[Husker] Is it Really This Bad? (fwd)

[Gary Doyle]

If Fan Day is any indication, interest is down. 
According to last year's press release, over 6,000
people attended Fan Day last year compared to 5,000
this year.  

Gary Doyle

--- Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com> wrote:

> > When no one replied to my post I thought maybe
> Mike Nolan is right, after
> > all. There is no interest, besides a few Go Big
> Suckers, like me. Then I
> > recalled 63 thousand fans at the Spring game. So
> maybe the dying interest is
> > not in our Huskers but in our Husker list, Mike.
> After all, there are all
> > those semi-supervised boards where people can be
> unfettered nasty.
> 
> Although the subscriber count is down from the peak
> in the 1995-96 era,
> before there were a lot of other places to discuss
> the Huskers on
> the net, the subscriber count has stayed fairly
> constant for the last 
> two or three years.  
> 
> It looks like there may be about as much space
> devoted to Husker volleyball
> as to Husker Football in today's Journal-Star.  The
> lead story on the 
> football team has to do with the absence of a depth
> chart, part of the
> media blackout that Callahan has imposed.  
> 
> I don't think it's just this list.
> 
> If anybody's active on other online forums, I'd be
> curious to know if 
> they're seeing less traffic than in years past too.
> 
> Traffic should pick up when there is something
> interesting happening, 
> like it did when the Huskers went to the CWS.  
> 
> (I suspect the traffic here is more than on a board
> run by someone I
> know, it's devoted to the National Hockey League.)
> --
> Mike Nolan
> 
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