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Let's be real you did most of that in the Big 8 beating up on Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri, Oklahoma State and I guess sometimes Colorado was good. Seriously you played in a conference where at best you had maybe two good games a year but most of the time it was one until the bowl.

Once you got in a real conference it's been a lot tougher now hasn't it.

Do yourself a favor sparky. Look up the final top 10 from 1995. Go ahead, we will all wait...
 

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everyone that I know wanted to either go to the BWW bowl in AZ to play KsSt or even the Texas Bowl because they just wanted a different location. I'd bet both of those locatiosn would have sold more Husker tickets than what Michigan (4k - returned 6.5k) and Minnesota (3k - returned 8.5k) sold.

You're probably correct and its nice to know at least one Husker fan can respond intelligently and not go immediately to the retard card, finger gifs or try and pull their dick out to measure.

Thank you for the thoughtful responses.
 

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WT - you are funny. you want an intelligent conversation but you don't seem to think about anything you've posted.

you claimed Nebraska got a high amount of wins from the Old Big 8, that's why they brought up the rankings from 1995 (as you pointed out was before the Big 12 started).

All teams get a lot of wins from crappy teams. it makes up a huge parts of schedules especially before TV really became a huge part of CFB. I know for a fact you can't say Auburn's schedule didn't have some cupcakes back in the day.
 

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Now you have convinced me.... you are a retard.
 

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Big 12 started August 31, 1996...look it up sport.

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You are the clown that said that the Big 8 was a cake walk. Now go educate yourself and look up that final poll for the 1995 season, junior...
 
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WT - you are funny. you want an intelligent conversation but you don't seem to think about anything you've posted.

you claimed Nebraska got a high amount of wins from the Old Big 8, that's why they brought up the rankings from 1995 (as you pointed out was before the Big 12 started).

All teams get a lot of wins from crappy teams. it makes up a huge parts of schedules especially before TV really became a huge part of CFB. I know for a fact you can't say Auburn's schedule didn't have some cupcakes back in the day.

I'm just being a dick to Blackshirt because he is being one. I could care less about comparing programs I'm perfectly happy where my school is and what they have done in the past but I'm happy to tick off an idiot who wants to dick measure.

I am of the opinion that Nebraska is a very historically significant school and I'm shocked that a fan base that is described as one of the best in college football sold less than 2K tickets. I've found your points interesting and some of the others that haven't defaulted to sophomoric attacks.

I think your point that the SEC and BIG should drop one of their bowl alignments a good one and I've heard similar comments from SEC fans especially since the cotton bowl has moved and more teams would prefer to play there. I have to admit seeing Jerry World appeals to me more than another trip to Orlando as well but I would still make the trip.
 

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The big 8 sucked??

Last i checked all the conferences were top heavy and bottom shit back in the day
 

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The big 8 sucked??

Last i checked all the conferences were top heavy and bottom shit back in the day

Decent point and the option offenses were a ton of fun to watch.
 

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Let's be real you did most of that in the Big 8 beating up on Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State, Missouri, Oklahoma State and I guess sometimes Colorado was good. Seriously you played in a conference where at best you had maybe two good games a year but most of the time it was one until the bowl.

Once you got in a real conference it's been a lot tougher now hasn't it.

I am throwing you a bone here sparky.

Final AP poll
Ranking Team
1 Nebraska
2 Florida
3 Tennessee
4 Florida State
5 Colorado
6 Ohio State
7 Kansas State
8 Northwestern
9 Kansas
10 Virginia Tech
11 Notre Dame
12 USC
13 Penn State
14 Texas
15 Texas A&M
16 Virginia
17 Michigan
18 Oregon
19 Syracuse
20 Miami (FL)
21 Alabama
22 Auburn
23 Texas Tech
24 Toledo
25 Iowa

Check out 1, 5, 7 & 9. See those 4 teams? Those 4 teams were in the Big 8. And do you know what that means? HALF THE CONFERENCE WAS IN THE TOP 10!

Big 8 easy, my ass...
 

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but see, now you are getting to the heart of what you are after and that makes a huge difference here.

son, 1 year / 1 game does not make a trend. Huskers travel well, as already pointed out by numereous posters, this was 1 stinking game that people just weren't excited for. weren't excited for the location, nor the opponent. thus low ticket sales.


Gotta agree with the Corn Holer on this one, and I despise this fan base, but he does have a good point. 1 year/1 game doesn't mean dick. The Corn Fuckers do travel well and have a loyal fan base. I don't think any fan base is going to travel across the country for the same shit bowl 2 years in a row against the same opponent. Now if it's for the NC two years in a row against the same opponent, that's a different story.
 

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Do yourself a favor sparky. Look up the final top 10 from 1995. Go ahead, we will all wait...


This is what NU and OU fans refer to when outsiders call out the Big 8 for being one of the weakest conferences in history, their 1 good year right before the conference dissolved and became the Big 12. Fact is, NU only had 1 good opponent every year 99% of the time in conference during the Big 8's history and that was OU, vice versa for OU, too. At one time from 1970 - 1988, either OU or NU won or shared the Big 8. Also, NU and OU won or shared the Big 8 76% of the time during its history. The other members of the Big 8 didn't become relevant until the Big 12 formed and the conference ended unlimited partial qualifiers and historically dogshit programs like Okie jr, MIZZOU, KSU, KU, ISU, and CU were able to recruit the Lone Star State and recruit on par with Nebraska. For the record, I know the SWC sucked during its last 15 years of existence, but historically, was a tough as shit conference with 5 different NC's.
 

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I'm just being a dick to Blackshirt because he is being one. I could care less about comparing programs I'm perfectly happy where my school is and what they have done in the past but I'm happy to tick off an idiot who wants to dick measure.

I am of the opinion that Nebraska is a very historically significant school and I'm shocked that a fan base that is described as one of the best in college football sold less than 2K tickets. I've found your points interesting and some of the others that haven't defaulted to sophomoric attacks.

I think your point that the SEC and BIG should drop one of their bowl alignments a good one and I've heard similar comments from SEC fans especially since the cotton bowl has moved and more teams would prefer to play there. I have to admit seeing Jerry World appeals to me more than another trip to Orlando as well but I would still make the trip.

Says the guy who openly starts bashing the Cornhusker program and fanbase. You didn't expect one of us to just slide the programs next to one another and see how they stack? It's okay though, I'll take that statement as a submission to the argument.
 

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2011 Nebraska represents over 50% of the attendees at MINNESOTA

Gophers prepare for Huskers fans | mndaily.com - The Minnesota Daily


2012 Nebraska at Northwestern Nebraska was over 50% of the stadium at NORTHWESTERN

The Daily Northwestern : Football: Wildcats bungle late 12-point lead against Cornhuskers

I was there. Nebraska was 2/3 of the almost packed stadium. I would say 25,000 Nebraska fans, maybe 30,000.

To quote Northwestern's Kain Colter, "We had to go to (a) silent (count) at the end of the game at our home stadium,” Colter said. “That was a first. We didn’t prepare for that the whole week.”

Yes, Northwestern had to try and use a silent count on it's home field because of the Nebraska fans.


2013

Nebraska fans hoping to takeover Purdue

Nebraska fans hoping to take over Purdue?s Ross-Ade Stadium on Saturday

I was there. The stadium was 1/3 empty, 1/3 Nebraska, and 1/3 Purdue. That puts around 15,000 Nebraska fans.

No matter what is posted, Wild Turkey has reached a conclusion and is sticking with it.
 

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This is what NU and OU fans refer to when outsiders call out the Big 8 for being one of the weakest conferences in history, their 1 good year right before the conference dissolved and became the Big 12. Fact is, NU only had 1 good opponent every year 99% of the time in conference during the Big 8's history and that was OU, vice versa for OU, too. At one time from 1970 - 1988, either OU or NU won or shared the Big 8. Also, NU and OU won or shared the Big 8 76% of the time during its history. The other members of the Big 8 didn't become relevant until the Big 12 formed and the conference ended unlimited partial qualifiers and historically dogshit programs like Okie jr, MIZZOU, KSU, KU, ISU, and CU were able to recruit the Lone Star State and recruit on par with Nebraska. For the record, I know the SWC sucked during its last 15 years of existence, but historically, was a tough as shit conference with 5 different NC's.

1994 3 top 20 teams, 2 top 5 teams
1993 4 top 20 teams
1992 3 top 20 teams
1991 3 top 20 teams
1990 3 top 25 teams
1989 2 top 20 teams
1988 3 top 15 teams
1987 3 top 11 teams

I could go on but it looks pretty clear that year in and year out a third of the conference was ranked. I know that it rustles your jimmies that Nebraska was one of the best so, sorry, I guess...
 
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Ohio State returned nearly 10,000 tickets for the 2014 BCS Orange Bowl. Why?

Ohio State AD was selling them for $90 to $240, meanwhile, Stubhub had them starting at $40.

In 2012 Orange Bowl, Clemson and West Virginia ate more than 15,000 unsold tickets.

When Florida State played Northern Illinois in the 2013 Orange Bowl, Florida State sold less than half of their tickets, despite dropping prices to half price. Florida State to a BCS bowl game in Florida sold less than half of their allotment. That's right, the future National Champion of the 2013-2014 season could not sell half of their tickets in their own state.

I think Wild Turkey needs to really start bitching about a lot of schools.

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...UTF-8#q=Teams+return+unsold+bowl+game+tickets
 

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Says the guy who openly starts bashing the Cornhusker program and fanbase. You didn't expect one of us to just slide the programs next to one another and see how they stack? It's okay though, I'll take that statement as a submission to the argument.

Actually I really haven't bashed anyone just pointed out the poor ticket sales and how that will have a negative effect on the program. I have called Nebraska a historical program and mentioned the fans have one of the best reputations in college football.

Now some of you guys have said Georgia isn't a historic program and tried unsuccessfully to bash Auburn.

There are a few that have a brain and actually provided quality discussion points.
 

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Ohio State returned nearly 10,000 tickets for the 2014 BCS Orange Bowl. Why?

Ohio State AD was selling them for $90 to $240, meanwhile, Stubhub had them starting at $40.

In 2012 Orange Bowl, Clemson and West Virginia ate more than 15,000 unsold tickets.

When Florida State played Northern Illinois in the 2013 Orange Bowl, Florida State sold less than half of their tickets, despite dropping prices to half price. Florida State to a BCS bowl game in Florida sold less than half of their allotment. That's right, the future National Champion of the 2013-2014 season could not sell half of their tickets in their own state.

I think Wild Turkey needs to really start bitching about a lot of schools.

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...UTF-8#q=Teams+return+unsold+bowl+game+tickets
We have included the B1G in the discussion but you have to admit not even 2k boosters bought from the AD department is pretty sad.
 
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