HAIL: Fail?

Oh, it is lame. Really, really lame. If ever we as a student body were to get such a thing organized, there's no way the exchange rate would be anywhere near 1:1.

if you were out to the wee hours of Saturday morning, you probably needed a solid meal and did not need alcohol before a noon game. That said we could sneak a limited quantity of alcohol in (limited enough that most people would not get out of hand).

So get up, grab a couple fragels on the way, and walk to the game with your masked drink of choice and party while at the game.

Todays students are apparently faced with either drink enough in advanced to be merry the whole time or go hungover.

I think the change in container policy, combined with 2007-2010 are driving most of this.

Maybe if they offered reduced cost with studentship ID or student meal plan food inside the stadium from 30 to 5 minutes before kickoff more would quit drinking earlier and head over for breakfast.

Then there is we're too busy studing. (yeah, right)

I kinda think this may just work its way through as the students weaned on 2007, 2008, and 2009 move on.

Then again I think the home schedule this year is not going to drive early attendance.

Back in the 80s. It was hard to shake the hangover to get a good start before noon. Not impossible, just tougher.

were and not we're. But don't let that deter you from correcting my grammar and spelling in the future. Aint none of us be too old to learn this here language moar better.

Regarding the 3L, it was probably a little beyond our needs and capacities.

Edit:  Oh, and your (not you're) post is awesome too!

the environment in the stadium. This would be a few years before you attended games.

There was a tradition during games (particularly ones that were not "big" or close games) of male students (in the student section, obvsly) picking up very good-looking women and "passing them up" row-by-row, all the way to the top of the stadium (no, they didn't throw them out of the stadium like they did with the footballs from opponents' scores). I was always amazed that this was tolerated on so many levels as the woman, with literally hundreds of hands on her (uh, yeah) as she passed all the way up the stands, was well groped by then end of it all.

This practice was finally ended when one woman (actually a friend of mine) was dropped on the way up and required surgery to fix a dislocated shoulder.

The rest of us (yes, even alums) are guests. Also, they've purchased their tickets. If they want to be late, leave early then let em be.

Maybe when the rest of the stadium can get its act together and maybe join in a maize out or make equivical noise we can start to complain.

Well, the asshat store called and they're running out of you.

You are probably unemployed, so let me clue you in to how the real world works. If you are being asked to be somewhere at a certain time, and you do not comply, there are consequences. That how things work in the Big Boy world. Football games are optional and as such, if you can't be there on time, there are 10 other people that are happy to take your place.

Ummmm.... LSA houses mathematics.  I have friends that were math majors that are making much more than me.  Plus, you're a dick.

Actually, the student section, for all practical purposes, was general admission for a long time.     Students had individual seats but it was rare for ushers to ever check, and the few students who dared to call in an usher to complain were pretty much laughed at.  I don't know if I ever sat in my official seat when I was a student.  A lot of times I didn't even sit in the "correct" section.  People pretty much went where they wanted to.  This did not lead to scores of empty seats.  Watch any game from the 1980s/90s/early 00s and you won't see the emptiness in the student section you do now.

Only in the last decade or so has the student section been more serious about assigned seats, and the problem of fan tardiness has been getting progressively worse.  General-admission seating would guarantee - at the least - that the bulk of the student section would be full at kickoff.  If the top few rows are empty but every other row is full, that'd still be a huge improvement over the way it's been lately.    

And what's worse is that Nebraska (and the other five B10 schools in Central time) have to play a lot of home games at 11:00 a.m. to accommodate TV.  We get an extra hour for early kickoff games.  We really have no excuse.

Indeed.

I went to the Minnesota and Purdue games last year.  Not two of our biggest opponents although Purdue was our homecoming game.  It couldn't have been more than 35% full 5 minutes into the first quarter.  I thought THAT was embarrassing in itself but I somehow convinced myself that it would be better for bigger opponents. 

That's why it's surprising to hear this was no different when Nebraska came to town. 

This year's home schedule is not even half as attractive as last year's.  Our only big home game is against Sparty.  I'm afraid of the effect this will have on students actually showing up.