What in the world is the Husker fanbase thinking?
So Scott Frost released a (from what I gathered) much anticipated Hype Video today.
Scott Frost, who signed a lengthy contract Extension some months ago, has won (9) games total in his first TWO seasons.
I sometimes wonder how the Husker fans stay enthused. They show up and show out every week in support of the Huskers football team, and their stadium is a sold out roaring Sea of Red as a result.
Michigan has a tough task every year in trying to win the last game on their schedule, after usually winning all the Gimme Games. Nebraska is trying to tackle the tough task of winning the supposed Gimme Games and becoming bowl eligible.
Took a quick glance at the comments under the Frost Hype Video, hoping to see some vitriol spewed at the subpar showings of seasons Frost has made them endure the past couple of years. I saw none of that... I mostly saw other fans (Iowa) trolling. With Huskers fans saying things like, "Brick by Brick" and other things of that nature.
I just wonder what's going through their minds to still patiently believe they're gonna close the Gap between them and Wisconsin, and the try to think about attempting to tackle the OSU gap that Michigan is faced with.
I first wonder because I didn't see any commenting fans keeping it real... even though it was put out on a Social Media platform for everyone to see. You'd think that's all Michigan's fanbase is composed of, if you looked at any Facebook post they send out, even the most positive ones
Could that be the cause of the team not performing well. I know Frost is holding the players accountable. He says so at every press conference, except when they happen to beat Southwest Illinois State.
Doubt anybody is negative recruiting against them at this point. Must be much easier to recruit against nothing but a sea of red backdrop. And he can tout the traditions of Nebraska juggernaut teams of old.
I next wonder because I can't even imagine how small the shreds Michigan would be ripped into if the following paragraph was written in any media outlet... I won't even get into hype videos.
Check this out:
Anyone else get goosebumps? Memorial Stadium is certainly a special place.
The Huskers have several massive home contests this season. Nebraska will host seven games including: Purdue, Central Michigan, South Dakota State, Cincinnati, Illinois, Penn State and Minnesota.
It could be a big year in Lincoln.
I don't know what that fanbase is taking to calm their nerves and thoughts, but it's definitely too high of a proof or way too potent for anyone outside of Lincoln to dabble with.
Aren't Scott's teams still "outhitting" their opponents even in their losses, though?
From Outhitting to Outshitting, A Scott Frost memoir.
I will never, ever, ever get tired of this. The best moral victory ever
I can't believe we lost that game. Wait a minute...
That they love Husker Football, are willing to be patient and have an actual fan culture that's supportive?
We're currently being driven nuts by a far too long losing streak against a rival at a historical high. Not sure how that gets fixed. Think of SEC programs up against Alabama, it's just going to take time. Which we're tired of hearing because of the Tressel strak granted, but I'm not sure what else there is.
Do they even have a rival?
Besides Iowa? No.
Nebraska made the mistake of leaving its history behind in the Big 8/12 conference.
By doing so, it left behind all the longstanding rivalries and lost touch to its traditional geographic recruiting footprint.
It's going to be tough sledding for Nebraska to win the Big Ten (despite playing in the much weaker West division).
100% agree - Nebraska is in the wrong conference.
Many people will look at a map and think "Nebraska is just like Iowa & Minnesota & Wisconsin & Illinois. Flat states where a bunch of farmers live! So how can Nebraska be culturally different from the rest of the Big Ten West?"
But it is. The latter 4 states are truly the Midwest. Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas, & the majority of Oklahoma & Texas (+ eastern Colorado, including even Denver) are the Great Plains. It's hard to describe, but spend enough time travelling and it's clear that there IS a difference.
I know Nebraska hates UT-Austin - but I think Nebraska needs to be in a conference with both them and Oklahoma to truly "ever get back."
the western half of nebraska gets some surprising elevation, upwards of 5000 feet. i don't know that i'd ever want to live there, but i'd love the open spaces, of course the farming, the hunting and when i have visited i did enjoy the people, too. not enough forest or water for my preferences, but i'd take it over city living every day.
+1. I live in the Denver Metro - I find the high plains of Wyoming, Nebraska and eastern Colorado just as fascinating as the Mountains.
I love driving around out there. I was in the Pawnee Grasslands this past Saturday, picturesque desolate rolling grasslands to go bird and pronghorn watching with the Rockies in the background.
Did some work at KSU in Manhattan and I gotta say that the Tall Grass Prairies are really beautiful. Agree that it's not just forests and mountains that can be picturesque.
This is why it's great to live in a big, diverse country. You folks (at least those commenting) find Nebraska beautiful and apparently hate cities. Give me mountains, water - especially oceans - and cities.
My only experience with/in Nebraska is admittedly unfairly brief - driving through on the way from Chicago to Cali. 456 miles of....absolutely nothing.
I've never seen a place so completely devoid of anything interesting to see. Granted, it was November and I-80. Nothing but dirt and corn husks. I mean nothing. Not a molehill until the last few miles. Brown nothing, forever. That is one straight road. 456 miles!
Even Iowa was interesting by comparison - at least some rolling hills and trees. I didn't see any prairie - just flat, empty, spectacularly boring farmland with very widely spaced lonely farmhouses.
I suppose if you drove only N/S on I-5 in California you wouldn't see much either; the central valley is pretty barren - but at least there's mountains in the distance and points of interest at the top and bottom.
Truly don't mean to offend anyone, I'm sure there must be things worth seeing in such a big state - I just didn't see any. Should also mention the people of Nebraska deserve their reputation for being nice.
You aren't wrong. I-80 is the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce's worst enemy. It's the most efficient route from east to west - the Union Pacific went the same way for the same reasons. But it misses all the more interesting parts of the state.
The stretch of I-80 from Lincoln and Grand Island is straight-as-an-arrow for something like 85 consecutive miles. The longest stretch of American interstate freeway like that.
You can put a brick on the gas pedal, tie down the steering wheel and take a nap. Who needs a self-driving car? You just need a good alignment.
Since "we" have gone OT here: Last Sunday my wife and I hiked 5-6 miles in the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve at Strong City...about 50 miles straight south of Manhattan. (It is a gorgeous nearly 11,000 acre preserve in the Flint Hills-about 50 mile NE of us.) We met a total of 000 people on our hike. Hiking in the solitude of the expansive prairie is a spiritual experience. We go there at least 8-10 times a year for 5-10 mile treks to test the effectiveness of our more local fitness training.
I live in Denver and prefer the mountains. However, I used to travel to Chadron and Scottsbluff. I actually found the topography to be pleasant and the towns to be quaint. They had their share of wildlife including cougars. On this same note, Colorado does not belong in the PAC-10.
Re: I know Nebraska hates UT-Austin - but I think Nebraska needs to be in a conference with both them and Oklahoma to truly "ever get back."
I think so too.
But while Nebraska is dumb enough to stay in the Big Ten, I hope Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, and Iowa conspire to make Nebraska a "has been" going forward.
Anyone can have a bad decade or two. But a bad half-century? That'll be tough to overcome as the dynamics of the country continues to change.
50, 60, 70+ years of being not relevant nationally in the 21st century will make the final decade of the 20th century football a distant memory.
I'm reminded of a quote a Notre Dame person once said. It went something like "It's fortunate Notre Dame didn't join the Big Ten. If we had, Michigan and Ohio State would've turned Notre Dame into Minnesota."
I hope that comes to fruition for Nebraska. I never had a problem with Nebraska until Carol Frost sent us that letter. After that, shit got personal.
Definitely. I hate when people include places like Nebraska and and Oklahoma in the "Midwest". Very different histories. Of course there's even a lot of variation within states. I knew a super conservative redneck from southern California, just that it was the interior.
Iowa is Nebraska's rival the same way that Gers is UM's rival..../s
Iowa already has Wisky and/or Minny.
According to the Nebraska fans I have spoken to, they wanted out to get away from Texas.
I agree, seems like Missouri was a better fit in the Big 12, too.
I agree with that on Missouri. Actually, I feel the best fit for both them AND Arkansas is the Big XII.
They're both chasing that SEC money, however.
Missouri is fascinating in a way (geography and travel are passions for me, so at least I find it fascinating). Columbia feels like a B1G-type campus. STL and Northern Missouri is the Midwest. KC has the Great Plains feel.
But ---- on the other end, the Ozarks and the Highlands feel like a mix of Arkansas and East Tennessee, while the far SE part of Missouri feels like deep south Mississippi.
Besides Iowa? No.
Colorado
If you’ve ever been around Nebraska fans you would see they are irrational and still think it’s 1995. I just shake my head and don’t even talk football with them
This!
Nebraska fans have no choice because deep down they believe if Scott Frost can't bring back the Osborne days (and he can't) then nobody can and the last 20 years are no longer a lengthy dip of fortunes but a new reality.
Nebraska football thrived for 30+ years in a completely different era of college football and, maybe most importantly, had a head coach who was way ahead of his time--cutting edge of S&C allowing them to develop the locals in the trenches to play an extremely physical brand of football. And to Osborne's credit he adjusted when speed began to be integral in the 80s leading to his 60-3 stretch to close his career in the mid-90s.
In short, the rest of college football caught up and they haven't hired a transcendent coach since. Combine that with being IN Nebraska, no disrespect intended but that's not exactly Florida and Texas recruiting circles, and you have the recipe for a program that will NEVER get back to its former glory days.
Would be very interesting to compare the Nebraska fan base now (not freaking out) with the Texas and USC fan bases.
All three have glorious histories, and all three have been under performing relative to theoretical ceiling for a long time.
They're thinking CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN
And CORN CORN CORN CORN CORN
And in their spare time, CORN.
It’s Nebraska. What options do you think they have besides patience and loyalty?
So they're just like us?
Wow, wait...so you can support the team you root for, have hope and optimism, give things time to build, have a level-headed expectation of success, and....enjoy college football? You don't have to shit on everything about your program? I dont believe it.
Wow, what a horrible home schedule!!!
Clearly the OP is very young OR wasn't a fan of Michigan football between the years of 2008 to 2014.
Maybe you missed it but we didn't exactly make OSU tremble at the site of our helmets those years (outside of 2011) either and I'm also pretty sure I remember plenty of hype videos being posted right here each week.
They are fans dude. Just like us. Exactly like us.
Not exactly like us. They have A LOT more corn.
So they've got that going for them.
Which is nice.
Speak for yourself. Got shitloads of corn. Doesn’t help. :(
In fact, we don't have any corn, but we do have maize.
Hey, they have the 11th best recruiting class in the B1G. He's turning it around.
Like most passionate fan bases, there is the portion that considers it a moral outrage that the team didn’t go undefeated (We deserve better!). There are also the sunshine pumpers that will make excuses for the current regime regardless of the outcome, and believes that the return to glory is just around the corner. And then there is the rational crowd that sees the team for what it is, and will come out to support the team regardless because...you know...it’s college football.
Nebraska fans have typically been more entitled and delusional than most because the majority of the fan base vividly remembers the 90s. That has somewhat changed recently due to the last 15 years or so, and particularly the Mike Riley era.
The fact that Scott Frost is a homegrown hero who (allegedly) won a national title as a player at Nebraska, and has an impressive resume for a young coach, means he’s going to be given more time and patience than other coaches. Most recognize that the roster and culture were in real bad shape when he got there, and that just doesn’t change overnight. While many won’t admit it, I think many fear that if Frost can’t get Nebraska to Wisconsin-level success, who can?
In the meantime, I think most are just trying to enjoy the process and are hopeful that we get football this year. There are plenty of radio callers and message board posters losing their minds, but that isn’t unique to Nebraska.
So basically we're criticizing them because they aren't toxic and dead inside yet like so many fans on here?
This is a very confusing post. I think it's pretty normal for a team to make hype videos? And isn't the idea of fans supporting their team pretty normal? It does seem that they're very loyal, but that also seems good?
I mean, Scott Frost should definitely go eat some trash, but I don't really get indicting a fanbase for being enthusiastic.
Year 3 vs year 6. Give them another year and they'll be in the same boat. Although they gave Pelini 7 years and he won nothing.
In Pelini's defense, Nebraska won at least 9 games every year under him but they also lost at least 3-4 games every year under him.
What most Nebraska fans don't understand (or remember well) is that Tom Osborne was Mr. 9-3 or 10-2 until the mid 90s. He did have back-to-back 12-1 seasons in the early 80s but those were aberrations.
But whereas Osborne got many years to prove himself, Nebraska pulled the plug on Pelini after 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Osborne#Head_coaching_record
I can't pretend to know how long Harbaugh will be our coach, but I hope his last five years look like Osborne's.
happy scott frost day
That they support their team, and look forward to every game like fans.
My closest friend is from Nebraska, they are just generally good people. When I went to the Michigan game in Lincoln in 2012 they were as nice as could be. No shit talking at all.
When Nebraska played Michigan in 2011 at home. I hosted a large group of Nebraska fans who made the trek. They were not treated as kindly as I was in Lincoln.
They don’t have much else in Nebraska so they love their Huskers. The slogan Nebraska nice is very real.
Of course they love their football in Nebraska. There is literally nothing else to do except shuck corn and ogle Warren Buffet’s house.
Yesterday it was Scott Frost, today it’s PJ Fleck, who will the mgoboard hype up tomorrow
Omaha resident here. God, I was on cloud 9 after that 2018 beat down. Most of my Husker friends have told me they’re willing to give Scott Frost as long as he needs to be successful. How patient they’ll actually be remains to be seen. I almost feel bad for them...they hired their very own home town hero with a very solid (albeit shorter than Harbaugh’s) track record of coaching success too and they’re in a FAR worse place than we are right now. I mean yeah, Harbaugh hasn’t come close to living up to his hype at Michigan, but he still managed back-to-back 10 win seasons with a bowl win in his first two years.
I can only wonder what will happen if Scotty boy somehow manages to miss a bowl game for a third consecutive year. They shouldn’t have fired Frank Solich
They choose to enjoy college football and root for their team