Husker Volleyball in Memorial Stadium

[Mavric]

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Dream Big. John Cook professes it. His volleyball teams do it. So do Nebraska volleyball fans.

 

How big?

 

Hmmm. What about a Nebraska volleyball game in Memorial Stadium?

 

This came up last week after my column on Wisconsin volleyball coach Kelly Sheffield saying he wants to break the Nebraska-Creighton record for regular-season volleyball crowd.

Both NU and CU are all-in to up their record (14,000) this year. And Cook said he would play a match in Pinnacle Bank Arena to break or set the record if necessary.

 

Then the fans/readers chimed into my email box. They said: If you want to put the record out of reach, play a match in Memorial Stadium.

 

I saw Cook after Saturday's Red-White scrimmage, and told him the fans' idea, he smiled.

 

“I don’t know who would want to play us there," he said. "If we want to get to that point, we have to play at PBA (first).”

 

OWH

[suh_fan93]

Kind of an underwhelming opponent for such a game if I'm being honest.  Still pretty cool all the same.

[Mavric]

Looks like they're trying to highlight in-state volleyball.  Which is pretty cool.

 

Curious how they will handle the sell-out streak.  Not count this because it's some sort of exhibition?  Set a "low" number of tickets to be sold and only sell more if there is further demand?

 

 

[Mavric]

And it now dawned on me that it (probably) won't count as an attendance record unless it's a regular season game.  So I'm going with my second option.

 

 

[whateveritis1224]

30 minutes ago, Mavric said:

And it now dawned on me that it (probably) won't count as an attendance record unless it's a regular season game.  So I'm going with my second option.

 

 

Saw that they're putting the court in the north endzone with tickets being $25.00 per opening up to season ticket holders first on 4/25 and then general public on 4/26. My bet, the total attendance is going to easily reach north of 50,000 because people love volleyball in Nebraska and people also love novelty. I'd almost bet that it would sell out the stadium if it wasn't on a Wednesday night.

[BigRedBuster]

21 minutes ago, whateveritis1224 said:

Saw that they're putting the court in the north endzone with tickets being $25.00 per opening up to season ticket holders first on 4/25 and then general public on 4/26. My bet, the total attendance is going to easily reach north of 50,000 because people love volleyball in Nebraska and people also love novelty. I'd almost bet that it would sell out the stadium if it wasn't on a Wednesday night.

And, if it was an actual regular season game that means something.

[BigRedBuster]

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

[BigRedBuster]

I actually think one of the cooler parts of this is that they are including smaller schools from the state like UNO, UNK and WSU.

[gobiggergoredder]

53 minutes ago, whateveritis1224 said:

Saw that they're putting the court in the north endzone with tickets being $25.00 per opening up to season ticket holders first on 4/25 and then general public on 4/26. My bet, the total attendance is going to easily reach north of 50,000 because people love volleyball in Nebraska and people also love novelty. I'd almost bet that it would sell out the stadium if it wasn't on a Wednesday night.

I just don't see them pulling 50,000 on a Wednesday night, but man that would be awesome.  I know I'm going.

[suh_fan93]

Hopefully it's not a really windy day.

[BigRedBuster]

 

[Mavric]

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

Is there supposed to be a shading difference between East/West stadium and North/South?  Like it is indicating that only seats in East/West will be sold (plus on the field)?

[Mavric]

 

[Mavric]

1 hour ago, suh_fan93 said:

Hopefully it's not a really windy day.