GSG

There is a bit of the facilities in this video (including a $70,000 infrared therapy bed)

2 hours ago, MyBloodIsRed16 said:

just got a phone call from someone trying to trade Korver Demma for a old bag of footballs I have and a carrier for those green gatorade bottles.   

3 minutes ago, runningblind said:

Probably an unpopular take here, but can we just stop the fawning over TO and continuing to name stuff after him? He has the field already, let's move forward, or at least honor someone else. It feels like Stockholm Syndrome to me anymore.

I put "runningblind badass football complex" in the suggestion box but they obviously didn't like it

What does Rhule's hat say?

EDIT: Never mind. It's the RDV acronym

Still remember watching some of the trial in school

1 hour ago, Slow yer Roll said:

What's up with Calipari going to AR?

 

Is he running from violations?

The Tyson chicken people are funding the Arkansas NIL so he can buy a roster. He's kinda worn out his welcome at Kentucky since he hasn't done much in years by UK standards. Basically all his highs were in the first half of his UK tenure

He did it again!

Gotta face the women's winner soon

No "co-" on this one?!

32 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Pay wall.  Do you have a summary?

My guess is something like this

4 hours ago, JJ Husker said:

 

Watched ep1 last night. The subtitles weren’t a problem. A fair amount of it was in English anyway. More confusing were all the referenced characters who I wasn’t quite sure who they are yet. Going to have to delay going further for now though. I’m on a mission to finish Lost.

Sorry I should've clarified. The subtitles are a problem when I'm working lol

Started watching Shogun on Hulu. Kinda like a Japanese Game of Thrones. All subtitles though

Black. We did get an espresso machine and my wife will make me a flavored latte but she doesn't overpower the espresso. But I also drink the espresso black too in one of those douchey mini cups lol

I like iced coffee/cold brew too but not with a ton of stuff in it. Splash of milk and maybe a tiny bit of a syrup

Really only sharing this because of who is on the thumbnail for the video. You can guess which play they show

16 minutes ago, Cdog923 said:

NFL approves the XFL kickoff for next season. 

Hey! They did something good for once

33 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

How about that one @GSG ? 

 

Pens totally dominating the first 30 minutes, Sid with 4 points, up 4-0 and Avs come back and win it 5-4 in OT. I came this close to turning it off.

We're tanking for the draft obviously lol

1 hour ago, Madcows said:

 

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.

8 minutes ago, Loebarth said:

My employer allows the employees to wear the logo of their favorite college team on Friday's during football season but not outside of football. Today I'm wearing Red to work against the company policy. First, are you wearing Red today? Secondly, do you think I'm "justifiably" risking getting written up? Lastly, if you were my boss, would you write me up?

 

Wtf kinda BS policy is that?

I say you wear the big corn head too!

1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

I think getting rid of the automatic bids for mid-majors is a horrible idea.  And, like he said, it would turn it into nothing but a tournament of the major conferences.  And...that would take away from what makes the tournament great.  

I get the feeling that they will eventually expand the tournament to 96 or 128 and put all those "mid-majors" in that first weekend to weed them out a bit. It's a shame though, cuz everyone loves the upsets (unless it's your team, but still).