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.

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Posted by Tiger97

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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.

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