Spring Game

[HuskerFan2002]

Right now it's 67 degrees in Lincoln with a SW wind at 33mph with NO RAIN.

They could've played today.

[joshuahuskers]

Volleyball team still played their scrimmage yesterday in doors.  Just sayin'.

[HuskersNC949597]

I can not believe how people can just say it is ok with the way they handled this.  This is supposed to be big-time college football and yesterday we looked like mom and pop in the sticks.   I do mind any game being canceled.  The Athletic department better get there act together or fans will start leaving.  It does not take too many bad events to lose the fan mojo.  Fan have too many choices.

I lol'd. There is no other game in town, football-wise.  This is a blip on the radar, much like the storms fortunately ultimately proved to be for Lincoln.  Everybody likes to denigrate the spring game as being a glorified scrimmage, and now canceling it is the greatest sin of our athletic department's recent history?  Please.  Nobody on the national scene probably even noticed or gives a rat's rear orifice.  This kind of weather alert had only been issued once in the past 5 years and that was in the south (and it turned extremely deadly).  Yes, the team probably should have elected to take another practice on their own time, but in the grand scheme, any fans who "leave" are idiots to begin with.

[HuskAndPack]

I can not believe how people can just say it is ok with the way they handled this.  This is supposed to be big-time college football and yesterday we looked like mom and pop in the sticks.   I do mind any game being canceled.  The Athletic department better get there act together or fans will start leaving.  It does not take too many bad events to lose the fan mojo.  Fan have too many choices.

I lol'd. There is no other game in town, football-wise.  This is a blip on the radar, much like the storms fortunately ultimately proved to be for Lincoln.  Everybody likes to denigrate the spring game as being a glorified scrimmage, and now canceling it is the greatest sin of our athletic department's recent history?  Please.  Nobody on the national scene probably even noticed or gives a rat's rear orifice.  This kind of weather alert had only been issued once in the past 5 years and that was in the south (and it turned extremely deadly).  Yes, the team probably should have elected to take another practice on their own time, but in the grand scheme, any fans who "leave" are idiots to begin with.

Agree. I'm out $20 as he kids tickets were free for the drug pledge and a couple hours.  Owell, life goes on. Better than having lightning strike us. 

[dan the man]

Its not the only game in town. Thinking like that would/could come back to bit us in the butt IF the athletic department thinks that way (not saying they do). Fact is, its not 1985 when we could only watch a handful of games every saturday. We can now watch 50+games from the comfort of our own home every weekend. Who cares if its nothing that will show up in the national radar, it shows up on the husker fans radar!

The red-white game is more than a glorified scrimmage. The Proof is the 60,000 who show up every year, the 20+ recruits that show up every year, the TV channels that show these games, the fans who are upset on Facebook, Twitter, and husker message boards. 

Laugh all you want about the fans who are "might" look elsewhere because of the frustration in this program, just remember anyone under the age of 21 can't remember our glory years in the 90's. That plus the fact we have had a large amount of blowout losses in the past 10 years and we don't seem to be any closer to a conference title than we were 5 years ago makes for a depressing, disappointing situation that occured yesterday

[HuskersNC949597]

One unprecedented weather-related incident is not going to cause some weirdo to become a fan of Ole Miss unless he was inclined to fairweather behavior to begin with.  If even a handful of fans became disenchanted, there are hundreds if not thousands waiting to take their season tickets from them.  Again, this was a rare event, unlikely to ever occur again.  Osborne's not stupid, they'll probably have something else as a backup planned next time.

[Cdog923]

Here's a question: if this weekend was so great for recruiting, and we really didn't miss out on anything by not playing the game, why even schedule a Spring Game for next year?

[Solly]

In fairness, there was considerable lightning in the area, and a big, bare steel I-beam superstructure all along the east side of the stadium.

Not an unimportant consideration.

[Husker03]

If it is no big deal and just a scrimmage, than charge me $2 to get in. If it is costing my husband and I $25 to get in, than it is an event. If an event gets cancelled for any reason, then give me my money back. You cant pocket 3/4 million dollars in admission fees and dismiss it as being no big deal. If I go to a movie and pay $18 to get in and the projector breaks, you better believe the theater doesn't just say, "Well Jumanji is playing on that screen, you can go on in there at no charge," and expect me to be content.

That is my only issue with any of it.

[Cdog923]

In fairness, there was considerable lightning in the area, and a big, bare steel I-beam superstructure all along the east side of the stadium.

Not an unimportant consideration.

The reason for cancelling the game is perfectly legitimate, and the right decision. It's what has happened afterwards that is causing a reaction (and a legitimate one, at that).

[dan the man]

1)Its not just one thing, its the combination of us not being a top 10 team, losing at home every year to an unranked team, losing bowl games etc.

If we were Alabama, LSU, Florida, USC, etc. We could get by without an negative effects.... We aren't though, we need all the help we can get.

I don't like the thought process behind thinking we will get it right next time. We Didn't get it right this time. We are Nebraska, we aren't Doane. We have to be prepared for things like this and handle them a heck of a lot better than we did!

[HuskervilleJoe]

Volleyball team still played their scrimmage yesterday in doors.  Just sayin'.

Did TM make it in time?

[LarstheRed]

1)Its not just one thing, its the combination of us not being a top 10 team, losing at home every year to an unranked team, losing bowl games etc.

If we were Alabama, LSU, Florida, USC, etc. We could get by without an negative effects.... We aren't though, we need all the help we can get.

I don't like the thought process behind thinking we will get it right next time. We Didn't get it right this time. We are Nebraska, we aren't Doane. We have to be prepared for things like this and handle them a heck of a lot better than we did!

Some of you need to really think how freakin' absurd this whole 'we needed to be ready for anything' crap sounds. It's a public scrimmage they use as a fundraiser. I guess they could tack a buck a game charge on the regular season tickets, but they do this instead to get some folks into the game who can't always manage tickets during the regular season. They do all sorts of things to make the kids tickets basically free, which is great. Damn guys, find something more important to toss the doom and gloom crap on, this is getting truly absurd.

[HuskervilleJoe]

In fairness, there was considerable lightning in the area, and a big, bare steel I-beam superstructure all along the east side of the stadium.

Not an unimportant consideration.

We have a lightning detection and alert system at the barn.  I went in and looked at the computer side of it and between 11 and 1:30 it would amaze you what you saw.  I wish I could attach it but there was heavy lightning but once it got to Lincoln it stopped.
TO made the right call with the 2 lightning rods sticking up on the east side and also all at the Haymarket.  I have seen lightning bounce off of the Gateway Arch and believe me was scary as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[knapplc]

Volleyball team still played their scrimmage yesterday in doors.  Just sayin'.

You mean inside the steel-and-brick Coliseum?  The same Coliseum with a basement large enough to hold all the fans that attended? 

That's a little different than the tin shed Hawks Championship Center, which would have had roughly 250 people between players, family, coaches and various school officials if they'd have moved the practice indoors.  There's no basement at the Hawks center.  There's no storm shelter.  That means if there's a tornado, they have to get all those people from Hawks over to the Stadium, either through the glass gerbil run or by going outside, and then into the Stadium inside somewhere away from danger.  Not an easy task.  If even one person is hurt in that process, Osborne, Pelini and all the UNL brass are going to get raked over the coals for a week by the national press. 

It just is not worth the risk.  Period.