The Big 12 Cob of the Week

by Jon Johnston on Nov 12, 2008 7:00 AM CST in CN News Comment 5 comments

Every week Corn Nation features "The Big 12 Cob Of the Week" - the worst of the Big 12 from the previous week. Husker Mike and I handle the nominations.

Husker Mike:

Colorado: Your best weapon in defeating Iowa State at home? Having the clock run out with Iowa State on your one yard line.

Versus: What the hell were you thinking in selecting Iowa State/Colorado to televise?

Kansas State: Between a porous defense that looks, well, Cosgrovian, on the field, a "1st round NFL draft pick" quarterback who can't generate any offense, an clueless administration that seems to be rudderless, and fan web sites reporting wishful thinking as breaking news, what's not to love in the Little Apple?

Corn Blight:

Cosgrovian? We could possibly work that in somewhere else in the next week, hopefully. Mike took Kansas State - I would have nominated them solely for the GoPowerCat incident where Gary Patterson was reported as the next coach way ahead of a time where that was appropriate. Get gun, shoot both feet.

Tom Osborne: Yes, I am blaspheming by nominating Osborne for this award. It comes because of this statement at Husker Extra regarding the rows of empty seats in the student section at last week’s Kansas game:

“Supposedly those seats were all sold, and we may have missed some students because of the weather or because of the Oklahoma loss or whatever,” Osborne said Monday. “But that concerns you, because usually, the last people to give up because of weather or win-loss record, you would think, would be the students. ...
“So I don’t know how to interpret it, but we may have to take a look at it. I think we have enough demand that we could certainly sell those tickets at the regular price next year if the students don’t want to come.

Last year when the decision was made to move the students away from the field, we were told it wasn't about money. Now we get this statement. Osborne states he'll look into it and I'm sure he will, but earlier in the week, I alluded to poor fan support at Texas (particularly students). It wasn't by coincidence I pointed that out.

Count me as someone who believes the students should be near the field, that their concerns should be met, and that we don't need to scavenge more of their tickets for season ticket holders. If money is of that big a concern (and it may be with the economy), then it's time to make some hard decisions other than screwing the students.

Buck Burnette, Texas backup center: Burnette was kicked off the Longhorn team for a “violation of team rules”. Burnette posted “an extremely immature, intolerant, and hateful remark about President-Elect Barack Obama” on his Facebook page right after the election.

I know I risk piling on here, but this is a weekly award for the worst of the Big 12. I’m not nominating Burnette because it’s funny or to gloat, but because it fits. That, and I know that there are plenty of young (pre-college) people who read this site and I want them to get the message - don’t put stuff on the Internet unless you intend for it to be seen by everyone. There are consequences.

Poll

Your Choice for Big 12 Cob Of the Week is...

Colorado - lousy defense to beat the worst team in the Big 12

11 votes

Versus - your suckage is great

53 votes

Kansas State for more reasons than just Ron Prince

21 votes

Tom Osborne for yanking the students around because of a few empty rows of seats

39 votes

Buck Burnette - because what he did was wrong

30 votes

154 votes | Poll has closed

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The report by GoPowercat may have been a lot of things, but it was not wishful thinking.

We'll carry the banner high!
Bring On The Cats

by TB on Nov 12, 2008 8:52 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

I disagree with your statement on Osborne regarding this quotation:

“I think we have enough demand that we could certainly sell those tickets at the regular price next year if the students don’t want to come.”

That was my favorite statement of the interview.

If the students are protesting the location of their seats they need to do it another way. Stop being babies. If you don’t like your seats, fix it another way. Not showing up is just stupid.

by MissouriRED on Nov 12, 2008 11:25 AM CST reply actions 0 recs

Did Mike give Blight permission?

Mike does the blaspheming around here. In fact, he has his own blog dedicated to it. Stop stealing his thunder.

:-)

Whether it’s a veiled or overt threat to the students, you also know it’s a fact. Like it or not, NU can find a few hundred more season ticket holders, “if the students don’t want to come”. MissouriRED is right, find another way to go about protesting.

by Wolvie on Nov 12, 2008 1:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Why not just take all the student tickets away?

Hey, here’s an idea Osborne, why not just eliminate all student tickets completely. You know the demand would easily be met within hours. Also, the band seems to be taking up space as well, why not give up those seats too. Hey, you know what also might work is putting in comfy seats along the sidelines to which the cheerleaders presently reside. That would be awesome

/end blatant sarcasm

Are you clowns for real? The student section is the essential part of all football stadiums. Without it we would just have another NFL game on our hands and who really wants that? That’s the group of people at Memorial Stadium that gets there early, stays late, is the most vocal, most intimidating, and quite frankly the best sections to be in for a game. To reduce the amount of student seats (you know those folks that actually pay to go to school there) would be a travesty and something this alumni would feel ashamed of.

by Doc1028 on Nov 12, 2008 2:44 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

No...the students are the FIRST to leave...

…they were the first to leave the Missouri game, and they didn’t show up for Baylor or Kansas…

Tom Osborne is right…if the students don’t want to come, let’s find people who do…

That also being said, I see the students point about not wanting to sit in the upper reaches of the south stadium. I think there has to be some compromise in there. Students were warned repeatedly about the standing on the seats, and nothing ever changed.

My first suggestion is to move the students back to the their lower level seats, but move the visitor section to the southeast corner above the students. Add some extra security to ensure that there are no problems, and then put the fans who were in the upper sections of the southeast corner in the upper section of the southwest corner.

by Husker Mike on Nov 12, 2008 10:08 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs