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Pastimes : College Football: Nits, Gators, Bruins, Vols - Whoever! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MythMan who wrote (6588)	9/13/2002 9:52:35 AM
From: Nittany Lion	Respond to of 11146

Man, has that weather forecast gone to Hell or what? 50% chance of rain tomorrow & 80% Sunday. Bummer! Have I told you about our 3rd and long statistics? LOL! Offensively or defensively? Those 3rd & 25's kill us on defense.

To: MythMan who wrote (6588)	9/13/2002 11:33:53 AM
From: Nittany Lion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11146

I bet there will be 20,000 easy - actually it could work in our favor tho. Nothing like a little competition to wake up the home crowd: PSU fans trying to keep the red out By Marc Weiszer mweiszer@centredaily.com They filled up Memorial Stadium in Lincoln for an NCAA-record 250th consecutive time Saturday night against Utah State. Just like Nebraska football fans have done for every game since 1962. Now Husker Nation is coming east, and former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie has some words of wisdom for Penn State fans holding tickets for the sold-out game against Nebraska Saturday night in Beaver Stadium: Hold on to them. "One advice I'd give the fans is you are going to have a lot of Nebraska people calling you trying to buy your tickets -- don't sell those tickets to Nebraska people," said Davie, now an ESPN analyst. Two years ago, Davie walked into Notre Dame Stadium for the Irish home opener and saw a sea of red. Cornhuskers fans snatched up some 30,000 or so tickets and made their presence felt in a crowd of 80,232 in what Davie said was an embarrassment to Notre Dame fans. "It's going to be easier said than done because I know those prices are going to go pretty high," Davie said. On the eBay online auction Web site last week, pairs of Nebraska-Penn State tickets were going for $300 and higher. Four tickets, two nights of lodging and parking were being offered for $1,500. Nebraska season-ticket holder Larry Cannon, who works for Embassy Suites in Omaha, already has his tickets for the game. He's flying to Baltimore on Tuesday on his way to State College and has friends that will fly to the game without tickets. Penn State season ticket holder J.C. Corrigan of Richmond, Va., said he's been offered $600 for two tickets by Nebraska fans. "I said 'No, way. I'll give them to a Penn State fan for $200 before I give them to you for $600,'" said Corrigan, 34, a 1989 Penn State graduate in nuclear engineering who is an operations analyst for Capital One. "I'm not going to sell them to a Nebraska fan for $600 because that's selling out like a Notre Dame fan." Corrigan has taken to fan Web sites and sent e-mails to push his idea of "Operation Visine" -- to get the red out. "You don't sell out your school at all," Corrigan said. "You stay loyal to the school and you keep the seats in-house." Distance could keep Beaver Stadium from turning into the sea of red that was at Notre Dame. The trip from Lincoln to State College is roughly 1,100 miles compared to the 500 miles from Lincoln to South Bend, Ind. Two other factors may keep Cornhusker fans away: The kickoff time is 8 p.m. and hotel rooms are nearly impossible to find. Tickets aren't easy to secure either. Under contract terms between Nebraska and Penn State, Nebraska was given 4,000 tickets for this year's game and Penn State 4,000 for next year's game in Lincoln according to Penn State director of ticket operations Bud Meredith. "I've just told people you have to be creative," said Jackie Powell of Carlisle, Central Pennsylvania chapter president of the Nebraska Alumni Association. "Talk to your friends, look in the paper, go to ticket brokers." Nebraska fans from all over the country started calling Powell in January looking for tickets to the Penn State game. A ticket broker approached the group this summer offering tickets at $235 each. "I don't think anybody took any of those tickets but if somebody really wants to go I'm sure there's a ticket out there for them," Powell said. Meredith said his biggest concern is students trying to cash in on the demand. Student tickets cost just $19.25 per game so the profit could be 10 times that much. Penn State has stepped up its inspection of student IDs this season. "It's a very inexpensive ticket and it's an opportunity to make an exorbitant amount of money on their ticket," Meredith said. Cannon traveled for the Notre Dame game and flew to Seattle in 1997 for a Cornhuskers game against Washington without a ticket. He isn't alone. Nebraska reportedly brought 35,000 fans to a regular season game at Cal in 1999. "We don't have pro sports here," Cannon said. "This is something the whole state can bond with. We sit in our house on a cold winter night to watch the Orange Bowl and the bars and restaurants are packed. It's a great time to go shopping in a grocery store when Nebraska plays."