[Husker] Michigan fans (fwd)

[Pat Gaule]

Mike Nolan wrote:

>>I have been to a number of Husker games at Big 10 Stadiums ( Iowa, Minnesota, Penn State, Illinois, and MSU).  For my money, MSU has the best fans, and Penn State the worst.  I went the Alamo Bowl the first 2 times NU was in it (couldn't make it this year for some personal reasons) and I found the Northwestern fans to be horrible.  The ones I ran into b/4 the game were cocky.  After the game they did nothing but complain.  I guess they couldn't take their butt kicking like adults.
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>I would have hoped that Husker fans have developed a finer appreciation
>for what it is like to have your butt kicked after the last few seasons.
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>Apparently not.
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>BTW, over a half dozen players and two (now former) coaches have confirmed
>that Nebraska DID intentionally run up the score in that Alamo Bowl game,
>with the full consent of the coaching staff, including Frank Solich.
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Good!  Many NU players also confirmed that the Northwestern players kept 
mouthing off throughout the course of the game.  The notion of "running 
up the score is mean" is about the most pointless whine-fest that 
sportswriters ever invented.  I didn't begrudge Texas Tech when they did 
it to us in 2004, and I certainly didn't feel guilty that we did it to 
Northwestern in 2000.  In both cases, it wasn't the winning team's fault 
that the losing team decided to stop playing hard.