Tangent Thread - October/November 2017 Edition

[C N Red]

Have we talked about potential coaches when it comes to looks?

I would say Frost has the best trend there. He's like 10x more attractive now than he was when he was 20.

If we're going by looks then Michelle Keegan should be a hell of a coach.

 

[Stumpy1]

If we're going by looks then Michelle Keegan should be a hell of a coach.

Nom, nom, nom

 

[IflyB3E]

OMG HE'S STAYING AT UCF

 

[IflyB3E]

I got to where I was four hours short and the final exam from being VFR licensed, learning in a Cessna 152.  Does that count for anything!  LOL

PS...flying a small plane is a LOT more work than one imagines...

I only have a few airplane hours, mine is all turbin rotor time.  

 

[Sparker]

I only have a few airplane hours, mine is all turbin rotor time.  

Airplanes are harder to fly imo, so many levers, knobs, wheels and checklists...

 

[Enhance]

So UCF really green lit a transfer, just not to Nebraska?  Can we please schedule them soon and remind them they are a G5 team?  I'm happy for them and their season and all, but a lot of their fans have been total dicks about this situation and now it sounds like their admins are too.

So have some Nebraska fans, if we're honest. After our administration poached their best coach in school history, a small (but persistent) portion of our fan base started haunting their message boards, unintentionally/intentionally throwing salt in their face about the situation and unabashedly attended games in Husker gear. We've also taken some recruits and now a transfer.

I don't care if they're a non-P5 team and if this is just "life" for a non-P5 school - treating another fan base like that and ignoring their plight (which a lot of Husker fans have done) is, IMO, a brazenly d!(k move.

 

[Redux]

So have some Nebraska fans, if we're honest. After our administration poached their best coach in school history, a small (but persistent) portion of our fan base started haunting their message boards, unintentionally/intentionally throwing salt in their face about the situation and unabashedly attended games in Husker gear. We've also taken some recruits and now a transfer.

I don't care if they're a non-P5 team and if this is just "life" for a non-P5 school - treating another fan base like that and ignoring their plight (which a lot of Husker fans have done) is, IMO, a brazenly d!(k move.

Our fanbase interacting with theirs mostly consisted pf people genuinely sympathetic to them losing their staff and trying to be supportive of their stellar season.  Granted, there were plenty of jerks I'm sure.  Their fanbase interaction with ours greatly consisted of people who were just pissy their coach was leaving for a better job so they made comments as small as  "it's boring there" all the way to "more of them should be eaten by alligators".  One I saw on twitter basically went off on how terrible Scott Frost is as a person, never forgive him, Nebraska is now my most hated team etc etc.

 

[Enhance]

Our fanbase interacting with theirs mostly consisted pf people genuinely sympathetic to them losing their staff and trying to be supportive of their stellar season.  Granted, there were plenty of jerks I'm sure.  Their fanbase interaction with ours greatly consisted of people who were just pissy their coach was leaving for a better job so they made comments as small as  "it's boring there" all the way to "more of them should be eaten by alligators".  One I saw on twitter basically went off on how terrible Scott Frost is as a person, never forgive him, Nebraska is now my most hated team etc etc.

This is part of my point, though - the bolded is incredibly condescending. That's what I was getting at when I said 'haunting their message boards and intentionally/unintentionally throwing salt in their face.' I don't know why some portions of this fan base think it was OK to do that.

I also think they have every right to pissy about the situation for the reasons I stated above - NU just took the greatest coach in their school history, parts of the fan base have been trolling them for the better part of six weeks, NU has taken recruits and now they're diving into the transfer business with guys like Vedral.

IMO, UCF has been given every reason to be irritated with NU. Part of is just the college game the days, but part of it is also some of our fans being patronizing. Them being a G5 school doesn't make some of what happened OK.

 

[Redux]

No, being a G5 team should at least make them understand WHY a guy would go back to his alma matter.  Being a G5 team and 13-0 and NOT in the playoff should tell them even more.  Throwing shade at their former coach and being dicks isn't cool just cause they are getting the raw end of the deal here.  Sorry, but some of the comments I read them making pretty much nullified a lot of the sympathy I had for them.

 

[Enhance]

Plenty of them get the 'why.' Our fan base gave them plenty of extra reasons to be upset outside of the facts of the coaching change. But, you put wood on a fire and it's going to get bigger.

All schools have to come to grips with potential coaching changes, recruit poaching and transfers. That's an unfortunate business angle of college sports. But, Husker fans trolling their fans, being condescending and showing up to the biggest game in their school's history wearing Husker gear is pretty pathetic. We've earned a lot of the shade we're getting from them.

Making it seem like it's a 'them' problem is totally disingenuous.

 

[Redux]

Plenty of them get the 'why.' Our fan base gave them plenty of extra reasons to be upset outside of the facts of the coaching change. But, you put wood on a fire and it's going to get bigger.

All schools have to come to grips with potential coaching changes, recruit poaching and transfers. That's an unfortunate business angle of college sports. But, Husker fans trolling their fans, being condescending and showing up to the biggest game in their school's history wearing Husker gear is pretty pathetic. We've earned a lot of the shade we're getting from them.

Making it seem like it's a 'them' problem is totally disingenuous.

No, I don't think plenty of them actually do get the why.  90% of the commentary I saw on their behalf was pretty delusional in that regard.

So since we took their....I mean OUR coach, we weren't allowed to go to their game?  Had the shoe been on the other foot you think it would have been any different?  "Hey, we are hiring your coach who played for us 20 years ago and is from our state.  Out if respect we won't watch, attend or talk about your program/games.  In the meantime please be as nasty towards us as you want, we deserve it."  Gimme a break.  You wanna be an appologist that's your deal I guess.

Edit-  And no I'm not condoning Husker fans being dicks or instigating anything or bragging about taking Frost etc.  But it's a free country, we are allowed to attend any game we want.

 

[Enhance]

No, I don't think plenty of them actually do get the why.  90% of the commentary I saw on their behalf was pretty delusional in that regard.

So since we took their....I mean OUR coach, we weren't allowed to go to their game?  Had the shoe been on the other foot you think it would have been any different?  "Hey, we are hiring your coach who played for us 20 years ago and is from our state.  Out if respect we won't watch, attend or talk about your program/games.  In the meantime please be as nasty towards us as you want, we deserve it."  Gimme a break.  You wanna be an appologist that's your deal I guess.

Edit-  And no I'm not condoning Husker fans being dicks or instigating anything or bragging about taking Frost etc.  But it's a free country, we are allowed to attend any game we want.

Your obstinance to a different viewpoint here is pretty curious. You seem defensive and offended by the notion that part our fan base is fallible in explaining why UCF's fans are being "dicks" to us.

I also find it interesting you defend this perspective by saying "it's a free country," yet complain about the way UCF fans are reacting to the whole situation. Hypocritical, but as some would say, that's your deal.

 

[Redux]

Your obstinance to a different viewpoint here is pretty curious. You seem defensive and offended by the notion that part our fan base is fallible in explaining why UCF's fans are being "dicks" to us.

I also find it interesting you defend this perspective by saying "it's a free country," yet complain about the way UCF fans are reacting to the whole situation. Hypocritical, but as some would say, that's your deal.

Because you think we seserve their backlash.  We don't.   Maybe some do, the ones that went out of their way to be jerks.  I didn't do that.  I didn't clog their board up with troll comments, provoke them on twitter, fo to their games and hold up "come home Frost" signs.  And I didn't see a whole hell of a lot of that haopening anyways.  The handful that did, of course were put on display.

I find it interesting you are willing to put our whole fanbase in the line of fire simply because of the actions of a few, yet ignore some of their most nasty responses.  Martyr mentality, but as some would say, that's a you deal.

 

[GBRFAN]

Your obstinance to a different viewpoint here is pretty curious. You seem defensive and offended by the notion that part our fan base is fallible in explaining why UCF's fans are being "dicks" to us.

I also find it interesting you defend this perspective by saying "it's a free country," yet complain about the way UCF fans are reacting to the whole situation. Hypocritical, but as some would say, that's your deal.

Because you think we seserve their backlash.  We don't.   Maybe some do, the ones that went out of their way to be jerks.  I didn't do that.  I didn't clog their board up with troll comments, provoke them on twitter, fo to their games and hold up "come home Frost" signs.  And I didn't see a whole hell of a lot of that haopening anyways.  The handful that did, of course were put on display.

I find it interesting you are willing to put our whole fanbase in the line of fire simply because of the actions of a few, yet ignore some of their most nasty responses.  Martyr mentality, but as some would say, that's a you deal.

I am enjoying this discussion and hope it goes to 6 pages - it would be nice if it wasn't in NV's thread thou.....

 

[Redux]

I agree, it shouldn't be in this thread, that's on us.  If we could move it that would be great.

Here's the point.  I was sympathetic to their situation, until I saw all the hate thrown at us.  Not because we were being jerks or trolling them, again didn't see much of that at all, but simply because we were a crap program and they were an elite one and leaving them for us was a stupid thing to do.  Then I read the hate towards Frost instead of appreciation for what he had given them.  Then I read the comments about us all being products of incest, being into beastiality and worst of all the lovely pot shot about how more of us should be eaten by alligators because there would be less of us.  That sealed it for me.  Do I hate all of them?  Not at all.  Am I going to pretend to be a fan of theirs moving forward, nope.  I still wish them the best and think it sucks they lost Frost.  But the ones who reacted the way I described make me want to see them earn a reality check.  Sorry, proud Husker fan moment I guess to react with disgust instesd of hoping we as a fanbase get taken down a peg because we stole a coach.