[Husker] 2006 FB Schedule

[jonlists at cbsol.com]

husker-bounces at tssi.com wrote on 12/30/2005 07:59:18 PM:

> When you have a dynasty such as Nebraska has had since Devaney it is 
tough 
> to get "great" teams to come to Nebraska in what I call "The Big Twelve" 

> preseason. 


[snip]
> It is tough to criticize a AD when you really understand no one wants to 

> come to Lincoln to play. Perhaps we should zero in and see who Miami, 
> Florida State, Okalahoma, Texas, Penn State  and the likes play in 
> preseason. I have watched this and they are no different then NU.
> 

And it makes for a lot of really bad football. 

This isn't about "people being afraid to come to Nebraska" it's that most 
of the larger schools won't schedule home and home games. Everyone wants 
more home games, so they have to feed on the small programs to get them. 
So we'll end up with crap for football. Damned good thing we'll go to 12 
games a season next year so that most of the powerhouses can line up some 
make-a-buck fodder that no one wants to see (unless you make one of those 
games "bring the kids day" or something like that). 

Where's Mike Veeck (son of Bill) when you need him? Maybe he could bring 
some life to the lousy games like this? 


> The way I understand it is that most of the pre-conference games are 
> actually lined up 5 years in advance. If we have that many openings for 
2006 
> then some teams must have bowed out after they committed. We are very 
well 
> aware of the fact that in the last 10 years there have been teams cancel 

> their trip to Lincoln at the last minute and (I believe) actually pay a 
fee 
> for ducking the game. When this happens what is the AD to do? Just not 
have 
> a game that Saturday? Lose the revenue? If so then everybody will be 
after 
> his head for losing money.
> 

Maybe he should be more willing to deal and get some games that people 
want to see. As you said, it's been happening for years. If that's the 
case, then they ought to be more prepared, shouldn't they? 


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