HuskerinBig10
Dad, World Traveler, Investor, college football
Nebraska would still sell out every game if there were 100,000 seats. So you can toss that argument down the drain.
I will be the devil's advocate. I think Nebraska has reached its maximum capacity for selling out. The blue/grey hairs are dying out, and the young folk don't care enough.
I am not sure if my brethren remember during the Callahan era, fans DID stay away to force the firing of Callahan and if not for the purchasing power of two corporate sponsors to absorb 4,000 tickets or so, the sellout streak would have ended. As I recall, ConAgra was one of the corporations, the other one might have been Union Pacific but it could have been Keiwit. I know it was not Warren Buffett as Berkshire Hathaway, he likes baseball.
Like all schools, the unsold visiting team tickets are counted as SOLD even though only ten of their fans showed up. Usually, those seats could be sold to some games, but with some of the visitors being horrendous on the field, even the Nebraska faithful wouldn't buy.