Suh arrested?

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Here you go Nub fans. This is a nice feel good piece about your fans. (This has nothing to do with Suh and his faux-arrest).

http://www.wacotrib.com/baylor/conte...waccherry.html

Brice Cherry: Might as well have played it in Lincoln

BRICE CHERRY Tribune-Herald staff writer
Sunday, November 01, 2009

Shame on you, Baylor fans.

Oh sure, you could make excuses and claim that the football team hasn’t given you anything to cheer about this season, and for the most part, you’d be right. For two quarters Saturday, certainly nothing unfolded on the field that would have raised your blood pressure — at least not in a good way.

But in the second half of their 20-10 loss to Nebraska, the Bears turned in an inspired effort, particularly on defense. They made a respectable bid at upsetting a Husker team that many predicted would win the Big 12 North at the start of the season.

But you weren’t there to cheer, Baylor fans. You missed it.

And it’s high time you started taking yourself to task. Look in the mirror and deal with this fact — as a whole, you’re the worst fans in the Big 12.

When the Bears descended the ramp and entered Floyd Casey Stadium at the start of Saturday’s game, it must have been a disheartening sight. It truly felt as if the game was being held in Lincoln South rather than Waco, what with all the red bleeding all over the stands.

A couple of players even suggested it felt like a road game.

“Of course you notice it,” safety Jordan Lake said. “I know Nebraska travels well. They’re well-known for how good their fan base is, so that didn’t surprise me at all the turnout they had. At the same time, it didn’t matter what was going on outside the lines, in the stadium. It mattered what was happening between the lines.”

To a man, the Baylor players took the high road when it came to evaluating the home crowd. They said their job is to play hard no matter who’s in attendance, in spite of the circumstances. And they’re right.

The road not taken

But I’m a columnist. I don’t have to take the high road.

The fact is, the vast majority of Baylor fans don’t deserve the “fan” label. By definition, a fan personifies fanaticism. It’s someone who arrives early, wears the school colors, cheers loudly and proudly for 60 minutes, and stays late.

That’s not you, Baylor backer. Call yourself a follower, a front-runner, a fair-weather supporter. But you’re no kind of fan.

Does that make you mad? Tough. Truth hurts.

How is Baylor ever going to win in the recruiting game if the opposing crowd outnumbers the home folks when a blue-chipper is making his visit? Why would any television network want to broadcast a game at Floyd Casey beyond September? It doesn’t exactly scream “raucous college football atmosphere.”

“For us in that locker room, we’re out there playing for each other,” quarterback Nick Florence said. “Unfortunately the fans don’t show up a whole lot, but we’re playing for each other out there. We’re not playing for the people in the stands.”

The Baylor players say a full house doesn’t matter. But how would they really know? They’ve never actually seen one in their favor.

Look, I know winning cures all ills, including that plague of empty seats at the Case.

But it comes down to this — if you so-called Baylor fans want to start beating Nebraska and Texas and Texas A&M, perhaps you should become Nebraska and Texas and Texas A&M. That is, model yourself after their fans. Do what they do.

That starts with showing up.