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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:06 am
Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:06 am
I just don't understand the appeal of the Nubs for MO kids. I would understand going to a blueblood school where it is warm all year and you are not far from a beach - FL St, FL, Bama, GA, LSU, etc. But I don't understand Neb.
Cold, look at nothing but corn all year. Play in the Big Blah. Get rolled by UM and Ohio State every year. Get rolled by Wisconsin and Mich St when they have their good years. Have not been a blueblood program in decades.
I just don't get it.
Cold, look at nothing but corn all year. Play in the Big Blah. Get rolled by UM and Ohio State every year. Get rolled by Wisconsin and Mich St when they have their good years. Have not been a blueblood program in decades.
I just don't get it.
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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:49 am to Tiger97
They get to be royalty while on campus. There is literally nothing else there to entertain the populace, so they really around football year-round.
They have better facilities and the gameday experience is top level.
They have better facilities and the gameday experience is top level.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 11:57 am to Tiger97
Nebraska is a better program and has better facilities than us. Is it really that shocking?
Posted on 5/9/17 at 11:57 am to SEC. 593
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They get to be royalty while on campus. There is literally nothing else there to entertain the populace
Having spent a month in Nebraska on a job I can attest to this. There is so little to do there that you can actually feel your life fading away second by second and you sort of welcome the sweet release of death.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 12:28 pm to Arksulli
Last year, my brother-in-law's family from NE (and grads of NE) had us join them when their team came to Minnesota. We headed to the campus early to attend the "Husker Huddle" prior to the game.
NE had rented a large campus building with several huge rooms and they were all filled with red-clad fans. The Chancellor spoke, the UN President gave a nice pep talk, the coach said a few rousing words, The AD spoke...there were songs, a DJ played roaring music which was basically a singalong. The cheerleaders were there the whole time, performing, and getting kids (and some adults) up on the stage, and wandering through the crowd. Booze and food was #1.
I've never liked Nebraska, but that day, if I'd had one more drink, hell, I'd have bought a red sweatshirt and a Cornhusker cap.
With that year-round atmosphere, I can see the draw for recruits.
NE had rented a large campus building with several huge rooms and they were all filled with red-clad fans. The Chancellor spoke, the UN President gave a nice pep talk, the coach said a few rousing words, The AD spoke...there were songs, a DJ played roaring music which was basically a singalong. The cheerleaders were there the whole time, performing, and getting kids (and some adults) up on the stage, and wandering through the crowd. Booze and food was #1.
I've never liked Nebraska, but that day, if I'd had one more drink, hell, I'd have bought a red sweatshirt and a Cornhusker cap.
With that year-round atmosphere, I can see the draw for recruits.
This post was edited on 5/9/17 at 12:30 pm
Posted on 5/9/17 at 1:08 pm to Literalist
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I've never liked Nebraska, but that day, if I'd had one more drink, hell, I'd have bought a red sweatshirt and a Cornhusker cap.
I understand what you mean completely. It wasn't football season when I was there but those folks worship at the holy altar of Nebraska football. If I had been there during football season?
I am a devoted Hog fan but I don't think I could have resisted. The make Alabama fans seem like pikers in comparison.
It really is hard to explain unless you have spent time in Nebraska... which is boring as can be... but its not so much a fan base as a religious movement. Some fan bases say they love their team, but they really do LOVE their team up there.
I still wouldn't go back to Nebraska unless there was a really nice paycheck dangling though.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 1:59 pm to Arksulli
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but its not so much a fan base as a religious movement. Some fan bases say they love their team, but they really do LOVE their team up there.
Attractive to players with latent god complexes.
Got it. Thanks for the insight.
TT16 - I was not questioning us vs. NU.
The Nubs only selling point anymore is tradition (and the fan base apparently). A top-notch recruit can get that and so much more at many other schools like the ones I listed above. I just can't comprehend why an athlete attracted to a blueblood tradition would not go to a warm weather school with a rabid fanbase that has won big in the last 20 years.
There can't be that many high school seniors looking at a school's Corn Germination and Production program.
Posted on 5/9/17 at 2:46 pm to Tiger97
The Nubs have the tradition and at least 1 National Championship, Heiman winners, football crazy fan base, fans that make the recruits feel like rock stars, full stadium for a spring game and hot girls that will take the recruits to parties and give them ANYTHING that they want.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 9:53 am to Zou brownmajic
The Cornhuskers have several national championships in football. Bob Devaney won and so did Tom Osborne.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 10:37 am to Tiger97
The 2017 Nebraska football team is composed of 5 recruiting classes that have averaged 3.10 in average recruit star rating.
The 2017 Missouri football team has averaged 2.93 over that same period.
All that tradition has been worth 0.17 stars per class.
The real question is how many more 4 loss seasons is that proud fan base going to endure before Riley is sent packing.
The 2017 Missouri football team has averaged 2.93 over that same period.
All that tradition has been worth 0.17 stars per class.
The real question is how many more 4 loss seasons is that proud fan base going to endure before Riley is sent packing.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:54 pm to navynuke
Also...If the barometer is also a transition to the NFL and a big fat payday, I really don't get the appeal of being a CornNubber, besides, as stated, picking up some good ole' NE farmgirls every weekend and the God Complex Treatment from the populace.
NE hasn't had a 1st rounder since 2011. The last two before that are Suh in 2010 and the hilariously bad as always Rams selection of Carriker in 2007.
Since 2007, MU on the other hand, has 8 first round picks.
6 Second Rounders to 5 for the Nubbers.
And outside of Suh, I'm struggling to find a Nubber worth a damn in the NFL right now besides LaVonte David.
NE hasn't had a 1st rounder since 2011. The last two before that are Suh in 2010 and the hilariously bad as always Rams selection of Carriker in 2007.
Since 2007, MU on the other hand, has 8 first round picks.
6 Second Rounders to 5 for the Nubbers.
And outside of Suh, I'm struggling to find a Nubber worth a damn in the NFL right now besides LaVonte David.
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