Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 2000)
Irish, Husker game creates big demand, too few tickets LINCOLN (AP) — So what do you get when you cross a Nebraska football game at Notre Dame with a measly 4,000 avail able tickets? You get a skirmish in the end zone cm fourth and one. You get two pairs of tickets on Internet auction site e-Bay for, at last count, $1375. You get a supply and demand dynamic that makes gas look like a steal. ** I’ve seen more, demand for this game than for any game in the history of Nebraska football. Steve Glenn owner, Executive Travel "I’ve seen more demand for this game than for any game in the history ofNebraska football,” said Steve Glenn, owner of Lincoln’s Executive Travel. "It'S stronger than the national championship games.” Plane tickets for the Sept. 9 blockbuster though still bvailable, are also drying up, and those will ing to pay will soon pay dearly for them. But Glenn’fc real worry is that some Husker fans will end up in Indiana with no chance to see the game. The reason: Ticket brokers selling to travel agencies underes timate the near hysteria fueling the demand. They promise tickets, he said, because they think they’ll be able to get than. He’fe pretty sure they’re wrong. "This is really a once-in-a lifetime deal,’’ Glenn said. The chance ofNebraska playing at Notre Dame in following seasons, he said, is slim. The last time it happened was 1947, when e-Bay was die stuff of science fiction. This year, the University of Nebraska ticket office got more than 28,000,requests for ^he Notre Dame game. That* second only to the 1998 Oklahoma State game in Kansas City. For that game, how ever, there were 35,000 tickets up for grabs. Summer recruit harvest nets bumper cropforNU From staff reports With the conclusion of foot ball camps at the University of Nebraska last week, the 2001 recruiting class has grown and now includes a blue-chip defen sive lineman, a top-20 comer back, a highly touted (and much needed) quarterback and a player from a country known to produce National Hockey League stars, not football players. (Hint: it isn’t Canada) The Huskers, like many Division I football programs, use foe annual instruction camps to teach skills, assess recruits and offer scholarships to seniors-to be. As foe smoke clears from this year* camps, foe Huskers have received seven commitments with many more mulling offers. Perhaps the most highly rated Ronn Foster, who lives in Michigan and has sold a number of things on e-Bay, agreed to sell four tickets for friends, all of whom happen to be Notre Dame season-ticket holders. "I set foe opening bid at $1, went to bed, and four hours later I woke up and it was at $1,000,” he said Friday. Foster said his friends set foe reserve limit — the price bidding must reach before the tickets sell recruit who chose Nebraska is defensive lineman Jared Helming of Kickapoo High School in Springfield Mo., the same school former Husker and Green Bay Packer^ draft pick Steve Warren attended Helming (6 feet 5 inches, 265 pounds) is the 12d*-best defensive lineman in the country according to RivalslOO.com, high school football analyst Bobby Burton Is online recruiting site. Helming, who runs a 4.7 sec ond 40-yard dash, chose Nebraska over Texas, Florida State, Michigan, Tennessee, Kansas State, Kansas, Illinois and Missouri The Huskers added another standout from the state of Colorado in corner back Cory Please see RECRUITS on 11 — rather high, which he believes has triggered an unfortunate side effect hate mail. "I’ve sold everything from software to clothes to antiques and never gotten hate mail. Then this,” he said. Probably, he said, they think hefe a Fighting Irish fan. Not so. "If it came down to it,” Foster said, "I’d rather see the Huskers win.” M A L L . DA I LYN EB ■ COM Get a FREE 8 oz. Bioiage DetangHng Solution with any Color or Perm Service when you come In by July 29,2000. mm r«^„ 474-4244 Call for an appointment. * rS^Soulho,UNL lljlrfrfg fc finyu1 Haircuts I • FneNMngwHh $5*25 tO $5.75 I DuVirrtyT> rvkCjuj&c SALE! SALE! av*v5<*^ Look Your Best V** With Distinctive v Clothing, Sportswear P and Shoes! SAVE 30-60% k SALE I ON NOW! H 14th & P V Lincoln m 132nd & Center ™ Omaha please recycle your DN -^