Corn Flakes wants Suh to win the Heisman

by JLew on Jun 1, 2009 4:00 PM CDT in Corn Flakes Comment 8 comments

Suh for Heisman? Why not? Well lots of reasons, but it's something fun to think about while you wait 90+ more days until that fall festival that is Nebraska Football returns. And look, he's showing the pose to Cody Hawkins.

Ndamukong Suh Interception vs Colorado (via huskeraddict)

The first 2 Husker games will not be on television
PPV remains an option, as does going and buying a ticket, or tailgating. You know if you are into that sort of thing.
Speaking of the upcoming season, Tim Griffin points out critical schedule points for Big 12 teams in 2009. He picks at Kansas, Kansas State, at Colorado for Nebraska. A 2-1 record or better in these games likely will push the Cornhuskers into the championship game.
Ex-Husker Wistrom loves making his mark helping kids

The three national championships, the Super Bowl ring, the Lombardi Award, induction into the College Football Hall of Fame — all pretty overwhelming. But none of that is why Grant Wistrom was cracking with emotion Friday night. He was telling a story about a boy, the kind of boy with the kind of attitude you don’t forget — even when he’s gone.
With college baseball in the post-season without Nebraska for the first time since 1998, we have found 2 links that should put the Husker baseball season to bed. First off, don't look for Osborne to make a coaching move this season, or maybe ever? And you can bet that Anderson will be watching the draft closely, since most of the problems have been pegged on the recent losses to the draft.
So I always read or hear how Nebraska fans are the "Best Fans in College Football". Well here's a little something to back that up. How good does the sell-out streak look when Kansas is selling split season ticket packages? Really Kansas? Where's the interest?
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Spokesman for NU

says that there are pursuing PPV for the first 2 games. You are all shocked I know.

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by JLew on Jun 1, 2009 9:18 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

…point to KU’s ticket-selling woes as evidence that Nebraska has great fans. For one thing, KU was, is, and always will be a basketball-first school. Football is just now getting established, and at this point, a lot of their fans seem to be in a wait-and-see mode with the football program. Sure, they had a great season two years ago, but the way things went last year, it looks more like it was a fluke combination of scheduling and team experience.

The dynamics are simply different in Nebraska than they are in Kansas. Sure, Kansas has a bigger population, but that population is split between two Big 12 teams, rather than being concentrated on one. Also, through the 40 years or so that Nebraska was a dominant football program, the following was built. Those fans will keep coming back, for three reasons: first, they believe it’s just a matter of time before the dominance returns; second, they don’t have much choice because there really isn’t much else to do in Nebraska in the fall (I grew up there, so I should know); and third, they can’t afford to give up their season tickets because they probably wouldn’t ever get them back.

One other thing that’s often overlooked is that Lincoln is about three times as large as Memorial Stadium. Contrast that with Lawrence, which is not quite twice as big as their Memorial Stadium, and K-State, where the stadium is as big as the entire town. Having all that population close by is a big aid in getting people to the stadium on game days. In fact, if you look at the Big 12 as a whole, you will really only see one example (Texas A&M) of a really big stadium in a small/rural town. The other big stadiums in the conference — Texas, Oklahoma — are in big cities (Austin, Norman/OKC).

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by TB on Jun 2, 2009 8:08 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Wonderfully articulated TB...

and to piggyback on, I’ll promote my own site and give credit to the commenter below on Tim Griffin’s lazy piece as a way of displaying the more logical angle to take with this story….

topekahawk (6/1/2009 at 4:03 PM)

KU’s stadium capacity is 50,071.
Home Attendance Averages
2002: 36,083
2003: 38,750
2004: 41,067
2005: 43,675
2006: 44,137
2007: 46,784
2008: 50,907

KU has sold 40,000 season tickets (@ $300 ea. for 6 games) as of May 2009, which is about 6,000 more than this time last year. There are NO single game tickets for sale through the university. The only way to purchase tickets to the OU game or the NU game through the university will be through a 3-game $150 ticket package. These will not be premium seats. They will be seats with poor sightlines that are the last to sell.

Tim, the better angle on the story would be how KU continues to have increasing record numbers of season ticket sales in spite of the following factors:
1. A wobbly economy
2. KU basketball season tickets cost $1,155 each plus $346.50 for parking and are consistently selling out.

by hiphopopotamus on Jun 3, 2009 9:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

TB do you feel dirty

sticking up for KU? Talk about ~~dogs~~ hawks and cats living together…

And I do not buy the “there’s nothing to do in Nebraska”. Really? so Manhattan, Lawrence, Norman, Ames are all exciting hot spots? Lincoln is not so far from Omaha where there may be things to do, (what things are we talking about? What exciting things are other people doing while NU fans go and watch football?) and not too far from that wonderland that is Kansas City, where I assume all the Kansas fans flock to.

Why isn’t KU pulling in more fans from KC? Why isn’t the fan base energized for the up coming season? They are strong picks to win the north, have a lot of talent coming back on offense, and still have that hell of a coach running the show. Shouldn’t the fans want to get on board with an up and coming program?

Now I’ll level with you all, I have no idea what “Best fans in college football” really means. But I think you have to admit that it’s admirable that even with the economic downturn, even with being very mediocre for about a decade, and even with a coach most people didn’t like, people still bought tickets, and the streak continued.

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by JLew on Jun 3, 2009 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

i hate it

I hate the moniker “greatest fans in college football”. I absolutely hate it. it’s arrogant as hell, and appears to me to be pretty un-Nebraskan. i still wish they’d take the signs down.

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by corn blight on Jun 3, 2009 8:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ummm... Kansas City is only about 25 miles east of Lawrence...

Yeah, it’s a touch further than the distance between Oklahoma City and Norman, but KC is also a touch bigger…

by Husker Mike on Jun 3, 2009 9:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm missing your point Mike

So is that why people won’t go to the games? Shouldn’t the larger population base be a draw for KU?

You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool.
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by JLew on Jun 3, 2009 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's more like 40 miles...

with a drive of 45 minutes to and hour. But your point is taken.

All I can direct you to is my post above showing a clear and dramatic increase from year to year with this season being now different. Interest is clearly at an all-time high and the half-season ticket packets were simply a way to A) fill up the worse seats for people who couldn’t swing the whole season & B) either keep out Nebraska/Oklahoma fans or profit from their purchase of two other games as these packages are the only way to get tickets to those games.

by hiphopopotamus on Jun 10, 2009 11:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs