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You guys clearly don't understand Nebraska football. Not saying you're wrong. Just saying that you don't understand Nebraska football. Maybe this will help:

In 2019, the Nebraska spring game attendance was 85,946.

And the team I saw mentioned on a Big Red fan board was Western Kentucky, which plays BYU on Saturday so nevermind.

Spot-on. Especially the attendance figure for their spring game last year. I've known a Husker for many years. He tells me that Stanford football wouldn't measure up to some high-school programs in his home state (let alone the Friday-Night-Lights culture in Texas) in terms of following, attention and fanaticism. Didn't someone, somewhere, once say "We are not Nebraska"?   :-)

We witnessed the Big Red devotion just two years ago when the Stanford Women's Volleyball team took them on for the NC at Minnesota December 2018.  Their fans made the 5 1/2 hr drive at the last minute to pack the arena.
This is not meant to be a defense of our former AD (I'll never forgive him for giving us his buddy).  But we have the competition with Giants, A's, Niners, Warriors, Sharks, and formerly Raiders, as well as two other FBS football teams, all within a 40 min drive.  The Cornhuskers compete within their entire state against ... nada.  Ted was correct about this -  we will never be Nebraska.

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You guys clearly don't understand Nebraska football. Not saying you're wrong. Just saying that you don't understand Nebraska football. Maybe this will help:

In 2019, the Nebraska spring game attendance was 85,946.

And the team I saw mentioned on a Big Red fan board was Western Kentucky, which plays BYU on Saturday so nevermind.

Spot-on. Especially the attendance figure for their spring game last year. I've known a Husker for many years. He tells me that Stanford football wouldn't measure up to some high-school programs in his home state (let alone the Friday-Night-Lights culture in Texas) in terms of following, attention and fanaticism. Didn't someone, somewhere, once say "We are not Nebraska"?   :-)

We witnessed the Big Red devotion just two years ago when the Stanford Women's Volleyball team took them on for the NC at Minnesota December 2018.  Their fans made the 5 1/2 hr drive at the last minute to pack the arena.
This is not meant to be a defense of our former AD (I'll never forgive him for giving us his buddy).  But we have the competition with Giants, A's, Niners, Warriors, Sharks, and formerly Raiders, as well as two other FBS football teams, all within a 40 min drive.  The Cornhuskers compete within their entire state against ... nada.  Ted was correct about this -  we will never be Nebraska.