Breaking Nebraska trying to get out of Oklahoma game 2021 - Updated 12:24 with teams being contacted

[Jim14510]

Ok ya morans...you've now devolved to using soccer analogies today. Time to take lap, cause you both looked like a couple of megged backs.

I considered deleting that post for fear that newcomers would see us talking about soccer and cancel their sub.

 

[Jim14510]

So the elephant in the room question: Moos doesn’t explore this without Scott’s blessing, right? Like our HC was on board with this. Do you think maybe it’s time for Jason Peter and Scott’s cronies to stop tweeting about the players needing more attitude and toughness, etc. when we were looking to duck playing OU?

For the record, I think this was explored completely out of the self-interest of Bill and Scott and looking at the W-L column. Their fates are tied together. They need all the W’s they can get, although today probably felt like an L to them.

Economic conditions?? Moos doesn’t even live here half the year so why is he worried anout the local economy? And the reserve fund of the Ath. Dept. is still pretty robust for just coming through a pandemic.

I would be surprised if Frost was in on the decision. He was certainly told before it was done.

 

[thE kErnEl]

I like pie.

 

[Blackshirts_Win_'ships]

I like pie.

Happy Pi Day (here), my friend!

 

[DrinkItIn]

 

[Steveweiser316]

Deab is saying this was A Frost call and that Frost went above Moos for this. Jesus

 

[Blackshirts_Win_'ships]

Deab is saying this was A Frost call and that Frost went above Moos for this. Jesus

Is it bad that I trust @...TrueColors... more than Dean or just another day that ends in y?

 

[Pipe Line]

Is it bad that I trust @...TrueColors... more than Dean or just another day that ends in y?

I do too

 

[Pipe Line]

I hate this but it makes sense. Intentions were good, execution horrific.

 

[Blackshirts_Win_'ships]

I hate this but it makes sense. Intentions were good, execution horrific.

Explain, por favor

 

[Red Finger]

I hate this but it makes sense. Intentions were good, execution horrific.

 

[Pipe Line]

He makes me laugh lol

 

[Pipe Line]

Explain, por favor

Technically speaking, the financial benefits. Home game, crowd, income, things like that. Dress it up as that, play a shit ball team like you normally would out of conference, win, yada yada yada. Buuuuutttttt I also think people would essentially boycott that game, and it would have horrendously back fired.

So that's why I say good intentions, financially, technically, for the university and state economy, but horrendous execution.

 

[huskerj12]

Even if this was some noble venture by Frost, his risk/reward calculator is still WAY off.

The reward from cancelling OU and scheduling Old Dominion is a lukewarm home game atmosphere in Lincoln and the cheapest W in Husker history.

The risk is seeming like a hypocritical coward who cares more about himself than the holiest of NU traditions (which has been a death knell for multiple former coaches) and who may or may not have just gotten conked on the head by a coconut. This is the image presented to the entire nation and a majority of Husker fans and boosters.

The most basic pros/cons list in the world should have told him that this idea would be a horrible one with long-term negative ramifications for NU and the university that go beyond whatever the local restaurants and hotels would earn from an Old Dominion game in Lincoln.

 

[nscottie]

The other comment made by Deab adds more context. We have one home game in September. That’s one opportunity to bring in recruits and one opportunity for Lincoln economy.

I still think it was a bad look, but the rationale above does make me view this a little differently.

 

[HCFord1]

HOLY FUCK THE SCROLLS ARE LIT RN

My favorite part about all of this is that Dean only dropped the nugget about Frost going over Moos' head with the rescheduling attempt because he wanted to big time some random scroller talking crap about Moos. He phrases it as "You do know that Frost went and did this and yada yada, right?" Well no, Dean, we don't fucking know that because you never told us.

Then Dean gets rightfully called out for withholding information and then trying to big time people with said information, and he goes into the woe-is-me role of the publisher who was on vacation with his family all of last week and somehow manages to call out his new intern AGAIN for oversleeping on Sunday (which is a completelyyyyyy unrelated topic, which he already made a much bigger and public issue out of than he ever needed to).

 

[DrinkItIn]

The other comment made by Deab adds more context. We have one home game in September. That’s one opportunity to bring in recruits and one opportunity for Lincoln economy.

I still think it was a bad look, but the rationale above does make me view this a little differently.

I understand the recruiting aspect of it. I still find it stupid and shortsighted. If NU were to cancel OU for a home game, you would also lose the 2022 home game with OU. Now that 2022 home game could be one of the best recruiting weekends for an out-of-conference home game in a really long time. Besides Oregon, NU hasn't been bringing in any high-profile programs like OU. I don't put CU in that category at all.

Besides the recruiting aspect of bringing OU to town, think of the financial aspect. OU coming to Lincoln will generate a helluva lot more revenue than playing some shitty directional Podunk University at 11 AM.

 

[huskerj12]

The other comment made by Deab adds more context. We have one home game in September. That’s one opportunity to bring in recruits and one opportunity for Lincoln economy.

I still think it was a bad look, but the rationale above does make me view this a little differently.

Yeah I can totally follow the logic on a micro level, but on a macro level it's still nonsensical. (Am I using micro and macro correctly??)

Anyway, the decision just can't be made in a vacuum. Does a recruiting visit against Old Dominion give potential recruits a positive enough impact that it outweighs the knowledge that Nebraska backed down from a matchup with Oklahoma on that date, and the media scoffing that comes with it? Does the Lincoln economy fare better with that extra home game even though the decision to back down from OU leaves a TON of people with a bad taste in their mouth about Frost and Nebraska football? Maybe even a bad enough taste to stop planning every fall Saturday around traveling to Lincoln?

Like I said in my previous post, it's just such a gigantic risk with such a tiny reward. I know it doesn't have to become a disaster or anything as long as the team does their part this fall, but the fact that the braintrust botched a decision like this - a decision that didn't even need to be a decision at all! - makes me question their legitimacy more than any other bizarre situations from the past 3 years. I'm always trying to be optimistic but this is a bummer.

 

[huskerj12]

My favorite part about all of this is that Dean only dropped the nugget about Frost going over Moos' head with the rescheduling attempt because he wanted to big time some random scroller talking crap about Moos. He phrases it as "You do know that Frost went and did this and yada yada, right?" Well no, Dean, we don't fucking know that because you never told us.

Hahaha absolute classic Dean.

 

[CybrrMonky71]

HOLY FUCK THE SCROLLS ARE LIT RN

My favorite part about all of this is that Dean only dropped the nugget about Frost going over Moos' head with the rescheduling attempt because he wanted to big time some random scroller talking crap about Moos. He phrases it as "You do know that Frost went and did this and yada yada, right?" Well no, Dean, we don't fucking know that because you never told us.

Then Dean gets rightfully called out for withholding information and then trying to big time people with said information, and he goes into the woe-is-me role of the publisher who was on vacation with his family all of last week and somehow manages to call out his new intern AGAIN for oversleeping on Sunday (which is a completelyyyyyy unrelated topic, which he already made a much bigger and public issue out of than he ever needed to).

I don’t buy the Frost going over Moos’ head on this for a second
I really don’t understand Deans endgame here. Maybe this was his opportunity for sticking a knife in Frost bc Frost & his staff hate Dean & give him zero information