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
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— 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.”
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