I'm Finding a New Team to Cheer For

[MLB 51]

Don't worry guys. I already called John Papuchis and he'll be doing a in-home visit with Landomatic, we're not going to lose this one.

Okay that might be the post of the year, +1.

I'll +2 that.

[da skers]

I think someone needs a hug.

[skersfan]

Okay skers, I will give you one, but just a hug!!!! None of that kissy husker stuff!!

[knapplc]

I think someone needs a hug.

 

I am NOT falling for that trick again!!

[The Dude]

skersfan, is Landomatic your wife? Nice job skersfan, judging by her avatar, she's a fox.

[ADS]

Okay skers, I will give you one, but just a hug!!!! None of that kissy husker stuff!!

Would you two get a room already, jeez!

[skersfan]

Well I am leaving to, damn it have to go to work, no you will not get rid of me as easy as the other two!!!!!

[skersfan]

No!!!! That would kill me!!!!!! What a happy thought.

[Count 'Bility]

I think being a fan is a love affair with the University, not the coach, not the football team. Supportive of the University, what it stands for and how it is viewed by others is far more important than the football program to a lot of people. This board is made of what a football fan is. We as a group are a little over the top on football, most of us have loved it sense we were small children, some for 2 years, some for 60 years.

 

I see my wife in the same view as robsker and landomatic. Their love is for the University, my wife has donated money to the Universtiy, not the football program, my guess is she will continue to do that, and I think if Coach Pelini ever goes away she will come back to watching and caring about the football team. WE have had some wonderful times at football games, bowl games with Husker fans. I know I am going to miss going to the games, bowl games (we did not go this year, the first time in ten years I think) wife said she would not go, so we went to the Rose Bowl instead, and had a wonderful time with the Oregon fans and the Wisconsin fans. To some Nebraska is the only team, but college football is the greatest sport there is, you can enjoy it supporting/viewing with other programs.

 

If I am not mistaken, robsker is a professor at Nebraska, or an affiliate nearby. That in itself should speak volumes.

 

But I agree with their posts about the thoughts of those outside the state, as I hear it at least once a week. And those fans have a lot of power, when you look at recruiting,

 

I am sorry to see both leave, as they normally bring a different insight to the board, and I think both truly love Nebraska, and losing that even for a shor time hurts the program. I went away for about 3 months I think, never from the University, but from the football team. I still regret that, but felt I needed the time to see if things were how I envisioned them being or would they be better.

 

Bo is not a good face of the program, under any sense of the word. He is fine for a football coach, that is not in the public lime light as much as the Nebraska program. My hope is that he will get better at all facets of his job. Understand that people look at him, small children look at him and some idolize him.

 

I seriously doubt many of you would act like he does around your small children, or teen age children for that matter. I must admit that being on an old jar head, I have acted that way and it did nothing good. I destroyed what Roger Decoster said was the best motocross rider in the world at 12years of age. So I see some of myself in Bo, and in my life it never did a bit of good. I was able to change, I think he will to.

 

But is irrelevant because Bo is dealing with ADULTS, who are now old enough to win the lottery, fight wars, live on their own and so on and so on, many of which are in desparate need of the discipline that a guy like him provides. Once again, the new world of social media and in depth coverage of anyone when they so much as sneeze, as well as the biased reporting that goes has so blown out of proportion Bo's behavior and creates such an overshadowing of all the things he does the right way. And it also goes to say that we as a society are so caught up in what other people thing of ourselves that it has such a weight on our decision making process and very seldom do people do what they feel is right in their heart or what they want anymore for fear of public discontent. It makes me sick, but yet Bo stands out there or what he feels and wears his heart on his sleeve. Osborne and the Lawrence Phillips issue. Need I say more. Anyone who can remember that situation clearly knows the stand up man Tom is and that he made a promise to young and they both held up to their end of the deal, and Tom did it under the most enormous national scrutiny that would bring Obama thankful he has so much support. But he did nonetheless, with his legacy on the line. That is all.

[bournehusker]

Its no wonder divorce rate is so high. When the going gets tough people just give up.

[skersfan]

Most are still children, first time away from home, different invironmnet. But I understand your thoughts. Discipline is needed. It almost always is.

[Excel]

As you jump off the Bandwagon remember to tuck and roll....tuck and roll.

[Ratt Mhule]

Whenever I complain about anything relating to Nebraska football, I'm told over and over again that "if you don't like it, then you should just find a different team to cheer for" or the always classic, "then you're not a real fan". I've never really understood this mentality. Why can't I voice my concern/displeasure without other fans telling me I'm a bad fan or I should just take my fandom somewhere else? But something occurred to me this year and maybe I get it now. Honestly, if I don't like it, there's nothing I can do about it. I'm not going to be able to change it and if I really don't like it that much, then my only real choice is to "take my business elsewhere".

 

I have found myself less and less on board with the direction of the Nebraska football program lately. I do not like Bo Pelini. I never have. He's nothing like what I've grown up knowing and loving about Nebraska as a state, a school or a football program. He showed this when he was Solich's D-Coordinator and he has continued to show it many, many times since. He's an embarrassment to Nebraska football...both as a coach and as the face of our once proud program. I was tolerant (at best) of him as our coach in the beginning but I just have a hard time getting behind pretty much everything regarding the football program under his tenure. I have found myself in increasing disagreement with so many things like player development, recruiting, coaching hires, playing time, dealings with the media/fan base, personnel choices, and on and on and on, and on and on and on. The guy is a disgrace and everyone outside of Nebraska knows it. Don't believe me? Go read other team's message boards or look at the commentary/coverage from just about every media source out there. He is running this program into the ground even more than Callahan. And at the end of the day it has taken the wind out of my sails as a fan over time.

 

The problem is, the general mentality of Husker nation is that he wins 9 games so you have to keep him around. I don't entirely disagree with this line of thinking as I think it is hard to justify firing a guy who wins 9 games. But most Nebraska fans have their heads buried in the sand so far that they can't or won't see that this is bigger than winning and losing. They can't get past the 9 win seasons and see the forest for the trees. They are so worried about the possibility of having a losing season that they don't realize the program is getting flushed down the toilet right under their noses. All things point toward much darker days ahead for Nebraska football. But until then, I'm just supposed to live with it until Bo starts losing enough games for people to realize it and he gets fired? Boy, that sounds like a great way to spend my time as a fan.

 

 

I've been a Nebraska fan pretty much all of my life. Nebraska is my alma mater and I was lucky enough to have attended school there during 2 of their National Championships and live in Omaha for another. Nebraska gave me 30 plus years of some great football memories and my fandom for NU grew stronger every year throughout their time in Big 8 and then most of the Big 12 and even after I left school and moved away after graduation...through Solich, through Pederson and through Callahan. So the thought of switching teams seemed crazy at first. It's just not in my makeup to even consider something like that. There are a lot of bandwagon fans out there who jump from team to team and never really get behind one program for very long. Well, I'm not one of them. I'm an all or nothing kind of guy so this really seemed like an impossibility at first glance. But the more I thought about it and the more I was told by "real" Nebraska fans that I wasn't a "real fan" for disagreeing with state of the program and "if I didn't like it then I should find another team to cheer for", the more I thought why not? I really have no other choice, right?

 

So, at the end of this season, for the first time ever as a Nebraska fan, I found myself at a crossroads. Given that I have no control over who Nebraska hires as a coach and he may not be going anywhere anytime soon if he just keeps beating the teams he is supposed to beat, I am left with really only two options. I can either live with my dissatisfaction or I can find a new team to cheer for.

 

For me, life's too short to just sit back and take it and I'm a college football fan to be happy, not miserable. So I've decided to find another team to support. I get it now. I'm not a real fan despite the thirty plus years and tens of thousands of dollars I've given to the program. That's fine with me. I really don't care anymore and I'd rather not be associated with a program as long as Bo Pelini is the coach. Best of luck to all of you and thanks for providing a nice place to discuss my former team. Good luck with Bo...you'll need it.

 

Blah blah blah Roll Tide Roll!

[knapplc]

That gives me an idea - you could become a Badger fan, Lando. They may go into the tank once or twice a decade, but the brats are fantastic!

[Excel]

That gives me an idea - you could become a Badger fan, Lando. They may go into the tank once or twice a decade, but the brats are fantastic!

Sure why not, you'd have to go through a complicated initiation process though. It revolves around you drinking an entire keg of leinies and then passing out. Just a warning though...people's butts tend to hurt when they wake up in the morning. It's completely normal though. Just a symptom of a really special hangover.