Have heard now from multiple 7-figure boosters who spend regular time with trev that it was all politics
Not surprised
Not surprised
Its official. NU has a useless Board of Regents!!
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This whole thing seems to be such a mess. The governor wants to figure out what went wrong later? But have an interim make the AD hire? What am I not getting?
can you define "politics"?
Politics could mean he's mad at Jim Pillen for cutting University Funding, which will make it harder for Trev to fund raise for athletic projects as the University will be asking for donations from the same donor pool as the athletic department.
Politics could also mean that he's mad at the NU Board of Regents who are slow playing the hiring of a university President, which is having a downstream effect on Trev's ability to drive new initiatives.
The regent vote to take over the AD removed the windscreen
He is answering directly to crusty old assholes who know nothing and do not care about operating a successful athletic dept
Great work, everyone
There is a reason I posted that regent vote here last year when it took place. That anyone is taken aback by this is their own ignorant fault
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“Politics” is defined as every leach with their head up their ass who wants their moronic opinion heard and now has a means to speak directly to the AD because they voted themselves in charge
F*ck pillen, f*ck the regents, f*ck every politician and every simpleton who votes for anyone believing they give two shits about them or anyone other than themselves
Oh and f*ck the university & university system that is not long for this world
Athletics should operate entirely independent of anything that touches the public.
I appreciate when people articulate my opinion on a subject better than I can. Terry Pettit has done that here.
Meanwhile, I’ll go back to getting my ‘news’ from places that tell me only what I want to hear.
Idiots ruining the country I love. Now the University. 😪
I can’t like this post enough. There will always be random examples of bad journalism, but the damage that has been done to belief in true investigative reporting has hurt us on so many levels.
Right, but the lawsuit doesn't go away now. If he was smart he'd stay here and fight it. Burning bridges is going to make it worse for him.
Interim admins generally don’t hire permanent replacements.
We can find a new AD of good quality. So the loss of Trev does not bother me. Soon he will be an after thought. But it is true that it portends something deeper and that is the sheer incompetence of the leadership at the University and that when we do get good leaders they use the job as a stepping stone to something better and bolt at the first chance. The elephant in the living room therefore is that the reason for why they do not stay is that NU just does not have a lot of prestige and is held in very low regard as an academic institution by most observers. I do not know if this is fair. But I think there is something to it.
For many, NU is viewed as just a slight cut above the University of West Virgina. A jock school. A party school. We are Morgantown on the prairie. This is not accurate but it is how we are viewed. And until we do something to change that we will continue to lose top level administrators to more prestigious schools like Ohio State.
I might be full of shit in all of this. But that is my two cents...
For many, NU is viewed as just a slight cut above the University of West Virgina. A jock school. A party school. We are Morgantown on the prairie. This is not accurate but it is how we are viewed. And until we do something to change that we will continue to lose top level administrators to more prestigious schools like Ohio State.
I might be full of shit in all of this. But that is my two cents...
Sounds like we need to vote out these “tards” that seemed to be the roadblocks to the Athletic Department succeeding here, no?
THIS IS NOT PILLEN'S FAULT.
Yes. And make sure their replacement is fully vetted. People were asleep at the wheel when they elected these regents in the first place.
How many A.D's, President's, Chancellor's and Head Coaches have we been through in 25 years? Seriously? I've lost count. Fvcking dumpster fire needs fixed!!
You're right HBK! Somebody posted @ least we finally got paid on this fvcking one instead of the other way around (4 mil for Trev). I've been up to several bball games this year and the vibe in Lincoln has been the best it has been in hell I can't even remember, this blows big time! Like Trev or not he was getting shite done!
Cook has a job and a damn good one..
So honest question, why is our BOR harder to deal with than A&M's? They are and will continue to be the most underachieving athletic program in college sports.
I agree with the meddling, but Texas A&M is known for political meddling even more than Nebraska.
There’s all that UNO money issues also that made the news and caused some pushback on the upgrades at UNL.
@dinglefritz I couldn't care less about his or anybody's politics
Nebraska is a football-first state. literally everything else is secondary.
the governor - just like all other elected officials - should have nothing to do directly with the athletic dept
Nebraska is a football-first state. literally everything else is secondary.
the governor - just like all other elected officials - should have nothing to do directly with the athletic dept
this is the wrong question
the correct one is does he have to deal with them directly at all, and the answer is no.
it will be if these morons listen to him and "act now" instead of dealing with the crux of the problem without reflection on why we're here in the first place. that's exactly how history gets repeated.
and I don't really care that blockhead trev left. I care that this now looks like the least enticing job on the planet.
here is the initial thread on the vote.
nobody cared then.
nebraska.forums.rivals.com
nobody cared then.
Board of Regents Voting Tomorrow
The regents will consider a change to board bylaws, recommended in May by the board’s executive committee, that would re-assign direction and oversight of the Huskers’ athletic department to the university system president. If approved, the move, as of July 1, would install system president Ted...
nebraska.forums.rivals.com
Buy they are still his bosses. Maybe not his direct supervisor but if they want something done he has to do it.
he will have at least one layer of leadership protecting him from having to do their direct bidding and negotiating on the dept's behalf
Cook will be heading to his ranch in Wyoming soon. Who in their right mind would want to deal with the useless politicians that run the University?
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