Those so-called "rich ass" alumni are showing their appreciation of what a UNL scholarship and education brought them in life. They pay those exorbitant season ticket fees for choice seats, so you can get your GA ducats reasonably priced.
Also, without those "rich ass" alumni, there wouldn't be any buildings on campus to sit your butt in to do your studies, or lay your head down to sleep at night.
You fail to see the problem. Students stand for games, make exponentially more noise, and come in greater numbers than alumni. They're taking up what used to be student seating and making the overflow sit up in East B section while North and South A sections aren't even full.
Oh and the Guard pays for my college and I live off campus.
You still use the classrooms, not? The names on the sides of the buildings aren't there by accident. Endowments keeps college affordable for everyone.
As for the seating arraignments, instead of bitching about it, has any of the student organizations brought this to Tom's attention. If so, there may be a financial reason for having to move the students. Seating isn't an entitlement just because the students are the program's most vocal supporters. If that were the case, I would have Vikings season tickets. Remember, TO's job first and foremost is making sure the Athletic Department stays in the black. If they start losing money, it wont be women's athletics they cut to save the bottom line. The men will lose programs before women because of Title IX.
BTW, thanks for your service in the Guard.
What you two are showing is that it takes not one side or the other, but both working together to make a great basketball environment. The students can't pay for buildings so they make noise (and pay for some buildings with tuition). The "old ass alumni" can't make as much noise as the kids, so they pay for buildings (and make some noise).
You cannot have one without the other. Without the other, neither would exist. We need to recognize that both old and young are extremely valuable to the program and make accommodations accordingly.
WELL SAID! I agree!