Fantastic catch……29 hours!I think that’s 7am
Fantastic catch……29 hours!I think that’s 7am
Not allowed apparently.i know, just funnin' ya a little bit.
I read two separate Husker boards with predictions. The average was Neb 35ish to Illinois 10ish points (some were wild like 48-3). I kept reading page after page to see who gave respect and it was generally those who actually know football. For their top posters, scores were 21-17 or some variation.
At first I laughed, then I realized that they think they will steamroll us.
If/when we win, much of their fanbase will have to reconcile a lot of feelings. In my mind, I am seeing a slight Nebraska edge (TD or less), mostly because of the homefield advantage. Go Illini!
Not necessarily responding directly to you with this but more a bigger point. For our fanbase it's still very likely that we lose this game and we are not immune from doing a lot of the same things we saw from the Kansas fanbase and melting down after a loss, even one we were the underdog in. If you look at the predictions in this thread almost all of them have us winning so we are setting ourselves up for disappointment if we lose what is going to a be a VERY tough matchup in an EXTREMELY hostile and fired up environment.
With that being said let's go out, beat the pants off them, and send all those rabid Husker fans home wondering when they really will be "back"
I’m effing sick & tired of losing to effing purdue
You forgot "We need to fire Lunney".I'm fully expecting some folks saying "We should try Leary", "bench everyone in the interior offensive line", "Why is Jamison such a good coach when we can't stop Nebraska running for X yards on us?" or other versions.
That is not even close to being remotely true. Most thought the line at -8.5 was a bit high. A lot of husker fans have PTSD for night games against ranked teams. It's been a very very long time since we've played well in those conditions.Most are extremely confident in this being a blowout and will likely be showing up expecting domination.
FIFY....That is not even close to being remotely true. Most thought the line at -8.5 was a bit high. A lot of husker fans have PTSD for night games against ranked teams. It's been a very very long time since we've played well in those conditions.
There might be a couple of yahoos on message boards, but husker fans are not confident in anything right now related to football.
Most predictions I've seen are in the 5 to 10 point win area.
Quite a few think it will be a blowout by the Illini.
... Nebraska right now. They have not been, in any real sense, an elite football program in almost 25 years. A new coach and a 3-0 start that is not any more impressive than ours on paper, and they're literally ALL hyper-confident in at least a two-score victory, lol.
I must admit, I admire the passion, and I frankly wish our fans had a more naturally optimistic outlook that promoted Illinois as the greatest thing since sliced bread.. in Lincoln who will graciously welcome Illini fans to come have an appetizer at their tailgate and ask them how they are enjoying Lincoln so far, lol ... but their online fan base is at least as nasty and combative and undeservedly arrogant as any out there that I have seen, personally.
I mean, I think this sentiment is sometimes warranted....You forgot "We need to fire Lunney".
We been knew. It's a wide open secret for a while that they tickets are bought out just to (technically) continue the streak.Tomorrow's Illini game in Lincoln is being publicized as their 400th consecutive sellout of their Mwmorial Stadium. At first I was impressed...."Wow, even not having been to a bowl game since 2016, they continue to sellout their 85,458 seat stadium." Then I said "I think I smell a rat. Let's Google that." After doinv so, I'm throwing the B.S. flag on Big Red's 400 consecutive sellouts. From 12/6/22 Omaha World Herald article:
"Univ. of Nebraska football’s six consecutive losing seasons “took a significant toll on gate attendance” during the 2022 season, according to Sam McKewon of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. For the first time since the World-Herald started requesting the numbers, the scanned ticket total for a game -- Nov. 19 vs. Wisconsin -- "dipped below 50,000." NU’s scanned ticket number for the Wisconsin game “registered at 46,613 -- 8,225 fewer than the previous low of 54,838 for the frigid 2018 Illinois game.” This year’s game against Minnesota -- at 57,730 -- became the "third game to have fewer than 60,000 scanned tickets since the World-Herald started charting the totals.” These numbers "differ significantly from official attendance figures -- routinely in the upper 80,000s -- in part because scanned ticket data doesn’t include media, players, coaches, support staff, concession workers and others who might be included in the announced attendance.” NU's sellout streak “survived to 389 games” through the use of a “Red Carpet Experience” that "matches booster-bought tickets to underserved youth." The streak is "sacred enough among Husker high rollers that it’s likely to continue whether rank-and-file fans purchase tickets or not.”"
Only, per the article, the unsold tickets aren't bought out but however many "booster ticket's" are sold are "given" to the underserved to ensure a "sellout". That'd be like I Fund saying "We have 35,000 season ticket sales, so we'll give up to 35,000 tickets away to ensure a sellout" (whether the tickets are used or not).We been knew. It's a wide open secret for a while that they tickets are bought out just to (technically) continue the streak.
That being said, I'd bet tomorrow night is a lot closer to 80k than not.