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why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
 
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chipotlehusker said:
why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
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Maybe sit a couple rounds out.
 
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chipotlehusker said:
why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
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You don’t live here, enough said.
 
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chipotlehusker said:
why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
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Maybe you studs should stick to your varsity board.
 
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chipotlehusker said:
why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
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Only one school I root for.
 
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9and4 said:
Only 25.7 percent of Creighton's undergraduates are from Nebraska. That number has dropped from 38 percent just seven years ago. Nebraskans made up 46 percent of CU's enrollment in 2006.

Creighton is not a Nebraska school, so I don't wish them well.
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You're twisting simple statistics into subjective nonsense. A full 28% of Iowa undergrads are from Illinois. What does that mean to you.

Ownership (proverbial) is where the flag is planted.

And that says nothing about the asserted reducing opportunities for Nebraska natives to attend. I see and hear just as many Nebraska ads in chicago as I do for Creighton. It’s better for the State to bring in as many as possible, regardless of school.
 
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I want to see Creighton be good, because their success at least helped force those at Nebraska to finally take basketball seriously. If Creighton is good it will force Nebraska to be good or keep working at it.

I despised CU growing up in Omaha, but I’ve become a fan due to Altman and McDermott. McDermott is all class and I want to see him do well. If/when McDermott leaves, who knows.

I hope in the near future the legit D1 players in the State that don’t get offered by Nebraska and CU go to UNO as opposed to other Summit League schools.

I want to see all 3 schools fighting for their conference championships and tickets to the dance. The more success all 3 have will only help increase the interest level of basketball, and hopefully generate more D1 level players who can at least take roster spots at Nebraska.
 
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9and4 said:
Great question.

In short, I support Nebraska's public schools, not private ones that are significantly decreasing the number of opportunities for Nebraska students.

So, more than it is — writes the guy living in Iowa.:)
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I have a college freshman at UNL and a high school Sr. The opinion of a lot of parents I know feel the “State” school in Lincoln seems to be awfully skimpy on scholarships to Nebraska kids because they are getting a lot of kids from other states in the BIG region because of the low cost.

I don’t have statistics to prove it, but it seems our “public” university is willing to gamble that in state students will go there regardless, and thus are giving sweet deals to students from other states. I believe this current freshman class is the biggest ever in the history of UNL.

My 2nd kid who is a high school senior, is going to follow his brother to UNL, but if I had it my way, I’d make him go to Iowa or Creighton, who offered him a much better scholarship/financial aid package proportionally than UNL did.

So it’s possible the “opportunities” for Nebraska students is being decreased by dear old NU to keep the increasing out of state tuition cash flow coming.
 
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chipotlehusker said:
why both schools can’t easily support their own school when they play each other without all the vitriol, support Nebraska schools when they play non-state schools.
GBR all the time, support Creighton when they play anyone but the Huskers. Guess being a western Nebraskan & living in Texas, I don’t understand this hatred. GBR & GoJays except when you’re playing the Huskers!
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It's called neighborly rivalry. Have you seen Iowa and Iowa State? Or Oklahoma and Oklahoma State? Or Michigan and Michigan State? Etc. The closer the schools are geographically, the more intense the rivalry. Nebraska and Creighton don't even come close to that kind of rivalry for some other schools. Likely because Creighton doesn't compete in football.
 
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mel mains said:
You're twisting simple statistics into subjective nonsense. A full 28% of Iowa undergrads are from Illinois. What does that mean to you.

Ownership (proverbial) is where the flag is planted.

And that says nothing about the asserted reducing opportunities for Nebraska natives to attend. I see and hear just as many Nebraska ads in chicago as I do for Creighton. It’s better for the State to bring in as many as possible, regardless of school.
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newAD said:
I have a college freshman at UNL and a high school Sr. The opinion of a lot of parents I know feel the “State” school in Lincoln seems to be awfully skimpy on scholarships to Nebraska kids because they are getting a lot of kids from other states in the BIG region because of the low cost.

I don’t have statistics to prove it, but it seems our “public” university is willing to gamble that in state students will go there regardless, and thus are giving sweet deals to students from other states. I believe this current freshman class is the biggest ever in the history of UNL.

My 2nd kid who is a high school senior, is going to follow his brother to UNL, but if I had it my way, I’d make him go to Iowa or Creighton, who offered him a much better scholarship/financial aid package proportionally than UNL did.

So it’s possible the “opportunities” for Nebraska students is being decreased by dear old NU to keep the increasing out of state tuition cash flow coming.
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Bingo. And for most public schools, there is a concerted effort to attract out-of-state students because they have a much higher tuition rate.

I recall a few years ago there being a "scandal" (I put it in quotes because it's nothing like the current college entrance scandal) regarding standards for in-state vs. out-of-state students being different because out-of-state is so much more lucrative.

Private schools will be much more agnostic about where their students originate for tuition purposes, much more of a lean toward building inroads or maintaining pipelines to different areas and attracting potential donors and power donors (whether talented students who project to be successful, students who come from wealth or families of influence, etc.). Not saying public schools aren't looking for that, too, simply saying there is another element (tuition) that acts as factor in recruiting and marketing decisions.
 
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Slightly different twist, if we're supposed to root for NU and NU only, is it ok to root for other teams when they play bowl games, march madness, or cws??

If not, then why so many on hear fill out brackets?
 
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mel mains said:
You're twisting simple statistics into subjective nonsense. A full 28% of Iowa undergrads are from Illinois. What does that mean to you.

Ownership (proverbial) is where the flag is planted.

And that says nothing about the asserted reducing opportunities for Nebraska natives to attend. I see and hear just as many Nebraska ads in Chicago as I do for Creighton. It’s better for the State to bring in as many as possible, regardless of school.
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Agreed on that last point.

I do see a lot of Illinois students in my classes here at UI, but of course, the majority of students here are from Iowa.

What it means to me is that Iowa — just like the other public universities where I've worked — is getting less and less of its revenue from the state coffers and thus must charge more and more for tuition, and the greatest potential source for that revenue is wealthy suburbanites from the Chicago area.

And, of course, the plurality of students at CU are Nebraskans, even if the percentage of them is dwindling and they aren't even close to being a majority.

To me, unless you're an Omahan by birth or residence, CU is not a local team, so I have never felt a desire to root for them, having grown up in Lincoln and having lived in Florida, New Jersey, Colorado, Kansas and Iowa in my adult lifetime.

In addition, the vast majority of CU students (nearly 75 percent) have no natural geographic connection to Nebraska, and thus have no affinity for UNL, my alma mater.
 
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