The stadium is rarely full, the sell-out streak has more to do with rich people buying up tickets and I wonder if the AD could just make a "price cut" at the last moment. There isn't another team in the world with the incentive to put tickets on sale at the last moment but I could imagine Nebraska doing it just to maintain this last connection to competency.
You lost me at the very end. There's nothing competent about Nebraska right now.
Last connection to competency. No one is saying we are competent. The sell out streak is the last tangible result of former Nebraska greatness
Former Nebraska greatness is why our football program is effectively dead. Chasing ghosts, blah blah blah. This point has been hashed way too many times yet most people ignore it. We are by all accounts college football's Dallas Cowboys.
He’s not getting canned this year
I went to a Oklahoma state game in the mid 1970’s the stadium wasn’t full but they go by tickets sold even if fans don’t show up it’s still a sell out
Everyone knows the streak ended years ago. It’s still alive as a talking point because there isn’t much more to say regarding the football program. We are notorious for living in the past. This is all there is as cheesy as it is.
Would that make you happy if the sell-out streak ends? There are many on this board who write about why Nebraska can't compete against a lot of other schools for a variety of reasons, but I always thought one of the biggest advantages of being a Husker is because we care and support our teams. When I moved to Seattle and started going to Husky football games it was hard not to notice their fans deserting the stadium in the 3rd quarter if they were behind. I said to my Husky friends that would never happen in Nebraska. One of them replied to me, "That's because we have more things to do here". Now. lots of my Nebraska friends no longer watch their football games. I hope I never become as arrogant and jaded as West Coast fans. I watch as much Husker sports as I can. I go to as many games as I can. Joining the BIG has been great for me because I can see them plays sports 2.5 hours away in Seattle. I joyously rang the bell out in our backyard yesterday when the women secured the Big Ten Regular Season Championship in softball. Look at our arenas and stadiums. They are always full. I cannot stand Matt the Hat. I look forward to the day he leaves Lincoln for good, but I have been a fan of the Huskers since I moved to Nebraska in June of 1968. I am still going to be yelling "Go Big Red!!!" long after Matt the Hat is gone.
lot of the rhule haters are iowa fans who want the sell out streak to end too
That’s what still happens today. I have season tickets and split them with family members and at times for certain games if other friends don’t want them or we can’t sell all our tickets so we have to eat them.
Pay no attention to the uninformed Clarkeye fan.
and our AD wants to spend 600 million?
I think both could be right.. depends on the circumstances.. we almost saw Rhule crack under the pressure last time.
true, but that doesn't matter to me.. it's basically like saying lets dump all this money into something that fans are spending less and less time on. The reality is, it's scam to line their pockets.
it means i agree with both you and k rod.. matt def tries to squeeze every penny.. but when he is under extreme pressure, I can also see him agreeing to smaller buyout just to exit the program in a certain way. I was positive he was going to take a job last year. If Rhule gets pressed into the corner this year, he will cry uncle imo. I think the team will turn out good though.
He is not squeezing anything out of Carolina. They had an offset provision in his contract. We took Carolina off the hook for all but 5 million and even that is being contested in arbitration. My post was that if we agreed to no offset, and offered a lower cash buyout, he might bite.
I hate to be this jaded about the program but yes, the "sellout streak" needs to die. I've said it a few times over the years (especially during Frost's tenure) that unless if we undergo drastic changes, our football program will die out and so will the support. This fanbase cares a LOT. The regents and athletics department banks on that fact that we care. So how will they respond after another inevitable failure of a season? They don't seem to care that we've become the laughingstock of the supposed "blue-blood" programs. They don't give a sh*t that legacy recruits don't want to stay in this program, because getting these recruits seems to warm up the hearts of this god-forsaken fanbase.
Lose 3 out of the first 5 and it might.
We need more threads trashing Rhule. How else are we going to become off-season champs again?
The one I would be most concerned about would be North Dakota, given the fact they nearly upset K-State at home. Then again we aren't K-State
