A New Student Section - A Dark Mark on the Sea of Red?

by Jon Johnston on Aug 28, 2008 8:05 AM CDT in Nebraska Husker Football

The Omaha World Herald has an article about the change in student seating for this season, a wonderful article that paints the students as they truly are, a bunch of debaucherating, profane jackasses that would destroy the Norman Rockwellian portrait that many see in Nebraska football. I'm surprised they didn't mention the orgies.

I especially love this quote:

"Normally, each row is packed with fans, about two or three per seat," said University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Chad Hall. "The language is extremely vulgar, and I've seen at a few games bottles being thrown at people or the field."

Which is followed up by this:

The new plan puts students in the higher rows of sections 12, 13 and 14 - the seats previously occupied by the season ticket holders - and farther from the action on the field. And it puts season ticket holders in former student seating that was close to the field.

Taken from that perspective, I guess you could say the administration favors the students throwing bottles at season ticket holders rather than those on the field. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm....

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Students are always calling for a 'black out' which never happens, but if they feel strongly enough about getting screwed by their new seating area why don't they just get everyone in those sections to wear black? They've already been deemed second-class citizens, so why not make it a dark mark on the sea of red? If not, perhaps they should just accept it and move on.

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For the past couple years I sat in section 13 about 15 rows behind the students. The biggest problem was the students would stand on the bleacher, which made everyone behind them have to stand on the bleacher in order to see anything. I don’t mind standing the whole game, but a lot of folks aren’t going to climb up on the bleacher. I think that caused the most tension.

I’d be a fan of giving the students all of the lower sections in the south end zone if they could somehow keep them from standing on top of the bleachers. A rowdy student section really helps pump up the atmosphere.

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by siffring on Aug 28, 2008 10:14 AM CDT reply actions

Don't kid yourselves

This has nothing to do with student behavior at the games. The real reason this was done is that the university can charge more for the season tickets in the lower rows than it can for the season tickets in the higher rows. It’s the same reason why the student section was moved for basketball at the Devaney when they put in the cushy seats in the A sections in place of the bleachers.

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by huskerlibrarian on Aug 28, 2008 11:42 AM CDT reply actions

Uh no...

…season tickets are the same price, no matter where you sit…

by Husker Mike on Aug 28, 2008 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions

There were orgies?

When I’d first heard about this I thought all of the students in South would be crammed into the above sections of 12 through 16. Now that I see a visual display of what they did I really don’t see it as that big a deal. They’re still in a janky spot in South anyway with just three of the sections moving behind them (which one of those sections housed only the athletes so that might cause some problems). If I was a ‘regular’ student I’d be more PO’d that the greek system gets a monopoly on all of the seats in East rather then this switch.

by Doc1028 on Aug 28, 2008 2:09 PM CDT reply actions