This is looking to be One Crazy Season!
- Thread starter Doc Fumble
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I think it will be a season like most of the sports seasons that will cast some doubt. It is not a normal year by any stretch of the imagination. BUT BABY FOOTBALL IS BACK SO IT IS ALL GOOD!! unless we go 3-5 or 2-6...
We've been a dumpster fire since 2002.Well, I mean, looking at the last 10 years, they're not wrong.
For years and years and years....sigh!....and YEARS, I've argued on message boards that you can't keep one of College Football's Bluebloods down forever. It was only a matter of time before we'd be back in the big time. Yet, the University continued to make MISTAKE after MISTAKE after MISTAKE. I'm a fan and so I'm conditioned to try to put the best face on the hires we've made since TO retired.
But in the cold light of day, you have to admit that genuine, "true-blue football guys" raised their eyebrows about every one of them. Scott Frost is the first coach since Osborne that a genuine football guy could look at and say, "Yeah, they made a quality hire there!" Whether it turns out to be or not, remains to be seen. But at least we swung for the fences instead of acting more like Iowa State than Ohio State.
My concern is that if Scott doesn't pan out, we're now in danger of losing our historical 'Blueblood' status. All Bluebloods experience a down period--but ours is now 19 %$#@#$ years long for crying out loud!!!! Fortunately, we hit the lottery and are now in the B1G. We'd *really* be in bad shape if we were still in the dumpster fire they call the Big XII.
So this is my long-winded way of saying the next three seasons are absolutely critical to the future of Nebraska football. (Disclaimer: this has NOTHING to do with me getting older!!!)
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Bo isn’t as smart as he thinks he is, has a sour personality, and surrounds himself with yes men who won’t check his ego. No matter what profession, that’s a TERRIBLE combination for someone in power.
Add a bit of stubbornness to the mix too. He never struck me as the type of introspective coach open to examining the continued effectiveness of his schemes and approaches.
Bo is convinced Bo is right, regardless of the outcome. People from the Youngstown area have an insufferable chip on their shoulder to begin with. It's mostly an inferiority complex born in the fact that they come from the armpit of Ohio.
Combine that with the fact that Pelini could never fathom that the cause of his failures is Bo Pelini. It's a terribly toxic combination and one that people should have recognized long before he got a chance to coach at Nebraska.
"This is looking to be one crazy season" is the right description for this latest Husker news item:
For 'only' $100 you can purchase a virtual seat in the stadium that includes a Life-size cutout!!! $250 for for two life-size cutouts and collectors items aaaaaand -- get this -- 'only' $1000 to have your two life-sized cutouts placed in the Tunnel Walk!!!!
I'm a big fan and have given my fair share to the Athletic Department over the years but paying a hundred bucks for a 'virtual' ticket??!?
I think the idea of 'filling' Memorial Stadium with cutouts could have been a fun one. But this approach smacks of a crass, money-making ploy to me.
For 'only' $100 you can purchase a virtual seat in the stadium that includes a Life-size cutout!!! $250 for for two life-size cutouts and collectors items aaaaaand -- get this -- 'only' $1000 to have your two life-sized cutouts placed in the Tunnel Walk!!!!
I'm a big fan and have given my fair share to the Athletic Department over the years but paying a hundred bucks for a 'virtual' ticket??!?
I think the idea of 'filling' Memorial Stadium with cutouts could have been a fun one. But this approach smacks of a crass, money-making ploy to me.
Can I photoshop Husker jerseys on Desmond Howard and Michael Wilbon and get cutouts of them put in the stands?
You and I could go in on a pair together and have our smiling avatars sitting next to each other!
Now THAT's what I call intimidating the visiting team!!!!
I wonder how much our board would have to pay to get cutouts of the avatars of @LinvingProog and @kfr1631 right outside the visiting team's locker room?
You know, the more I think of it, the idea of having a virtual section of Memorial Stadium for all of our BHF avatars to sit together would be fun.
Seriously, I'd pay actual money to see that! At least a buck or two.
Seriously, I'd pay actual money to see that! At least a buck or two.
Why the silver and bronze medalists? Don't forget Uenth's world famous 'mater.
I wasn't brave enough to make some off-color comment and risk the wrath of Uenth. The word around Grand Island is she's not somebody you wanna mess with.
Yeah, I think 100 bucks for a cutout is a tad steep.
On the other hand, it is a way to support the athletic department, especially if you're not in the position to be a regular, yearly, donor.
I'm all for supporting the athletic department. But seriously, 100 bucks for a damn photo on a cardboard cutout??!?
Like I posted earlier, this COULD have been a fun fan activity that brought a smile to a lot of people's faces who don't often get to go to the game and at the same time brought some extra cash into the department. But the mark-up for this is obscene.
Maybe it's just me being a grouchy old man but the amounts they decided to charge for there 'virtual' tickets really hit me the wrong way.
$100 is an effing deal as far as I'm concerned, because not only is it usually cheaper than any spur of the moment prices I've usually paid, but to have a cutout that doesn't have back AND knee issues, AND doesn't have to stand up every 3 seconds to see the field is a total blessing.
Sign me up!
