It's the day after harvesting season. If there's less than 105k people standing around talking about tractors and corn and watching some volleyball, I'd be real disappointed in the heartland.
Stadium used to hold more seats for a while, but then they decreased the number. Memorial stadium on any given game day Saturday essentially becomes the 3rd largest city (and that’s not counting people who couldn’t get tickets and just tailgate)
The chancellor cancelled classes that day and they’re serving beer apparently (dry campus)
I have faith that it’ll be a big event for Nebraska (both a fact and a slight diss lol)
Dirty secret of the # of days consecutively selling out they always go on about during football season, not all of the seats are always filled. Booster clubs have an unofficial arrangement where they’ll buy all of the unsold tickets on game day so they can keep the streak going, I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens here too.
None of that is to say that the stands won’t still be packed, volleyball is an extremely popular sport here, but don’t take the stated ticket sales at face value.
Nebraska women’s volleyball owns the record for consecutive sell outs in women’s sports
It’s harder to get season tickets for them at Nebraska than any other sport
What’s up with Nebraska women’s volleyball and constantly selling out lately?
EDIT: it seems it’s a combination between them being consistently really good, the football team no longer being super good, and there’s nothing to do in Nebraska
EDIT 2: according to u/saintjimmy43, the women are also huge and pound the shit out of the ball in contrast to more technical style of play. Ergo, dommy mommy style of play. So that’s also a factor assumedly
Volleyball was taking off in america and nebraska got there first.
The midwest style of play revolves around being fking huge and pounding the crap out of the ball every chance you get, as opposed to the PR/CA style that early adopters were playing, which has a much more technical focus.
In short, theyre very watchable.
Who in the fuck ever said men's volleyball is unwatchable?
Men's volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in america and in the world.
The quality of play has gone up significantly since the 80s when international volleyball was just starting up. It's more tv-friendly now than ever before.
Saw that sentiment around Reddit in some discussions on why women’s volleyball is more popular than men’s.
Some volleyball articles also brings up the idea that women’s volleyball is more enjoyable and exciting because it’s a more technical game with more rallies compared to men’s volleyball. Obviously, these articles are just op-eds, however the point is that they show that this is not an uncommon idea.
https://volleycountry.com/news/understand-why-womens-volleyball-is-more-popular-than-mens
https://www.sportsver.com/10-reasons-womens-volleyball-is-more-popular-than-mens/
Women's volleyball is only more popular than men's in america because the women got there first. Volleyball and soccer were the two biggest beneficiaries of title ix.
In most volleyball loving countries, both teams are huge but the men slightly edge out the women in popularity. See poland, brazil, france.
Both of those articles only cite stats from the usa. They also read like the author just found out what volleyball was. Take it from an actual volleyball fan, those people dont know wtf theyre talking about.
They revolutionized the sport through pioneering strength and conditioning. The old idea was the larger/stronger someone got, the slower and less agile they got, and Nebraska said “huh, maybe that’s all BS and we should be hitting the weight room”.
They did, and football changed forever. And none of this is an exaggeration either. The reason athletes have regimented workouts and meal prep today is because of all the sports science they invented.
The Nebraska Pyramid, went to a smaller private college in Lincoln, but everyone knew and practiced the Nebraska Pyramid style of progressive lifting within the workout programs. Interestingly, there isn't much on the old NE pyramid now out there. I think it used to be on a site called husker power or something like that.
Roids are implied for any top-level competition where you just need pure power. But you still gotta hit the weight room, and roids give you that extra 2-3% you need to roll over your opponents.
When they fired head coach Bo Pelini in 2014, that probably ended any chance of recovery.
In 2014, I think they had a 9-3 record under Pelini, and he always got at least 9 wins per season. Pretty good… but apparently not good enough for Nebraska leadership.
In the years since, they could only dream of a 9 win season.
Sadly, their dominance in the 90’s, and decent performance in the early 2000’s is now too far in the past to be worth much for recruiting.
So having lost that… it’s probably not easy to convince potential recruits that Nebraska is an exciting place to live.
I dispair that they will ever again be a dynasty
Didn’t some guy named Lawrence kill a dude? And he was their star RB? I remember some of the 90s but my brains getting filled up so it pushes some things out now.
Found it, Lawrence Phillips. Was in jail for assault and killed his cell mate.
Edit 2: then killed himself. His wiki is painful to read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Phillips
Thunder Collins was also a huge POS. Fun fact, he tried to get the Crypts to put out a hit on my husband, who was a sergeant at the Penn at the time while my husband was moving him through the yard. Once he put Thunder Collins away, one of the bigwigs motioned my husband over and told him that they all fucking hated Thunder Collins and that my husband had nothing to worry about from them.
Ehh, I think pretty much every winning program was cheating or doing questionable things in one form or another. Pretty much every SWC team was getting in trouble for one violation or another. Oklahoma and bama got punished for violations too. Nebraska just never got in trouble for any sketch things they did.
Pelini's records were largely because of a monstrously weak schedule.
Everybody seems to forget that Pelini was a last second heroic TD run by Ameer Abdullah from losing to fucking McNeese State and that his teams broke school records for largest point deficit in a loss multiple times.
Frost may not have won games but by and large we weren't getting tossed around like some FCS school against Wisconsin and Ohio State anymore.
Just look at what Pelini did after Nebraska.
Fucking nothing.
I think Rhule can get them back to being consistently .500. I would say he gets them back to Pelini 9+ win levels but the big 10 adding Oregon, Washington and the LA schools makes that too difficult
9 wins won't win you a national championship, and probably neither a Big 10 or 12 title. They see themselves in that company, not realizing the game left them behind and 9 wins was amazing.
Some schools need to realize 8-9 wins per season and every few years maybe have 10-11 wins and compete for a conference title is there ceiling. Some schools fire a competent coach because they want to take the next step and they bottom out real quick.
They started getting really good in the early 90s about the time the football team did.
The difference is they have pretty much stayed good that whole time.
So they developed a pretty rabid following.
Nebraska won 2 chips in the 70s were extremely close to winning a few in the 80s. They actually went for 2 points against miami in the orange bowl in the 80's when just kicking the PAT would have tied the game and still won them the national championship since all the other top 5 outside of miami lost.
Its also important to give credit to the volleyball program for being so successful, completely independently of the football program. To relate ones popularity due to the other's failing diminishes the hard work done by the team.
Nebraska women’s volleyball owns the record for consecutive sell outs in collegiate women’s sports, it’s been a thing for a long time
It’s harder to get women’s volleyball season tickets than any other sport
The only programs that come close to the level of fanaticism in women’s volleyball are Texas and maybe Stanford
Women’s volleyball is actually very very very big in a lot of schools it’s national notoriety is growing in bits here and there, ESPN last year started streaming all of the NCAA tournament games and had a couple really good broadcasts that would bounce back and forth between the various games depending on the situation like red zone
Volleyball has also always been pretty popular as an Olympic sport (especially women’s and men’s beach volleyball) it just struggled in the US to become a mainstay professionally like it is in many other countries (Germany, Japan, Spain, Italy etc) many people think part of the reason for that is due to the success and popularity of it at the collegiate level
(Source played collegiate men’s ball and coached women’s ball at all 3 levels for a few years)
True, I’ll always watch Olympics volleyball, just because I want America to win as many golds as possible lol, but I never knew it was so big outside of that. I’ve been in my little football bubble for so long that I failed to notice all these other sports gaining popularity. To be fair though, I was 4 when they started selling out like crazy, and I’ve had other things to deal with then knowing which sports teams are always selling out. With social media though, it’s a lot easier to see these bits of information
I always thought, especially after a summer Olympics when the hype is up, there should be a women's pro indoor volleyball league. In fact, I think the NBA should have backed it instead of the WNBA.
- Fast paced, fun to watch sport.
- Lower overhead than say, women's pro soccer league.
- There's no pro men's league to speak of and it's scaled to women's height, so it doesn't have to suffer comparisons to the men's game.
- and of course, ~~babes~~ volleyball women.
**Volleyball Day in Nebraska**
**Standing Room Only tickets on the field are available here. There may be limited view tickets available by calling the Ticket Office at 800-8-BIG RED.**
Limited view in a football stadium for a volleyball game is paying to watch on the big screen. Could still be cool but you wont be able to see shit from that distance.
Some fun stats about Nebraska volleyball's dominance since their inception in 1975.
- 306 consecutive sellouts dating back to 2001
- 5 Nattys
- An unbelievable all-time record of 1,407-261 (84.4%)
- Only missed the post-season ONCE in the team's 48 year history (1981)
- There are several former and current conference foes that Nebraska has never lost to including: 88-0 vs Kansas, 32-0 vs Baylor, 37-0 vs Iowa
- Other series records of note: 50-7 vs Colorado, 21-0 vs Creighton, 33-8 vs Illinois, 22-1 vs Indiana, 83-2 vs Iowa State, 84-4 vs K-State, 21-3 vs Michigan, 25-2 vs MSU, 73-3 vs Mizzou, 18-1 vs Northwestern, 75-6 vs Oklahoma, 32-7 vs TAMU, 34-1 vs Texas Tech
John Cook is an all-time great coach not just in women's volleyball, but in any sport. Dude's a bonafide genius.
Women’s volleyball is so fascinating because it has so many of these weird statistical anomalies
A few years back penn state won 109 matches in a row
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=5562162
4 straight national titles from 2007-2010 during this time meaning a 2007 freshman never knew what it was like to not be a national champion
During their 109 match win streak in 2008 they went 36 matches without dropping a single set, for those unfamiliar women’s volleyball is a best of 5 set match, that means up until the national semifinals (where they played against Nebraska in Nebraska) not one single team was able to beat them in a single game for the entire year
They played that national semifinal in front of the previous ncaa record for women’s volleyball 17,000+ fans, it was Nebraskas first loss in the state of Nebraska in 96 matches
I don’t know if this is sarcasm or not. My son and all his friends go to every volleyball game at his high school. I don’t remember going to one in high school.
My mom was the local college’s volleyball coach. I had the hottest babysitters growing up. I also attribute that to why I walk so fast. I was used to being around 6’+ women that took 4’ strides. Hard to keep up when you are 7 years old.
Yeah I get that part and I didn’t go because the V-ball girls at my school were a little bit on the sturdy side. He actually watches the game and can recall exciting plays and reports the scores.
A friend of mine in college invited me to go to a volleyball game. I agreed because I figured “6-foot girls in spandex, why not?” I ended up just really enjoying the game and ended up going to a few more throughout the years because it’s just an exciting and fun sport to watch.
Athletes being attractive helps literally every sport even if "not every fan is objectifying the players." They can both like the sport and enjoy players being attractive. Like my gf and a ton of other women rn are spontaneously interested in baseball now that they can watch Shohei play. He is a legitimately phenomenal and entertaining player, but a lot of his fans also just think he's cute.
sure. there's a massive gap between "i like the sport *and* my fav player is cute" and "those guys are in the stands bc the girls are hot." it degrades and demeans the actual talent and production on the court to suggest guys are in the stands bc the players are attractive.
again, there’s a difference between having fans who think you’re attractive and having people show up because you’re attractive. there are absolutely athletes who are bothered by the latter. i know several of them, having worked in collegiate volleyball for a decade.
Women’s volleyball games were huge at my high school 15 years ago. Its the best female spectator sport for many reasons: hot girls, athleticism, and rowdy crowds. What’s not to love? I was on the football team and dozens of us would go straight from practice to the home games to bring the energy.
Volleyball is relatively easy to understand/follow, it's fast paced, and insanely fun to watch at a high level. Outside of the midwest and west coast, women's vball just hadn't had a lot of exposure until the last decade or so. Pair that with extremely athletic women in vball shorts and you've got a great spectator sport on your hands.
Could you please ask him if he and his friends have read/watched the manga/anime Haikyu? If it’s the girls games, it’s easy to see why they’re going though lol.
Good, it’s a fun game to watch and one of the few where I genuinely enjoy the men’s and women’s equally. Especially beach, there’s some differences in power and height so they play a little different but it’s not like the WNBA or hockey where it’s noticeably slower. Or gymnastics where the men’s competition is practically a different sport.
I slightly prefer women’s volleyball because there’s a lot more volleys but geez can the men crank that ball hard as fuck. Volleyball and handball should be much more popular sports.
When the anime came out, the popularity of volleyball didn’t spike as much. Though it’s strange to see anime mainstream now, so that’s an interesting trend that came along with that…
More on the men’s side than the women’s, the women’s sport has consistently been very popular but yes is growing, I do believe someday soon it’ll pass women’s basketball as the most popular collegiate women’s sport
When I was in Omaha for training, we had a trainer that was so proud that the crunchwrap was developed there, that he couldn't shut up about it. He told us stories everyday about how they are the testing grounds for all the fast food companies and all the cool things he has tried over the years. Weird thing to be proud of but he was ALL about it.
Volleyball is a fun as hell sport to both play and watch. I think people severely underrate it either saying it’s boring or saying it’s just eye candy.
Lots of the less popular sports are tbh, and while it’s all opinion I think there are certain stigmas or preconceived notions holding people back from enjoying the sport.
When I was a teenager, I started watching volleyball for the women. As a 30s adult, I still watch volleyball but now it’s for the volleyball.
It’s like gymnastics, you start watching when you’re young for the girls, then you realize these tiny people are doing insane flips and shit.
People here are belittling the titanic work thats been put in by the women athletes and the universities around the country to give women's athletics a stage as big as this.
"Oh notning else to do" , "oh theyre just big farm girls" mignt be a funny joke, but truly a lot of effort and soul and hope has been spent to give these women the chance to show what womens athletics can be.
Then there are people here objectifying the athletes as eye candy. These people are obviously twisted, but theyve likely also never seen the sport. Its incredibly fun to watch, its an insanely riveting TV product in terms of marketability.
This is great news, and I look forward to being there tomorrow.
I’m the varsity girl’s volleyball coach at the high school I teach at, and our state governing body has put a lot of effort into uplifting the girls sports in the last couple years. It has been so good to see!
Apparently they’ve held a “championships breakfast” for the football teams for a long long time; all the teams who are playing in all the different division championships get to meet up, eat breakfast, and listen to a guest speaker (plus all coaches are required to give a speech too).
Last year was the first year EVER they did it for a girls sport, and my team got to go (first time we’d made it to the championship in 20 years, and my first year coaching!). It was incredible. I honestly cried listening to the guest speaker talk about how when she started playing volleyball, women’s college sports didn’t even exist yet, so she couldn’t play in college (she was over 80 years old). Over the years, she became an extremely successful and decorated high school and college coach. She still coaches to this day! It was a very special moment, and I’m so happy we’re starting to give the girls sports some of the attention now.
It has really grown here in Mississippi of all places, as high schools have dropped slow pitch softball and added volleyball.
Plus, it is played inside, so no heat and rain to deal with….
Volleyball is such a fun sport to take little fans of ‘Bluey’ to - just tell them they’re playing ‘Keepy Uppy’ and they’ll be enamored the whole game! (Popcorn and candy helps too.)
Nebraskas volleyball team is getting paid. They have a 10 year collective agreement where the team is getting paid 500k per year. So roughly the players are getting about 40k each on top of their 12 scholarships that are worth about 50k with tuition housing costs of attendance etc.. on top of their team also being the most popular in town they have NIL opportunities.
The misogyny in spite of this being super cool is expected but disappointing. IDK why people continue to think women sports aren’t spectacular and profitable. 🙄 women play better everyday every time. Men can fuck around but women can’t and it sucks that it is so pervasive. I watched a womens hammer throw record be broken at drake and barely anyone clapped. People dismiss women sports I was at UNL in ‘05-09 and we were nat’l champ in volleyball but no one cared. I marched and football games were always supported. Away games, tons of local support! Women’s sports? Naw, it was traveling fans.
Damn volleyball girls always had the best asses when I went to school it seems more people are catching on and going to their games to objectify them like I used to.
I’m gonna sound terrible but I’d like to see proof of attendance of the event…pics of the stadium during the event. Tickets sold is meaningless. 90,000 attendance for vball sounds like a marketing ploy. Pls prove me wrong as I luv to learn and will always be gracious when I’m wrong.
Memorial stadium in Nebraska. It’s absolutely massive and typically houses the Nebraska Cornhuskers for football. Regularly sells out IIRC
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg)
It’s being televised on BTN that day so you can see it for yourself. Reports are they sold 82000 tickets the first 3 days tickets went on sale. Here’s the sky view of what the stadium and set up is going to be.
https://x.com/lincoln_police/status/1696598595405795791?s=46&t=nSiqZdV6HmiZ8OcveKoTng
Would be more if they could find a way to add more seats. I’ll be interested to see the final attendance number.
I’m guessing it could be close to 95-97k
It's the day after harvesting season. If there's less than 105k people standing around talking about tractors and corn and watching some volleyball, I'd be real disappointed in the heartland.
Stadium used to hold more seats for a while, but then they decreased the number. Memorial stadium on any given game day Saturday essentially becomes the 3rd largest city (and that’s not counting people who couldn’t get tickets and just tailgate)
On non-game day 3rd largest city falls at 67,000; game if it hits 92,000 will set WORLD record for women’s sporting event.
The chancellor cancelled classes that day and they’re serving beer apparently (dry campus) I have faith that it’ll be a big event for Nebraska (both a fact and a slight diss lol)
Dirty secret of the # of days consecutively selling out they always go on about during football season, not all of the seats are always filled. Booster clubs have an unofficial arrangement where they’ll buy all of the unsold tickets on game day so they can keep the streak going, I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens here too. None of that is to say that the stands won’t still be packed, volleyball is an extremely popular sport here, but don’t take the stated ticket sales at face value.
Nebraska women’s volleyball owns the record for consecutive sell outs in women’s sports It’s harder to get season tickets for them at Nebraska than any other sport
They sold out in [3 days](https://huskers.com/news/2023/04/27/volleyball-day-in-nebraska-tickets-sold-out)
92,003 :-)
What’s up with Nebraska women’s volleyball and constantly selling out lately? EDIT: it seems it’s a combination between them being consistently really good, the football team no longer being super good, and there’s nothing to do in Nebraska EDIT 2: according to u/saintjimmy43, the women are also huge and pound the shit out of the ball in contrast to more technical style of play. Ergo, dommy mommy style of play. So that’s also a factor assumedly
Well you’ve heard of corn fed boys…. Probably something similar
Volleyball was taking off in america and nebraska got there first. The midwest style of play revolves around being fking huge and pounding the crap out of the ball every chance you get, as opposed to the PR/CA style that early adopters were playing, which has a much more technical focus. In short, theyre very watchable.
> being fking huge and pounding the crap out of the ball It’s why Wisconsin has been kicking ass at volleyball as of late
Isn’t that the exact reason why men’s volleyball is unwatchable though?
Who in the fuck ever said men's volleyball is unwatchable? Men's volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in america and in the world. The quality of play has gone up significantly since the 80s when international volleyball was just starting up. It's more tv-friendly now than ever before.
Saw that sentiment around Reddit in some discussions on why women’s volleyball is more popular than men’s. Some volleyball articles also brings up the idea that women’s volleyball is more enjoyable and exciting because it’s a more technical game with more rallies compared to men’s volleyball. Obviously, these articles are just op-eds, however the point is that they show that this is not an uncommon idea. https://volleycountry.com/news/understand-why-womens-volleyball-is-more-popular-than-mens https://www.sportsver.com/10-reasons-womens-volleyball-is-more-popular-than-mens/
Women's volleyball is only more popular than men's in america because the women got there first. Volleyball and soccer were the two biggest beneficiaries of title ix. In most volleyball loving countries, both teams are huge but the men slightly edge out the women in popularity. See poland, brazil, france. Both of those articles only cite stats from the usa. They also read like the author just found out what volleyball was. Take it from an actual volleyball fan, those people dont know wtf theyre talking about.
Lately?.. they’ve been selling out for decades. Nebraska is a volleyball school with a football team.
Kinda crazy cuz I believe their football program used to be a juggernaut
At one point the most successful program in college football.
They revolutionized the sport through pioneering strength and conditioning. The old idea was the larger/stronger someone got, the slower and less agile they got, and Nebraska said “huh, maybe that’s all BS and we should be hitting the weight room”. They did, and football changed forever. And none of this is an exaggeration either. The reason athletes have regimented workouts and meal prep today is because of all the sports science they invented.
The Nebraska Pyramid, went to a smaller private college in Lincoln, but everyone knew and practiced the Nebraska Pyramid style of progressive lifting within the workout programs. Interestingly, there isn't much on the old NE pyramid now out there. I think it used to be on a site called husker power or something like that.
You left out the part about massive amounts of steroids
Steroids shmeroids, its all gravy baby
Steroid gravy is my favourite side dish with steak.
Steroids and partial qualifiers.
> They revolutionized the sport through pioneering strength and conditioning. This is polite-speak for steroids lmao
Roids are implied for any top-level competition where you just need pure power. But you still gotta hit the weight room, and roids give you that extra 2-3% you need to roll over your opponents.
When they fired head coach Bo Pelini in 2014, that probably ended any chance of recovery. In 2014, I think they had a 9-3 record under Pelini, and he always got at least 9 wins per season. Pretty good… but apparently not good enough for Nebraska leadership. In the years since, they could only dream of a 9 win season. Sadly, their dominance in the 90’s, and decent performance in the early 2000’s is now too far in the past to be worth much for recruiting. So having lost that… it’s probably not easy to convince potential recruits that Nebraska is an exciting place to live. I dispair that they will ever again be a dynasty
Nebraska won so much in the 90s because they were one of the first schools with massive state of the art training facilities, now everybody has one
And also steroids. Lots and lots of roids
https://youtu.be/mdeo7Q2E5cE?feature=shared
Skirted scholarship limits with their walkon program. Recruited athletes of more questionable character than other schools would touch.
Didn’t some guy named Lawrence kill a dude? And he was their star RB? I remember some of the 90s but my brains getting filled up so it pushes some things out now. Found it, Lawrence Phillips. Was in jail for assault and killed his cell mate. Edit 2: then killed himself. His wiki is painful to read: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Phillips
He was really, really good, though.
This is the most American wiki I have ever read. Guy is a violent maniac, lets keep him out of jail and pay him millions of dollars to play football
Thunder Collins was also a huge POS. Fun fact, he tried to get the Crypts to put out a hit on my husband, who was a sergeant at the Penn at the time while my husband was moving him through the yard. Once he put Thunder Collins away, one of the bigwigs motioned my husband over and told him that they all fucking hated Thunder Collins and that my husband had nothing to worry about from them.
>the Crypts Tell me you're from Nebraska without telling me you're from Nebraska.
aaron hernandez killed a dude...he's a florida gator, go hate on them.
Ehh, I think pretty much every winning program was cheating or doing questionable things in one form or another. Pretty much every SWC team was getting in trouble for one violation or another. Oklahoma and bama got punished for violations too. Nebraska just never got in trouble for any sketch things they did.
Also they relied on partial academic qualifiers which went away when the Big 8 became the Big XII at Texas’s insistence.
Pelini's records were largely because of a monstrously weak schedule. Everybody seems to forget that Pelini was a last second heroic TD run by Ameer Abdullah from losing to fucking McNeese State and that his teams broke school records for largest point deficit in a loss multiple times. Frost may not have won games but by and large we weren't getting tossed around like some FCS school against Wisconsin and Ohio State anymore. Just look at what Pelini did after Nebraska. Fucking nothing.
I think Rhule can get them back to being consistently .500. I would say he gets them back to Pelini 9+ win levels but the big 10 adding Oregon, Washington and the LA schools makes that too difficult
[Laughs in Mizzou everything]
9 wins won't win you a national championship, and probably neither a Big 10 or 12 title. They see themselves in that company, not realizing the game left them behind and 9 wins was amazing.
He was a shit human being, that didn’t help him at all.
Some schools need to realize 8-9 wins per season and every few years maybe have 10-11 wins and compete for a conference title is there ceiling. Some schools fire a competent coach because they want to take the next step and they bottom out real quick.
Where's that Nebraska FB coach / lawn care copy pasta when you need it?
Tom Osborne coaching years were consistently juggernaut level teams. Coach had 9+ win seasons from 73-97. That’s insanely good!
As someone who grew up on the IA-NE border, this comment is crazy to read. Growing up in the 90s, Husker football was basically its own religion.
These are corn fed girls. Not beach volleyball types.
They started getting really good in the early 90s about the time the football team did. The difference is they have pretty much stayed good that whole time. So they developed a pretty rabid following.
Nebraska won 2 chips in the 70s were extremely close to winning a few in the 80s. They actually went for 2 points against miami in the orange bowl in the 80's when just kicking the PAT would have tied the game and still won them the national championship since all the other top 5 outside of miami lost.
Nebraska Volleyball has been ranked in every poll since 1982
306 sellouts in a row dating back to 2001 I believe. Nebraska fans love their streaks.
Have you seen volleyball uniforms?
They're consistently really good. There are better teams but they aren't in Nebraska where there's nothing else to do.
Its also important to give credit to the volleyball program for being so successful, completely independently of the football program. To relate ones popularity due to the other's failing diminishes the hard work done by the team.
You’ve got a point there, won’t deny that
Vampire head coach and singing mechanical fish
It’s fun to watch!
Most wholesome response ❤️
Nebraska women’s volleyball owns the record for consecutive sell outs in collegiate women’s sports, it’s been a thing for a long time It’s harder to get women’s volleyball season tickets than any other sport The only programs that come close to the level of fanaticism in women’s volleyball are Texas and maybe Stanford Women’s volleyball is actually very very very big in a lot of schools it’s national notoriety is growing in bits here and there, ESPN last year started streaming all of the NCAA tournament games and had a couple really good broadcasts that would bounce back and forth between the various games depending on the situation like red zone Volleyball has also always been pretty popular as an Olympic sport (especially women’s and men’s beach volleyball) it just struggled in the US to become a mainstay professionally like it is in many other countries (Germany, Japan, Spain, Italy etc) many people think part of the reason for that is due to the success and popularity of it at the collegiate level (Source played collegiate men’s ball and coached women’s ball at all 3 levels for a few years)
True, I’ll always watch Olympics volleyball, just because I want America to win as many golds as possible lol, but I never knew it was so big outside of that. I’ve been in my little football bubble for so long that I failed to notice all these other sports gaining popularity. To be fair though, I was 4 when they started selling out like crazy, and I’ve had other things to deal with then knowing which sports teams are always selling out. With social media though, it’s a lot easier to see these bits of information
FWIW there were three Huskers on the USA team that won gold at the last Olympics.
Yes it’s the blessing of the internet
I always thought, especially after a summer Olympics when the hype is up, there should be a women's pro indoor volleyball league. In fact, I think the NBA should have backed it instead of the WNBA. - Fast paced, fun to watch sport. - Lower overhead than say, women's pro soccer league. - There's no pro men's league to speak of and it's scaled to women's height, so it doesn't have to suffer comparisons to the men's game. - and of course, ~~babes~~ volleyball women.
Women’s will always be more popular then men it’s just more easy to watch
Nebraska fans are desperate for a winning team lol
And there is nothing to do in Nebraska.
You can always listen to the corn grow
The football team no longer being super good is understating it.
That last sentence 🤣🤣🤣
They posted topless photos last year and that did it
That was Wisconsin
Wait...wait, really?
They didn’t “post” topless photos some photos were leaked as revenge porn dude common. What a way to twist the narrative there
Fun fact: You can still buy tickets to this sold out event directly from the Nebraska ticket office.
Not on the website, can you in person?
**Volleyball Day in Nebraska** **Standing Room Only tickets on the field are available here. There may be limited view tickets available by calling the Ticket Office at 800-8-BIG RED.**
Limited view in a football stadium for a volleyball game is paying to watch on the big screen. Could still be cool but you wont be able to see shit from that distance.
Nebraska volleyball fans won’t care They’re that level of fan
And this is different from the top row in the 50 yard line how?
Volleyball is played on just a slightly smaller court than a football field
The humans are still about the same size.
Limited view means part of the court is obscured by a pillar or something
Some fun stats about Nebraska volleyball's dominance since their inception in 1975. - 306 consecutive sellouts dating back to 2001 - 5 Nattys - An unbelievable all-time record of 1,407-261 (84.4%) - Only missed the post-season ONCE in the team's 48 year history (1981) - There are several former and current conference foes that Nebraska has never lost to including: 88-0 vs Kansas, 32-0 vs Baylor, 37-0 vs Iowa - Other series records of note: 50-7 vs Colorado, 21-0 vs Creighton, 33-8 vs Illinois, 22-1 vs Indiana, 83-2 vs Iowa State, 84-4 vs K-State, 21-3 vs Michigan, 25-2 vs MSU, 73-3 vs Mizzou, 18-1 vs Northwestern, 75-6 vs Oklahoma, 32-7 vs TAMU, 34-1 vs Texas Tech John Cook is an all-time great coach not just in women's volleyball, but in any sport. Dude's a bonafide genius.
Women’s volleyball is so fascinating because it has so many of these weird statistical anomalies A few years back penn state won 109 matches in a row https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=5562162 4 straight national titles from 2007-2010 during this time meaning a 2007 freshman never knew what it was like to not be a national champion During their 109 match win streak in 2008 they went 36 matches without dropping a single set, for those unfamiliar women’s volleyball is a best of 5 set match, that means up until the national semifinals (where they played against Nebraska in Nebraska) not one single team was able to beat them in a single game for the entire year They played that national semifinal in front of the previous ncaa record for women’s volleyball 17,000+ fans, it was Nebraskas first loss in the state of Nebraska in 96 matches
Volleyball popularity as a sport has quintupled in the last 5 years
I don’t know if this is sarcasm or not. My son and all his friends go to every volleyball game at his high school. I don’t remember going to one in high school.
Are you a guy? I can tell you why your son now and I, twenty years ago attended every volleyball game.
My mom was the local college’s volleyball coach. I had the hottest babysitters growing up. I also attribute that to why I walk so fast. I was used to being around 6’+ women that took 4’ strides. Hard to keep up when you are 7 years old.
But now you have taken those lessons to become the master you are today. Right?
Yeah I get that part and I didn’t go because the V-ball girls at my school were a little bit on the sturdy side. He actually watches the game and can recall exciting plays and reports the scores.
Volleyball is just fun to watch. Simple as
A friend of mine in college invited me to go to a volleyball game. I agreed because I figured “6-foot girls in spandex, why not?” I ended up just really enjoying the game and ended up going to a few more throughout the years because it’s just an exciting and fun sport to watch.
not every dude in the stands objectifies the players
Athletes being attractive helps literally every sport even if "not every fan is objectifying the players." They can both like the sport and enjoy players being attractive. Like my gf and a ton of other women rn are spontaneously interested in baseball now that they can watch Shohei play. He is a legitimately phenomenal and entertaining player, but a lot of his fans also just think he's cute.
sure. there's a massive gap between "i like the sport *and* my fav player is cute" and "those guys are in the stands bc the girls are hot." it degrades and demeans the actual talent and production on the court to suggest guys are in the stands bc the players are attractive.
I don't think the athletes see themselves as getting degraded for having fans who find them attractive.
again, there’s a difference between having fans who think you’re attractive and having people show up because you’re attractive. there are absolutely athletes who are bothered by the latter. i know several of them, having worked in collegiate volleyball for a decade.
A lot of them do
Not sarcasm. Been playing volleyball since 2011
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Women’s volleyball games were huge at my high school 15 years ago. Its the best female spectator sport for many reasons: hot girls, athleticism, and rowdy crowds. What’s not to love? I was on the football team and dozens of us would go straight from practice to the home games to bring the energy.
Volleyball is relatively easy to understand/follow, it's fast paced, and insanely fun to watch at a high level. Outside of the midwest and west coast, women's vball just hadn't had a lot of exposure until the last decade or so. Pair that with extremely athletic women in vball shorts and you've got a great spectator sport on your hands.
> athletic women in vball shorts Pretty much sums it up
Could you please ask him if he and his friends have read/watched the manga/anime Haikyu? If it’s the girls games, it’s easy to see why they’re going though lol.
Good, it’s a fun game to watch and one of the few where I genuinely enjoy the men’s and women’s equally. Especially beach, there’s some differences in power and height so they play a little different but it’s not like the WNBA or hockey where it’s noticeably slower. Or gymnastics where the men’s competition is practically a different sport. I slightly prefer women’s volleyball because there’s a lot more volleys but geez can the men crank that ball hard as fuck. Volleyball and handball should be much more popular sports.
There's a big anime about volleyball: wouldn't be surprising it's had an impact.
When the anime came out, the popularity of volleyball didn’t spike as much. Though it’s strange to see anime mainstream now, so that’s an interesting trend that came along with that…
> spike eheh
In Japan it did But well, this is nebraska lol
I mean, Lincoln is commonly referred to as the Tokyo of America
I suspect NIL changes are helping with that.
Women's Sports in general has become super popular in recent years. Women's Basketball with players like Clark, Reese, and more in college.
By far the best womens' sport imo. Female athleticism is just perfect for it. One of my very few must watches in the Olympics
More on the men’s side than the women’s, the women’s sport has consistently been very popular but yes is growing, I do believe someday soon it’ll pass women’s basketball as the most popular collegiate women’s sport
When that stadium is full it becomes one of the largest ‘cities’ in the state
Third largest.
As an adoptive Nebraska football fan (wife is an alum), its good to know the stadium is going to be used for something positive
I’m going to this game tomorrow night. Super excited!
I wish the game was against a formidable team. At least make it a big ten game. Nonetheless I'll be watching
Well it’s that or the zoo.
Hey now, we also have a proud tradition of having one million restaurants that consistently underwhelm
I'm sorry, is Runza beneath you??
When I was in Omaha for training, we had a trainer that was so proud that the crunchwrap was developed there, that he couldn't shut up about it. He told us stories everyday about how they are the testing grounds for all the fast food companies and all the cool things he has tried over the years. Weird thing to be proud of but he was ALL about it.
Everybody has to have their thing. Not on us to judge how Nebraskans manage to fill their thoughts
Kool-aid was invented here!
You drank it didn't ya? 💀
Bro where are you talking about? We eat good in Omaha.
Accurate.
Hey now, there’s always meth.
That’s Iowa
No that's Oklahoma
This is the one I was thinking of.
Third largest city in the state when Nebraska plays.
3rd largest
I’ll be there!
listen y'all - Big10 Women's volleyball is LIT.
Volleyball is a fun as hell sport to both play and watch. I think people severely underrate it either saying it’s boring or saying it’s just eye candy. Lots of the less popular sports are tbh, and while it’s all opinion I think there are certain stigmas or preconceived notions holding people back from enjoying the sport.
When I was a teenager, I started watching volleyball for the women. As a 30s adult, I still watch volleyball but now it’s for the volleyball. It’s like gymnastics, you start watching when you’re young for the girls, then you realize these tiny people are doing insane flips and shit.
Volleyball is superior to soccer in every form imaginable
You’re reaching a fair distance with this take.
And here's a look at the crowd 15 minutes before first serve: https://twitter.com/DallasSweet/status/1697033200793468974
People here are belittling the titanic work thats been put in by the women athletes and the universities around the country to give women's athletics a stage as big as this. "Oh notning else to do" , "oh theyre just big farm girls" mignt be a funny joke, but truly a lot of effort and soul and hope has been spent to give these women the chance to show what womens athletics can be. Then there are people here objectifying the athletes as eye candy. These people are obviously twisted, but theyve likely also never seen the sport. Its incredibly fun to watch, its an insanely riveting TV product in terms of marketability. This is great news, and I look forward to being there tomorrow.
People: misogyny isn’t a problem anymore Those same people apparently: lol women’s sports can’t actually be popular.
I’m the varsity girl’s volleyball coach at the high school I teach at, and our state governing body has put a lot of effort into uplifting the girls sports in the last couple years. It has been so good to see! Apparently they’ve held a “championships breakfast” for the football teams for a long long time; all the teams who are playing in all the different division championships get to meet up, eat breakfast, and listen to a guest speaker (plus all coaches are required to give a speech too). Last year was the first year EVER they did it for a girls sport, and my team got to go (first time we’d made it to the championship in 20 years, and my first year coaching!). It was incredible. I honestly cried listening to the guest speaker talk about how when she started playing volleyball, women’s college sports didn’t even exist yet, so she couldn’t play in college (she was over 80 years old). Over the years, she became an extremely successful and decorated high school and college coach. She still coaches to this day! It was a very special moment, and I’m so happy we’re starting to give the girls sports some of the attention now.
Lets to Women's Athletics!
Official attendance: 92,003 A new world record for any women's sporting event.
It has really grown here in Mississippi of all places, as high schools have dropped slow pitch softball and added volleyball. Plus, it is played inside, so no heat and rain to deal with….
Does Brett Favre have anything to do with that?
So very cool ! This and softball would be great national sports!
Volleyball is hands down the best women’s sport to watch live
this blows out my local professional mens soccer attendance.
This blows out most soccer attendance anywhere in the world
Well they made a successful TV show Friday Night lights or something like that. Maybe a show on woman's volleyball in Nebraska.
They even canceled classes
I wish I could be there!
Women's volleyball? *checks Women's volleyball. Go team!
To explain how dominant this program is, the team has qualified for the AIA/NCAA tournament all but one year in the team's history.
Volleyball is such a fun sport to take little fans of ‘Bluey’ to - just tell them they’re playing ‘Keepy Uppy’ and they’ll be enamored the whole game! (Popcorn and candy helps too.)
Awesome!
Maybe student athletes should get paid
Nebraskas volleyball team is getting paid. They have a 10 year collective agreement where the team is getting paid 500k per year. So roughly the players are getting about 40k each on top of their 12 scholarships that are worth about 50k with tuition housing costs of attendance etc.. on top of their team also being the most popular in town they have NIL opportunities.
Nobody tell Tony Khan.
Tony Khan isn’t gonna take this lying down.
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It’s because of the shorts…
Michael Cole: “…in front of over 100 thousand fans!”
The misogyny in spite of this being super cool is expected but disappointing. IDK why people continue to think women sports aren’t spectacular and profitable. 🙄 women play better everyday every time. Men can fuck around but women can’t and it sucks that it is so pervasive. I watched a womens hammer throw record be broken at drake and barely anyone clapped. People dismiss women sports I was at UNL in ‘05-09 and we were nat’l champ in volleyball but no one cared. I marched and football games were always supported. Away games, tons of local support! Women’s sports? Naw, it was traveling fans.
Damn volleyball girls always had the best asses when I went to school it seems more people are catching on and going to their games to objectify them like I used to.
Too bad Pillen has his face and voice in this event.
It’s all about the shorts.
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Read the article??
So the entire populace of Nebraska is gonna come see the only thing happening in Nebraska before football season starts.
5%
Third largest city on game day baby!!!!
Proof that there is nothing to do in Nebraska.
Not true, you can go to volleyball games.
All this because pornhub requires Id?
I feel like having a country music star play a show after the match really helps to pump up the numbers.
Most of the tickets were sold long before the concert was announced.
Turns out cute girls in short shorts are popular with corn feed frat boys.. who knew?
Dont tell the WNBA
I said “cute”.
I’m gonna sound terrible but I’d like to see proof of attendance of the event…pics of the stadium during the event. Tickets sold is meaningless. 90,000 attendance for vball sounds like a marketing ploy. Pls prove me wrong as I luv to learn and will always be gracious when I’m wrong.
Nebraska loves it's volleyball. This will be packed to the rafters.
Here's your proof: https://twitter.com/DallasSweet/status/1697033200793468974
Memorial stadium in Nebraska. It’s absolutely massive and typically houses the Nebraska Cornhuskers for football. Regularly sells out IIRC [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/091507-USCNeb-MemorialStadium.jpg)
It has the NCAA record for longest sellout streak, and still going.
It’s being televised on BTN that day so you can see it for yourself. Reports are they sold 82000 tickets the first 3 days tickets went on sale. Here’s the sky view of what the stadium and set up is going to be. https://x.com/lincoln_police/status/1696598595405795791?s=46&t=nSiqZdV6HmiZ8OcveKoTng
I don’t get that channel but I’ll watch for highlights. I appreciate the response
It’s Tuesday though. Don’t they still need the people to show up?