Husker03

I was speaking about NU athletic department only, not overall area economic impact.

I'm not sure how much revenue will be actually lost if they play the games and keep the donations. The season tickets themselves are not a huge portion of the revenue anyway. If I had to guess, I would guess they are maybe 20% of the stadium revenue. The donations are where the real money is made, as we know. So, in a world of a$$h@!e corporations, I am sure they can say to the 50% not allowed in stadium each week, should they chose to limit is like that, that they can have money back for actual ticket prices but that the "donation" was always just a 'goodwill-I-Love-the-U,' gesture so will be kept and used as such. That would somewhat minimize revenue loss to a degree, and from there, they just have to find ways to schmooze the "donors' to make them still perceive the value of the donation even though not sitting in the seats that the "donations" granted them access to. Maybe that involves some sort of discount next year, some sort of gold label Husker gear, free red balloons for life, I don't know, but something. There will also be a subset of donors that actually do love the program enough that they won't bat an eye as long as the Moos and Co play their cards right and frame it all correctly.

Not surprising at all considering he gave out a 1000% commitment guarantee.

The offer list not real convincing.

No doubt our own fanbase has been humbled, and for the better I am sure, painful painful painful as it has been. That said, I think we would be happy with that coaches record to a point, but having tasted national titles, after a long enough run of close but no cigar, there would be rumblings no doubt. I'm with Boneyard, I'd take our chances with a homegrown tough as nails Nebraska boy with a great coaching pedigree, good offensive knack, strong historic resume, and the passion to do this thing, all day long over as opposed to any other coach. The man is making changes, I don't understand why people won't give him at least some credit. The proof is in the pudding. He came in, the program was a mess, he did things his way. Not all of those things worked well, he used the drawing board, changed things up, and took a run at it again. New glaring holes showed up, so, he again this off season has gone back to the board, changed things, added things, and is ready to make a run again. I'm not as scared of the schedule as most. Like I said, we are either a good team or we are not. Good teams don't automatically fold wins to other good teams. Top 25 teams don't fear other Top 25 teams. So, we are either that caliber or we are not, but the team lined up across the field doesn't get to determine it.

We need football again.....

My biggest concern is that it needs to be fair for both sides. If a player declares then a school should be able to move on w/o them and not be locked into that scholarship. I am all for it, but players can't have their cake and eat it too. Outside of that, I think it may actually help even competition more. If Bama and OSU were dealing w/ turnover every 1-2 years instead of 4, it allows those schools with kids that aren't quite pro ready to continue to develop them longer. Who knows, though.

I think it is important to understand these are unwanted grabs rooted in control. Think of a nasty male trucker proudly grabbing your butt at your kids' T-Ball game daring you to "do something about it." Understand that you are some 100 pounds smaller than he is. Now chew on that feeling for a few minutes.

Admittedly it is hard to follow from the article, but it sounds like the 2018 incident went unreported, then Capri and another reported groping in spring of 2019 which was turned over to Title IX investigation, and then the initial Legrand incident in summer 2019 was reported which was also investigated fully and led to swift removal of players. The Adrian fatherhood rumors are only significant here, imo, if Adrian was involved in something sinister but the article indicates they are admittedly still on friendly terms. I'm not ready to cast stones on this one, yet, would like to at least hear something from the other side and will trust that it was all handled the way it has been set up to be handled until I see evidence to the contrary.

I think you oversell JD a bit. I've said 100 times, I truly love the kid.. He isn't a game changing #1 or even #2 receiver. I hope he's back, he is literally one of my favorite players of all time. But I mostly hope he's back so he can have some success with a decent team, not because I think we are sunk w/o him.

What I am arguing is that Covid-19 does not have a 4-5% mortality rate, much closer to 0.5%. You are using numbers based on positive tests, but we know that only the sickest of the sick get tested so I am simply saying that if 100 people get corona virus and 60 of them show no symptoms, 35 of them show mild symptoms, 4 of them get very sick and one gets sick enough that they are actually tested.. That 1 positive goes into the stats, and if you run the cycle 100 times, of those positives, approx 4 will die. So, the actual mortality rate of the disease itself is much less than 4%, we dont know how much less officially. The mortality rate of the sickest of the sickest that actually get tested is 4%, but even that is up for debate based on the way things are qualified. Long story short, if a virus truly had a 5% mortality rate, it would be devastating to humanity in general. 1million positives in the US currently. If we even assume one out of every 20 people are tested, that is 20million true positives. at a 5% mortality rate, thats 1million deaths.. Instead we find ourselves at 55k deaths. Still not good, but nowhere near 5% disease mortality rate.

Here you are arguing that Covid-19 mortality rates are 4-6% in our country, yes or no? As in, 5 deaths out of every 100 people that contract Covid-19?

False, your percentages would indicate complete catastrophic levels. Bump your decimal to the left 2 spaces and we can have a more rational conversation from there. .

Meh, it's recruiting and I know dirty games are played, but Iowa's staff makeup is pretty similar so I certainly hope that isn't something that gets a whole lot of play and I hope we continue to hire the best person for the job based on their qualifications only.

You bet, but the guys getting drafted in the early rounds have a much higher percentage chance at finding success vs the guys drafted in the late round and an infinitely higher chance than those not drafted. Good luck to them all, but I'll eat a jumbo bowl of crow if Lamar makes a roster.. I'd be surprised if the Davis boys make it as well, but I feel they at least have the right attitude in place to make it.

And many, many many more guys don't.

You wouldn't care much what they do in their spare time. You test them before travel, any positives don't travel. You test them gameday, any positives stay in hotel and fly home next day on seperate flight/bus. They come up positive, they don't play. Might be enough incentive for them to follow social distancing rules

Maybe I should clarify. I would assume teams/officials/coaches would all be able to be tested day of travel and day of game first. Basically, should be possible to screen 500 people to make sure they are safe, play the game, go home. At least much easier than screening 200K people at the gates.

I don't understand why they can't play the games w/ no fans in stands. Seems like the most realistic option and just broadcast games on TV. I understand ticket sales to the games are huge revenue and I don't have an answer for that. Some sort of subscription TV package is all I can say, but at the end of the day, the NCAA has made billions of dollars behind the facade that the sports are for the student athletes, so let the student athletes play their sport.

Yes, of course. Have to be able to foster a touch of independence at the same time.

In times like these it is important to remember what truly matters and that is friends and family #stayhome

But will we get out ticket $$ refunded?

Oh bloody hell, what's he going on about?

Tweet indicates it was a virtual visit. Hopefully a huge letdown so he will just come to Nebraska.

Not trying to pile on the kid, but a lot of that was apparent on the field as well. I know there were projections from "experts," but those were based on his measurables. I think once it was proven that those measurables don't convert well, the game film wasn't enough to support teams taking risks on him.