Nebraska Fans WTH?

[iruletheskool]

This has got to be the first time ive seen someone question Husker fans traveling

 

[Wild Turkey]

This has got to be the first time ive seen someone question Husker fans traveling

I was honestly shocked when I read the article that you didn't travel well and even more shocked that you guys seem to think its ok and excusable.

All the responses here have been deflections like you're a retard or compare Auburn to Nebraska and NONE of you are saying we are better than this.

The mindset seems to be we are doing just great and it's the system's fault for sending us to crappy bowls. You guys got to play in the Gator Bowl which is definitely a respectable bowl and play Georgia, who contrary to what one of your fellow Husker said is a historic program, but that's not good enough to attend?

I'm floored really.

 

[iruletheskool]

Eh. Weve been fairly well represented at away games in our new conference and had a ton @UCLA two years ago


Our coach was almost fired, we played the same city 3 years in a row, a repeat opponent with decimated roster..

It was hard to get hyped for the game. Not gonna excuse it, but I dont really care or see it as a big deal

 

[TexasExes98]

That is not a complete story. You do not know where the shortfall came in or the context. Take the Cotton bowl. 2013 game was a the largest crown in 5 years. A&M and OU was a big match-up and had to local schools. Comparing to an outlier, even if the attendance was rather poor. Also you dont know where the drop in attendance came from. Was it OSU fans or Mizzu fans that stayed home.

Plus, the Cotton Bowl is at Jerry World, which holds over 90K +. If I'm not mistaken, the Cotton Bowl had tickets for 90K fans and over 70K showed up for the OSU-MIZZOU game, which was one of the more attended bowl games last year. Almost 90K showed up for the OU/Aggy game the previous year, so I'm sure ticket sales would be down for last year's game simply b/c OU/Aggy set a record for attendance.

 

[tometom]

I think Husker fans are just smarter than other fans. The school allotment of tickets are 1. overpriced 2. crappy seats. so why buy them from the school? If I recall correctly from people who went to the game it was like a 33%/67% split with more being georgia fans since it was their backyard, there were supposedly 60k people there, thus nearly 20k Huskers still made it. doesn't seem bad considering the things others have already mentioned in this thread about the repeat game, same location, etc.

 

[Wild Turkey]

I think Husker fans are just smarter than other fans. The school allotment of tickets are 1. overpriced 2. crappy seats. so why buy them from the school? If I recall correctly from people who went to the game it was like a 33%/67% split with more being georgia fans since it was their backyard, there were supposedly 60k people there, thus nearly 20k Huskers still made it. doesn't seem bad considering the things others have already mentioned in this thread about the repeat game, same location, etc.

For Nebraska not being able to sell even 2K tickets to their booster through the AD Department in my opinion isn't a sign of being smart it's a sign of being pissed off and sending a message (which is basically fuck you AD Department).

 

[tometom]

, so now it's because the fans were pissed off about the state of the program. that seems like a change in attitude from the OP.

that also seems like a plausible reason, which other huskers have already hinted at in this thread.

 

[iruletheskool]

Wouldnt be surprised if that was a reason


Tape of our coach calling us fairweather mother fuckers who need him came out during the season



Then we lost to Iowa

 

[Wild Turkey]

, so now it's because the fans were pissed off about the state of the program. that seems like a change in attitude from the OP.

that also seems like a plausible reason, which other huskers have already hinted at in this thread.

That's the point of the tread to evolve and figure out what's going on so opinions are always subject to change. I'm just surprised most of your fellow buskers would rather call me a retard and make excuses than discuss the issue.

 

[BigRedMoe]

That's the point of the tread to evolve and figure out what's going on so opinions are always subject to change. I'm just surprised most of your fellow buskers would rather call me a retard and make excuses than discuss the issue.

That's because your original opinion made you seem like a retard....
*and an unimaginative troll. To people familiar with the program it was very obvious why bowl ticket sales were down this past year.

 

[Skerpokes]

This is the dumbest thread I have ever wasted my time reading. I will never get those minutes of my life back. Thanks fucker

 

[Irish7478]

2010 Outback Bowl featuring Auburn, less than 50,000 were in attendance.

Dumb thread is dumb. Shocking that Nebraska fans are tired of getting fucked as far as bowl games go. We've only been to 3 different games in the last 5 years...the last 3 of which were in FL. Georgia was a repeat from the last year, and we even had a rematch back in 2010 with regular season opponent Washington. In the last 4 years, we've only played 2 "new" teams. Its understandable that people would not want to pay to fly down there again.

This is one of the problems with conference tie-ins for bowl games. You could end up playing the same team every year. Or at least going to the same bowl game every year.

 

[HuskerinBig10]

Dude I don't care what the circumstances are if you can't sell 2K tickets then your program is not legitimate anymore. I'm not kidding about taking the spot away, when the bowl contracts come up for renewal, if you guys can't be bothered with attending a football game against a historic program like Georgia even if it is a repeat then stick a fork in and shut the program down.

You are full of crap wild turkey.

I posted my first post in post 4 and this is your response. Does not seem you want to discuss it.

You then say you want to discuss it, but that is not what you said in this post. You were just trolling.

You keep trolling and mention wanting the PAC 12 teams, who I showed do NOT go to bowl games. With four of the PAC 12 teams having attendance of less than 50,000 at the game.

It seems that no matter what is posted, you don't like it. You have already reached a conclusion. Stick with it.

At least the Texas fans caught on that the previous year's bowl game was a better matchup when I posted about seven games showing less attendance. Yet, Bowl Game ATTENDANCE has dropped over the last four years. Dilution? Too many bowl games in California, Texas, Florida? Not enough bowl games there.

Only eight of the bowl games had more than 60,000 in attendance. The Georgia Nebraska game was one of them. That means that a MAJORITY OF THE GAMES did not crack 60,000. All Bowl games do the same trick, and make teams BUY tickets and count those as attendance. Somehow, around 40,000 football fans that were NOT INCLUDED as ticket sales to the two schools showed up to the game.

Nebraska returned 10,000 tickets during the winter of hell that disrupted travel plans all over America, and Georgia which is just a stone's throw from Jacksonville returned 5,000 tickets.

 

[Blackshirt]

1. Since you guys joined the Big 12 in 1996 you have won 2 conference championships and 1 national championship. Auburn has won 3 conference championships, 1 national championship and had 2 other undefeated seasons.

2. You guys played once for the BCS and lost 37-14 while we have played twice won and lost the second in a close game in the last 13 seconds.

3. We both have 3 heisman trophy winners.

4. We both have exactly 31 players in the NFL currently playing

I think we stack up just fine and as for paying players we were 100% cleared and have been for over 20 years so present proof or STFU.

Soooo you're going to nitpick Auburn's most successful era and compare it to Nebraska's worst?

Naw, that's not how these things work kid.

All time wins (%):
Nebraska- 875 (.703)
Auburn- 733 (.633)

Conference Championships:
Nebraska- 46
Auburn- 15

National Championships:
Nebraska- 5
Auburn- 3



I'm not going to bother going into who's gone to more bowl games, who has more bowl wins, who has been to better bowl games historically, who leads head to head record, or anything else. I'll save you the time and just tell you now it's Nebraska and the comparison isn't even close. Now go away.

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

Soooo you're going to nitpick Auburn's most successful era and compare it to Nebraska's worst?

Naw, that's not how these things work kid.

All time wins (%):
Nebraska- 875 (.703)
Auburn- 733 (.633)

Conference Championships:
Nebraska- 46
Auburn- 15

National Championships:
Nebraska- 5
Auburn- 2 (claimed)



I'm not going to bother going into who's gone to more bowl games, who has more bowl wins, who has been to better bowl games historically, who leads head to head record, or anything else. I'll save you the time and just tell you now it's Nebraska and the comparison isn't even close. Now go away.

 

[Wild Turkey]

2010 Outback Bowl featuring Auburn, less than 50,000 were in attendance.

Actually the above was my favorite post of yours especially after I pointed out the following:

Auburn ticket sales exceed Outback Bowl allotment...and Tigers want to sell more | AL.com

Other than that you have basically stated the following:

1. Too hard to travel
2. All bowls have declined
3. We played Georgia the prior year

Some of your guys though are starting to get real and saying the fanbase is pissed with the teams performance especially after Pelina called the fanbase out. Now that seems like a more likely scenario to me then it's a crappy bowl and we don't want to travel to play Georgia.

Now lets discuss the consequences if that attitude continues:

1. Bowls start to choose other teams if they don't think your fanbase will travel.
2. Lower tier bowls tend to lead to even less excitement about the program within the fan base.
3. It hits the pocket book and potentially recruiting.

So yeah I think if the B1G fan attendance to bowls drop like this article suggest:

Unsold bowl tickets cost B1G nearly $4.5 million - TheGazette

Then yeah bowls are going to look for new partners and I think the PAC is a great candidate. So no I don't think you did a good job of pointing out that PAC fans won't travel and I think if there was a PAC vs SEC Bowl it wouldn't matter if it was in San Diego, Dallas, Atlanta or Orlando the fans would travel.

Hell I travel to watch Auburn play Virginia in a meaningless bowl and I've seen them play Ohio State in Tampa, Michigan in New Orleans and Penn State in Orlando so if we were going to play UCLA, USC or Washington you can bet your ass I'd be there. If I had to watch us play Washington two years in a row then I would go watch us beat them twice!

I just draw the line at Arizona I'm not spending money to go there don't see the point.

 

[tometom]

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.

 

[tometom]

now the B1G as a whole, i actually agree they need to eliminate at least 1 bowl against the SEC. because of tOSU getting to the Orange, that bumped everyone up 1 slot which gave worse matchups for those teams. if we knocked out one of the Capital one (South Carolina/Wisc last year) or Outback (LSU/Iowa last year), then i think the matchups would have been a little better. Althought Iowa fans were clearly happy with the bowl as they only returned 2000 tickets. But Wiscy returned 8000.

 

[tometom]

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.

 

[Wild Turkey]

Soooo you're going to nitpick Auburn's most successful era and compare it to Nebraska's worst?

Naw, that's not how these things work kid.

All time wins (%):
Nebraska- 875 (.703)
Auburn- 733 (.633)

Conference Championships:
Nebraska- 46
Auburn- 15

National Championships:
Nebraska- 5
Auburn- 3



I'm not going to bother going into who's gone to more bowl games, who has more bowl wins, who has been to better bowl games historically, who leads head to head record, or anything else. I'll save you the time and just tell you now it's Nebraska and the comparison isn't even close. Now go away.

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.