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There is less interest. Plus blue hairs are dying off. Other reasons for needing a smaller capacity stadium are noted herein. This 90 thousand + thing was a bad direction from the git-go as the big money boosters have been supporting it by buying up thousands of tickets and they are not going to continue doing that. 75 thousand would be large enough and would sell out for real in big games.

Yeppers (as in the super cool hip ^^^^^THIS by forum savvy vets ).

Yeah... well, again, the "captain" guys on the team are most often elected by the players but sometimes appointed by coaches. I always respect both ways, but lean toward players elevated to captain by their peers, even though coaches can often see leadership qualities players might not see. I dare say some of the leaders/captains in recent years have not lived up to their titles.

Looking on our current team for the (proven) caliber of (some of) those guys on your list is not easy. I won't even try. Hoping for Captain Martinez on O as the obvious one. But we've seen spotty performance there. I admit to not feeling a serious standout as leader on D. Perhaps others here will help with this. Perhaps not.

Yes, but why link to that?

Nearly every game there are many seats around us in our section empty, for the past several years. I say nearly every game because for some of the biggies we'd see strangers in those otherwise empty seats. Once in a while we'd ask where they got the tickets and invariably it would be from a friend of a friend or co-worker, etc. In other words, they were season tix that the owners had lost the feeling of having to come to the games. Indeed we got ours many years ago when we lost our faculty tickets and found a pair across the stadium put out there about half an hour before we swooped them; we're billed for them every year now. A regular scalper out front once explained to me that he always had a fistfull of season tickets provided to him "by you know who" (I did not know who and still don't) most of which sell to "people getting off the busses." So, has the sellout streak been real? Looks to us like .. um, perhaps not. And maybe now those who were making it look real are losing their enthusiasm for doing that.

One boo from the crowd and the curse is on. Leave him be.

What a read.. this thread. So, to wrap things up, Trevor Alberts was the perfect hire, just like Scott Frost was. ...er,

Bottom line for me about AM is that I can't see much at all in him that says, "Husker Football." Thinking back to the best we've had over time.. he's not a Crouch, not a Frazier, not an Armstrong, not a Frost, not a Gill, a Lord, etc. Jeesh, I doubt if SF sees him as the answer to our O issues, but all we've got for now, new recruits notwithstanding. Did you read Sipple's article in today's paper about toughness? Adrian ain't that. When I see a picture of him that guy who sang for The Fine Young Cannibals comes to mind.

My feeling, my overview of the team right now, my take on what's been happening good and bad with recruiting and the AD changed and Frost seeing "hot seat" articles and all, is that he's now loaded the weapon, chambered a round, cocked the hammer, and .... we'll see if he's shooting blanks (again) or really got us weaponized against our scheduled foes. I feel like he's put it together.. ... like he's very much aware of the perceptions of him out there (and in here and other places like here). And that his focus must be matched by that of his players, across all squads.

As said by an insightful person before, I can't think of any coach out there that could honestly give us more hope (and kool aid) than SF can.. we've seen everything from Callahan style to Pelini style and a lot in between. We need an AD who knows how to cultivate the existing coach's formula, with the program and with the fans and media, not put him on notice or any of that.

Mister Jam misses the point.. or interprets the "culture issue" in a different way than what we've seen as referring to what's going on in the gym and on the practice field; the laziness.. the lack of toughness. Yes that can be filtered over the things Williams is saying and that about skipping playing, but it is not the main point. And that point, the main point of the gym culture and the practice culture is what SF may have resolved. We'll see.

I also agree that it's a good sign that we've not read much here or there about culture being the issue/reason for our poor record the past couple of years. Or that the culture problem is even what the main problem has been. SF may well have taken root as to his whole M.O. and what's up with players buying in. Now.. I think we can get going and watch as the coaching staff tweaks the squads here and there as the season goes on.. hoping for quite a bit of tweaking on special teams.. and get expected wins and unexpected ones and win our bowl game. Moving forward.

The choices as to how to make it work can include force (despotic regimes), mass buy-in (taps into something real in the athletes), and clever strategies built around that culture idea. The first two are often related and depend on strong influence by the leaders. Good luck to Trev and Scott. I try to see it happening.. but...

Whichever you get make it sideways so it's anatomically correct.

Well, yes, but interesting career path differences between him and Trev Alberts, who at one point sat next to each other on a sports talk set.

Mark May's take: Trev Alberts is the only choice for AD if @Huskers wants to get back to its glory years. #huskers #NebraskaCornhuskers.

Frost is there for real reasons. Plain and simple. The hope is that he proves them mistaken. The reality is he may not be able to do that as we saw him outcoached more than once and especially vs programs that should never have happened. With him hope is all we've got. BTW I should not have said "jerk" and I apologize. No excuse.

Donations will fix the football program? Hello. But I do believe Mr. Alberts can help with communication.. plus Mark May will have a ball with this.

Okay, jerk. You're trying to make this about me, and not about the subject at hand. Every forum has one or two or a few dozen. Grow the hell up and look at the issues we're talking about, which here and now is Frost's inclusion in a group of HC's around the country who could well be shown the door if they don't show some improvements on the field.

I'm of the same thought processes that a member here posted recently pointing out that Frost stepped into something that was more of a deep mess than he expected, and thus the ongoing dismal performances against other struggling teams (bad teams). I can't vilify him too much, knowing that.. but I do find myself really wondering if he's been handed something that is just out of his abilties. Man I hope not. I hope that he's clever and sees the big picture and has a plan. Doubts are setting in. Let's see what happens this year.

To answer your question, no. To respond to your reasoning, to insert Nebraska's horrid new HC's record as a likely reason to have him removed very likely is not to garner clicks from our great but tiny state (population-wise). He's included in the hot seat for real reasons. Unfortunately. The sports writers are not wrong this time. The article is speculation by definition.. but SF being there seems real enough.

If we were to pose the question as, "Adrian Martinez is the best Husker quarterback since (fill in the blank)," what would/could we say? Honestly.

I like us Nebraska fans, but why does that site need clicks from us in a state with a population less than most big cities?

No population base is the same from one person to another, from one neighborhood to another. Heck there are a LOT of people in Nebraska who honestly feel that real Husker football has not been played since Dr. Tom left. I'm amongst those who pretty much agree with that.. so, yep I'm delusional after about 20 years of (censored) play led by (censored) coaches. Go Big Red!!