bball_backer

I will be getting tickets to the spring game when they go on sale. I live in Ohio now and will be bringing my wife and kids for their first experience in memorial stadium. I'm looking for the following information to help make their experience one to remember:

 

1. What areas can we visit before the game ? Can we look at indoor practice facility, weight room, trophy room, etc. ?

 

2. Will there be an opportunity to get players autographs ?

 

3. Would the best seats be around 50 yard line, as low as we can get ?

 

4. Any other things we should not miss ?

 

Thanks in advance for any helpful ideas.

If you are in east or west stadium and higher up, make sure you ask if they are obstructed view or not. got my folks tickets for the mizzou game two years ago, ticket office did not tell me they were obstructed view, but sure enough they ended up with a pillar blocking a third of the field

The only negative I see is that it puts us at a preparation disadvantage against Texas, as they have the week of Oct 9th off.

 

Positives:

A nationally televised game that otherwise might have been on FSN or even PPV. Exposure is always good. And we should be able to handle the cats.

It does spread out the week off , with 5 days extra for KSU and 2 for Texas. I've always thought that was maybe better than just a full week off. The break is at a good time of year, too. Regroup a bit after the nonconference games, fine-tune and even implement systemic changes that might have become necessary as the season has played out.

And, a big positive for me, personally, is that it frees up my viewing schedule on Saturday to watch and record more games without having to account for the Huskers. I'll already be basking in the glow of another big win on national TV.

 

I found the KSU scheduling goals interesting. Especially this one:

2) to have at least 11 FBS (formerly known as I-A) opponents each season;

 

Recall that in 2009 they had 2 FCS games, and it kept them out of a bowl. Even granny Snyder has figured out that that is not a good thing.

There is absolutely no way this would have been a PPV game. Assuming NU hasn't tripped up big time, there's a great chance they are top 10 and if KSU is undefeated (they play a decent non-con) this game would have had a legit shot at at least abc regional coverage, depending of course on situation and other teams playing that day

a few weekends ago he scored somewhere around 40 points and went 7 of 10 from 3-point land

She is a cutie for sure.

 

Agree. She is, however, dating Khiry Cooper and I don't care to fight him and his football boys for her. Minnesota_husker, I'm a huge vikings fan also. curious to see what your thoughts are on Favre after the game last night

 

Really? I didn't see her as the type to have "Jungle Fever." But, great for that guy. If I was him I may not play baseball or football and spend all day with her. However, from her video on huskers.com she sounds very religious so he may be waiting awhile for the fun and developing a set of Dude, hold out! She seems to be worth it!

I didn't watch her video and don't know her personally, so I didn't know the religious thing, but it makes sense. Khiry is a very religious guy also; active in FCA and full of Bible verses.

She is a cutie for sure.

Agree. She is, however, dating Khiry Cooper and I don't care to fight him and his football boys for her. Minnesota_husker, I'm a huge vikings fan also. curious to see what your thoughts are on Favre after the game last night

I dont believe he is benching them so much for 'effort' in practice, but for the fact that they simply arent good enough. Look at how well Jeter, a former Cinci football star and JUCO transfar looked out there, and the little freshman, Gallegos, sinking threes against Mizzou. No one has stood out head and shoulders that screams to me they should be starting and getting max minutes every night. A lot of false hope was put into Standhardinger I believe. There simply insnt great talent on this team. Coaches throughout the Big 12 hate preparing for, and coaching against, Doc. Thats reason enough for me too keep him around. Maybe he just needs some help in the recruiting arena. (and definitely in the admissions deptartment.)

 

Another thing I heard, havent looked for a source to verify, is that there is a Kstate ASSISTANT coach that makes $500k a year? Thats insane.

I agree with your statement about coaches hating preparing for a Doc team, and also believe we should keep him around but help him by either building an arena or hiring an AAU coach so he can get some players. But you can't sit a player for an entire game just because he isn't good enough to start. Standharding and QHC are not any worse than half the guys getting playing time, not letting them play and gain experience is not helping the team and is not helping them as players. And you can't say Standhardinger was full of FALSE hope YET, he has played in three games. Hard to judge someone by their first three games of the season when their competition has played 15 or more games already.

p.s. - i hope your jeter comment was sarcasm or exaggeration. he was not a football star at cinci, he was a redshirt

Bob Stoops loses two of his three major impact players on offense with quarterback Sam Bradford and tight end Jermaine Gresham (pictured) declaring early

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think I'd really count the loss of Bradford and Gresham as voids to fill for next year since they didn't hold a position this past year due to injury....

I understand what Doc is trying to do by benching players for not practicing hard or other reasons, but that just doesn't work at the Division I level. you can't play and expect to win with one of your major contributors sitting on the bench. just can't do it

i take back everything i said. TO, find a new bball coach

Judging from our past as a fanbase under the T.O. regime, I think we'd stick by Bo per your hypothetical question. Here's why:

 

NU under Dr. Tom

12-13 bowl record

5-12 against our biggest rival Barry Switzer (Oklahoma)

Never lost more than 3 games per season

7 consecutive bowl game losses ('87-'93)

Took 21 years to win a NC

 

^^ This says a lot about our fanbase in the past and I feel like we'd do the same for Bo too. But under T.O. it didn't always go without criticism. At the end of each season we always found it within ourselves to say "we'll get 'em next year" until we finally got one, 21 years in the making. Therefore I think Bo would be given the same chances that we gave T.O.

 

We bought into what T.O. was selling us in the same way that we're buying what Bo is selling us today. It goes beyond sheer win-loss numbers. It's about preserving the culture that is Nebraska football. Bo gets it. As fans, we know he gets it, so there's going to be some leeway in those years when things don't pan out as expected.

times have changed. yes, the callahan years showed us we need to have a coach that preserves what this program stands for, but times have changed. it's all about winning now. the younger generations are all about "what have you done for me lately" (i am a part of this generation, being in my early 20's), i know very few people my age that don't have this mentality. as these generations get older and become donors (this is my first year as a season ticket holder and am now a donor, altho my donation does not amount to much), they will bring that mentality with them. everyone loves bo, but a couple poor seasons can change that quickly

God himself could take human form and come coach at Nebraska. He could use his powers to make every NU fan in the world fall more in love with him than we are with Bo right now, but if he went 5-7 he would have a hot seat and if he didn't do anything to prove it was a huge fluke, everyone would be calling for his head. I don't think you ever have to worry about Husker Nation liking a coach so much that they overlook losing, it won't happen.

correction: i guess he's three games in now (been trying to forget about the iowa state debacle, guess it almost worked). he didn't look very good in that game either, but again it was game three out of 100 some games he will hopefully be playing in a nebraska uniform. give him time, the kid has said multiple times he hates to lose, and after watching him you can tell he isn't just a hot head blowin smoke, he means it and will work harder to get better and bring home some w's

he's played two games. against a&m (a pretty decent team) he looked extremely good for being thrown into big 12 action for his first collegiate game. against ku he did not look good, but many players have bad games against a team like that, especially when it's only their second game of the season and ku has played 15 games. either way, it's hard to say a guy is or isn't living up to his hype when he has played only 2 games out of what is hopefully a 100+ game career

on offense i look for Qvale to take someone's spot and really help solidify that line (of course that could just be wishful thinking). defense, i'm not going with a replacement necessarily, but i look for dennard to become more of a lockdown db. if that turns out to be the case, with two lockdown dbs in prince and dennard, the young safeties have a lot less pressure

maybe doc isn't the coach that will take NU to a national championship, but he is the right guy for the job right now. i know a lot of people are tired of hearing "next year" (me included) but it looks like that FINALLY MAY be TRUE. doc has managed to bring some attention back after the collier failure and is slowly but surely bringing some talent back. IMO doc is the perfect guy to be here 10-12 years, deal with the ups and downs, bring everyone through them and finally get NU to where they are consistently top half of big 12 and always have the tourney in reach. i know fans don't want the "slowly but surely" approach, but at a place like NU that's the way it has to be. it's just too hard to bring in that one difference maker to a place like this (without help)