Dude have you watched who the SEC plays towards the end the season.. it looks like a bunch of scrubs from the local ymca. Worst week of football for the sec
What a lame excuse! And replace Tenn. with Bowling Green and Northern Iowa. Sounds more like someone is trying to pad their schedule. C'mon, it's not about the revenue and stadium renovation. Get some balls!
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Not at all, I was agreeing with you. Sorry for the confusion.
Short-sighted people run most things in this country. As a season ticket holder I would gladly pay double for the Tennessee game to make up lost revenue from the home and away, vs playing North Central Alabama State or whatever random school they find. There is no point in having season tickets if you don't have marquee games. And good non-conference games are multiple times better than 95% of conference matchups.
But it's totally OK in politics. Also OK is "Oh yeah, well what about that guy!"
Somewhere Bill Snyder and Doc Sadler are nodding their heads with approval.
If it's on the schedule, play it. And secondly, if you do cancel don't make up an excuse to do so. Just be honest about it.
Count me in as not being a fan of Dannen. I'll support Rhule and I totally get the idea of not wanting to play Tennessee next season. It's Dannen who is doing some things that I don't like, including giving in to Rhule and not playing Tennessee then making up a silly excuse. That's my perception of it. I also don't like the idea of changing our concessions and "doubling the revenue" (translation = doubling the prices or cutting back on quality). I also heard that Dannen wants to do away with tale gating at half time. No re-entry. Wants to open a beer garden somewhere outside the stadium- in other words, you can only drink Dannen's $12 cups of beer.
Tennessee is tough, but if it's on the schedule, play it. What if we beat the Vols? Wouldn't that be a great start to earning a playoff bid?
I'm sure you're right. But it seems odd that so much TV money and donation dollars are coming in and NU is still worried about a temporary drop in stadium revenue.
Because they are. Remember how much shit Frost got for wanting to cancel the OU game because they could lose?
I hate to say it but it's the wise move. What reason is there for any P5 program to schedule good teams in the opening weeks if you play in a challenging conference?
Tennessee is in the group of teams that can catch a bid depending on how things play out and NU wants to get there. League play could be more or less dicey depending on schedule draw. There was not sufficient interest from either NU or TN to play.
To be clear, That K State Nebraska game in Japan was in ‘92. It was a conference game we had to play. And we definitely were not in the national title conversation that year. But I do agree with you on everything else. It’s a bad look.
Well, I bet Tennessee would have followed through and played us though. I would respect Dannon a little bit if he were just honest with the fans-- (1) we simply don't want to play a spring game. (2) We can make more money by doing away with selling local products in the stadium. (3) We think we would lose twice to Tennessee so we're paying the Vols a million bucks to get out of playing them.
That's a cop out. They operate at a surplus of over $6 1/2 million a year. An extra home game might make an extra $3 million or so in 2027 (just a guess), but NU is paying $1 million to Tennessee to break the contract. So maybe NU gets an extra $2 million out of ducking Tennessee? That's about 1% of their operating budget. And NU would probably still turn a profit in 2027 either way even without having to cut a single dollar out of the massive amounts of fat in that $210+ million yearly budget they have.
Get to 8 wins. Thats our new national championship. Tallest midget stuff right here. Very sad but not surprised
LMAOOOO! Here’s Kong who challenged me to a game. Said he would love to “bully me” in NCAA 25, then proceeded to ignore me before inventing an excuse to back right the fvck out of it to the surprise of no one.of course it's us who want to cancel
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What exactly were Tennessee’s options? Tear up NU’s buyout check and just show up in Lincoln anyway?
I will concede that Ohio State took the game off when we played them in Columbus but we lost that game by four and absolutely had a chance to win. The Vols lost to OSU by 25. So no I do not think it’s a stone cold lock that Tennessee would have swept the series.
I bet his mother has regretted every day of her life after that day too.
