It’s a striking difference. Nebraska has excellent, consistent fans. And, you know, what frustrates me, and I see this on Twitter and social media a lot: again- media people!- will say: “Boy, these four fans that tweeted this guy… wow! Nebraska’s fans are just…”
No they’re not. It’s the internet. It is how the internet works.
If you don’t want to take the time to understand the context of our age and social media, and how the internet works, and the effect that it has on people: Don’t bother to comment because you don’t know what you’re talking about if you think that seven to 100 people on a message board, or whatever- and understand that there might be 1200 people looking at a thread, but only 15 commenting on it- and if you think that represents the majority of the fan base, you’re nuts!
And there are people who cover the team, who buy hook-line-and-sinker into that, and they shouldn’t. You’ve gotta understand when you cover this: it’s larger than football. And those fans in the stadium… most of those people absolutely adore Nebraska, and they don’t even think about going on a message board.
We have to stop defining ourselves by a handful of naysayers… as fans- I’m not a fan- but the players have to stop thinking that that’s what represents the fan base. And hopefully they will. Because I know this coaching staff doesn’t care about it.
