By using the word "Idea" you make it sound like this was well thought out and planned or something. Like we all got together in a conference room and brainstormed for hours. It wasn't, like the video earlier in the thread by BTN it was a joke that came to life. A joke, yes, born from the internet that snowballed into something real and tangible.
I can't speak for everyone on this...but I feel like it was OUR bad idea. Yes, I'm not faux or Goldie Gopher, but a trophy born "of just a social media thing" twitter/internet feels like something I'm a part of. Something that ever so vaguely connects the likes of me, a lowly messageboard dweller and twitter poster to the sport and team I love not to mention an entire other fanbase I'm not a part of (Minnesota).
I don't know about everyone else but I follow Nebraska and the rest of college football because it's FUN. This trophy couldn't be more fun, official or not. I know it's not an official trophy put together by some marketing team in a giant office building in downtown Chicago. Plastered with a very politically safe softball tertiary nod to everyone's patriotism complete with an official sponsor, but I love this bad idea and would love to see it live on if even in an unofficial capacity between non-university designated people on both sites of the trophy.
I would also like the fun loving, self deprecating humorous nature the trophy represents live on too, but that probably won't happen either. But what do I know, I'm just a small part of this "social media thing...".