I just checked out the Nebby fan site. The one is found was boring and hardly any comments. There may be a different site that I didn't find. By the way Dan.... thank you for such a great site. It always amazes me when I check out other fan sites and see how unsophisticated they are.
Pregame: Illinois at Nebraska, Friday, September 20th, 7:00pm CT, FOX
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These writers do as little 'research' as possible... They rely on 'popular name brands' first, and then total yards & number of TD's and finally a low INT number...
As I’ve said before, journalists are pack animals. They’ll seldom stray far from the herd. There be dragons.
Say what the herd says, and if you’re wrong, well, that’s what everyone was saying. Safety in numbers.
Yea they absolutely terrorizing the IlliniInquirer comments. They seem pretty confident...Kansas was too...
mhuml32
- Cincinnati, OH
These Kansas, Nebraska, likely Penn State night games, where the TV ratings are much higher - it's that much more important to win or "impress". If Illinois would have beaten CMU something like 27-21 on BTN at 11am, it would have gotten lost in the shuffle for 95% of CFB fans. That isn't going to be possible on Friday night in Lincoln. Put on a good show, boys.
Just want to bask in the 3-0 for a moment
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
And Iowa State basketball fans, too…….Yea they absolutely terrorizing the IlliniInquirer comments. They seem pretty confident...Kansas was too...
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I notice a bit of a Napoleon Syndrome from the Big Eight goin’ on here, lol.
Yup, hoping they get served a HUGE plate of crow!Yea they absolutely terrorizing the IlliniInquirer comments. They seem pretty confident...Kansas was too...
straight fax here...gotta keep the focus...
I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but Nebraska has canceled in person classes on Friday to accommodate students so they can fully attend and enjoy the game. Yes, this is an actual thing and not a joke:
Nebraska cancels Friday classes to accommodate football
So expect an even roudier crowd on Friday with a full day of drunken pregaming. Nebraska fans seem absolutely psyched about this game and the prospect of beating a Top 25 team for the first time in something like 8 years. Most are extremely confident in this being a blowout and will likely be showing up expecting domination.
In my opinion key to this game will be not playing from behind early. Need to score first, hopefully on our first drive, and take the crowd out of it before they can really ramp up. Can't go down a couple scores early or I do think there's a real chance this could snowball. Going to be a tough game, but with an amped up crowd who also has been kicked in the nuts the past few years in big games, if you score first and follow that up with a huge pick, that crowd will start getting restless.
Nebraska cancels Friday classes to accommodate football
So expect an even roudier crowd on Friday with a full day of drunken pregaming. Nebraska fans seem absolutely psyched about this game and the prospect of beating a Top 25 team for the first time in something like 8 years. Most are extremely confident in this being a blowout and will likely be showing up expecting domination.
In my opinion key to this game will be not playing from behind early. Need to score first, hopefully on our first drive, and take the crowd out of it before they can really ramp up. Can't go down a couple scores early or I do think there's a real chance this could snowball. Going to be a tough game, but with an amped up crowd who also has been kicked in the nuts the past few years in big games, if you score first and follow that up with a huge pick, that crowd will start getting restless.
the "N" on the helmet joke made manifest.
OrangeBlue98
- Des Moines, IA
That is correct, just the in person part of the classes were canceled, not the classes themselves. Well unless they're lab classes I guess, lol. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. However, Nebraska still did it specifically because of the football game, which is pretty incredible.
First of all, that's inaccurate. They have gone to an online format for Friday to accomodate 90,000 people coming on campus without the obvious headache of parking of commuters, instructors and other employees at the same time. Seems a very prudent decision, to me. I'd suggest you posting this says much more about your priorities than it does "a lot of today's..."
this is still prioritizing the accommodation of a football game over the normal function of a university. spare me the "this is good, actually" defense. and yes, they were moved online and not canceled. i'm sure all students will be planted in front of their laptops, and not face first in the ground after their 10th shotgunned beer.
They'll all survive.
I never said it was good, I said it made perfect sense. I assume you've never tried to move the traffic of 90,000 people into a relatively small area occupied by nearly 20,000 students, instructors and staff at the same time? I haven't, so I'd never imagine questioning why law enforcement, city planners and the university all decide it is the only logical choice they had. Friday night football in the Big 10 is stupid, but what I imagine would be much worse would be trying to figure out the flow of that many people for no reason, when a very smart, logical alternative is available. Insinuating there is something wrong with a university that prioritizes the sensible movement of that many people over a single day of classes is foolish. I ask rhetorically, where has common sense gone in this world?
And of course most the students won't go to class or probably attend online....SO WHAT? About 90,000 people won't go to a full day of work Friday either....SO WHAT? They will all survive. Lighten up for God's sake.
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The kids that were going to go to class no matter what will still attend….the kids that were never going to go to class still won’t….doesnt really matter if it’s online or in person.
They are actually making it easier for
Kids to learn by making it online….for the eastern game this year we had a ton of kids that had trouble getting to class because of the tailgating and parking/just more people on campus.
They are actually making it easier for
Kids to learn by making it online….for the eastern game this year we had a ton of kids that had trouble getting to class because of the tailgating and parking/just more people on campus.
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