's pretty hard to complain. The cleanness, brightness, and sharpness of the image sometimes has a slightly negative effect on the special effects, and the digital elements are noticeably more spotless. The only shot in the whole disc that surprised me with its general dirtiness is the pre-end credit sunset, which is grainy, and a bit fuzzy.
The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track is reference level stuff, and a noticeable upgrade from the HD DVD's Dolby Digital Plus track. The more 'normal' sound effects, like exploding shells, crumbling brick, whirring engines, and ricocheting bullets are intense and loud with minimal mud and zero distortion. There are few moments of sound effect silence throughout the entire production. This particular film's ace is the presence of the more specific 'alien' sounds of the Transformers. The sound design here is a keen blend of these differing elements, and the designers separate the elements as cleanly as can be expected. The score is rather generic, Hans Zimmer-esque hero worship, but I liked it, especially during the Autobot's 'arrival on earth' montage. There are a few moments where the score overpowers the effects or vice versa, but based on the quantity of things happening the mix is nearly immaculate.
Note, despite early reports, there is no PCM track on this disc.
From what I can remember, there's nothing on this Blu-ray that wasn't previously available on the HD DVD release, except for the BD-Live option, which I couldn't use on my player anyway. The only reason I can give to re-buy the film for fans that own the HD DVD is the lossless soundtrack.
The extras begin with a characteristically arrogant Michael Bay commentary track. I want to hate the guy, but I actually respect a lot of what he managed to achieve with this film. Bay's sense of humour is obviously lacking, as apparently most of the bad jokes were his idea, but he made a gigantic film for a reasonable price of $150 million. In the day and age of ridiculously bloated budgets (2007 saw the release of both Spider Man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End), I like hearing about the best way to cut the cost. He kind of earns the respect he so viciously squandered. I also enjoyed listening to his take on internet culture and backlash. I also enjoy listening to him give Spielberg credit where he's due. Bay disappears into silence every once and a while, but he keeps things pretty consistent.
When I rented the HD DVD I watched it with the picture in picture option, which includes behind the scene info and imagery. My profile 1.0 player can't do PiP, so I'm left with the simpler trivia track, which is fun enough, but not exactly a necessity. The first disc of the two-disc set ends with the original teaser trailer, an Iron Man trailer, and a musical montage of action from the film.
The second disc's documentary material is split into three parts: 'Our World', 'Their War' and 'More Than Meets the Eye'. 'Our World' is a basic behind the scenes documentary split into several smaller parts, including interviews with the cast and crew, on set footage, pre-digital footage, and even a few deleted scenes. The doc takes us from early production, including footage from the original cartoon and of the original toys, through casting, filming, the participation of the United States military, practical, on set effects, and location scouting. All together the doc runs about fifty minutes.
'Their War' is a more specific look at the history of the Transformers toys and cartoon, the various adaptations that were made for the film, the selection of vehicles, and the production of the digital effects. This section is played out in the form of more interviews, more footage from the cartoon and ads for the toys, footage from a Transformer's convention, footage of Hugo Weaving and Peter Cullen recording the Transformer footage, before and after effects, and some early designs (in both digital and hand drawn form). The cast and crew talk about their early involvement with the series, and the silly fan obsessions with the film looking exactly like the old cartoon. I didn't realize that legislation had prevented cartoons based on toys from airing, so that was probably the most interesting factoid I got out of the doc, though the magnitude of work that goes into making the life sized Bumblebee was also pretty interesting. This section runs and hour five.
'Transformers Tech' is an interactive system of 360 degree looks at the details of six Transformers. Under the 'More Than Meets the Eye' menu things start with an eight minute detailed look at the Scorponok attack sequence, including descriptions of the writing of the sequence, early character designs, location scouting, storyboards, pre-production animatics, filming, and finishing the special effects of the scene. It's followed by a look at some of the production's gorgeous concept art (just once I'd like to see a movie that really lives up to this kind of stuff, though I suppose it would have to be an animated film), and the disc finishes with trailers marked one, two and four (apparently three went missing?).
All the extras are presented in full HD video and Dolby Surround sound, except the trailers, which are in 5.1 surround.
I understand that this is a film based on a cartoon made to sell toys, cool toys, but toys nonetheless. I have a positive feeling that Transformers suffers a little bit of what I like to call the X-Men syndrome. The X-Men syndrome is when a production doesn't quite deal with the issue of introducing a new world and set an adventure story in that new world. X-Men was a shaky production, but it acted as a great trailer for the beauty of X-Men 2. I'm hoping that Transformers 2 will be as much an improvement over Transformers. I think the good and the bad sort of end up evening out, but if you're a fan you'll be in hog heaven with this reference level collection.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 2nd September 2008
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, English, French, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Transformers HUD, 'Our World', 'Their War', 'More Than Meets the Eye', 'Transformers Tech', Trailers
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Director: Michael Bay
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Rachael Taylor, John Voight, John Tuturro, Anthony Anderson
Genre: Action, Adventure and Sci-Fi
Length: 143 minutes
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I'm celebrating another birthday today.
Well, celebrating may be a bit overstated. I am having a birthday.
I know one thing, 43-year-old Kent has learned a lot that I wish 23-year-old Kent would have known. Youth is wasted on the young and by the time wisdom comes, it is too late to do anything about it.
One place my advanced years helps is in raising my favorite Ethiopian immigrant. Dawit tests every parental instinct I have and then some. He never means to cause trouble or make messes. It's in his genetic coding.
He likes to have fun. He likes to help. He likes to do things for himself.
All of those sentences have the same basic translation. He makes messes and causes trouble. Dawit always means well. Unfortunately, good motives never regrow hair or put flower pots together again.
Last week after parent teacher conferences, I was telling Blake (our ten year old) that he might consider taking the gifted class test. He said he would but he was worried about the math portion.
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On a recent trip to Oklahoma, he had to accompany my wife to an appointment with a hairdresser. He saw the woman cut and style my wife's hair.
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Last month I received an email from a man in Mantova, Italy, which he gave me permission to quote. His name is Dario Ferrari, and his subject line says: �A personal experience with a Good ENOUGH parent.�
Mr. Ferrari explained that he saw on the Internet an interview with me about my book. He writes: �I was very attracted by the title (goodenoughmothering) because one of my family�s key events to define my childhood�s history or peculiarity regards the fact that when I was about 6-7 years old I had a long period where I used to address my father as �my good enough father.� �
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It is interesting that the writer�s feeling that not only did his father being �enough� make him real and accessible, his ability to accept being �enough� made him �one of me, my size.� What that means is that the son could identify with a parent who could accept being not perfect. Children are only too aware that they are not perfect themselves. If the parent can accept being not perfect, that makes it possible to �speak my mind without running any risks.�
What �enough� may mean is a parent doing his or her best to understand a child on his own terms. Not necessarily to do what a child wants on his terms, but to understand where he is coming from, to be his �size.� This is also what makes it possible to �speak my mind without running any risks.� The lines of communication are open.
We try our best to match our expectations to a child�s abilities, his developmental level. We will never read our children perfectly. That can serve them well when we are able to accept our own limitations, when we do not make perfection our objective � our children�s or our own.
When we nurture our children to the best of our own ability � not measured by some idealized vision � we are good enough.
Elaine Heffner, LCSW, Ed.D., has written for Parents Magazine, Fox.com, Redbook, Disney online and PBS Parents, as well as other publications. She has appeared on PBS, ABC, Fox TV and other networks. Dr. Heffner is the author of �Goodenoughmothering: the Best of the Blog,� as well as �Mothering: the Emotional Experience of Motherhood after Freud and Feminism.� She is a psychotherapist and parent educator in private practice, as well as a senior lecturer of education in psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Heffner was a co-founder and served as director of the Nursery School Treatment Center at Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital. And she blogs at www.goodenoughmothering.com.
Dr. Elaine Heffner: Good ENOUGH
Last month I received an email from a man in Mantova, Italy, which he gave me permission to quote. His name is Dario Ferrari, and his subject line says: �A personal experience with a Good ENOUGH parent.�


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