Link to Poll - Go Vote!

[everybody knows my name]

Backy Budger is conducting a poll over at Buckyville. I think you Husker fans should go over there and vote for your team!

 

http://buckyville.yuku.com/topic/88461/Nov-12th-Minnesota-Nebraska-who-do-you-wanna-win#.WCNreS0rJhE

[Kiyoat Husker]

Why? Aren't they trying to find the opinion of Badger fans? Personally I don't give a crap what the outcome of that poll is. I certainly don't care enough to try and influence it.

[everybody knows my name]

Obviously you don't hate Wisconsin enough. It's a cleansing hate, you should try it.

[Kiyoat Husker]

Yeah, I would say Texas probably fills the top spot for us in the hate category. But it isn't reciprocal. And we never play them anymore.

 

Nebraskas biggest current rival that we have been battling every year for 16 years is irrelevance. And we are 3-13 against them in that span.

[AFhusker]

Yeah, I would say Texas probably fills the top spot for us in the hate category. But it isn't reciprocal. And we never play them anymore.

 

Nebraskas biggest current rival that we have been battling every year for 16 years is irrelevance. And we are 3-13 against them in that span.

 

[84HuskerLaw]

We don't have a 'rival' and haven't had one since Oklahoma and the Big 8 and then to lesser extent in Big 12. To be a rival, you must play each other for a LONG period of time in very competitive fashion typically and the annual game needs to have season make or break significance. It will often have major championship or title impact OR be based on a geographic tie such as the two prgrams at the same level within a given state or community or other grouping/association. A rvialry can and often grows out of one particularly noteworthy contest or battle with unusual or exceptional plays or events within - such as a fight, an unfair or illegal ruling, or other disruptive or destructive thing.

The key ingredients are, in my view:

- duration (normally several decades of annual games

- very competitive contests with title or other signficance

- very few teams have more than one rival

- geographic, conference or non-athletic ties or competitiveness adds to the spirited compeition between the two

- origins date are often traced back to a single event or controversy or 'spark' which lights the competitive fire

- rivalries cannot be created or started by declaration - they are not planned but more spontaneous

- they survive coaching and player personnel changes, etc etc

[everybody knows my name]

I think it's simpler. Traditionally, to become a rival, they first have to be hated. You can have a friendly rivalry where there's no hate, but that's more common among individuals, less common with teams.

 

Are Nebraskans just not good at hate? I would think that being right next to Iowa, you would have had lots of practice.