49r Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Crucial stretch coming up, we've gotten that all-important first win today, and now we have an opportunity to build on that success and gain confidence as we gird our loins for the stretch run in conference play. Time to get out there and show these guys some love. Get to the Devaney Center, be loud, and help get our team the big win vs. the Illini!!! GOOOOOO BIIIIIIIIIIIIG REEEEEE EEEEEED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerpapa Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brfrad Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Please, please, please if you go to the game, unless we are losing by 15 points in the final 2 minutes, do not leave early. Miles made it a point to call TO last game to give the team a message that the fans are leaving early because you didn't give a great effort. I know all the people on here will not leave, but I wish we could get that message across. hhcmatt, Buglem, Noah121 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugeaters1 Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 It will never happen Husker fans will leave early no matter what. Hell they left early when the Husker women played Purdue and were down 3, when Hooper hits a 3 to tie it at the end of regulation. I seen some ppl come back in that had left my section after she hit the 3. I pay good money to watch them play plus I have an hour and a half drive so I wont leave early Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BjoeHusker Posted January 19, 2013 Report Share Posted January 19, 2013 Please, please, please if you go to the game, unless we are losing by 15 points in the final 2 minutes, do not leave early. Miles made it a point to call TO last game to give the team a message that the fans are leaving early because you didn't give a great effort. I know all the people on here will not leave, but I wish we could get that message across. I noticed this as well. I guess I just don't get it (leaving early). This kids don't quit, so why do the fans. To me it's embarrassing to see the mass exit at the under 4 timeout with the Huskers only down 7. There is this guy in my section who yells at fans who leave early. He calls them "cock roaches" and yells at them. Not sure why but it makes me laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerpapa Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 I have never left early...but...I am not quick to judge those that do. Sometimes there are reasons, for the others...PLEASE do not leave early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugeaters1 Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 I yell at the ones who leave early also. I call them fair weather fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm irked that I'm going to miss Tuesday's game due to having to attend a 4 hr snooze fest of a meeting. I've got a meeting to go to. This has been a bad season for me to attend games. Cheer hard huskernation. I'll be following along on my phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugeaters1 Posted January 21, 2013 Report Share Posted January 21, 2013 I'm irked that I'm going to miss Tuesday's game due to having to attend a 4 hr snooze fest of a meeting. I've got a meeting to go to. This has been a bad season for me to attend games. Cheer hard huskernation. I'll be following along on my phone. Can't you get sick tomorrow afternoon, And miss the meeting ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuskerFever Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I yell at the ones who leave early also. I call them fair weather fans. I call them partly cloudy with a chance of rain weather fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49r Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 It's Gameday sports fans! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerbb73 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Please, please, please if you go to the game, unless we are losing by 15 points in the final 2 minutes, do not leave early. Miles made it a point to call TO last game to give the team a message that the fans are leaving early because you didn't give a great effort. I know all the people on here will not leave, but I wish we could get that message across. I never understood some people. There were people clearing out of the Bob with 4 minutes left to go in the Wisconsin game. My 14 year old son even pointed it out and couldn't believe people were leaving with the game still in doubt. It wasn't a mass exodus, but there were quite a few leaving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huskerpapa Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Dodger fans... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan88 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Now that Coach Miles has identified leaving-early as an important issue, perhaps there should be some education efforts on the subject to alert everyone that the time-honored Husker basketball "tradition" of leaving early is now frowned upon and considered rude behavior and an insult to the players, staff and other fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jadler Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I yell at the ones who leave early also. I call them fair weather fans. I call them partly cloudy with a chance of rain weather fans. I thought it was you that called them the Devaney Cockroaches a couple years ago?! Well, it was somebody down front. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbacked1 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 We have to hope that the ones that are leaving have heard about Miles comments. They couldn't have read about it because they most likely don't tweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49r Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Moving into the new arena should help cure those ills I would imagine. At least I hope it will. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rum Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Moving into the new arena should help cure those ills I would imagine. At least I hope it will. I wouldn't be so sure. I'm guessing the reason most are leaving is to beat the traffic. Traffic isn't that bad. They'll probably start leaving at the under 8 timeout because traffic is just that bad. I mean we're talking gridlock here people. Cats and Dogs playing together! Trafficapolips or something. The only way that changes is if they just stay home because of traffic/parking. Those people don't change, they never will. If you can't tell I don't have a very high regard for those people. I used to call them names, ask them where they are going. I just quit judging out loud and judge to myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Peterson Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Interesting. About a year ago, DrumminHusker made this same complaint on another board. (The point about people leaving early and how that was a problem.) He was roundly attacked, mostly by a group of message board tough guys, for being primarily a North Carolina fan and how dare he presume to criticize Nebraska fans' game viewing habits. I thought the response missed the mark and failed to address the point about people leaving early. And since I can't be accused of being a North Carolina fan, I decided to basically cut and paste his post into a new thread that I started. And I was bashed. I was told I was a Doc apologist and people would stick around to the end as soon as a product was put on the floor worth watching. Well, obviously, that's not true. So, people wanted to turn it into a thread about Doc rather than a thread about the unfortunate habit of many people to leave Husker basketball games early and turn the Devaney Center into a morgue. What's funny to me is that I've seen some of the SAME PEOPLE who bashed Drummin and me last year (over on that other board) make the SAME COMPLAINT this year that they attacked us for making last year. And now you can't blame Doc and people are still leaving early. Just like they did when Doc was here and just like they did under Collier and even Nee before that. I remember one game, I think it was a last-minute, come-from-behind game against Kansas, where we pulled off the win even while people were leaving in droves. And, I'll never forget Danny Nee in the post-game, when asked for his reaction, said to all the fans who left early (some of whom tried to return) "Next time, you keep your ass in your seat!" "Next time, you keep your ass in your seat!" This isn't a problem that started with Doc Sadler. And it isn't something to blame on the blue hairs because the people who are blue hairs now weren't blue hairs 20 years ago when Nee said to keep your ass in your seat. And it is a problem because it has a diminishing effect on crowd noise and, therefore, home court advantage. It's habit. It's routine. It's something that has become somewhat of a tradition, if you will. And it's a tradition we need to get rid of. Just like we got rid of the short-lived Collier tradition of remaining standing until the other team scores. I like Swan's idea: Educate the fanbase that, if you leave early, you're a douche. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uneblinstu Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I wonder how much of this will take care of itself in the new arena, with the removal of the tying hoops to football donations. Not sure how much of that will carry over. Might bear watching. Or perhaps they'll all move over to he new arena. IDK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norm Peterson Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I wonder how much of this will take care of itself in the new arena, with the removal of the tying hoops to football donations. Not sure how much of that will carry over. Might bear watching. Or perhaps they'll all move over to he new arena. IDK. No longer tying hoops and football will probably help. But it's almost more of an institutional problem that will require a more pro-active solution than just letting people figure out on their own that, hey, that's a good game down there and I did pay to see the whole thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan88 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Movement out the door is often most pronounced during a stop of action, such as a time out. Perhaps when such a thing happens, everyone still in their seats should start booing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajb5856 Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 Yep. This issue is a joke. If you have to leave to get to a commitment so you've decided to come and support the team for as long as you can, fine. That's one thing. But these people who come and leave just because its getting late and they hate traffic/people, they are pathetic. Thanks for your support but please consider giving your tickets to someone who wants to be there or don't renew your tickets so I can move mine closer to the floor. If you come to a sporting event not caring whether you see the final outcome or not then just stay home. Traffic isn't that bad. It's just an excuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
49r Posted January 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I think the problem is that traffic out of state fair park really IS that bad. The worst part of it is you have people constantly merging two or three or even four lanes down into one with limited or no control, so people get anxious and tailgate, cut others off and be generally rage-y. Since about the late 80's or early 90's (when they shut the 17th street exit from state fair park after games, then removed it completely during the Antelope Valley project) there were basically two, count 'em TWO two-lane streets which served as the means of egress from state fair park. If you were parked in the wrong spot or left at the wrong time, it could take 45 minutes or more just to get from a parking spot in front of say the racetrack to the bottom of the 27th street viaduct. Lmost of the traffic rage. A normal, able bodied person could probably walk that distance in 20 minutes or less. Leaving the game even a few minutes early allows one to get to Cornhusker Highway in just a few minutes and they also can avoid most of the traffic rage. I've been to college basketball games in several other locations and have never experienced near the traffic nightmare that I have at Devaney. The plans for Pinnacle Bank Arena call for parking in a much more diverse area, including areas that have many many more routes out. I honestly believe that traffic will not be anywhere near as bad as folks are worried it will be. Of course, it's still not going to satisfy some people. They wouldn't be happy unless their car was waiting for them at the front door all warm and cozy with the post game show tuned in and a police escort to rush them back to their driveway. But that's never gonna happen, and therefore there will always be someone who has a reason to complain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortDust Posted January 22, 2013 Report Share Posted January 22, 2013 I think the problem is that traffic out of state fair park really IS that bad. The worst part of it is you have people constantly merging two or three or even four lanes down into one with limited or no control, so people get anxious and tailgate, cut others off and be generally rage-y. Since about the late 80's or early 90's (when they shut the 17th street exit from state fair park after games, then removed it completely during the Antelope Valley project) there were basically two, count 'em TWO two-lane streets which served as the means of egress from state fair park. If you were parked in the wrong spot or left at the wrong time, it could take 45 minutes or more just to get from a parking spot in front of say the racetrack to the bottom of the 27th street viaduct. Lmost of the traffic rage. A normal, able bodied person could probably walk that distance in 20 minutes or less. Leaving the game even a few minutes early allows one to get to Cornhusker Highway in just a few minutes and they also can avoid most of the traffic rage. I've been to college basketball games in several other locations and have never experienced near the traffic nightmare that I have at Devaney. The plans for Pinnacle Bank Arena call for parking in a much more diverse area, including areas that have many many more routes out. I honestly believe that traffic will not be anywhere near as bad as folks are worried it will be. Of course, it's still not going to satisfy some people. They wouldn't be happy unless their car was waiting for them at the front door all warm and cozy with the post game show tuned in and a police escort to rush them back to their driveway. But that's never gonna happen, and therefore there will always be someone who has a reason to complain. I go to about every game and sit until the end. I wait in my seats for about 5 mins after game then walk to my car in fairgrounds. I really don't think traffic is that bad. Just turn on the post game and get on your way. It normally takes me at most 15 minutes to get out of parking lot. Hopefully the arena will have better situation and make it quicker for everyone else. As for the fans who leave early, I just give them a smart ass comment and tell them to get on there way. I work at 5am the mornings after 8pm games. There are so many excuses its annoying. All in all though I think that it's a ritual for people even if its tied at the 4 minute mark to head out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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