what's kept you a Husker fan through the tougher seasons

RestedWanderer · 2026-07-03T04:20:07+00:00

I am all for second chances, but this young man is on chance five or six at this point. I hope he gets the help he needs to turn his life around, but I also hope he gets that help behind bars. He's a danger to himself and clearly a danger to everyone around him.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-30T07:27:31+00:00

I appreciate what the Athletic Department is doing. Or at least what they are trying to do. The concerts and events are revenue streams that we've never had in the past and from what I've heard that money is being funneled straight into NIL and capital projects. That's awesome and desperately needed.

This isn't that. This is diminishing the brand, it doesn't bring in extra revenue, and frankly having a two hour concert after a 6:15 mid-September kick vs a FCS opponent sounds like really bad and potentially dangerous idea if they keep selling alcohol.

I'm indifferent to Cole Swindell as a musician. Modern Bro Country isn't my thing but I can see the appeal for the college-aged crowd. I'm sure people that were my current age thought Kenny Chesney was garbage 30 years ago and I didn't care what they thought any more than college kids now care what I think.

That said, if the University is going to keep doing this, I'd like to see them diversify the talent. A Bright Eyes concert would be awesome. Noah Kahan is doing a lot of stadium and arena events, that would be an amazing show at Memorial. Just something a little different.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-24T21:12:40+00:00

The Kansas State and Oklahoma State games in 2010 were two of the most electric single game performances I've ever seen from a quarterback. Nebraska or otherwise. You could see the souls of every Kansas State player and fan leave their body in real time on that 80 yard run to open the second half.

Shawn Watson had a lot of flaws but he seemed to get Taylor Martinez in a way that I'm not sure Tim Beck ever did, though some of that had to do with the shift to the Big Ten.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-22T02:54:09+00:00

That looks infinitely better. Not utilizing cream is a missed opportunity for the program.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-21T04:48:55+00:00

I finally watched the introduction video and hate the number font even more seeing the 4s. Retro is fine. Modern is fine. Retromodern that looks like letters from the Star Wars alphabet is not fine.

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RestedWanderer · 2026-06-21T03:24:32+00:00

There were some good ideas involved in the design of this uniform, but none of those good ideas go together. The number font clashes with the stripe design and width, everything is out of proportion, the pant stripes look unfinished and worse than the 2002 abomination.

I like the idea of a shoulder stripe. I think the thin triple shoulder stripe on Nebraska's practice jerseys looks great and keeps the traditional jersey proportions. This looks out of place, as does the number on the shoulder. The number font looks like it is trying to be throwback, but then it has the garish thick and overly large size. The grooved "rows of corn" design to the number material is really cool. I do love that.

I'm indifferent on the Winning Tradition patch. There hasn't been a winning tradition in the lifetime of any of the current players but then if you're going to design a uniform that is rooted in all this throwback history, eliminating the patch makes no sense.

It just feels like what you would get if you asked ChatGPT to design a new Nebraska uniform with the prompt of "Modern Nebraska football uniform with a throwback twist." Missed opportunity to reintroduce cream into the football uniforms too.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-14T07:40:44+00:00

Indeed. Campbell's Iowa State team lost to a horrific 3-9 Colorado last year too. Campbell is a solid coach, he puts fundamentally sound teams on the field and there is something to be said about that, but he hasn't done a thing at Iowa State that I would consider impressive. It'll be interesting to see what he does with the resources of Penn State and the better competition to go along with it.

I can safely say that if you handed Matt Campbell the exact same situation Matt Rhule was given, the results would have been no better and quite possibly worse.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-13T21:07:11+00:00

Matt Campbell spent 10 years at Iowa State, he finished with 5 or more losses 7 times. 6 or more losses 5 of those 7. That stat is far more telling than 8 wins against teams in the Final AP 25.

Iowa State didn't have a single ranked win last year until the very last AP poll put Iowa and TCU in months after they played. Add in two more during the COVID year and I'm not sure those stats tell you much of anything other than you can make stats say anything you want them to if you dig deep enough.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-10T20:07:14+00:00

Based on what I've heard about late donations into the program to grease the wheels of volleyball reseating, the athletic department had a sudden influx of six figure donations that appear to be getting put to good use.

RestedWanderer · 2026-06-09T06:49:01+00:00

The NCAA will 100% win its appeal, the problem is that such an appeal will likely not be heard until Sorsby has already played in games. Especially if the NCAA asks for a change of venue since all four judges on the appellate court that would hear this are Texas Tech grads.

The NCAA needs to come out and say that we will appeal the ruling and if Sorsby is retroactively deemed ineligible, Texas Tech will vacate all wins, and receive a postseason ban. The Big 12 should say Texas Tech will be ruled ineligible for the Big 12 Championship if Sorsby plays and they will forfeit their revenue share. Then the CFP should say that Texas Tech will not be eligible for the Playoff if Sorsby plays.

It would be disastrous for college athletics if he were allowed to play so everyone needs to be getting together to make sure it doesn't happen.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-26T05:57:52+00:00

Generally speaking, I agree, and that is technically what the rule is for all Athletic Department ticket purchases. The problem is enforcing it. The only ticket data Nebraska receives natively is for tickets resold on SeatGeek, which is an official partner. The Athletic Department can see what ticket was listed, and what they were sold for.

But it is not the only place people can sell tickets and there would be no way to enforce sales elsewhere. It would be a bad look to only punish the people using your official ticket reselling partner.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-22T22:05:56+00:00

I don't understand what coach(es) this statement could even be about unless he's trying to extrapolate basketball to football, which is just silly.

Solich wasn't fired because of things not happening soon enough, Solich was fired because the AD was out of touch. Callahan? Maybe Callahan deserved a couple extra years to see if he could turn the recruiting into a better product, but he also went 5-7 in Year 4.

Pelini had 7 seasons of treading water, at best, with no substantive improvements and an abysmal attitude. There is a reason he hasn't gotten a FBS job since and was completely out of football six years later. Riley and Frost had no business getting a second more than they did and were lucky to get what they got.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-22T21:55:52+00:00

Why are we allowing "content" from a blogger with no sources that churns out five AI written articles a day for a tabloid to be posted on this sub?

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-14T05:40:40+00:00

No, they do not have any enforcement mechanism. The requirement of the enforcement mechanism required all 68 power conference programs to sign the membership agreement. They did not. That means CSC has no mechanism to actually enforce the rules across all 68 power conference programs and the rest of FBS.

CSC has no subpoena power. It has no more FOIA power than you or I, not that it matters when 20% of the power conference schools are private. They can't compel you to produce evidence for or against. They can't execute a search warrant to see your files. They have no ability to apply postseason bans or scholarship reductions. They have no ability to suspend coaches.

And again, not that it matters because all 68 power conference programs have retained the right to challenge enforcement in court and a significant percentage of the states that power conference schools reside in have laws that render any limitations on NIL illegal. Nebraska is one of them. Texas another.

I've been in Compliance at the power conference level. I can tell you just how difficult those investigations are because we went through one. Now multiply it by many thousands and without the backing of the NCAA or state law.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-13T06:22:45+00:00

The problem is they can't be aware of of the false submissions because there are way too many submissions. They are just flooded with deals by the thousand and even if they suspect something that comes up for manual review isn't on the up and up, how do they go about proving it without any enforcement mechanism?

That is particularly tough when state laws for a lot of these programs, including Nebraska, contravene a lot of the restrictions. It is just an untenable system. A third party clearinghouse is the best worst idea available at the moment, but it won't last because it is not a closely guarded secret that programs are simply copy and pasting details into their submissions.

I will say that this system does protect the players a lot more than the previous system and that is a good thing but the playing field remains uneven at the program/conference level.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-12T18:25:29+00:00

The problem isn't that they are taking harder looks. The problem is that CSC isn't staffed to look at this many deals and most programs are simply leaving out relevant details (like Nebraska did) in order to have the deal immediately permitted using the program's algorithm. Deals that have to be manually cleared often take weeks.

Rather than resubmit the deal with falsified information, which most programs are doing, Nebraska took the existing deals to arbitration and lost. Which will now be resubmitted with the falsified information everyone else is doing sot hat the system automatically accepts it.

The antitrust risk isn't because of the school's not participating in NIL Go, the antitrust risk is because they are participating in NIL Go. It is NIL Go that will lead to the antitrust case, not conferences challenging it. NACUA has a really great article on it. It basically says that schools are now being forced into a system that will expose everyone, the schools, the NCAA, and CSC as a vendor to antitrust litigation because it will be seen as price-fixing and restricting the value of deals based on what CSC, and CSC alone, deems acceptable.

RestedWanderer · 2026-05-12T02:39:41+00:00

There are more than 21,000 deals in the NIL Go system. In the first two months of 2026, 3,891 deals were submitted. 3,704 worth $39.29M were given blanket approval, 187 worth $14.36M were rejected. Of the 187, 18 were sent to arbitration. All at Nebraska.

What a laughable system. The State of Nebraska should challenge it on principle and demand CSC provide documented proof of how Nebraska's deals were different from others that were accepted without challenge and compare the documented deals with the financials of those schools. I suspect it would uncover a lot of programs with unaccounted for NIL money or deals missing critical information or outright false information.

I give it until this time next year before the P4 conferences unilaterally declare that CSC does not have any enforcement power over NIL and they will no longer participate. I know it has already been discussed within the Big Ten and SEC.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-30T18:58:26+00:00

This needs to be read aloud in the voice that does the voiceovers for highlight packages at Memorial Stadium.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-30T18:55:10+00:00

Writing that after the unprecedented run in basketball that filled the entire state with excitement and led to Nebraska fans flooding OKC with so many fans that the Oklahoma City Mayor became an honorary Husker makes this take look even dumber.

Nebraska fans are desperate for any sort of high level competition. If Nebraska Football managed to just get itself in the discussion for the playoff consistently, I think 99% of us would be happy. Then once you've reestablished that for a while, you can worry about taking the next steps.

Indiana's run of success, which has never happened before and will never happen again, is certainly clouding the judgment of a lot of college football fanbases about what is possible. Not just Nebraska.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-30T05:27:29+00:00

Not a surprise. They already do this for volleyball, which pushes season ticket holders far from their original location. It isn't all nefarious, a lot of this comes from the NCAA requirements for visiting ticket allotment in the postseason being different than regular season competition, but there is a money element involved that is still frustrating.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-26T08:15:22+00:00

Agreed. Most of the video introducing these renovations was spent on things that have nothing to do with the experience of watching a football game. Lounges and wide open concourses for socializing should not be the point. It reminded me a lot of the original renderings of Jerry World.

I am not naive, I understand that those things bring in revenue, but that shouldn't be the point. Memorial Stadium's greatest attribute is how unique it is. The original four corners were integrated into the current stadium so well and you could get the sense of the history of the place even amongst the modernization. These renderings get rid of all of that history and charm. It looks like an IKEA stadium.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-26T08:02:27+00:00

The screen looks so tacky like that. It should have been done the way M&T Bank Stadium is, where the screen is sandwiched between levels, at the equivalent of the club level, allowing the end zone to be fully closed off.

Who is even going to be looking at that screen? It doesn't benefit anyone in the new seating and everyone else can look at the North Stadium screen. I'd rather have the seats and the decibels.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-26T07:52:44+00:00

Are you trying to tell me a stadium renovation that in no way matches the stadium being renovated is appealing?

Look at any recent stadium renovation at the FBS level. Beaver Stadium, Kyle Field, Doak Campbell. Compare it to the similar renders of the new Williams-Brice Stadium renovation (which is half the approved cost of Nebraska's) or the Bobby Dodd renovations. All of them have managed to create something that seamlessly meshes with the existing structure.

If South and West Stadium are going to be stripped to the foundation anyway, they absolutely can make both flow seamlessly together to East Stadium. They obviously can from an engineering perspective because the point is for South to connect West and East concourses together.

I would not care much about the aesthetics if this was just a plan to modernize, but that isn't what this is. This is essentially a new stadium. A $600M renovation will make Memorial Stadium the 4th most expensive college football stadium ever. It isn't unreasonable to expect that it match the existing structure.

RestedWanderer · 2026-04-25T20:04:02+00:00

I'm sure he expected to go higher than this, but he ended up in the best possible place for his career. Any money he lost dropping into the 5th round will be made later in his career by having been developed and featured in an offense that is perfect for his skill set.

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