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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.

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.

Talk to the legislature. They seem keen on running the state and university into the ground.

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.

"People don't quit their jobs, they quit their boss."

And there it all goes. Anyways... If Trev orchestrated this whole thing as a necessary ultimatum after he's been quietly trying to press the issue for months only to find deaf ears and inaction, then that's all the more reason I think he's a great AD and want him here. Who knows, maybe this entire thing will have been revealed as an extremely coy and savvy whistleblowing move to get the regents to grow the hell up and figure it out.

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.

He may not have the power to assist in fixing what is broken, nor have the trust in the people that do.

If this was entirely untrue, he would have a statement out by now. The longer this goes without a response from Trev, the more likely it is to be true. Likely UNL and A&M are bidding for his services as we speak, and we'll know this afternoon if he's staying or going.

The time has come to seriously ask: What dark rituals did Devaney and Osborne perform that we have been paying for for nearly 25 years?

This should also put to bed Nebraska's obsession with hiring former players for any position in the athletic department. Frost was an epic disaster as a head coach. Trev bails for a bigger paycheck before the job is done (FB returning to upper tier B1G, stadium project).

UNL is fundamentally broken internally.

How terrible must working with the Board of Regents be?

I’m going to say this, I went from being so excited about husker sports last night to very negative right now. I thought we had the bad administration crap behind us. We have lost the President, chancellor, and now AD in what, 15 months? These were bad.

*Gesticulates wildly at the Governor's office*

Being a Husker fan over the last 25 years has been tough. Honestly, I'm about worn down emotionally. Between the divisiveness, incompetent leadership, incompetent hires, and self serving administration has been tough to take. And now just when it seemed the ship was being righted and several of the programs were on the rise we get kicked squarely in the nuts one more time. I guess that should have been expected though. I'm not sure how much more I can take.

If Trev leaves I'm going to be very disappointed in him. You can't mess over your alma mater like this. Like what the heck. I'm getting tired of Nebraska getting hosed over and over.

Disagree. We have firsthand experience with what terrible ADs can do to athletic programs. Trev finally has had everyone rowing in the right direction. As far as replacements, we have no one person in place to hire the new AD. No one is going to want to come here without knowing who their boss is.

Why can't the Nebraska athletic department have nice things? Across the board everything is finally looking up. And them BAM, a sucker punch right to the jaw.

Zero. I don't know why people fixate on this. Cook is a volleyball coach, not an administrator. He's going to coach volleyball for a couple more years, then he's going to go ride his horses in Montana and relax. He's not remotely interested in running an entire Athletic Department.

Matt Davison

Puts the dean on double secret probation.

Everyone leaving doesn't raise red flags? Why don't we have any leadership in place?

Trev's not beholdened to anyone at the university anymore; if it's truly something that bothered him enough to leave, and if he cares as much for the university as people think he does, then maybe he needs to be the one up to the challenge.

Yes…and the governor. there needs to be some serious soul searching with Nebraskans. Fugg.

I don't know, Professor Goalposts. I don't think either of us are under the burden of solving fair taxation on Husker Bulletin Board. You made one of your odd sidesteps into a different proposition: figure out an arbitrary percentage of the American economy that the wealthiest should be responsible for and then.....what? Turn that into a dollar figure and divide by the number of people in the Top 1%, whose own wealth might vary by billions? Weird. If we're talking "fair share" -- which we are -- it makes more sense to consider the percentage of household income, right? The super wealthy can afford to pay a little more, maybe 40%, the over $400K class might fit that 37% number I threw out, bump a $200 - $400k bracket up a tick to 33%, keep the healthy middle class at the 24% they're at, and get that broad working middle of $50-$150K down a tick to 20%. As mentioned, this is not a slide into Tax the Rich class warfare, but actually a lower rate than the wealthy paid during several decades of American Greatness. The reason we're talking "fair share" in the first place is that regardless of the tax rate, high wealth individuals and corporations are often revealed to pay next to nothing in taxes, a "share" that does not seem "fair" to many hard-working Americans. And just because you insist you're okay doesn't mean I'm not worried about you.

As long as Trev stays, I'm good. If Trev leaves, this fan base is in for a wild ride. If Trev stays, I'm expecting a lot of changes in a very short time.

Or maybe someone who was born on third base, acts like they hit a triple with their daddy's money, and looks like this:

Interesting start and finish to a point

MAGA's fight against funding the IRS makes it clear that they don't want a well functioning IRS that can find people who are cheating on their taxes. For the life of me, I can not figure out how that's how a conservative should think. And, quite honestly, I don't care if you're making $75,000 or $10,000,000 per year, you should be paying what the law says you're supposed to pay. And, we should have a good functioning and efficient department in the government that makes sure that happens.

Let's be clear, though, MAGA Boomers do suck. But considering the amount of lead they consumed in their life, it may not be totally their fault. 144.5m people file tax returns--divide that by 80,000 people having to go through that mass and it takes a while. Plus if you have deductions to claim, expenses to claim, dabble in real estate or stocks, etc., a single tax filing can get complicated in a hurry, especially the more someone makes. Also, you're seeing the staffing levels *RETURN* to 80,000 since the funding was allocated for this year. The ultimate goal is ~100k employees, IIRC. For perspective, normal staffing levels of the IRS were, in the 1980s to 1990s, from 95k to 110k full time employees (with additional contract/temp help hired as needed). And don't forget that the defunding also means the IRS could not replace or improve its technology because of the lack of budget. There are likely automated advances that could help reduce the number of headcount in the future (or at least keep it steady), but with no budget, the IRS can't explore those options.

For those of you asking if it's an internal issue, and/or something to do with the Unicameral, there's this: He's basically taking a different job, away from his alma mater, for the same money. And it's a five year deal, three years less than his current deal at Nebraska. This is definitely an "us" problem.

And should be...if true.

Trev is going to be a villain to Nebraska fans going forward if this happens?

Logically this makes zero sense. They just hired a new football coach, and he is at best making a parallel move as it relates to conference pocket books. The only thing I can think of, is him bailing out because of the Women's BBall lawsuit issue. But even that doesn't make a ton of sense.

Time to vote out every Regent.

Screw the Regents, the administration, and Trev for this. Not a single one of them are blameless.

You now have to wonder how seriously bad it is behind the scenes here that Ted Carter, Trev Alberts and Ron Green have all left. We've got a lot of soul-searching to do.

You all and your conspiracy theories. Lol.

@knapplc fixed it (?)

I mean...why would the IRS just not go after the 25,000 people that make over a million dollars that don't pay taxes? The info is right there for them, it is not like they have to hunt them down. My counselors at school are each responsible for about 200 kids at a time. One IRS agent can't deal with 250 grown a$$ people on their case load? 80,000 people work for the IRS! How much more funding do they needed? People need to work when they are at work and not just post all day (like all of us do! Hahaha) I know I know, pot meet kettle, but come on IRS workers, you can do more in a day. I have seen The Untouchables.

Because people keep saying it's a spending problem when it's simply a revenue problem caused by the GOP. People keep wanting to tiptoe around this, but things like Social Security and Medicare would be fine if the GOP would have left them alone (also see, the USPS and the money taken from their budget and never returned). As Guy already pointed out, the top marginal tax rate was 91% in 1960. It actually went up to 92% before Ike took office, and his campaign promise was to get it to 90% or lower--he got it to 87% before he left office and those that followed him from the GOP continued to gut that percentage until it literally is less than a third of what it was. Kick the tax rate back up to 90% for the top income tax bracket, fully fund the IRS, and you won't have a revenue problem. Full stop. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/29/tax-returns-irs-millionaires/ This article covers the 150k that haven't filed in years. 25k of those make $1m annually or more. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-irs-says-unpaid-tax-gap-at-record-688-billion/ Funny what happens when the IRS is underfunded.

What I’m thinking too.

I'm almost fully convinced that, if this is actually happening, it's political in nature.

You can't make it up... Ted Carter leaves NU for Ohio St Ted Carter hires A&M AD Ross Bjork be Ohio St's new AD A&M hires Trev for their new AD

Well, let's speculate.... John Cook to AD.

Enviro-bros won't like this one bit!! Sidenote, I have a friend that found out he has about 4 acres worth of mineral rights in Wyoming (Montana maybe), some company is paying him to check it out AND he gets 21% of whatever they mine (coal mostly), and the other day he got an offer to sell it for 68K. He never even knew he owned it, it was his step-dads land from like 50 years ago.