Springtime in Husker Nation

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Roundball Shaman

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The Springtime season is a period of hope, new beginnings, and renewal. It’s a time when the darkness and long cold season finally gives way to a fresh start and a sense of joyful anticipation.

Most people think the Spring season comes around March or April. But not in Nebraska.

The real Spring season in Nebraska begins in August and September when the pride of The Cornhusker State starts to appear in groups of players at green fields on hot days. The real Spring season of hope and new beginnings is the start of another Big Red football campaign. August and September is the real Spring in Nebraska.

Young Husker fans will experience the joys of Big Red football with fresh eyes and see things for their first times. Older fans reconnect with precious memories and times held in their personal Mind Bank of hours and days spent with treasured family and friends creating life-long riches of Husker experiences. Everyone gets back in touch with reasons and feelings of why they became fans of a college football program that makes a small upper Midwest state so famous to the world. Nebraska is mostly known to the world for sustenance-providing corn and high caliber football, and not necessarily in that order.

Husker fans have been disoriented for a generation. The Cornhusker footballers have been mostly absent from their usual place among the elite of college football. It’s been hard on the fans, the team, the university, and Nebraska’s sense of identity. But there’s something stirring out in the High Plains. It is the belief that the Cornhuskers are renewing themselves to reclaim their proper role as a college football Blue Blood.

And so, Spring blooms in August in Nebraska. The leaves may begin to dry and fall. The sun may start to fade instead of rising in the sky. The heat of the day will turn to cool and then cold. Birds will be flying off to warmer perches as weeks go by.

But Spring is now rising in Huskerland. You know you feel it. Hope is in the air. The years of wandering in the desert are over. The Oasis is just ahead. It’s not a mirage this time. It’s the real thing.

Good luck, Nebraska Cornhuskers. And Vaya Con Dios to all in Husker Nation as we begin to reenter the land of promise.
 

 
I’m fine with still referring to this time of year as “late summer” of even fall. And honestly, I think we all felt the seismic change in the programs fortunes beginning the day Moos introduced Scott Frost to the media. Since then it has just been executing the plan (and rolling with the inevitable punches). As Frost says, we are still another few recruiting classes from being ALL the way back, but YES this has the opportunity to be the year the Cornhuskers “flip the script” on the B1G. #GBR

 
There is something special,  if a bit insane, about the relationship Nebraskans have with the Cornhuskers.   It's like a drug. 

Everyone gets +1's from me in this thread because of it!

 
If the mods were to ever decide to implement a minimum post count before someone is able to start a new thread, August would be the month to do it. 

 
Ulty said:
If the mods were to ever decide to implement a minimum post count before someone is able to start a new thread, August would be the month to do it. 
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Wrong. ‘Cause August is when I’m the most excited and impatient and therefore dying to read any and all Husker-related s#!t. 

 
Moiraine said:
Wrong. ‘Cause August is when I’m the most excited and impatient and therefore dying to read any and all Husker-related s#!t. 
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Okay, but maybe everyone who wants to wax philosophic about it can participate in one of the umpteen other threads in which there is an actual discussion. Or if someone wants to add their own podcast or youtube video to the mix, there can be a megathread to collect them, or they can go into one of the other preview or pundit threads. Am I being too old and cranky about this sort of stuff?

 
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