[NU Sports] Sun Bowl = Season in a nutshell (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> Mr. Nolan might have the best feel for this, but my rough guess would be that football traffic outpaces basketball traffic on here by perhaps 50-to-one.  Does that ring true ?

Sounds reasonable.

> Additionally, are other boards (especially the Husker board) this skewed in fav or of football ?  Is the Husker board even more football-heavy ?

Most of the college sports lists I know have one primary sport and some
secondary sports.

The Husker List is heavy on football and rather light on basketball, which
largely reflects the relative prominence of those two teams.  During the 
Danny Nee years, when the Huskers made a few NCAA appearances (losing in 
the 1st round every time) and won the NIT once, there was more basketball 
talk, at least during the season.  (Football is 24x7 on the Husker List.)

The current basketball coach in Lincoln has not produced very competitive 
teams, and nobody seems to care that much, on or off the List.

During the women's volleyball team's recent run to the NCAA Final Four we 
got a fair amount of traffic on that sport, and the baseball season has 
its ardent followers, myself included, especially in recent years, as 
the Huskers have been to the College World Series 3 times and just 
missed going twice more.

We even get a smattering of wrestling talk.  

I haven't paid a lot of attention in recent years, because there are so
many sports sites out there these days (and blogs are becoming quite
popular too), but from what I know of other college forums from several
years back, football dominates the posts at football schools.  

The Duke list had a lot more basketball than football talk, which is 
logical.  The last I knew Colorado didn't have much of a sports talk forum 
at all.  Notre Dame at one point about 10 years ago had the distinction 
of being the only school to force an independent sports list to close 
down (apparently it was over the use of the 'Fighting Irish' trademark.)  
The person running the list was pissed off enough that he didn't start 
up a new one under a non-infringing handle.

Football and baseball have the advantage over other sports of being
something many people think they know well enough to discuss strategy.
(The term 'armchair quarterback' has entered the vernacular for a good
reason.) How many people know any strategies for volleyball?  They're 
also both sports that generate a wealth of statistics.  
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Mike Nolan