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  1. Oh...OK, there it is, I found the disconnect. It's you. While you're "pretty sure this isn't the case", I do the work, and know it's the case. So Mav, can I call you Mav? Anyway, so Mav, I work in finance at a major university. I have friends who work in finance at major universities. Locally, I have friends who work at UNO, Creighton, UNL, Chadron and College of St Mary's, I correspond on a regular basis with finance people at other universities both in state and out of state. I have friends that work on the academic side, I have friends who work on the athletics side. I have worked on both sides. I have worked in audit at a major university, where part of my job was going to departments making sure the accounting practices they were doing in said department followed GAAP and university guidelines (you'd be shocked at some of the "creative accounting" athletics and development will do to provide tax benefits to major donors) so when all departments are rolled up to Treasury to finalize our reports, there are no accounting anomalies between departments that need to be corrected. Our annual NCAA audit is a stickler for accounting irregularities within the athletic department. The main commonality between all these different schools, whether the athletic department is in the black, the red, or relatively breaking, even was how capital projects were funded. While each university will have it's own naming formats, we all do it the same. There's this crazy account and budget for each school that is some derivative of "Capital Projects". Projects that are just too big for the department to handle, ie new dorms, new chem labs, upgrades to infrastructure (think repaving parking lots, upgrading HVACs, expanding buildings etc). The funds for this budget come from various sources, donations, state funds, fundraising events, and a portion of net profits from the university. Individual departments will submit proposals annually for capital projects, these are then reviewed by the board. Some are given a green light, some a yellow and others a red. Within green and yellow, they are then prioritized. With every proposal, each department will project how much they will fundraise to help mitigate the total estimate. Athletics will follow these same principals, even the ones who are in the black. That's because regardless of the net revenue/loss in athletics, they do not have capital projects in their annual budgets. This is because there's a whole different department that has that budget (that crazy Capital Projects department). So, when UNL announced major capital improvements to Memorial Stadium, it had already had a proposal done, with estimates of cost and fundraising goals, gone through the approval process, given a green light and allowed to proceed. Athletics will help fund the project, but they do not, and more importantly CANNOT, fund the project entirely. Now when funds to the university as a whole are reduced, one of the first areas that will be impacted will be the Capital Projects budget, as usually those are not priority needs for the university to run day-to-day operations. Hopefully, you can see where this is going...but I'll try to dumb it down for you and the board. Mav, when capital funding budget is decreased, I want you to take a wild guess on what that means for current capital projects? Yes, you are correct, those capital projects now have less funds available. Good work using your deductive skills. To counteract that, the project has to be modified to fit within the new budget, or the project department will have to make up the difference in fundraising. In some rare cases, the department will request a temporary allocation of their annual budget to the capital budget. Doing so usually means a reduction in overhead within said department. The biggest overhead that can be reduced is staff, hence why it doesn't happen often. Now follow along with me Mav on a fun little ride, when the governor reduced funds to UNL (based on what we've learned above) what do you think happened to their stadium upgrade capital project? Correct!! The project now has less funds available. While it's nice that UNL Athletics operates in the black, it will give them a little bit of wiggle room for some shortfalls, that net revenue in no way covers the new variance within the project. This gives athletics a few options, either go back to the people that have committed above and beyond their normal donations to UNL, to help fund this capital project and ask for even more money or modify the current project to fit within the new budget. One thing I know (notice here how I didn't say pretty sure?) about UNL Athletics is they will not request a temporary allocation of their budget to the capital project. That's just not what they do. All of this is still a dumbed down version of what the finance team will do, and this team will be on both the academic side and the athletic side, all rolling up under Treasury. The one take away I want you to understand Mav, athletics is not covering this project 100%, and (I can't emphasize this part enough) would never be able to do it on their own, the university handles this project. And while you're "pretty sure that's not how this works", I can emphatically tell you, you are wrong, and it is how this works.
    22 points
  2. 15 points
  3. Too bad. We're lucky to have someone who actually knows their s#!t to counter the gut feelings of less informed posters. Given that he'd already provided multiple dumbed down versions that some folks didn't trust, he really had no choice. Not sure a few paragraph breaks would have won you over. Appreciate the effort Madcows.
    11 points
  4. Don't switch parties, stop participating in politics. Spend time with your family, pick up a new hobby, whatever it is stop spending time on politics and worse taking that time you've spent cultivating political opinions to the voting booth. You don't understand the world around you, and that's okay. It's a big scary place, and reactionary and angry politics that you vote for isn't the answer. I get it man, but for the sake of everybody, disengage all together.
    9 points
  5. 9 points
  6. This has to be the 87th time you've posted this.
    7 points
  7. The broader country should probably also admit they just flat out hold the Democrats to a much, much higher standard, akin to what we should expect from intelligent, reasonable, functioning adults. Meanwhile Republicans get a pat on the back and a participation ribbon every time they get through a day managing to dress themselves and make coherent thoughts without crapping their pants or tripping on their own dicks. Allegedly serious people will strain themselves to admit this isn’t true. We should consider why that is.
    7 points
  8. That's now how climate works. Maybe don't go teaching science or statistics.
    7 points
  9. https://journalstar.com/news/local/education/husker-athletic-department-to-provide-5-million-in-scholarships-to-nonathletes/article_d55a4276-b344-566f-bdaa-672dc8de9a99.html This is old but took me all of ten seconds to find.
    7 points
  10. 7 points
  11. Let's just say hypothetically they purposefully didn't invite Tesla because of Elon. Who cares? He's extremely toxic right now and just a s#!tty person in general. We're talking about a political party that distances itself from people like John Edwards, Anthony Weiner, Al Franken, the Cuomo's, Senator Mendez, etc. and we're supposed to be mad that they snubbed a man child who calls people pedos and reposts white supremacy stuff?
    7 points
  12. What is it about conservatives that make then so adamantly stand up for and play the victim for billionaires (and people who claim to be billionaires but obviously aren't)?
    7 points
  13. ^ Boy, spend years complaining about fake news. Complain when you don't get fake news. That's the extreme right for ya. Trying to "challenge" Ronna would require Ronna to acquire some common sense. Given that seems unlikely based on the number if years of already trying to do that, you would have better luck pulling a unicorn riding leprechaun out of her rear.
    6 points
  14. Not really a cartoon but thought I'd throw this in here as I know we've mentioned it a couple times.
    6 points
  15. Pansies for speaking out about their employer hiring someone neck deep in trying to overturn our elections?
    6 points
  16. Please, for the love of God, stop voting. You are entirely unequipped for it. If you think that legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act - which fully paid for climate investments in the bill and has actively raised more money than it has spent on climate tax credits - has or will bankrupted the country... well, honestly that actually tracks with voters like you. So completely hopeless and disconnected from reality that our only hope is to keep people like this disconnected from politics all together.
    6 points
  17. True. But one is a threat to our country. The other one isn’t. They are not the same.
    6 points
  18. Hindsight and all… but the wrong guy died at that protest. What a waste of a life!
    6 points
  19. He was learning and struggled the first year and a half. The rest of the time, he was clearly our best offensive lineman and had very few snap issues. People seem to remember his Freshman year more clearly than his senior year.
    6 points
  20. Nope, actually Ron knows how to get things done for the betterment of his citizens when he is in charge. Something Trump had a problem with.
    5 points
  21. Eh, I think most of the stuff being accused of racism has a legitimate amount of racism. 100% of folks who want to avoid the discussion entirely pretend this is a loony left thing.
    5 points
  22. Yes they are taking the brunt of the SCOTUS ruling. But everyone forgets that it was the correct ruling. Congress never codified abortion into the system and therefor it should have always been a States Rights issue for each state to decide. It was a correct sound decision unlike the previous SCOTUS decision. Congress is free to make an abortion law and a President sign it. At that point, it no longer is a States Rights issue and all states abide by it. Interesting nugget, not withstanding the fear mongering by the poster you replied to, Trump seems to want to support a 15week(ish) abortion ban with exceptions for life of mother, rape, incest. That is a longer time period than many of the EU countries that our posters want us to so desperately follow, yet someone is going around saying abortion will be criminalized in the early next term.
    5 points
  23. The ocean temperature in the North Atlantic has set a record high every day in 2024. And not by small margins. I never said that. What I said was that the planet warming has far surpassed worse case scenarios, predictions made by scientists years ago. No scientific projections predicted ocean temperatures where they are today - hence the meaning of passing even the worst scenarios because that's true. I say that because reactionary politics of people on the right are in large part because of paranoia and fear. Archy1221 and other right wingers deny climate change because denying reality is comforting to them. Because the truth scares them, and they'd have to reconcile support for destructive politics.
    5 points
  24. I usually go to 2 games a year. Sometimes the lines to pee are annoying but not the end of the world and sitting on the bleachers is not that bad, plus it is more like standing...sitting for a few seconds...standing again and so on. The wifi is not great but it is really not bad either. I don't know. Having it all modern would be cool but some of the complaints seem a little silly.
    5 points
  25. Why do I get the feeling you actually counted?
    5 points
  26. I don't expect the bros who struggle with concepts like rates, ratios, and proportions to understand weather vs climate but I'll post this for people who actually can understand rudimentary statistics and trends https://apnews.com/article/hot-climate-change-records-oceans-0af09f155051b25d245a0fd28fe23af6 For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks
    5 points
  27. The bolded just demonstrates poor judgment. For what it’s worth, the damages amount are literally just equal to what it was calculated that the Trump Org fraudulently benefitted from with their shady math. So the court is asking them to give back what they shouldn’t have had in the first place. And people are suggesting that is unfair to Trump. Americans have collectively lowered the bar so far for this moron. It’s absurd.
    5 points
  28. Honestly I haven't been following the NY fraud case against Trump very closely until the verdict was reached. Other real estate business leaders have expressed concern at the ruling and even threatened to no longer do business in NY because of it. Being a cynic, I figured maybe they were corrupt. I have also read that some have testified that the accounting and evaluations were sound. If NY seized property today i would have been concerned with those actions. Now the appeals courts moves the bond down to 175M (less than half) and leaves the appeal open for reversal. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/appeals-court-slashes-bond-trump-civil-fraud-case-to-175-million/ Honestly, I do not have anymore trust in the judge and prosecutor than I do in Trump. Do they realize if they do not execute this justly it's going to strengthen Trump?
    5 points
  29. It's a waste of money to keep renovating that dinosaur. Time for forward thinking and plan a new stadium in a couple of years. Make going to the games a wonderful experience instead of having to pee in troughs or porta potties.
    5 points
  30. But they don’t have to work on anything or solve any problems because the continued support of their base only requires rage farming. I’d say the problem isn’t the politicians but rather the people that continue to support MAGA. There is no R party separate from MAGA anymore.
    5 points
  31. This was an excellent post. For those of you that didn't read because of paragraphs, give it another shot! I added some spots for "brain breaks" Thanks for sharing @Madcows
    5 points
  32. Again, Donald Trump and his father were defrauding New York State and others by hundreds of millions of dollars long before Don ran for President. It may indeed be a political witch hunt at this point, but that doesn't alter the fact that it's long overdue.
    5 points
  33. Fair enough. It just seems like you are really stretching to hate on the Biden admin this morning. It’s fair to not not like the guy, but the posts today just seem pretty petty.
    5 points
  34. I think someone at DOJ wanted to buy Apple stock and needed a reason to depress the stock before buying in.
    5 points
  35. Did you ever stop to think what the context of that photo might be, or did you just embrace the rage bait?
    5 points
  36. The thing is, if you are an envirobro and you do ANYTHING at all that hurts the environment, than what you say doesn't matter and you are a phony. Period. For instance, I hate guns and firemen. I will NEVER own a gun or a bullet, I will never go to a gun store or gun show, ever ever...And I will never donate to anything fireman related and I would never use their "help" But envirbros, even here on this site, still hurt the environment every single day. So they really don't care they just love the juice that comes with the talk.
    4 points
  37. Update new plan .... scrap upper deck . Kinda like OU south expansion "Why are folks so gung ho on not reducing our seating capacity? We can’t even fill the seats we have. I would rather see us lose 8,000-10,000 seats but have it be a better overall experience for those attending" (borrowed HMax member) Ronald Reagan Dannen told Gorbachev Kabourek 'Tear down this wall upper deck!' 87th post ......
    4 points
  38. the Bee pissed off a big group of it's regular readers today. check the comments they got
    4 points
  39. Because your schtick is always sarcasm, nobody can tell if or when you're joking. Please, for the love of God, tell me that you're not dumb enough to use the 10 day weather for your local city as proof for or against climate change. Because I don't know if you knew this, but 2024 has thus far been so catastrophic for the climate that the even the worst case scenarios are being blown past.
    4 points
  40. You have to have your players set up in the tournament. Shelley was 5-21 in the two games. Markowski was 4-17 today. We shot 31% from the floor today and 20% on threes. Not much hope when you do that.
    4 points
  41. I think our mental block is more playing away from home than in the NCAA tournament.
    4 points
  42. Wow! Caleb Smith just took down the #2 seed.
    4 points
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