"(Nebraska Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc) Boehm also mentioned Frost and Moos have talked about having two or three spring games. The spring game sold out in just over 24 hours."
Would you pay $10 to watch the team have a normal Saturday scrimmage?
If they still had the normal spring game, couldn't they just allow fans to attend the normal Saturday scrimmages and call those spring games? Curious what their ideas are.
It is definitely an interesting thought. Article pasted below: (Link)
LINCOLN — Matt Davison doesn't know how many games Scott Frost is going to win. But he knows the pain is over.
"I don't know how many games we're gonna win moving forward, but we'll have a team that plays hard, that'll represent the state well and we'll put a team on the field you'll be proud of," Davison said in a speech to the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
Athletic Director Bill Moos was originally slotted to speak, but a flight delay canceled his appearance. Davison filled in along with Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc Boehm.
In a 30-minute speech, Davison gave a brief history of how he helped wrangle in head coach Scott Frost.
It began in September, when Nebraska barely beat Arkansas State in week one. That's when alarm bells starting going off.
After Nebraska's loss to Northern Illinois two weeks later, he called Frost and gave a pitch about coming back to Nebraska. This came after Shawn Eichorst was fired.
"And he didn't want to hear it," Davison said.
But as Mike Riley's final season began to circle the drain, he began the full-court press on Frost.
"The leadership we had in our program and university and department and it all started with the people, great people, special people that know how to lead young men," Davison said. "We got away from that a little bit there where some poor decisions were made around the program and it took us to a place we want to forget about."
After the Minnesota loss, Davison reached a low point.
"I don't want to say they quit, but that was a football team that didn't look like they wanted to be out there," he said.
Finally Frost gave in and after a 12-0 season at UCF, was hired in early December. And since then, Boehm said, the attitude inside the athletic department has been "electric."
"At this university we finally have all the leadership in place and everyone is on the same page and everyone is moving in the same direction from president to the chancellor and athletic director and finally the football coach," Davison said.
We'll have more from Davison and Boehm later. For now, a few notes:
>> Boehm said he believes both the Nebraska men's and women's basketball team have shots to make the NCAA Tournament. If the men's team wins the next three games, he said, they should be in.
>> Boehm also mentioned Frost and Moos have talked about having two or three spring games. The spring game sold out in just over 24 hours.
"I don't know how many games we're gonna win moving forward, but we'll have a team that plays hard, that'll represent the state well and we'll put a team on the field you'll be proud of," Davison said in a speech to the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
Athletic Director Bill Moos was originally slotted to speak, but a flight delay canceled his appearance. Davison filled in along with Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc Boehm.
In a 30-minute speech, Davison gave a brief history of how he helped wrangle in head coach Scott Frost.
It began in September, when Nebraska barely beat Arkansas State in week one. That's when alarm bells starting going off.
After Nebraska's loss to Northern Illinois two weeks later, he called Frost and gave a pitch about coming back to Nebraska. This came after Shawn Eichorst was fired.
"And he didn't want to hear it," Davison said.
But as Mike Riley's final season began to circle the drain, he began the full-court press on Frost.
"The leadership we had in our program and university and department and it all started with the people, great people, special people that know how to lead young men," Davison said. "We got away from that a little bit there where some poor decisions were made around the program and it took us to a place we want to forget about."
After the Minnesota loss, Davison reached a low point.
"I don't want to say they quit, but that was a football team that didn't look like they wanted to be out there," he said.
Finally Frost gave in and after a 12-0 season at UCF, was hired in early December. And since then, Boehm said, the attitude inside the athletic department has been "electric."
"At this university we finally have all the leadership in place and everyone is on the same page and everyone is moving in the same direction from president to the chancellor and athletic director and finally the football coach," Davison said.
We'll have more from Davison and Boehm later. For now, a few notes:
>> Boehm said he believes both the Nebraska men's and women's basketball team have shots to make the NCAA Tournament. If the men's team wins the next three games, he said, they should be in.
>> Boehm also mentioned Frost and Moos have talked about having two or three spring games. The spring game sold out in just over 24 hours.
