Smallest crowd since 2000, announced size was 27,188. How much of that was the early date/cool weather and how much was other factors?
I think the game answered some questions about the offense but probably raised questions about the defense, especially solving last year’s inability to stop the run.
Mike Nolan
I don’t think it was any one thing that caused the crowd to be small.
1.The early date. If I recall correctly the spring game was usually the first Saturday in May. I don’t know how many times it has been in March.
2.There was no spring game a year ago so that indicates the coaching staff isn’t high on the importance list
3.It really isn’t a game anymore. It is like watching practice, which is what it really is.
4. It has been a long time since the Huskers have had a good team.
There are other reasons but these a few of them.
John Papenhagen
I wonder if the basketball trips to OKC and Houston for so many played into it?
Possibly, but how many fans actually went to OKC or Houston? 5000? Those arenas don’t seat 30,000.
I hate to say it, but the football team has just been meh so far under Rhule, good enough for the lesser bowl games the last two years but not a serious playoff contender. Yeah, they’ve gone to 2 straight bowl games, which hasn’t been an every-year thing since Solich was fired.
And this past year the basketball team was far more interesting to watch than the football team.
I don’t disagree. Also the Top 10 a softball team had a big home series against UCLA and our Baseball team is #24 along with success in wrestling bowling gymnastics. Nebraska sports in general are really in the rise. Lots to focus on other than just football.
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Apathy settling in.
Apathy is the perfect word. I don’t care as much as I used to, and I am somebody who used to arrange his entire fall around Husker football.
I will say the fortune of the other men’s programs have improved dramatically in the last 3 years. Basketball had an amazing season and baseball is 22-6 and 8-1 in the big ten after sweeping Indiana today, (they also won the conference the past 2 years).
We may not be considered a “football school” for much longer…