The hawks would pown them in hoops.I have had a field day talking hoops with them this year.Old Flick Shag wanted this off the football board.
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... or they thought about basketball for a couple seconds and then went right back to their obsession with the football program. 90% of Husker fans are unconcerned, at best indifferent ,with Nebraska basketball. After the bowl season, the main topic of discussion is football recruiting and the rest of the winter they are more focused on the Spring scrimmage than any basketball game.
Honestly, for me (and many fans of many programs throughout the country), having a decent men's bball program is merely a nice luxury and distraction during the football offseason. The football program is priority #1, #2, and #3 and should be treated as such. Hate it but have to agree with Nebraska on this one.
They don't care about NU Basketball because they turn into Creighton fans during BB season.
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they were all fired up about their hoops last year.they pack the gym every game this year for hoops.they care.
Yeah, me too. Iowa Basketball has been my first sports love for longer than I care to admit. That's one of the reasons I am so grateful for Coach McCaffery for the steady progress he has made with the program. That, and the apathy I feel toward the direction Ferentz has us inevitably taking in football makes basketball doubly important to me.
Husker fans do care about more sports than football. Basketball attendance was really great last year and was solid this year. Nebraska leads the nation in volleyball attendance. The Husker baseball team drew over 17,000 fans for a three-game series this last weekend.
Since I don't even follow football I guess it would be obvious that I am a basketball fan first. In fact first, last and only. I like that former athletes in the sport I enjoy are not cripples.
At least not in more than very rare cases that could be reasonably called accidents. I've never thought of 300 pound men repeatedly slamming into each other as hard as they can as accidents.
So, anyway. Nebraska. Half the population of Iowa and no tradition at all, and in an age when television markets rule the sport they decide to build and expensive place to play basketball?
Yeah, success? I don't see it happening. It's hard enough for the Hawkeyes and at least we've been at it in a serious manner for many decades.
At least not in more than very rare cases that could be reasonably called accidents. I've never thought of 300 pound men repeatedly slamming into each other as hard as they can as accidents.
So, anyway. Nebraska. Half the population of Iowa and no tradition at all, and in an age when television markets rule the sport they decide to build and expensive place to play basketball?
Yeah, success? I don't see it happening. It's hard enough for the Hawkeyes and at least we've been at it in a serious manner for many decades.
grp-i don't they've beaten us in hoops since joining the league.don't think our fb record is o% against them.
I'm the same way, only switch football w/ basketball and I'm in complete agreement. Too bad Iowa football has been dead for years w/ no signs of improvement on the horizon.
Wow, they've lost to us 5 times already in bball. Didn't realize that. I guess when you expect to beat a team you don't appreciate how often Iowa does it. Almost got to beat them down another time this year.
Other than football, Husker fans are the biggest bandwaggoners around. They brag about baseball attendence now, but under the last few years of the previous coach, it was a ghost town. They go to basketball now because Lincoln has a new arena, but under Sadler the Omaha paper ran stories about miserable attendance. Now that the smell is off of the Miles' rose, expect that bandwagon to fall off as well...
Of course, they'll go on and on about how they are the best fanbase in all the world. It has to be true, you know, because it says so right on their football stadium.
Say what you want, still 17,000 showed up for a baseball series against Florida Gulf Coast. Time will tell about Miles and attendance at PBA. Creighton hoops wasn't exactly a hot ticket either under previous coaches in the old Civic.Originally posted by BluejayAttyAlum:
Other than football, Husker fans are the biggest bandwaggoners around. They brag about baseball attendence now, but under the last few years of the previous coach, it was a ghost town. They go to basketball now because Lincoln has a new arena, but under Sadler the Omaha paper ran stories about miserable attendance. Now that the smell is off of the Miles' rose, expect that bandwagon to fall off as well...
Of course, they'll go on and on about how they are the best fanbase in all the world. It has to be true, you know, because it says so right on their football stadium.
What was Creighton's attendance like pre Dana Altman? I'll wait.Originally posted by BluejayAttyAlum:
Other than football, Husker fans are the biggest bandwaggoners around. They brag about baseball attendence now, but under the last few years of the previous coach, it was a ghost town. They go to basketball now because Lincoln has a new arena, but under Sadler the Omaha paper ran stories about miserable attendance. Now that the smell is off of the Miles' rose, expect that bandwagon to fall off as well...
Of course, they'll go on and on about how they are the best fanbase in all the world. It has to be true, you know, because it says so right on their football stadium.
Pot meet kettle.
Meh,
I'll answer that for you. In Dana Altman's first year at Creighton the "non bandwagon" fanbase averaged a whopping 2, 792 fans at the Civic. Yeah, no bandwagon there.
I'll answer that for you. In Dana Altman's first year at Creighton the "non bandwagon" fanbase averaged a whopping 2, 792 fans at the Civic. Yeah, no bandwagon there.
How does it not apply? Does it not prove Creighton fans are also "bandwagoners." Hell, you can make that case for any fanbase for that matter. Before Creighton started winning 20 games a year under Altman and the construction of the Century Building they were lucky to average 4K fans a game. Now they are top 10 attendance(along with NU).... And yet...they want to call out another fanbase for being "bandwagoners?" Again...pot meet kettle.Originally posted by cg8284:
You're referencing attendance from 1995?Originally posted by KcRoyals13:
Meh,
I'll answer that for you. In Dana Altman's first year at Creighton the "non bandwagon" fanbase averaged a whopping 2, 792 fans at the Civic. Yeah, no bandwagon there.
