How Heartbroken Are You If The Sellout Streak Ends?

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

I am personally at the apathetic stage now.

 

[Big bo fan]

I am personally at the apathetic stage now.

I personally voted sentimentality sad because you had no other choices. The sellout streak unfortunately ended unofficially years ago. But I am sure posters who hate Rhule will blame him for it

 

[Shoxsker]

It ended years ago. Its honestly more shameful now than something to hang out hat on. Sad that we are still pretending.
I can answer for most too. Apathy.
Most of us have decided MR isnt the guy. Most of us hope we are wrong, but when its hopes and prayers it is really hard to be anything other than apathetic. Optomistic was a fools errand. Thats where the majority are at with all things Nebraska Football.
Winning is now the only cure for that. Not sellouts or portal rankings. Win. Just Win.
My children have never seen a good Nebraska team. Oldest is a Junior in HS, they wonder why I spent 16 years of Saturdays in the Fall watching and cheering for losing teams.
Please Baby Jesus let the boys win a lot this fall. Let it be fun again. So much good can come from Nebraska Football being a top 15 team.

 

[Cruel Halo]

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

I think I know where you stand on the issue.

 

[OxfordComma]

Here’s the thing. I don’t view it as a failure of Nebraska fans.

I view it as a failure of the leadership taking the golden goose as a given and not appreciating the impact of their decisions and actions. Things like Harvey hiring Eichorst to antagonize Bo, for one of many examples. Who of significance in the last 20-25 years is not worthy of any blame?

 

[QAnon399535]

Here’s the thing. I don’t view it as a failure of Nebraska fans.

I view it as a failure of the leadership taking the golden goose as a given and not appreciating the impact of their decisions and actions. Things like Harvey hiring Eichorst to antagonize Bo, for one of many examples. Who of significance in the last 20-25 years is not worthy of any blame?

The golden age. 40 trillion in debt. No one can afford it

 

[HuskerHusaria]

I think I'm actually going to unintentionally echo John Bishop... (What is wrong with me). He painted the end of the sellout as the end of the world, (He is a bad troll).

I do think he is right that there is a pull to fill the stadium to sell out. Manufactured or not. I do believe that it's been propped up for years.

That said, who the **** cares if your *** in on the seat? If your *** was bought **** it, you count.

Ironic that in 97 we all were trying to expand. Now we all wanna retract

 

[BigRedTed]

 

[Zeke Husker]

It ended years ago. Its honestly more shameful now than something to hang out hat on. Sad that we are still pretending.
I can answer for most too. Apathy.
Most of us have decided MR isnt the guy. Most of us hope we are wrong, but when its hopes and prayers it is really hard to be anything other than apathetic. Optomistic was a fools errand. Thats where the majority are at with all things Nebraska Football.
Winning is now the only cure for that. Not sellouts or portal rankings. Win. Just Win.
My children have never seen a good Nebraska team. Oldest is a Junior in HS, they wonder why I spent 16 years of Saturdays in the Fall watching and cheering for losing teams.
Please Baby Jesus let the boys win a lot this fall. Let it be fun again. So much good can come from Nebraska Football being a top 15 team.

My son is 18, he genuinely feels bad for me as a Husker football fan.

 

[king_kong__]

My son is 18, he genuinely feels bad for me as a Husker football fan.

He sounds like he could use a good backhand

 

[Anon1750875978]

The streak is a running joke, but that's all Nebraska is known for at this stage.

 

[Pennsyhuskers]

I voted the sentimental sadness. At one time we were a great program. 1962-2001. Hell of a run. It was fun growing up in Lincoln in those years. That football team gave us pride. Now? That program is an embarrassment. And the sellout streak is a pathetic lie. Pushing it makes us look desperate.
Let it die already.
After we go 6-6 or 5-7 this year there will be no way to hide the fact of fan apathy. The only thing keeping butts in the seats is that gameday in Lincoln is still fun. But even that will fade soon. There is already a kind of fatalistic cynicism you can sense when downtown on gameday. The vibe is totally different from the old days.

 

[TDLaww2020]

Let it f*cking die and hit the administration where it hurts.

 

[Cjlemke21]

Here’s the thing. I don’t view it as a failure of Nebraska fans.

I view it as a failure of the leadership taking the golden goose as a given and not appreciating the impact of their decisions and actions. Things like Harvey hiring Eichorst to antagonize Bo, for one of many examples. Who of significance in the last 20-25 years is not worthy of any blame?

This right here. I was literally just saying the same thing yesterday when talking football. The university leadership carries all of the blame on this. They’ve made one comical hire after another for how many years? Honestly it’s started since we handed the reigns over to Solich when we could have picked literally any coach in the nation to take over.

our best hire in that time frame was Bo, let that sink in. Bo wasn’t horrible, but he was toxic. The one hire we got right at the moment we hired him was Frost, everyone in hindsight can absolutely say that was by far the worst hire, but in that moment he was the hottest name so it was the correct move, what wasn’t correct was letting hang around for so long.

I was never openly rooting for the sellout streak to end, even though it ended years ago, but I do think it’s time the message was sent to the front office that we don’t care about a sellout streak, we care about the product in the field. Fix the product and the streak will start back up. The front offices too our fandom for granted and just assumed we’d all show up for a crappy product, even has they increased prices… hopefully they’ll learn now they do need to fix the product in the field as well.

 

[Husker.Wed._rivals]

They’ve made one comical hire after another for how many years? Honestly it’s started since we handed the reigns over to Solich when we could have picked literally any coach in the nation to take over.

"We" didn't hand the reigns over to Solich. Tom Osborne did when the AD (Byrne) was on vacation and a music teacher was appointed chancellor after convicted perjurer and child groomer enabler Graham Spanier unceremoniously dumped NU to go to Penn St. If we were not beholden to the desires of a 3-time national championship coach, we would have let Byrne do his job and hire the best available, which at the time included Mack Brown, Barry Alvarez and an up and comer from Florida named Bob Stoops.

 

[big red23]

I am personally at the apathetic stage now.

Let the streak die. Seriously.

I know how this sounds so hear me out.

The streak stopped being about us a long time ago. It stopped being a bunch of farmers and lawyers and nurses deciding to show up and became an accounting exercise. Back in 2022 a donor bought about 2,100 tickets at ten bucks a pop to get us across the line. In 2021 two donors bought out the rest of the Fordham game and handed the tickets to kids for free. We cut the donation requirement on season tickets and shrunk capacity by around 1,500 seats when they widened the bleachers. Every one of those things had a reason. Together they mean the number does not measure anything anymore.

That is my whole point. A streak that survives no matter what the team does is not proof of loyalty. It is proof that nobody is keeping score.

And here is what actually changed. Ticket money is roster money now. It goes to players. So when I buy a seat I am not donating to a tradition, I am funding the product I am sitting there complaining about. That is a totally different transaction than it was ten years ago and I do not think enough people have caught up to it.

Rhule is 19 and 19 here. Two wins against ranked teams in his entire career. Zero against the top ten, and we are sitting about 10,000 short on Indiana and Ohio State. Indiana, defending national champs, coming to Lincoln, and we cannot move the tickets. If that does not get somebody's attention nothing will, and papering over it with a donor buyout means it never gets anybody's attention at all.

I am not telling anybody to boycott. Go to the games if you want to go. I want a loud stadium as much as you do. I just do not want us lying to ourselves about the number anymore. If 68,000 show up, print 68,000. Dannen cannot make a good decision working off bad data, and for twenty years we have been handing athletic directors nothing but bad data.

We got past 400. Nobody is ever touching that. Let it go out honest instead of on a respirator.

 

[catch54]

I contributed to that record. I like to ask people, what college football record am I a part of.

 

[BugsAreQualityProtein]

Let the streak die. Seriously.

I know how this sounds so hear me out.

The streak stopped being about us a long time ago. It stopped being a bunch of farmers and lawyers and nurses deciding to show up and became an accounting exercise. Back in 2022 a donor bought about 2,100 tickets at ten bucks a pop to get us across the line. In 2021 two donors bought out the rest of the Fordham game and handed the tickets to kids for free. We cut the donation requirement on season tickets and shrunk capacity by around 1,500 seats when they widened the bleachers. Every one of those things had a reason. Together they mean the number does not measure anything anymore.

That is my whole point. A streak that survives no matter what the team does is not proof of loyalty. It is proof that nobody is keeping score.

And here is what actually changed. Ticket money is roster money now. It goes to players. So when I buy a seat I am not donating to a tradition, I am funding the product I am sitting there complaining about. That is a totally different transaction than it was ten years ago and I do not think enough people have caught up to it.

Rhule is 19 and 19 here. Two wins against ranked teams in his entire career. Zero against the top ten, and we are sitting about 10,000 short on Indiana and Ohio State. Indiana, defending national champs, coming to Lincoln, and we cannot move the tickets. If that does not get somebody's attention nothing will, and papering over it with a donor buyout means it never gets anybody's attention at all.

I am not telling anybody to boycott. Go to the games if you want to go. I want a loud stadium as much as you do. I just do not want us lying to ourselves about the number anymore. If 68,000 show up, print 68,000. Dannen cannot make a good decision working off bad data, and for twenty years we have been handing athletic directors nothing but bad data.

We got past 400. Nobody is ever touching that. Let it go out honest instead of on a respirator.

100% agree. The days of blind loyalty are over. My response to it if ends is start another. If they can put a quality product on the field again then they won’t have these problems.

 

[mgbreeze]

They should just stop counting "sellouts" and issue a brief statement that it's no longer being tracked. Take it off the table, it's become a joke.

 

[Scoop123]

Do people still wear tighty whities? I stopped worrying about streaks years ago.

 

[Husker88]

The sellout streak truly ended over a decade ago. Companies scooping up tickets and giving them out to charities has been a long tradition.

Just let it die its miserable long death it has been for way too long.

The only tradition that matters is winning football games. Something we also haven't done in a very long time.

 

[Baxter48]

With the expansion of the stadium from 76000 to 92000 wasn’t a good idea because every game in on tv, years ago I’d find it difficult to get tickets but I would find them now one thing I’m a lot older but I don’t have any desire to go to a football game, I have a way better view of the game the drin are more cheaper and I don’t have to walk a long way to take a piss, and since the hiring of Frank then bill the bozo then Mike Riley and frost now Rhule the program isn’t very stable. All of this contributes to fan deciding to stay home then you add the ridiculous cost of tickets and that for basketball volleyball also

 

[oldjar07]

I used to care a great deal and it was something that meant something and symbolized the program...

Now I don’t give a ****. Just like being offseason national champs every year. Just like I don't give a **** about the 50 new mercenary players we bring in every year.

I'm a CFO now; I've got more important things to worry about.

 

[king_kong__]

I personally voted sentimentality sad because you had no other choices. The sellout streak unfortunately ended unofficially years ago. But I am sure posters who hate Rhule will blame him for it

All Preacher Rhule has done is spit in the face of the fanbase

Cancelled spring game, cowering from non-con opponents, trotting out the softest football team in America

This will be his legacy

 

[Hawkmanic23]

This right here. I was literally just saying the same thing yesterday when talking football. The university leadership carries all of the blame on this. They’ve made one comical hire after another for how many years? Honestly it’s started since we handed the reigns over to Solich when we could have picked literally any coach in the nation to take over.

our best hire in that time frame was Bo, let that sink in. Bo wasn’t horrible, but he was toxic. The one hire we got right at the moment we hired him was Frost, everyone in hindsight can absolutely say that was by far the worst hire, but in that moment he was the hottest name so it was the correct move, what wasn’t correct was letting hang around for so long.

I was never openly rooting for the sellout streak to end, even though it ended years ago, but I do think it’s time the message was sent to the front office that we don’t care about a sellout streak, we care about the product in the field. Fix the product and the streak will start back up. The front offices too our fandom for granted and just assumed we’d all show up for a crappy product, even has they increased prices… hopefully they’ll learn now they do need to fix the product in the field as well.

Question for you (or any Nebraska fan)…how much did the seating capacity of Memorial Stadium decline with recent renovations? Or, has the reduced seating capacity not occurred yet?