Husker fans can be among the harshest out there when it comes to criticizing their own. Probably because so many have a sense of entitlement related to a self aggrandizement about being the best in the country. Who knows.
I think Nebraska fans are terrifically loyal to their team and their players. Better than most.
They're also pretty knowledgeable.
When the Huskers came out and played incredibly lackluster in the first half against an unranked and probation scarred Ohio State, the week after a lackluster blowout that was supposed to be their wake-up call, there may indeed have been scattered boos. A few folks up in the rafters left at halftime.
Then when Taylor Martinez engineered the greatest comeback in Nebraska history, the place went wild.
The team deserved the accolades. And they deserved the loud grumbling, too, if not the boos.
So if 95% of the fans stayed and wildly cheered on the team's second-half turnaround, that would mean the glass was 95% full.
Bo was obsessed -- I mean visibly, disturbingly obsessed -- that the glass was 5% empty. His press conference was petulant and childish.
Two years later, when the fans found out what Bo really said at halftime, a vast majority were supportive of Bo and enraged by the Leaker.
Remember that?
Nebraska fans treated Bo better than he deserved.
When Bo was given a fresh start in his hometown the exact same problems resurfaced, and Youngstown State fans -- who were leaving their 15,000 seat stadium half empty -- generally acted as dismayed and "entitled" as Husker fans.
