Both do. I’ve been a fan for 30+ years and I’ve heard other Nebraska fans say… “Nebraska is in the middle of country, nobody wants to come here and we don’t have the in state talent to be good at basketball.” Creighton and UNO’s success puts that shit to rest doesn’t give the NU administration the cover to say “this is as good as we can hope for.” I’ve said for years that total defeatist bullshit, and completely untrue. Schools like ISU, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin can have respectable programs then we can too. Our passion and commitment to basketball (administrators, coaches, donors) is fvcking piss poor at best.
And frankly our fans are to blame too, yes we fill up the vault, but we also take a beating like we deserve it. I want people raging mad about the lack of results we’ve seen from a top revenue sport. We mad when we lose football games, we shrug our shoulders when we lose basketball games.