Nebraska captains refuse to shake Iowa captains’ hands?

teachercd said:
There is generally a "rule" that you don't go to the other side of the field during pregame stuff.

Now, if it is for a prayer or gathering, something like that, that is different.  

As far as not shaking hands, eh, who cares.  
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Pregame walk through after arriving to the stadium vs pregame activities with both teams out there are two different worlds

 
twofittyonred said:
Pretty sure if that's the case, Iowa's admin could have contacted Nebraska's and asked them not to...  pretty simple...!!  but placing 13 armed state troopers out there to "protect" it was just to illicit a response...  our "classy" act in return was to refuse to shake hands at midfield...  not resorting to violence...
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Both things can be stupid

 
desertshox said:
I thought they did it at the 50 so both teams could come together for it before the game.
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If that were the case, we wouldn't have had multiple teams get annoyed at us for doing it. I don't know this, but I kind of doubt we asked the other team to join (but should if we're going to do it there).

 
Hagg said:
Thoughts:  No.

Feelings:  Disappointment.

Results of those dishonorable actions:  Another loss to Iowa because they had a little bit extra fire in them.
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Yeah I don’t think they had any extra fire. We pretty much kicked their a$$ all night long…..except for about 4-5 plays where our guys failed to make a simple play like tackling or snapping or not fumbling.

 
Hagg said:
Thoughts:  No.

Feelings:  Disappointment.

Results of those dishonorable actions:  Another loss to Iowa because they had a little bit extra fire in them.
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Yeah. They sure had fire to the tune of getting dominated before we laid a punt on the ground in the 3rd quarter.  We lost, they won…but please…enough of this ‘they had motivation’ crap. They weren’t motivated enough to convert a 3rd down all day or keep their stud running back from getting stuffed in the backfield half a dozen times. 

 
Jason Sitoke said:
Yeah. They sure had fire to the tune of getting dominated before we laid a punt on the ground in the 3rd quarter.  We lost, they won…but please…enough of this ‘they had motivation’ crap. They weren’t motivated enough to convert a 3rd down all day or keep their stud running back from getting stuffed in the backfield half a dozen times. 
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I don't know man.  I think they were extra fired up and that is why their punter sort of punted that hard to catch punt.

 
Personally, I don’t give a s#!t about anything Iowa players or coaches have to say. However, if you really watch the video of what happened and saw how the refs saw that, you will care. Think about it, if you were a ref and just witnessed a group of young college kids reach out to shake the hands of their opponent, and the opponent refused to shake their hand, what will you be thinking? No matter what we expect from the refs, they are still human and they react to what they witness. If a call could go either way, I would definitely not give it to those who showed poor sportsmanship. And all that because Iowa did not want us to pray in the middle of the field. Come on. We should never use religion as an excuse to be disrespectful to others. 
 

Since we are not a juggernaut who can steamroll our opponents, we should not give opponents and refs more ammunition against us. As harmless as some on this board seem to think that drama was, I think that it is going to hurt us in more ways than just the loss. 

 
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