[Husker] Hurricanes Coming to play in Lincoln

[jon johnston]

Bill Byrne's "No National Championship Game in September" model was  
fine back when Nebraska was in the national title mix, and over ten  
years ago. Now, not so much.

AD's are figuring out that they can't get away with scheduling garbage  
because at most schools fans aren't going to buy tickets to watch a  
crappy product. You can only get away with the 'force a season ticket  
down their throats' stuff so far before people won't buy them anymore.

So, they're taking to scheduling bigger name games at neutral sites so  
both sites benefit. Nebraska doesn't really have a neutral site  
anywhere that Nebraskans will travel to in droves, so we're going to  
have to play games against people like Fresno State to get our faces  
back in the national picture.

I don't think most Husker fans realize how far we've fallen off in the  
view of national relevance. We don't exist for most of the nation now,  
or we exist as a has-been. We're not as down as Florida State or  
Miami, but those schools still have each other and Florida to play in  
a game that people will watch.

Nebraska has no such rival, since we steadfastly refuse to acknowledge  
anyone else but Oklahoma, others have noticed and ceased to care. Can  
that change? Not until Husker fans realize it needs to, and with Tom  
back and Bo around, it won't until we fail some more.

Jon Johnston
http://www.cornnation.com
On Sep 12, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Mike Nolan wrote:

>> It's good to have an athletic director that isn't afraid of  
>> scheduling
>> some good OOC opponents.  Like most things he did, the OOC  
>> schedules set
>> up by Pedey were mostly disgraceful.  Check out 2010 - Western  
>> Kentucky,
>> Idaho, @Washington, South Dakota State.  It's obvious that Pedey  
>> wanted
>> to lock in at least 3 "guaranteed wins" each year for Callahan.
>
> Well, I'm not so sure it was entirely his fault, Bill Byrne used to
> grumble about how he'd call all the teams in 1-A and nobody wanted to
> play Nebraska.  And Bill Byrne was probably better liked and admired
> by his peers than SP was.
>
> He also articulated perhaps the best statement I've seen of a  
> reasonable
> design for an OOC schedule:
>
> 1.  No National Championship game in September
> 2.  One top 25 caliber team (usually a home/home series)
> 3.  One or two top 50 caliber teams
>
>> If Nebraska is back in contention for BCS titles by this time, then  
>> OOC
>> will be hugely important.
>
> IF??  Oh ye of little faith!
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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jon johnston
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