Empty seats?

[eagskerfan]

Hello, I'm a student at the university, and I've browsed these forums for a while now and enjoy reading everything people have to say about the huskers. But I decided to join to add to this post. I was one who did complain after the changing of the student section seating. When I was younger, I made it to a couple of husker games. I never thought they were very exciting because everyone around me was extremely quiet and sat the whole game except for touchdown celebrations. There was no enthusiasm. Until I came to college. My first year that I purchased student tickets was last season. I had never felt so much pride after sitting in the student section after the nevada game. Since then I can't listen to the tunnelwalk song without getting goosebumps, and get the chills every time I drive on 180 heading into downtown going by the stadium. I became angered when I found out they were setting us up farther. I thought, are they really sending us back further so people can sit the whole game and pay half attention to the game while talking to their friends about their past week? I figured if you want to do that, you just as well watch the damn game on tv. But what is done is done, and I still show up early to get a good seat. I braved the cold yesterday, and loved every minute of the ku game. However, from my point of view, people are leaving or not showing up because:

1. We are not the dominant team we were while growing up

2. It was very cold

3. Many of them were still probably hung over

But I believe the first reason is the most important. Many students don't want to go anymore because they don't want to be there to watch us lose. I'm afraid that the past Callahan years may have led some students to become bandwagon fans.

However, I do want it to be known that we did bitch for a reason about our seating being changed, because in past years the student section has provided a great majority of the noise in that stadium. NEVER have I looked over to section 16 and seen fans standing screaming their lungs out before every defensive play, cheering the blackshirts on. But at least the alums don't have to yell at us to sit down anymore, as that was the most noise some of them were making the whole game.

 

As huskers532 said, be prepared...thanksgiving break will mean even more empty seats

People don't mind standing during a game, it's just rediculous you guys always had to stand on your seats. That really makes it difficult for people behind you to see even while standing up. Kids find it hard to see, older people find it hard to see. They have just as much right to watch the game there as you do. I saw many times on the jumbotron you were asked to not stand on the benches during teh games, security people came and asked you guys to stand on the concrete and not on the benches. Because you could not follow the rules, moving you up was a consequence of your actions. Kids these days think they can do whatever the hell they want without any reguard to others, and then when they are punished, they whine about it and say it isn't fair.

 

I think there were quite a few students at the game, but it was cold and they seemed more huddled together than before.

 

Last thing is the song goes, we all stay together in all kinds of weather. Not going because you don't want to watch them lose is a poor excuse. The student section shouldn't be the bandwagon fans of the group.

[JHaWk]

I was at the game and there were empty seats in the student section.

Needless to say, I was quite surprised

[HuskerTrucker]

I wasn't planning on being in Lincoln for the CU game...may have to change my plans if I can get someone to get off their butt and sell ME their tickets this week...guess I will be having a "chat" with my dispatcher in the morning.

[huskerswrkhavoc]

don't know how much better it's going to be for the Colorado game around Thanksgiving.

 

Well if the final game of the year against CU, doesn't get your blood flowing. Then you don't have a pulse! (or your a spoiled college kid who doesn't yet realize what your missing out on!)

 

 

im going to take offense to that. a spoiled college kid? yea, i absolutely LOVE going to class for 8 hours on tuesdays n thursdays, and another 2 on monday wednesday friday, while turning around and working 35-40 hours, plus having to study and do homework. oh wait, and i have to pay $4000 a semester for it. Yea, spoiled, im sorry that we get cheaper tickets than everyone else. Cheaper in what way? the fact that we pay tuition and without us there would be no team? yea. whatever.

[melscott62]

Hello, I'm a student at the university, and I've browsed these forums for a while now and enjoy reading everything people have to say about the huskers. But I decided to join to add to this post. I was one who did complain after the changing of the student section seating. When I was younger, I made it to a couple of husker games. I never thought they were very exciting because everyone around me was extremely quiet and sat the whole game except for touchdown celebrations. There was no enthusiasm. Until I came to college. My first year that I purchased student tickets was last season. I had never felt so much pride after sitting in the student section after the nevada game. Since then I can't listen to the tunnelwalk song without getting goosebumps, and get the chills every time I drive on 180 heading into downtown going by the stadium. I became angered when I found out they were setting us up farther. I thought, are they really sending us back further so people can sit the whole game and pay half attention to the game while talking to their friends about their past week? I figured if you want to do that, you just as well watch the damn game on tv. But what is done is done, and I still show up early to get a good seat. I braved the cold yesterday, and loved every minute of the ku game. However, from my point of view, people are leaving or not showing up because:

1. We are not the dominant team we were while growing up

2. It was very cold

3. Many of them were still probably hung over

But I believe the first reason is the most important. Many students don't want to go anymore because they don't want to be there to watch us lose. I'm afraid that the past Callahan years may have led some students to become bandwagon fans.

However, I do want it to be known that we did bitch for a reason about our seating being changed, because in past years the student section has provided a great majority of the noise in that stadium. NEVER have I looked over to section 16 and seen fans standing screaming their lungs out before every defensive play, cheering the blackshirts on. But at least the alums don't have to yell at us to sit down anymore, as that was the most noise some of them were making the whole game.

 

As huskers532 said, be prepared...thanksgiving break will mean even more empty seats

 

 

thats a pretty embarrassing list. I dont do the whole do the whole judging other fans thing, but I can say that is a very spineless list. if someone told me what you have listed I would tell them to grow a pair.

[huskerswrkhavoc]

Hello, I'm a student at the university, and I've browsed these forums for a while now and enjoy reading everything people have to say about the huskers. But I decided to join to add to this post. I was one who did complain after the changing of the student section seating. When I was younger, I made it to a couple of husker games. I never thought they were very exciting because everyone around me was extremely quiet and sat the whole game except for touchdown celebrations. There was no enthusiasm. Until I came to college. My first year that I purchased student tickets was last season. I had never felt so much pride after sitting in the student section after the nevada game. Since then I can't listen to the tunnelwalk song without getting goosebumps, and get the chills every time I drive on 180 heading into downtown going by the stadium. I became angered when I found out they were setting us up farther. I thought, are they really sending us back further so people can sit the whole game and pay half attention to the game while talking to their friends about their past week? I figured if you want to do that, you just as well watch the damn game on tv. But what is done is done, and I still show up early to get a good seat. I braved the cold yesterday, and loved every minute of the ku game. However, from my point of view, people are leaving or not showing up because:

1. We are not the dominant team we were while growing up

2. It was very cold

3. Many of them were still probably hung over

But I believe the first reason is the most important. Many students don't want to go anymore because they don't want to be there to watch us lose. I'm afraid that the past Callahan years may have led some students to become bandwagon fans.

However, I do want it to be known that we did bitch for a reason about our seating being changed, because in past years the student section has provided a great majority of the noise in that stadium. NEVER have I looked over to section 16 and seen fans standing screaming their lungs out before every defensive play, cheering the blackshirts on. But at least the alums don't have to yell at us to sit down anymore, as that was the most noise some of them were making the whole game.

 

As huskers532 said, be prepared...thanksgiving break will mean even more empty seats

People don't mind standing during a game, it's just rediculous you guys always had to stand on your seats. That really makes it difficult for people behind you to see even while standing up. Kids find it hard to see, older people find it hard to see. They have just as much right to watch the game there as you do. I saw many times on the jumbotron you were asked to not stand on the benches during teh games, security people came and asked you guys to stand on the concrete and not on the benches. Because you could not follow the rules, moving you up was a consequence of your actions. Kids these days think they can do whatever the hell they want without any reguard to others, and then when they are punished, they whine about it and say it isn't fair.

 

I think there were quite a few students at the game, but it was cold and they seemed more huddled together than before.

 

Last thing is the song goes, we all stay together in all kinds of weather. Not going because you don't want to watch them lose is a poor excuse. The student section shouldn't be the bandwagon fans of the group.

 

 

 

yet again. people do mind standing. it does not have everything to do with standing on their seats. not at all. standing in general. i remember twice, twice, going to games before being a student, standing after kickoff, and getting yelled at, by multiple people, multiple times. so don't feed me that bs. you say kids these days think they can do whatever they want? well i'll throw this at you, adults these days think they can tell us "kids" to do whatever the hell they want us to do. NEWSFLASH. 99% of all students at the University are adults. 18. Adults. Yet you continue to think you can boss us around and tell us that we are ignorant a$$hole$. maybe there is a reason we act like that? oh wait, thats right, we were RAISED THAT WAY. who raised us? oh wait, the same generation that is complaining that the younger people are that way. Hmm funny how that works, huh? And maybe you don't realize because you aren't a student. But this past week was a huge week for tests. A lot of students may have gone back home for the weekend, or simple checked out and decided to sleep. God forbid that someone tries to catch up on sleep when they are running on three or four hours a night. just as you say it's not all about the "kids" but guess what, it's not all about you either. sorry. think about possible reasons rather than just jumpin down on people when you don't know any circumstances.

[dizzturbedNUfan]

I don't think the students should have been moved. But as far as the empty seats go, I'm sure not every student is drunk or gone home. If you don't want to use them and you don't want to take the time to sell them, is there any harm in just giving them to somebody that will use them? I gave my New Mexico tickets away on Friday night so they got used. No way did I want to see 2 empty seats.

 

Yea, don't bring the standing thing into it. You get yelled at for that no matter where you sit. I just ignore them, if they don't like it they can spent 30 bucks and sit on their couch.

[NUpolo8]

If you think college is hard I can't wait for you to graduate.

 

But at least you don't have a sense of entitlement though. And lucky for you nothing is your fault.

 

PS, without you, there'd still be a NU football team.

[Guy Chamberlin]

You coddled 21st Century brats.

 

I was at the legendary Nebraska - Missouri game in 1978. 24 degrees and the wind howling thru Memorial Stadium. I'd woken up that morning in a bathtub, the last of several placed I'd vomited over the course of a Purple Passion party thrown by someone I didn't know. I may have been on my way to getting laid before the puking set in, so I was cold, humiliated and massively hung-over that morning. But it never, ever occured to me not to go to that game.

 

I hope you will look upon me as a role model and act accordingly.

[huskerswrkhavoc]

If you think college is hard I can't wait for you to graduate.

 

But at least you don't have a sense of entitlement though. And lucky for you nothing is your fault.

 

PS, without you, there'd still be a NU football team.

 

 

really? without students there would a football team? wow, i'd love to see how that goes.. and fyi i was at the game. and um.. and how can you say i don't have a sense of entitlement? do you know me? no. but keep judging me as an individual. and don't say it was generic b/c obviously it wasn't. and funny, my dad said life after college is easier than during... maybe you didn't have to do anything during college , sorry it doesn't work that way for everyone.

[holvy83]

I was in the south end zone, sec 17, and yes it was kind of sorry to see the empty seats, and yes it was friggin cold on that end. Lets see N to NW wind and your sitting in the S SE corner of the endzone?? Yeah its cold! One other note from the game, for the most part everyone was pretty good, heard a couple of sit down remarks and what not, but the dad with his little boy probably didn't appreciate the nice language that was floating around, and surprise it wasn't coming from any students. So some of you need to lay off the students for their actions when there is no room to talk.

[mickijc_20]

I was at the game and in the student section and it was still very loud even with all of the empty seats around me

[Huskers532]

I'm actually really disappointed that this argument has brought forth this much controversy. Sure the game didn't fill up the stadium, but finger pointing isn't going to make it better.

 

It seems absurd to me how you guys just bicker and bicker, and point fingers at the student section.

[NUpolo8]

If you think college is hard I can't wait for you to graduate.

 

But at least you don't have a sense of entitlement though. And lucky for you nothing is your fault.

 

PS, without you, there'd still be a NU football team.

 

 

really? without students there would a football team? wow, i'd love to see how that goes.. and fyi i was at the game. and um.. and how can you say i don't have a sense of entitlement? do you know me? no. but keep judging me as an individual. and don't say it was generic b/c obviously it wasn't. and funny, my dad said life after college is easier than during... maybe you didn't have to do anything during college , sorry it doesn't work that way for everyone.

 

 

 

Bottom line, its pretty crappy that you, a student, and other students bitch and complain about how important you are to the whole model of success that it is Nebraska football, then do not show up to the game after you apply for, pay for, and stop someone else from getting the tickets who maybe wanted to go to every game. In a distant way, it would be akin to not voting and bitching about the government.

 

Just saying.

[HUSKER FREAK]

I would have to say Havok, that I might have to agree with you on two things. There is no way that they should have moved the students. I thought that was horrible when I heard that they were. I also agreee with the fact that people need to shut their pie holes when others want to stand and shout!! Oh yeah my wife still can't talk LMAO!! I have to say that we sat in a very fun and loud section for once and it was a blast. I was disappointed though whe I looked diagonally accross the field and saw the empty seats though. I try to make a few a year and that was the best this year for us. But can you believe that a fight damn near broke out behind us with a forty-fifty year old man screamingat people for standing and then a chick jumped in his face screaming back and then I would say her boyfriend or husband damn neared beat his a$$, Wish he would have, but we don't need our own fans fighting. Although the Jayhawk fans in the area were loving that.