As much as Dean sucks, I do agree with him and somewhat similar about being a professional. I used to be a pretty die hard Husker fan with season tickets, travel to 2-3 away games, game days were morning to bar closing, new apparel every year, basement was full of memorability and wall hangings and once I started to get in college officiating that slowly went away. My last Husker shirt or hat I bought was probably 6-7 years ago, get 1-2 games in a year, if that. There was a stretch that I didn't go to a game for several years. I don't get star struck talking to any player or coach on the team. I follow and don't care too much about wins and losses, it's really weird when you get on the professional side of things. But of course the record over the last decade has helped accelerate that.
In the last 7 years I've watched more high school football in Memorial Stadium than Husker games.