Booing

Washusker

Washusker

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You know, I've thought about it, and I don't think it's proper to boo these kids. I know I've BOOOOOOOOed on this board, but I personally don't think it's appropriate for Memorial Stadium.

I'm all for booing professional teams. If I pay for a ticket, I've got some right to voice my displeasure when the team plays poorly.

But these kids are student athletes. Most are competing for the love of the game, nothing more. Most won't be wearing a football helmet in four years.

I think the proper vocal emotion is NO vocal emotion. Just go silent. And write plenty of letters to newspapers voicing displeasure with Cosgrove - nothing wrong with that. And bug the crap out of Pederson and the Ath. Dept.

But leave the players alone. If you can't yell something nice, don't yell anything at all.

 
Are you serious, student athletes, when these kids go to classes they are barely awake. They come into our third tier university barely able to read and getting countless hours of tutoring. Professors are scared to fail them. My most memorable moment in college was watching two football players cheat on an exam I was taking, while two other football players got in a fist fight in the middle of the exam. These kids are separated into superior facilities. Sorry they are student athletes in name only. They are on a big stage and when we pay money for an inferior froduct we have the right to boo, especially when these coaches are some of the richest people in the state and do not deliver. If I do a bad job I hear it from my boss. Guess what state money comes from Nebraskans. time to let them know they are doing a bad job.

 
nepolo7 said:
Are you serious, student athletes, when these kids go to classes they are barely awake. They come into our third tier university barely able to read and getting countless hours of tutoring. Professors are scared to fail them. My most memorable moment in college was watching two football players cheat on an exam I was taking, while two other football players got in a fist fight in the middle of the exam. These kids are separated into superior facilities. Sorry they are student athletes in name only. They are on a big stage and when we pay money for an inferior froduct we have the right to boo, especially when these coaches are some of the richest people in the state and do not deliver. If I do a bad job I hear it from my boss. Guess what state money comes from Nebraskans. time to let them know they are doing a bad job.
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Are you kidding me? Go tell that to Dane Todd...

 
Washusker said:
nepolo7 said:
Are you serious, student athletes, when these kids go to classes they are barely awake. They come into our third tier university barely able to read and getting countless hours of tutoring. Professors are scared to fail them. My most memorable moment in college was watching two football players cheat on an exam I was taking, while two other football players got in a fist fight in the middle of the exam. These kids are separated into superior facilities. Sorry they are student athletes in name only. They are on a big stage and when we pay money for an inferior froduct we have the right to boo, especially when these coaches are some of the richest people in the state and do not deliver. If I do a bad job I hear it from my boss. Guess what state money comes from Nebraskans. time to let them know they are doing a bad job.
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Are you kidding me? Go tell that to Dane Todd...
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He was an extraordinary student athlete though..................you can't compare him to all student athletes because someone like him doesn't come around all the time.

 
If they don't perform I will boo, I paid for a better product then what I received when I go to a game. Don't give me any crap about tradition either. They ad has pissed all over NU's traditions. Now it is about new scoreboards, new skyboxes, and donors of substance.

 
I would like to think they were booing the coaches and Coz in particular. I hope that is what the message was supposed to be.

And, I don't boo athletes I boo teams/coaches, but if these guys can't take it then I understand why we suck on defense. I am willing to bet the players this morning understand the boos.

 
I totally agree with you Washusker. As a student at the University who has classes with athletes and has several friends who are/were athletes here, I myself feel ashamed when others around me are booing. As a fan in the stands I feel one of my major roles is to do anything I can to help the team win (ie make noise on D, cheer for a big play), but by booing I see no benefit coming from it. Will the defense suddenly become 11 Ray Lewis' or will Cosgrove suddenly turn back into Bo Pelini, the obvious answer is no. With that aside, fans do have the RIGHT to boo if they want, but I think that it is classless and pointless.

 
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nepolo7 said:
If they don't perform I will boo, I paid for a better product then what I received when I go to a game. Don't give me any crap about tradition either. They ad has pissed all over NU's traditions. Now it is about new scoreboards, new skyboxes, and donors of substance.
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This maybe, but are you willing to follow suite and essentially act in the same manner?

 
I think the booing was meant towards Coz................I can see how the players would think it was on them though. They did play horrible, but I still think it was directed toward Coz. <_<

 
I Bleed RED said:
I would like to think they were booing the coaches and Coz in particular. I hope that is what the message was supposed to be.

And, I don't boo athletes I boo teams/coaches, but if these guys can't take it then I understand why we suck on defense. I am willing to bet the players this morning understand the boos.
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Probably, but it clearly wasn't helping them on the field and therefore unnecessary.

 
Personally, I think the booing is getting blown out of proportion. It's a result of frustrations boiling over. It can happen to the best of us. If the players and fans can't get over it then we are in real trouble.

 
eliot1171 said:
I Bleed RED said:
I would like to think they were booing the coaches and Coz in particular. I hope that is what the message was supposed to be.

And, I don't boo athletes I boo teams/coaches, but if these guys can't take it then I understand why we suck on defense. I am willing to bet the players this morning understand the boos.
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Probably, but it clearly wasn't helping them on the field and therefore unnecessary.
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I guess hindsight is 20/20 and some of the people at the game probably feel bad about it this morning, but you have see where they are coming from. It definately doesn't help the play on the field, but it gets the point across. It's a double edged sword.

 
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