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  1. People choosing to disparage Alberts or say he went for more money are doing so because they realize their vote helped put the University and it’s Athletic Department in the position it’s currently in (rudderless, lacking leadership, full of in-fighting and regent incompetence). Your vote has consequences—Terry Pettit has already called this out. Ricketts, Pillen, the Peeds—they’re systematically attacking the University by slashing its budget, and the regents they backed should be sued for malfeasance they’re so incompetent. But hey, blame Trev going for more money (which he didn’t get) or moving to another red State (that keeps their leadership) if that helps you cope with the fact that your vote for Pillen and Ricketts is helping kill the university.
    22 points
  2. Why? This is exactly what Pillen, Ricketts, and the Peed family want. They want an unstable University they can dismantle, and leaving it rudderless and in the hands of incompetent lackeys on the BoR helps their cause. Frankly, a lot of Nebraska voters that *supposedly* love Husker athletics and the University need to realize that voting for the current (read: non-moderate) GOP candidates means undermining the University and its mission, which includes athletics. Also, it’s not a coincidence that some of the best runs the University *and* this state had is when we had moderate leadership at the helm, and not the incompetence we have now at Governor. Elections have consequences.
    17 points
  3. And the political power play to move AD decisions to the regents also doesn't sit well. That happened late last year or earlier this year... This is going to be a thread where Politics is going to crash head-long into athletics, and it's not going to be pretty, because one of the main reasons for the dysfunction is sitting in the Governor's chair and was sitting in that chair in the previous term. And people can make up boogeymen all they want, but at the end of the day, when your state pushes policies that push kids away from the University (not just athletically-gifted kids--all kids), take the decision-making process for important functions out of the AD's hands, and you prop your friends up via cronyism to be Regents without having a fecking clue what needs to be done to maintain or support a state institution...it's not a shock you have dysfunction and a lack of vision. Elections have consequences, and the MAGA crowd in their myopia may have the (unintended?) consequence of killing off one of the prize jewels of the state and its Athletic Program.
    17 points
  4. Just because you are registered as a republican does not mean you are okay with the far right antics that are being played in that party currently.
    15 points
  5. Something is broken in the University system in Nebraska, and (not to get derailed into P/R territory), I'm not unconvinced it isn't political in nature.
    15 points
  6. "The 26K crybabies and snowflakes at UNL" which 26k exactly are you speaking of..?? "the state doesn't revolve around UNL." exactly the point that you seem to be missing... the state should not have their political fingers in the university at all.. I always seems to find it odd that the GOP wants smaller government ONLY on issues that they agree with and are constantly "arming themselves" against a government they don't trust...
    14 points
  7. Yeah, noted truth teller Vladimir Putin certainly has no vested interest in helping Trump and Republicans win again by tapping into the gullibility of conservative America. I mean, who are you going to believe? Vladimir Putin or the 275,000 dead Russian soldiers currently fertilizing Ukrainian soil largely because of American military equipment and intelligence delivered by the Biden Administration? Honestly Archy1221, and I mean this sincerely, what you believe in is not only bad for America. But your understanding of the world around you is deeply flawed, and when you take that flawed and seriously under developed understanding of the world and fill out a ballot it's bad for the world. So, please, stop doing it.
    14 points
  8. I know it might not matter to some folks, but this kind of thinking will drive good professors and researchers away from the University at a huge cost to the institution and the state. There's a movement out there to make America stupider and angrier, and it's going to backfire on everybody.
    12 points
  9. Great. We lose good talent at UNL and you blame the talent instead of the leadership that drove them out.
    12 points
  10. Bull****. Quit being disingenuous. When you have over 125k households making $400k or more not file or pay taxes (with 25k of those making over $1m) in five or more years and a top income tax rate that is less than a third of what it was under Eisenhower during his administration, it's pretty evident that there isn't an income problem, you have a plutocrat problem. It's telling that the GOP was scared to fully fund the IRS and tried to prevent it. Not only does this directly impact many in their donor base who haven't paid taxes in some time, it will ultimately impact churches who have been able to skirt non-profit laws and hoard wealth. It also has the secondary impact of being able to finally bring the law down on churches that are directly preaching politics from the pulpit, which is not only dispicable, but illegal if you're a non-profit. If the GOP truly wants to MAGA, then adopting income tax rates from the 1950s (adjusting for inflation, of course) should be paramount. Then a significant portion of this discussion around the deficit would be rendered moot.
    12 points
  11. I would happily trade an ultimately meaningless P5 noncon game in Sept for a better shot at a playoff run. Buzz off, Josh.
    12 points
  12. From people I know close-ish to the situation, the regents have had 3-4 people they wanted to offer the President position to, Pillen felt those candidates were too liberal ("too woke" was the quote used) and mentioned funding would be more challenging if they went that route. They are now having difficulty agreeing on a qualified candidate conservative enough for Pillen to ensure funding doesn't become an issue. So, with no permanent President in place, behind the scenes above Trev has been, from the way it was described to me "a complete and utter ish-show with no end in sight". Issues started before Trev was in place, but people above him shielded him from the chaos. That shield is gone and as of yesterday's conversations, has no replacements in sight. Trev has been unhappy for a long time with what has been going on from a university leadership standpoint and has wanted out for more than a year, not a lot of options on where he was willing to go, but he was going to take the first offer he could. He had been actively looking for options since around Jan. 2023, and expressed his concerns, through appropriate channels on several occasions. He made sure everything he did publicly was positive. The only way he would have stayed is if the regents and governor agreed to a person that was going to be forward thinking, and that's not happening anytime soon. Position may be filled soon-ish, but not by a forward thinking candidate.
    11 points
  13. This post is easily top 5 for dumbest s#!t ever posted on Husker Board. You should probably just delete your account.
    11 points
  14. You can't make this stuff up.
    10 points
  15. Held accountable for what?
    10 points
  16. You shouldn't be in any hurry to "get over" the attempt to overthrow a democratic election, or to stop fighting the GOP takeover by Trump's intellectually challenged sycophants and their dangerous agenda. It's the very core of What's The Future of the Republican Party. I've read your posts for years, including your mocking dismissal of Liz Cheney. If I were to sum up your positions, favoring strong conservative policies, rejecting personality politics, choosing articulate conservative candidates, and moving the party on from Donald Trump, Liz Cheney should have earned your support. But that wasn't you. I haven't forgotten Liz Cheney's voting record, or the larger Cheney legacy. As a liberal I can only say that when Liz Cheney is worried about right wing extremism, maybe we should all be worried.
    10 points
  17. I mean, it is kinda fascinating that after all the accusations, hoaxes, and investigations, Russian Collusion turns out to be very real and even worse than we imagined.
    10 points
  18. 10 points
  19. True, I just picked the names people here would recognize. A lot of unintended consequences to this power struggle that general public doesn't see and don't realize. Loss of professors, inability to recruit good professors, the brain drain is real and will be devastating. The current desire to squash this 'woke' movement in academia is major problem in the not too distant future and is already having some very unsavory side effects. A lot of leopards will be full on faces.
    9 points
  20. And we can continue to dig up his alleged old flaws from past jobs all we like, but there is little doubt Trev was a great ambassador had NU athletics going in the right direction. The next AD isn't going to be Mr (or Mrs) Perfect either.
    9 points
  21. Kind of seeing a pattern here right?
    9 points
  22. Both Pillen and Ricketts had bigger fish to fry. The 26K crybabies and snowflakes at UNL need to re-evaluate their importance as the rest of the state doesn't revolve around UNL. God forbid that UNL stay beholden to the taxpayers via the BoR. If these temper tantrums by Carter, Green, Alberts, are the result of being held accountable, then good riddance. There definitely is a cancer or a rot in UNL and in academia as a whole, but it's not the BOR. Maybe Sasse will come back to right the ship.
    9 points
  23. Trev didn't quit because of the fans, he didn't quit because of his coaches and he didn't quit because of the teams. He quit because the NU System is broken. So broken that he left his alma mater for the same job, making the same money, with a shorter contract.
    9 points
  24. "People don't quit their jobs, they quit their boss."
    9 points
  25. Talk to the legislature. They seem keen on running the state and university into the ground.
    9 points
  26. How terrible must working with the Board of Regents be?
    9 points
  27. @Archy1221 @DevoHusker Thanks for recognizing you should have voted Gore.
    9 points
  28. The people vetting these migrants knew. You just found out about it from some post on a racist website, and panicked. You asked yesterday why sources matter. That's why sources matter. That racist website wrote that piece in that specific way to provoke exactly that response in you. Now that you know this is neither uncontrolled nor illegal, you can let it go.
    9 points
  29. That's why I said Trev can be an a$$h@!e too. There's no way he comes out of this looking fresh. What he did is pretty unforgivable to a fan base that's been s#!t on for decades, and the only beacon in the limelight has been volleyball (thank god for John Cook and those women). His tweets the past 24hrs have also been extremely cringe. It's one thing for us 9 to 5 people to leave a job because our bosses suck, but he was getting paid almost $2M/yr to guide this program and deal with the bulls#!t. $2M in Lincoln Nebraska goes a loooong way. To lie to a fandoms face and tell them the things he did the past few years and then fly out the door to an old rival just when things are looking up is trash. Even more so when he never spoke out about the issues publicly. The dude would have had the entire state's ear. As an alumni and supposed lover of the program he had a responsibility to speak out, and he didn't.
    8 points
  30. Terry Pettit, legendary former Husker volleyball coach: "Talented people (Ted Carter, Ronnie Green, Trev Alberts) leave a team when the leadership above them loses sight of the team's purpose. The team is the University. When the leadership cuts funding, and undermines the team's purpose with political dogma they leave." Never one to mince words.
    8 points
  31. The problem is that it isn't something he can fix. He can't fix the board of regents or the governor who's boots they lick. You'd think that pillen being a former football player would do everything he can to make the university & it's athletic department happy, but he's more interested in avoiding press conferences where he might have to explain why he does what he does.
    8 points
  32. He may not have the power to assist in fixing what is broken, nor have the trust in the people that do.
    8 points
  33. *Gesticulates wildly at the Governor's office*
    8 points
  34. UNL is fundamentally broken internally.
    8 points
  35. When will the media actually do their job and look into this woman? I mean, not only was she appointed by Trump, but her husband has mob ties. Will someone do their f#&%ing job already! Christ, I feel like Im taking crazy pills. She needs removed from bench completely.
    8 points
  36. Because a person can't be "illegal", and the term has become dehumanizing and bigoted.
    8 points
  37. Just take the L my dude. That's due to you not paying attention; not due to a super radical lib clandestine open border agenda.
    8 points
  38. I mean, you jumped to a conclusion based off some shady sources (Elon especially so). Not sure why anyone would think a president would implement a program to bring unverified immigrants into the country. That's stupid all around, and it would be one of the most idiotic things they could do in a campaign year. I appreciate that you get your news from some non-traditional sources, and it does add to the conversations on this board, but it's also becoming readily apparent that in recent weeks/months your sources are leaning pretty far right wing conspiracy. I just hope you continue to search for the truth and not fall victim to the manipulation.
    8 points
  39. Well, as a still registered Republican (so I can vote in a primary only), I proudly casted my vote against Trump this morning. Voted for Haley who was not my first choice when this began - but it is what it is. When the GE comes around in Nov - I'll gladly vote against Trump again. Just doing my small part to save our democracy.
    8 points
  40. And you’ve fallen for the Mueller report exonerated him. Even though Mueller said it didn’t.
    8 points
  41. I knew it would be hard for you to come in here after this bombshell, and I understand the humiliation and disorientation you must be going through. Oh for the days when it was just hookers peeing on the bed. Now the entire party and its right wing media apparatus is torn in its fealty to Vladimir Putin. The hoax is that it was a hoax. Turns out it is even deeper and more consequential. Ironic, huh? But don't worry about the election. Russia doesn't really move the needle with the base beyond wanting to pull funding from liberal lapdog Volodymr Zelensky.
    8 points
  42. by "accountable" you mean teach what YOU want taught..?? this is America my friend.
    7 points
  43. 7 points
  44. How pissed is my wife gonna be when she realizes I keep saying I can’t wait for July….. she assumes I’m speaking of our new baby being born…..naaaahhhhhh. This game release!
    7 points
  45. If you've never sampled his posts in P&R, you may not be shocked to know they're even worse.
    7 points
  46. I'm glad Matt Rhule has this opinion. We need to stop shooting ourselves in the feet as a program and as a conference. If the SEC and everyone else will together play 9 conference games and 1 p5 non con that's great. But they don't and because of that we shouldn't endure the consequences of wanting to do the "right thing"
    7 points
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