We really bitching about the only people in the stadium that stand up all game, get dressed like crazy, cheer and shout on every play reguardless of the score or opponent? Talking about the fact that we get lower prices? How about you pay my $4,000 tution bill and $500 In books. f#*k we should get tickets for free. We support the school financially and otherwise that majority of fans do not. Next time maybe you should b!^@h at the grandma yelling at you to sit down two rows above you instead of students who didn't show up to an 11 am game when there was a massive cold front which included a 25 degree change in a day. On top of that a lackluster team recently. I've been to 5 away games and I'll tell you that memorial stadium is not near as loud or intimidating as much smaller stadiums. That's not the students fault. A sellout steak with a bunch non cheering, complaining blue hairs bragging about having 50 yard line tickets because they've been in the family is as good as gone to me. How about we nut up and stop complaining about everything that can possibly be brought up.
Uh oh. I can see the reaction now.
I would assume A LOT of fans have to make donations for their season tickets? Isn't that supporting the university financially?
Yup. It is the one sentence that just ruins the rest of the argument, which was otherwise pretty solid.
The rest of the argument presupposes that every other fan there is sitting mum throughout the game, and that's simply not true. I "stand up all game, cheer and shout on every play regardless of the score or opponent."
I also paid tuition at UNL for my schooling, paid for my tickets when I was an undergrad, and have paid to the University Athletic fund since the early 90s. I'm gonna say with some pretty good confidence that I've paid more money to that university than any current student. So the "I'm a student now, I'm entitled to _______" argument holds zero water.
The "grandma yelling at you to sit down two rows above you" is the exception, not the norm. I've gone to games at Memorial Stadium since the mid 80s and I've been told to sit down once.
It was cold? The opponent stunk? Sorry, zero sympathy there. It's a cold-weather sport, and I've gone to games against crap opponents where, when I left the stadium, I could barely feel my feet.
I've been to several away games as well. All of them have been quieter than Memorial Stadium, and that includes the fact that 1/3 - 2/3 of the fans at each game I've attended were Husker fans. Memorial Stadium isn't the loudest place, but it's pretty damned loud. Bitching at "the blue hairs" has become a convenient excuse often not rooted in reality.
This isn't a huge b!^@h directed at Blackshirt007, but he does bring up a bunch of points that are becoming urban legends surrounding that stadium on game days, and they're simply not true.
That said, throughout all of this discussion, has anyone got any actual idea how many student tickets were used during the Illinois game? Unless I missed it, both the "student section was too empty" advocates and the "students cram in like sardines" advocates seem to be basing their points on eyeball assessments. Did I miss where the actual factual numbers were posted?
