BTN Offered to Televise the Spring Game

[skersfan]

Greed, they just want the butts in the seats.

[teachercd]

Personally, I think that the Spring Game should be used an experiment. Not so much for the game but for the fans...Things I would like to see tried during the spring game

 

1. Put it on TV

2. Open up beer stands right across from the campus, kind of like what Champions Club is

3. Open up beer stands in the tailgate area in front of the staduim

4. Let people carry their beers around in cups and have more trash bins

5. Have some "professional" tailgaters set up that are selling their food

 

Its the Spring game, try a few different things, see what happens. Make it an "Event" not just a scrimmage.

RE: Items 1-4, while I'm 100% with you on these things, not only are we talking about UNL, we're talking about Lincoln, NE. Anything involving beer would NEVER fly. We're pushing it with the "beverages" in red cups on real Game Days.

 

I think Item #5 is a fantastic idea. It's entirely too logical to work, though.

 

I know, I wish you werent right but you are! I know that you can apply for a booze permit, frats do it about once a year when they have a tailgate with dads day and its never a problem, I am sure that UNL could do it too but of course you would have people that made a big big stink about it.

 

If you get a chance, youtube "Ole Miss the Grove tailgating" thats how I wish it was. They embrace it. You can go to the Grove at midnight on Thursday and "claim" your spot and you start partying then. The video is safe for work and shows the very tame side of the grove, but its so cool!

 

[badger79]

Wow, this just strikes me as odd. I was hoping BTN would televise Nebraska's spring game so the rest of us Big Ten fans could get a little primer on your team.

 

What happens next year when you guys are already in the Big Ten? I don't think Osborne will have a choice about televising the spring game then.

[blasted_imposter]

Here's what NU should do:

 

1) Win as many football games as possible every year.

 

2) See #1

 

Screw putting the spring game on TV. No benefit to the program, and potential downsides aplenty. Again, I believe I'll go with BO and TO over anyone on this silly message board.

[kchusker_chris]

Here's what NU should do:

 

1) Win as many football games as possible every year.

 

2) See #1

 

Screw putting the spring game on TV. No benefit to the program, and potential downsides aplenty. Again, I believe I'll go with BO and TO over anyone on this silly message board.

Yeah, exposure is completely overrated - that's why we NEVER play Thursday night games...

 

Once again "blasted" - you've got a little something running down your chin courtesy of BO/TO. You should just save yourself some time and add "BO/TO are NEVER wrong" to your sig.

[carlfense]

Although, I can appreciate and understand where TO is coming from when he says that you don't want to put what you're doing out there so teams can work on you over the summer

Which in some insane universe could make sense..... except for the fact that they sell a DVD of the Spring game. Last year I had mine (in Florida) in less than a week after the SG.

Exactly. You can buy the DVD . . . so if those teams want to watch our spring game they can do so.

 

Terrible excuse. We should NEVER turn down free positive publicity.

[HuskerGBR]

The real reasons why it isn't on TV...

 

1. Money

2. Recruiting...for recruits that are at the spring game it is a selling point. "Look how many fans show up for a practice."

[druski_2k5]

So, does the sellout steak end if the stadium isn't at full capacity?

 

*insert sarcasm here*

[Saunders]

The real reasons why it isn't on TV...

 

1. Money

2. Recruiting...for recruits that are at the spring game it is a selling point. "Look how many fans show up for a practice."

 

If it's on TV (which it was during the 90's) then we have 65K instead of 70k. It's not going to be that big of a hit. Are we going to not televise our regular season games to ensure the sellout streak keeps going after the addition? No. The revenue lost from tickets will easily be offset by the Big Ten Network.

 

You also get national exposure, and get your brand into recruits homes. Texas just did it, and then they had a CFB live special on Monday. That's advertising the school, which is important.

 

 

Finally, you throw a bone to all the fans out of state (like myself). There's just as many of us out of state who can't make it, as there are instate.

[blasted_imposter]

Here's what NU should do:

 

1) Win as many football games as possible every year.

 

2) See #1

 

Screw putting the spring game on TV. No benefit to the program, and potential downsides aplenty. Again, I believe I'll go with BO and TO over anyone on this silly message board.

Yeah, exposure is completely overrated - that's why we NEVER play Thursday night games...

 

Once again "blasted" - you've got a little something running down your chin courtesy of BO/TO. You should just save yourself some time and add "BO/TO are NEVER wrong" to your sig.

 

 

You really think you know whats good for NU football better than TO?

[suh_fan93]

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said Monday that Nebraska rejected the Big Ten Network's recent overture to televise the April 16 Red-White Spring Game "probably because we think it would affect our attendance. And if you're doing a lot of different things offensively or defensively, you don't necessarily want to put it out there where somebody could make a copy of it and work on you over the summer."

 

Nebraska may need all the advantages it can muster offensively. Plus, Bo Pelini long has felt the Spring Game has enough distractions without TV being on hand, too.

 

CLICK ME, YOU FOOL

 

 

I hope this is the last time they reject such offers from the BTN. Of course I'm going to the game, but I'd like to DVR it and watch it on TV afterwards. You never see everything live.

Me too. I guess the only thing I can think of is with our 'new' offensive philosophy Osborne and possibly our coaches are thinking that they may want to hide their cards a little bit but then again I'm pretty sure by the time Wisconsin rolls around our opponents will have had plenty of time to gather film on us.

 

I hope they change their minds about this in the future.

[Saunders]

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said Monday that Nebraska rejected the Big Ten Network's recent overture to televise the April 16 Red-White Spring Game "probably because we think it would affect our attendance. And if you're doing a lot of different things offensively or defensively, you don't necessarily want to put it out there where somebody could make a copy of it and work on you over the summer."

 

Nebraska may need all the advantages it can muster offensively. Plus, Bo Pelini long has felt the Spring Game has enough distractions without TV being on hand, too.

 

CLICK ME, YOU FOOL

 

 

I hope this is the last time they reject such offers from the BTN. Of course I'm going to the game, but I'd like to DVR it and watch it on TV afterwards. You never see everything live.

Me too. I guess the only thing I can think of is with our 'new' offensive philosophy Osborne and possibly our coaches are thinking that they may want to hide their cards a little bit but then again I'm pretty sure by the time Wisconsin rolls around our opponents will have had plenty of time to gather film on us.

 

I hope they change their minds about this in the future.

 

They're selling a DVD of the game, so that doesn't fly.

[Saunders]

Here's what NU should do:

 

1) Win as many football games as possible every year.

 

2) See #1

 

Screw putting the spring game on TV. No benefit to the program, and potential downsides aplenty. Again, I believe I'll go with BO and TO over anyone on this silly message board.

Yeah, exposure is completely overrated - that's why we NEVER play Thursday night games...

 

Once again "blasted" - you've got a little something running down your chin courtesy of BO/TO. You should just save yourself some time and add "BO/TO are NEVER wrong" to your sig.

 

 

You really think you know whats good for NU football better than TO?

TO isn't perfect, and neither is Bo. Every excuse they've used is simply wrong. They need to get the Nebraska brand out there, and in as many homes as possible. It's Marketing 101.

 

It's amazing how many recruits you hear say "I don't really know anything about them [Nebraska], but I hear they play good defense."

 

It's alot....

[HuskerGBR]

The real reasons why it isn't on TV...

 

1. Money

2. Recruiting...for recruits that are at the spring game it is a selling point. "Look how many fans show up for a practice."

 

If it's on TV (which it was during the 90's) then we have 65K instead of 70k. It's not going to be that big of a hit. Are we going to not televise our regular season games to ensure the sellout streak keeps going after the addition? No. The revenue lost from tickets will easily be offset by the Big Ten Network.

 

You also get national exposure, and get your brand into recruits homes. Texas just did it, and then they had a CFB live special on Monday. That's advertising the school, which is important.

 

 

Finally, you throw a bone to all the fans out of state (like myself). There's just as many of us out of state who can't make it, as there are instate.

 

I agree that they aren't good excuses, but those are the two reasons I think Nebraska is really looking at. I don't buy the excuse that people can use the film on us...we show absolutely nothing in the spring game anyways. The money thing goes beyond just money for tickets. People are out in Lincoln and I am sure it generates some pretty good revenue for the city as well. I think they really fear attendance dropping to like 35-40k, which it has been down there before from 1996-2003 with the exception of 1998 when it was 60k. The spring game attendance thread has the attendance numbers in there, courtesy of JTrain.

[Hercules]

1. I don't think putting the spring game on TV would help recruiting. The spring game is incredibly boring unless you're a die-hard fan of the program.

 

2. I don't think that the decision not to televise the spring game really has anything to do with secrecy. I was able to download video of the spring game last year for free on the internet - if Ohio State wants to see our spring game tape that badly, they're probably going to find a way to get it.

 

The reason the spring game isn't on television is because Bo doesn't want it on television. I don't know why exactly, maybe he just thinks it's ridiculous to televise a practice, and maybe he thinks that Nebraska fans are already a little too emotionally invested in our program, so he's going to do what he can to keep a sense of normalcy around the program, even if it means denying fans their Husker football fix for a few more months.

 

Whatever the reason, it's clear at this point that Bo doesn't want it on television, and as long as he's around, it's not going to be on television.