[Husker] What did the losing season cost?

[Pat]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Nolan" <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
To: <husker at romaine.tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 5:44 PM
Subject: [Husker] What did the losing season cost?


> The other day the Journal-Star ran a story saying that Nebraska-branded
> merchandise sales are lagging.
>
> Travel agents won't be selling bowl packages this year, either.
> (That might actually be a bit of a relief to some of them, as I think
> they contract for a minimum guaranteed number of bowl tickets, and they
> might not have made the minimum this year.)
>
> It makes me wonder what the true cost of a 5-6 season was?  Millions,
> I suspect.

On a simpler, non-financial level, it also hurts the team.  The worst part 
of not going to a bowl is the fact that we miss out on an extra 3-4 weeks of 
practice between now and spring. Considering we're "implementing" (if that's 
what it can be called) a new offensive scheme, extra weeks of practice would 
have been very beneficial.

There's also the intangible aspect of "program prestige."  I don't think a 
lot of people understand what was lost today by not going to a bowl game and 
having a losing season.  This was all we had left, and now it is gone...yea, 
we still have the sellout streak.  Another year like this and it might go by 
the wayside as well..especially considering the fact that we're adding more 
seats.