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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.

I thought it was a good read.

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.

Oh great, so he's clearly an Iowa mole sent to destroy the athletic department!

This was posted over at another site but since the poster copied it from another board and the author stated anybody can post this anywhere I thought some here might be interested. Enjoy. Great observations from somebody that was at practice since we don't get much of that these days. Should really get your juices flowing. I added a few more paragraph breaks for readability and let the spell checker fix some typos.

So you are afraid of explaining why Trans Visibility conflicts with Easter in public. Boy, if that doesn't tell the story.

This has to be the 87th time you've posted this.

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.

Paragraphs are your friend.

Or maybe it's that Jenner has a history of being a pull the ladder up after themselves kind of person, a complete hypocrite, and they literally killed somebody.

Man, you are like a case study in "everything Trump does is fine because Dems are bad."

The ADL isn't posting on Huskerboard my friend. Keep track of your own arguments. I thought we were talking about ADL calling things racist and acting like we shouldn’t use 100% because racists are using it, and now we're talking about some vague hypothetical slippery slope unrelated to ADL. Not sure if you don't get out much or what, but people still use the okay hand symbol all the time and it is just fine and without a second thought (for the record, I absolutely agree that the controversy over the ok sign is ludicrous, but that's a different conversation). So to recap: • You claimed that, "the Looney Left thinks just about everything is racist" with your supporting 'evidence' that doesn't actually show anyone calling anything racist, but rather only documents racist people doing something. • You claimed that, "the ADL is way out on its skis with this one", even though all the ADL has done is document something that exists in the world (with visual aid photos even). • You claimed that, "50 plus 50 is 100 and that’s not racist. Using, I’m committed 100% is not racist. Answering a question about liking something with 100% is not racist." which...okay, you are right about that, but sir this is a Wendy's and nobody made any claims otherwise. • You claimed that, "The ADL is acting like we shouldn’t use 100% because racists are using it now" even though they aren't acting like that and haven't. • You claimed that, "People claim every white person who does the okay symbol is flashing a racist sign.", which.....lol. Show me one single person making this specific claim that every white person doing the ok sign is flashing a racist sign and I will immediately concede the point and agree that this is a notable subset of the population who think this way. and on and on and on. Actually an impressive total accumulation of absolute fantasy.

I am sufficiently whelmed.

Not this again. Senate Russia report proves Trump collusion was very real. But do voters care? The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With over 200 witness interviews and roughly 1 million documents reviewed, the nearly 1,000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within President Donald Trump's campaign, help Trump win the 2016 presidential election and amplify polarization and division within American society. Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.) Concluding one of the highest-profile congressional investigations in recent memory, the report also uncovers abuses within the U.S. government’s investigation of this operation. These methods require review and reform. The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue. Trump was not exonerated by my report, Robert Mueller tells Congress Mr Mueller said he had not exonerated Mr Trump of obstruction of justice. The former FBI director spent two years probing alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, but did not establish collusion in a crime. He concluded that Russia had interfered in the election with the intention of benefiting Mr Trump's campaign. The questions focused largely on Mr Mueller's investigation of President Trump and his decision to say he could not exonerate the president of obstruction of justice, but Mr Mueller repeatedly stressed the importance of concerns over ongoing Russian interference in US democracy. "Over the course of my career I have seen a number of challenges to our democracy. The Russian government's effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious," he said. He added: "Much more needs to be done in order to protect against this intrusion, by the Russians but others as well."

um...

I am convinced we will continue to lose to Colorado until such a time when our fanbase will stop brazenly assuming there is NO way we lose to Colorado.

Just to be clear: March 31 has been Trans Visibility Day for the past 15 years. Mike Johnson and others are saying it's outrageous that it occurred on Easter, and blames Biden for making it so. When offered that accusation during an Easter Egg Roll, Biden claims he didn't schedule TVD during Easter. Which is basically true as he inherited the day --- but he did sign the proclamation. Now we're supposed to clutch our pearls that this is either totally disingenuous, or classic Biden forgetfulness. So let's look at the choices: 1) Biden or a staff member notices that the 2024 TVD falls on Easter, and breaks the 15 year precedent by having the organization schedule it for another day. Because obviously............Christians would be offended? Because......trans visibility is anti-Christian? Because you don't want to alienate the people who already hate you in an election year? Hey, thanks for the support, Joe. 2) Biden refuses to sign any trans proclamation. 3) Biden just rolls with it as he did, thinking the Trans community deserves the recognition, and nobody would notice that in addition to it being Easter this year, March 31 was also: Anesthesia Tech Day Cesar Chavez Day - March 31, 2024 (Usually on March 31st) Dance Marathon Day Easter Sunday - March 31, 2024 Eiffel Tower Day International Hug a Medievalist Day International Transgender Day of Visibility National Baked Ham with Pineapple Day - March 31, 2024 (Same Day as Easter) National Bunsen Burner Day National Clams on the Half Shell Day National Crayon Day National Farm Workers Day National Prom Day National She's Funny That Way Tater Day Transfer Day - (U.S. Virgin Islands) World Backup Day

Probably would've gone differently if you and him and others didn't start it off with the silly erroneous claims that Biden chose Easter as the day for this.

Am I? You're the one that keeps posting this stuff. I didn't post some rage bait about an LGBTQ day or bring up Pontius Pilate.

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.

That's now how climate works. Maybe don't go teaching science or statistics.

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.

Hats off the seniors. Still an amazing year.

Man I ain’t reading that

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?

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)?

In a nutshell, Archy. Early in his Presidency, Donald Trump stood next to Vladimir Putin and told the world he trusted Putin over the unanimous conclusion of his 17 U.S. intelligence agencies. Republicans anxious to support Trump quickly began softening longstanding rhetoric around Putin and Russia. Fox News was already on board, its pundits having aired segments showing the shirtless Putin and wishing aloud Obama was this manly and commanding. Trump gets blustery about NATO not paying its bill, not quite understanding how the agreement works. Putin joins a list of other world leaders, including Viktor Orban, admired for their autocratic rule rather than democratic principals. Next thing you know, Fox pundits, farther right media, and elected Republicans are wondering if Russia is the real victim in the Ukraine war. Yada yada yada...Tucker Carlson goes to Moscow, declares it nicer than any American city, expresses his disgust for the United States, and gives Putin the hand-picked platform he wanted. Tucker is currently on a short list for either Vice-President or Secretary of State in a second Trump term. Bada-bing, bada boom. It's not just two douchebags in t-shirts.

And at Colorado, he has no clue who his coach is going to be or any of his teammates. Heck, he might be the only HS recruit in the class.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-gop-is-the-party-of-putin?r=2jt0v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web “RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA HAS MADE ITS WAY into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base.” That acknowledgement from Michael McCaul, Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was echoed a few days later by Michael Turner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. “It is absolutely true, we see, directly coming from Russia, attempts to mask communications that are anti-Ukraine and pro-Russia messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor.” Among the falsehoods that GOP members of Congress are repeating is the notion that the Ukraine war is actually a battle between NATO and Russia. “Of course it is not,” Turner told CNN. “To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle.” "Recall that when Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump’s initial response was that it was a “genius” move. I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine—of Ukraine—Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful. He used the word “independent” and “we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. A non-sociopath would say it was raw aggression of the worst kind. A normal Republican of the pre-Trump mold would have been outraged at the attempted rape of a peaceful, democratic neighbor. Most Republican office holders are not sociopaths, but they take their marching orders from one and have adjusted their consciences accordingly. The talking point J.D. Vance and his ilk favor is that they cannot be concerned about Ukraine’s border when our southern border is also being invaded. Of course it’s absurd to compare immigrants looking for work or safety to tanks, bombs, and missiles, but that’s what passes for Republican reasoning these days. In any case, it was revealed to be hollow when Biden and the Democrats offered an extremely strict border bill to sweeten aid for Ukraine, and the GOP turned it down flat. Russia’s fingerprints are all over the Republicans’ failed attempt to impeach (in all senses of the word) Joe Biden. Their star witness, Alexander Smirnov—who alleged that Hunter and Joe Biden had been paid $5 million in bribes by Burisma—was indicted in February for making false statements. High-ranking Russians appear to be his sources. Putin now wields more power over the GOP than anyone other than Trump. GOP propagandists indulge fictions that even many Russians can see through: Ukraine is governed by Nazis; Russia is a religious, Christian nation; Russia is fighting “wokeness.” Republicans are not so much isolationist as pro-authoritarian. They’ve made Hungary’s Viktor Orbán a pinup and they mouth Russian disinformation without shame. Putin must be pinching himself.

You really don’t understand that issue.

No

It's about time struggling and even relatively stable citizens start benefitting from taxpayer funded relief the same way the ultra rich and massive corporations do. Interesting editorial from Phil calling the 750k people with 20+ years of repayment the biggest winners, since they're neither the biggest by number of people impacted, amount of money impacted, or amount of income impacted. I'd say the 16 million people having interest waived and the 360,000 significantly poorer folks having a much larger chunk of their financial burden relieved are both bigger winners in different perspectives.

Interesting that, among those who have an axe to grind with the initial government response to Covid, their ire is directed at Fauci and not the guy occupying the White House, who directed much of that response.

There is more whining in this game than a LeBron James family reunion.

or D. Spending all day posting s#!t about people who believe in things while standing up for nothing yourself.

Looking at the facts of the case Tim, he sold his penthouse for $18mm while it was valued at $1.8mm and assessed at I think $850k. He probably had to pay the gains on that sale. It then sold for $13mm later. Maybe the buyer over paid because it was a celebrities house. They can't write off that loss if it was their primary home. So some of the taxes were captured. I get it. You don't like hypocrisy and want everyone held accountable to the same standards. The problem these two situations are not the same. Assessed value rarely if ever equates to market value. Nor do assessors increase assessed value to match sale price. I know this because I'm good friends with our county assessor and they have told me so. Assessed valuation changes occur when overall neighborhood marked trends dictate an adjustment, or if there is a material change to the property. Trump over inflated the value of his properties (and factual characteristics of the properties) to represent a better Loan To Value ratio, thus earning him a more competitive rate. Stewart sold his home to a willing buyer for asking price.

How do you know the Earth's climate has changed over billions of years? How do you know that the Earth didn't used to have glaciers? I mean, I knew that, too. I was a geology minor at UNL. Always found it fascinating. The Earth has been through its share of extremes long before humans came along, much less AOC. The reason we know all this about the Earth is because scientists dedicated their lives to studying it. And it's those same scientists who know perfectly well about the Earth's violent past who are tracking the 100%* undeniable fact of global warming, glacial melt, climate change and severe weather increase. These f#&%ers are so smart they took that cold week in Omaha into account. When asked for a reason for this rapid of a change in this particular Earth window, some theorize that the trillions of tons of carbon thrown into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution could easily have that effect. Some point out that volcanoes do the same thing. But the smart ones point out that human industrialization can affect the Earth's climate just like historic eruptions do. One hardly excuses the other. It was the tree huggers at the Pentagon who identified climate change as the worst threat to global stability. Maybe you could take it up with them. In the meantime, under the cloak of socialism, the push to more efficient energy usage turns out to have a strong business innovation, jobs creation, and American intellectual property component. I guess horse manufacturers were threatened by the arrival of the automobile back in the day, but we survived, and somehow managed to live with a lot less horses#!t. * Mathematical probability, not racist.

^ 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.

Not really a cartoon but thought I'd throw this in here as I know we've mentioned it a couple times.

True. But one is a threat to our country. The other one isn’t. They are not the same.

Hindsight and all… but the wrong guy died at that protest. What a waste of a life!

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.

Reduced revenue from the state because Pillen didn't get his way? If that's what is being said.....Nebraskans really need to think about who they vote for in that office.

So he was at UW for under 6 months and bounced? Was that in an interim role? Just wondering what would keep him from doing the same thing if another program comes calling while he's at Nebraska.

It's insane that this rapist is currently pillaging a formerly proud (and current corrupt shell) 200 year old political party because Republican voters are so wrapped up in identity politics that this man still has above a 50% chance of winning.

We should get rid of the guy in charge...