I went to 24 home games in the mid 80's to the late 90's, and the atmosphere was more 'electric'...I hadn't been to a home game since that time til Baylor last year and I was seriously looking around and talking to people about what the f#*k happened to our crowd. Everyone stands up for the tunnel walk and says Husker Power, then .34 seconds after kick off everyone sits right on their hands.
Bo coached in the SEC, where even on TV, during 3 yd runs the crowd is just plain Raucous. Last nite was the first time since Texas 2006 that the crowd was up the whole game. VT last year was pretty good, but we had to come back to get everyone up. Colorado was absolute apesh#t when Henery made the kick.
But the point is, the crowd, for the most part isn't just Batty and jumping and crazy and sexy. It's uniform and formal and polite. I said it when they put that gigantic freaking screen in that too many people stop, turn, stare, and listen to ads and replays and it takes away the ONENESS of the crowd providing the noise and cheers. I know they aren't going away anytime soon, but at least they could make them an addition to the crowd with some extremely loud sound and extremely graphic pics.
I agree that a season of consistent wins with the players giving US something to get excited about will change everything, but we need to provide the "Electricity" no matter who the opponent is and no matter what time in the game it is.
FWIW--my brother was at the game last nite and said it felt like games of old. Crowd was rockin he said and no one sat down the entire game except half time.
