What i learned today about Husker football and its fans.

[mnhusker]

The SEC is full of coaches willing to be put under a micro scope, Bo is willing so he took the job at Nebraska. I think we are great fans, at times to passionate but also willing to call each other out when we start to act poorly and not respect the team and players. I actually don't think we expect the next Tom O. but when we start to shrug our shoulders and not care about a loss to Northwestern than that will mean that we have embraced mediocrity and I am not in that club. I am a Utah State Alum. and I still hate it when they lose. The passion is part of what makes sports fun. Without the passion it will be like watching horses jump fences on ESPN 7.

[HUSKER 37]

I have learned that sometimes some of you just make me sick. Honest to god want to hang up my jersey and never watch a friggin game sick. You spoiled rotten, hand fed mother f'ers. Living in iowa i would hear all the crap from hawkeye fans about cornhuskers. I would never believe it if i didnt see it with my own eyes and today takes the cake. Few coaches in the HISTORY of college football can ever do what Osborne did. Few teams would kill to have even a shot at a NC game vs the 5 trophys in our case. Is Bo the next Osborne, probally not but who the hell ever will be. How many Osbornes, or Sabans, or Miles will there ever be in college football. This is not a sunshine pump thread, this isnt a fire Bo thread, this isnt a we need more talent thread. This is a shut the f#*k up thread.

 

This is a we had a great run a while ago and we may never have that again thread. This is a we may never have an 90s run again but we will get to the NC game again thread with this coach. This is a wake up because things have happened to this school have rarely happened in the HISTORY of football and may not ever happen again thread. No one wants to coach at a school where the fans dictate and pull apart so much of what a team says and does. He is a good coach with a lights out D state of mind. Its not there every year, its just not it cant be. To many players want playing time so instead of riding 2nd or 3rd string on the bench at Nebraska they will go to Purdue to be on the 1st team so they can get some playing time and god forbid, move to the next level. What is it going to take, what needs to be proved, what more can a fanbase ask out of a bunch of young adults who have more on there plate then most of us do. Bo can coach his heart out, but that doesnt mean Ben Cotton isnt thinking about a test he has coming up that can make or break his GPA. Or Taylor Martinez isnt thinking about taking out his girl to a special dinner after her team won another game.

 

This sport, this college sport, it isnt there job. Its not the NFL though we would like to treat it like that. There job is to perform but hey even if they dont win they still get a sh#t load of money. All these teams have to play for is pride. Most will never see the next level, or the big contract. Some will be insurance salesmen or bank managers. And occasionally they will recount of the glory days when they had a tough game between Georgia but they pulled it out of the trenches and how amazing it was just to be there. But you sit there behind your glass box and be critical of every little thing they do. Who are you to judge someones life or how they perform. How would any of you feel if there were thousands of people watching you perform at work, or judging how you build your deck. No one likes to be put under the microscope and be picked and prodded on everything they do or dont do. I want you to think about this nebraska fans, we have been victims of our own need for perfection before. I would hate to see that happen again.

 

 

Wait!

There was a tough game between Georgia?

[Guy Chamberlin]

We've always been like this. Not Husker fans per se, just people who like to vent.

 

The difference is indeed the Internet. A friend showed me the worst flame war he'd ever seen. It was on a board called "Parents of Twins."

 

It gets a little worse in Nebraska where a single sports team carries the entire state's identity. Still, it never gets as bad as Philly.

 

But college football is entertainment. Its players get more adulation and its coaches more money than most of us will ever see. If they go out and leave an un-entertaining product on the ground, they might have to live with a little internet carping.