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Are Nebraska Fans “Too Nice?”


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Are Cornhusker fans too nice? Are Husker fans just too patient and understanding and willing to accept a football product that is less than living up to the grand Husker tradition?

 

Look, we know there’s been plenty of anger and weeping and gnashing of teeth over how things have gone for the Big Red over the past 20 years. And yet, all that angst has not had much affect on the big picture.

 

When other big-time programs get into trouble, they turn things around QUICKLY. Not all, but many. Baylor and LSU (acting TODAY) are just two of the most recent examples. And heaven forbid that anything might happen to lessen the high perch that the likes of an Alabama or Oklahoma or Clemson or Ohio State to enrage the loud and quick-tempered fan bases of those National powers. The shockwaves from that earthquake would rumble across the continent.

 

The high heat and smoldering ire from certain fan bases helps to create changes and improvement is quickly evident for certain programs. While others like the Big Red just rearrange desks for various Husker coaches over the years and nothing seems to work or take hold from any of them. 

 

Being “nice” is not a bad thing, especially today in a quick-tempered world full of frustration and disrespect. But perhaps, being “nice” as a fan of a proud football program is just contributing to the problem. This is not to suggest that having anger for anger sake is the answer for it is not. It’s got to be something else. But what, exactly?

 

When the fan base of the likes of LSU and Baylor sense trouble, their Leaders perk up and respond. And their trains get quickly back on the success track. Clearly those fan bases seem to have some effect that the Husker Nation has lacked. Even programs like Purdue and Indiana are showing life again even without the same level of passionate fans. And... Cincinnati. Look where they are. And, Kentucky? Wake Forest?

 

It’s been said that Nice Guys finish last. Well, the Huskers haven’t finished last lately... (yet). But it does seem that Nice Guys do finish lost in the pack of a forgotten division in a conference that has given way to another in having National prominence.

 

Can we “Nice” ourselves back to National prominence? Or does it take something else that others seem to have found?
    
And how is it that the Husker’s great rival of all time Oklahoma has remained a power all these years and The Red have not? What magic has Oklahoma got and how do the Huskers get some?

 

And how do the great Husker players of the '70s and '90s look at what Oklahoma has done and not wonder what the (blank) is going on here?

 

 

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Some Husker fans are too nice and emotionally connected to Frost as a former player. College football is a business, and sometimes guys we like and want to succeed simply are not getting the job done.  As I said in another thread, there is not a single program in the top 10 all time wins that would keep Frost for a 5th season with his resume through the past 4.  

 

 

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11 hours ago, HuskerNation1 said:

Some Husker fans are too nice and emotionally connected to Frost as a former player. College football is a business, and sometimes guys we like and want to succeed simply are not getting the job done.  As I said in another thread, there is not a single program in the top 10 all time wins that would keep Frost for a 5th season with his resume through the past 4.  

 

 

he wouldnt have made it to year 4 at those places.

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