There is No Place Like Nebraska ... Except When We Play on the Road

[huKSer]

 

Riley's building of the NU brand and ability to win games this year will have more to do with traveling then the price of corn.

Not sure one can make a rational argument that Riley is 'building the NU brand" ? The brand was long ago established and is what it is for the most part. I don't think it can be 'rebranded' easily and that is a long term (decades IMO) process. I don't think it should be rebranded. There is nothing wrong with the brand. It needs a little polish and shining up but it is just fine. We have one of the best brands in all of football. May need a little promotion and advertising - even Coca Cola must continually promote its name and keep its brand in front of the consuming public's eyes.

But "building" is certainly overkill in my view.

 

As for traveling, I don't see a lot of traveling this fall as the away games are going to hard tickets to start with. The easy tickets are the home games. Husker fans travel to see a great game if tickets can be had and or to see a great NU team. Likely neither available this fall. Let's hope we can find enough fans to travel to Lincoln and fill the stadium for the home games.

 

+1

 

For discovering paragraphs!

[RedDenver]

 

This from Eric Crouch and co in 2000. Sea of Red engulfs Notre Dame.

Nebraska Cornhuskers, forcing opponents to change their ticket policies one away game at a time.

[ColoradoHusk]

You're welcome!!!

[NUance]

 

I understand that the state of Nebraska is key to the entire US agricultural statistics. My comment had more to do with the overall percentage of Nebraskans livelihoods' which are dependent on agriculture.

 

I grew up in Omaha. My parents didn't work in agriculture, and their companies weren't dependent on the agriculture industry, where even a major dip in the price of corn would have a deep impact on our income. I would say that my family was like 80-90% of the families in Omaha and Lincoln (the 2 major metropolitan areas in Nebraska). Omaha and Lincoln metro areas have a combined population of 1.2M people, which is 63% of the entire 1.9M population of Nebraska. So, if 80% of that Omaha & Lincoln population isn't dependent on agriculture, that's already 50% of the entire population of the state that isn't solely dependent on agriculture.

 

So, then let's look at the 37% of the population outside of Omaha and Lincoln. Now, what % of that 37% are are solely dependent on the agriculture business? I understand that the economies of smaller towns/cities in Nebraska are dependent on agriculture. But, how much does the economy dry up when corn prices? Yes, there is probably less spending on non-essential items, but I would think that people who run essential businesses still do okay. Also, looking at historical corn futures, it looks like corn farmers made a killing in 2012-2014 when prices peaked.

 

I don't know, this is all just theoretical, but I would be interested in understanding the overall percentage of Nebraskans have their livelihoods dependent on the agriculture business.

 

1 in 4 jobs in Nebraska is Ag related. Not sure what percentage is linked directly to corn

 

 

 

States by percentage of farmland - 2004

 

1. Nebraska

2. South Dakota

3. Kansas

4. North Dakota

5. Iowa

LINK

 

Or maybe all those cornfields have something to do with Nebraska being considered a farm state.

 

/Sorry for the further derail. Carry on.

[huKSer]

Unfair, I know but ....

 

[huKSer]

KU misses having Nebraska in the same conference. As the picture from last season shows what happens when the Big Red Invasion doesn't fill their stadium for them.

 

[famoustitles]

KU misses having Nebraska in the same conference. As the picture from last season shows what happens when the Big Red Invasion doesn't fill their stadium for them.

 

I don't really blame them for not wanting to watch their games recently. Lol

[Count 'Bility]

The national average corn prices for each of the years of those games pictured were 6.67, 1.86, 6.67, 3.83 respectively. national average was above 4.00 only 5 times since that earliest game in 2000.

 

LOL.

[TGHusker]

I wonder if there is a stat of some kind regarding travel - what % of stadium seat capacity was sold to the visiting team fans. Probably too hard to figure - in the ND case, tickets were sold to ND fans who turned around and sold them to NU fans. Maybe only pics can tell the story.

[Guy Chamberlin]

Listen to the radio broadcasts on the Big Red Network: more seed and fertilizer ads than you will ever hear anywhere else.

[ColoradoHusk]

Listen to the radio broadcasts on the Big Red Network: more seed and fertilizer ads than you will ever hear anywhere else.

Yes, there are a ton of seed and fertilizer ads, but I bet a lot of that has to do with farmers doing actual harvest and other work in the fall where they have to listen to the game on the radio.