[Husker] 2008-2009 NU Football Schedules Set & USC Tickets

[Gary Fead]

Good Evening All:

Well the NU football schedules are set for 2008-2009. 

NU will have 8 home games in 2008 against - San Jose State, New Mexico State, Virginia Tech, Western Michigan and four Big XII opponents. 

In 2009 NU will return to the more normal 7 game home slate matching up with Florida Atlantic, Louisiana-Lafayette, Arkansas State and four Big XII opponents. The three home out of conference opponents for 2009 are all out of the Sunbelt Conference (maybe NU can claim to be honorary Sunbelt Conference champions if they beat all three). 

Neither schedule is great and the 2009 schedule is down right bad in my opinion. I think NU should award the donors extra priority points for requiring them to donate to see these three "games" or else give them free tickets for those three games. 

I fully realize we cannot play Florida State, Iowa, Penn State and Auburn for our non-conference schedule like we did in 1981 but gosh we should be able to get a school that has a little bit of name recognition (i.e. Wyoming, Colorado State, Indiana, heck I'd even be happy with Utah State). 

If this is what we have to look forward to in future scheduling I would be more than willing to bet there will be a lot of tickets for sale with regular season ticket holders not even bothering to attend and trying to dump their tickets.

On another subject it appears the ticket sales business is cranking up for the NU/USC game in September. Brokers are already asking upwards of $499 per ticket for the game on September 15th. 

Gary Fead
Omaha