Wonder if the Regents moving oversight to the President's office could be a motivator too? And when those same Regents don't find a president it can make things harder. And with oversight being as the system level they can micromanage more?
The proposal from Lincoln Regent Tim Clare and Regent Rob Schafer of Beatrice also puts the eight members of the Board of Regents one step closer to the decision-making process in Husker Athletics. It passed unanimously.
Clare, speaking during Thursday's meeting, said Husker Athletics' enormous role in the minds of Nebraskans and others across the country elevates its importance to the system level.
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"If it doesn't work, we can always reverse back to another method," Scheer said. "This is not a 'forever and ever, amen' deal."
The decision to move responsibility for oversight from the campus level to the system level was not without skeptics and detractors, however.
Omaha Regent Barb Weitz said she agreed Carter would represent the University of Nebraska well with the Big Ten and NCAA, said that could change in the future.
"We have a great person now, but 10 years from now, will that still be true?" she said.
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