[Husker] New Stadium Plans Announced

[Mike Jaixen]

I'm not going to disagree with any of your points.  I
haven't been to a CWS game in a few years for a
multitude of reasons, the biggest being that ESPN
pushes the games to 6 pm, which means that I'd have to
take vacation time to even make an evening game.  The
corporate attitude already exists outside of
Rosenblatt; look at all the tents and the like for
blocks around 13th Street.

My take is that the city is going to have to meet the
NCAA's demands on the CWS, so the question is where is
the best place to do that.  And frankly, the best
solution is clearly downtown when everything is
considered.  The other option is to let the CWS go,
and that would seem to be the worst option.

I have some great memories from many years ago
attending the morning elimination games with
discounted tickets purchased from Hinky Dinky.  But
alas, those days are long gone.

As for Husker football tickets, I believe that the
last few years, a $300 or $500 donation would
generally assure you of being able to purchase a
couple of season tickets.  That may - or may not - be
true anymore.  I don't think it takes $1000 or more
(unless you want better seats)...and you can still
argue that's more than you care to spend.

--- Nick Chevance <nickchevance at gmail.com> wrote:

> My point, and here I'll assume that Skylar shares
> this view, is that
> the CWS has had a fan friendly feeling, and that
> while I believe,
> especially now that the mayor's committee has
> schmoozed the NCAA and
> will begin the same process with the public, its as
> done as the
> proverbial Ball Park frank left on the grill for an
> hour, its still a
> situation that saddens me - that fan friendly
> feeling will slowly
> change.  Unlike Skylar, baseball lost its luster for
> me years ago, but
> its the damned corporate atmosphere at most NCAA
> events worth seeing
> that gripes me the most.  There's not a thing I can
> do about it but
> complain, and here I think I'm allowed to complain. 
> Liberal use of
> the delete key is suggested.
> 
> Its not unlike getting into Husker games - there,
> I've linked it to
> football 8^) before we get too far gone on this
> subject.  I earn a
> decent salary but I just can't quite come up with
> the extra $1500 to
> $3000 on top of the cost of tickets to buy season
> tickets to games.
> Its not that I can't do it, but that's a huge chunk
> of disposable
> income that will do better in getting my two kids
> through college (so
> they can support me in my old-er age).  So I rely on
> the kindness of
> strangers - and friends who have season tickets -
> and I get to two or
> three games a year.


Mike Jaixen
Blog: http://huskermike.blogspot.com


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