The Husker Games - April 26th (Spring Game Replacement)

The Duke said:
šŸ˜³ After seeing this I'm predicting right now the university will more than likely go back to a regular spring game football format next year.
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This was what the crowds looked like in the 90s. I remember just walking into the stadium to watch Tommie Frazier and his teams play. I think toward the end of Frazier's time admission was $2, or a can of food.

 
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IIRC, it wasn't until Callahan came around that the spring game became a big thing, as he really hyped it up and put a concerted effort towards getting huge crowds and treating it like a game to use as a big recruiting draw when nobody else was making any sort of big deal about their spring games.Ā 

 
Looks like I was wrong about 1990s attendance. It seemed like pretty small crowds, but they were all over 20,000.

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knapplc said:
This was what the crowds looked like in the 90s. I remember just walking into the stadium to watch Tommie Frazier and his teams play. I think toward the end of Frazier's time admission was $2, or a can of food.
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Yep. I remember those days well.

I think if you would ask Nebraska fans what they would want to see in a spring game, I think most of them would say just put the ball in the turf and go play some football. Doesn't matter if its 1's vs 2's or 3rd team vs 4th team in the second half - Just. Play. Football. It doesn't need to be a circus.

For reference for anyone who is interested here are the Spring Game Red-White attendances going back to 1991:

1991 - 23,102

1992 - 24,212

1993 - 25,011

1994 - 28,999

1995 - 39,771

1996 - 48,659

1997 - 42,018

1998 - 60,498 (Solich's first spring game)

1999 - 29,739

2000 - 22,415

2001 - 30,414

2002 - 31,420

2003 - 33,419

2004 - 61,417 (Callahan's first spring game)

2005 - 63,416

2006 - 57,415

2007 - 54,288

2008 - 80,149 (Pelini's first spring game)

2009 - 77,670

2010 - 77,936

2011 - 66,784

2012 - Cancelled due to weather

2013 - 60,174 (Jack Hoffman's 69-yard TD run - R.I.P. Jack)

2014 - 61,772

2015 - 76,881 (Riley's first spring game)

2016 - 72,992

2017 - 78,312

2018 - 86,818

2019 - 85,946 (Frost's first spring game)

2020 - Cancelled due to pandemic

2021 - 36,406

2022 - 54,357Ā 

2023 - 66,045 (Rhule's first spring game. Coach Solich honored at halftime)

2024 - 60,452

Credit to HuskerMax for Spring Game History:Ā https://www.huskermax.com/all-the-games/spring-game-history/

 
Omaha World Herald's Sam McKewon said reporters estimated a crowd today inside Memorial Stadium between 8,000 ā€“ 9,000 fans.

 


Apparently Midland put on quite a show. Saw a clip where they sacked Raiola.



I saw a score of 60-0 earlier. They appear to be quite good.

 
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