What if Danny Ross is right

[jflores]

Wonder if there is still opportunity for a 1 year exception. Remain part of the conference for winter/spring sports, but be independent for Fall 2020. We'd have to forfeit a substantial portion of our BTN money. Could work for any school wanting to do the same

We'd also lose access to any benefits we recieve from being a part of the conference, such as legal or logistical support. No games on BTN, etc.

So you give up the money to play football and you incur all the extra expense of playing football during covid.

How exactly do you save Lincoln or the larger AD when you give up all the money?

That's the question I've been asking people all week now. If we just want to see football, then sure, no NCAA or B1G thugs are going to keep us off the field. But it doesn't generally help our situation to play football and get little to no revenue from it.

 

[JaySker402]

So you give up the money to play football and you incur all the extra expense of playing football during covid.

How exactly do you save Lincoln or the larger AD when you give up all the money?

That's the question I've been asking people all week now. If we just want to see football, then sure, no NCAA or B1G thugs are going to keep us off the field. But it doesn't generally help our situation to play football and get little to no revenue from it.

We'd have to recoup the some of the money in other ways. Such as PPV. Totally agree that they'd take a hit, but it would probably be better in the long run that making a rash decision to cut ties entirely. Especially for the Big12. Do they have a TV deal? You'd be losing millions/year by making a switch.

 

[jteten]

My God, we look more ridiculous by the second.

 

[TheBeav815]

So you give up the money to play football and you incur all the extra expense of playing football during covid.

How exactly do you save Lincoln or the larger AD when you give up all the money?

That's the question I've been asking people all week now. If we just want to see football, then sure, no NCAA or B1G thugs are going to keep us off the field. But it doesn't generally help our situation to play football and get little to no revenue from it.

Well see what you're not taking into account is all the money from the people who won't travel to Lincoln because there's still just absolutely no way you can have very many fans in that stadium. Those people will you know just uh...Venmo money to Lazlo's or something.

 

[NikkiSixx]

For the long term health of the program, you have to take this opportunity to leave.

Do you care about academic money? or football?

The state's identity is football, not academic research grants.

You have to be authentic, or you get nowhere.. On the field, or off it.

 

[jflores]

For the long term health of the program, you have to take this opportunity to leave.

Do you care about academic money? or football?

The state's identity is football, not academic research grants.

You have to be authentic, or you get nowhere.. On the field, or off it.

The state is more famous in the last 20 years for it's national level work in infectious diseases than anything it did on the field.

While football remains a nice front porch to many programs including the B1G... the academic money dwarfs anything football does.

I think it was only a couple weeks ago Nebraska pulled in a medical grant worth four years worth of B1G football payouts...and that was one line item.

 

[John_J_Rambo]

So you give up the money to play football and you incur all the extra expense of playing football during covid.

How exactly do you save Lincoln or the larger AD when you give up all the money?

That's the question I've been asking people all week now. If we just want to see football, then sure, no NCAA or B1G thugs are going to keep us off the field. But it doesn't generally help our situation to play football and get little to no revenue from it.

having football would absolutely help small business in Lincoln, even if there were no fans allowed.

forfeiting B1G money would sting for the AD, no question about it.

 

[NikkiSixx]

The state is more famous in the last 20 years for it's national level work in infectious diseases than anything it did on the field.

While football remains a nice front porch to many programs including the B1G... the academic money dwarfs anything football does.

I think it was only a couple weeks ago Nebraska pulled in a medical grant worth four years worth of B1G football payouts...and that was one line item.

Then the state has to start hanging it's hat on academics then and learn to be happy with that. I don't think it's authentic, and most people don't care about research grants that don't involve them, but Nebraska has to decide what is best for them.

 

[John_J_Rambo]

The state is more famous in the last 20 years for it's national level work in infectious diseases than anything it did on the field.

While football remains a nice front porch to many programs including the B1G... the academic money dwarfs anything football does.

I think it was only a couple weeks ago Nebraska pulled in a medical grant worth four years worth of B1G football payouts...and that was one line item.

challenge:

ask 100 randos if they know where ebola victims were sent first
ask the same 100 randos if they know NU's mascot

report back with the results. I'm sure they'll be shocking.

 

[jflores]

challenge:

ask 100 randos if they know where ebola victims were sent first
ask the same 100 randos if they know NU's mascot

report back with the results. I'm sure they'll be shocking.

Ted Carter and company aren't interested in how many Nebraska hats he can find in random sports bars around the country.

When NU joined the B1G it was primarily attempting to earn more academic respect from a university that heretofore was ranked about 100th public university in the country. And yes, getting away from Texas.

The Nebraska system has been a player in academic circles in the last 10 years. The Nebraska of 1997 doesn't lead the B1G medical task force over schools like Northwestern, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and others who all have top shelf medical schools. We probably have more mentions this year in media for that, than we've had on SI/ESPN in the last 5 for football. We regularly contribute to issues of national importance. Nebraska has also stepped up its game in cybersecurity and counter terrorism studies which also bring in nice dollars.

On the field our success in the last 20 can largely be summed up as the #1 university in fired coaching staff payouts and a couple of nice wins over some good MSU teams in the Riley and Pelini era. And if you really want to pull some history out of the closet, the one Zac Taylor year or that time we got Miami'd in the Natty.

We can have a football team and good school. Plenty of teams do it, in this league in particular.

 

[John_J_Rambo]

Ted Carter and company aren't interested in how many Nebraska hats he can find in random sports bars around the country.

When NU joined the B1G it was primarily attempting to earn more academic respect from a university that heretofore was ranked about 100th public university in the country. And yes, getting away from Texas.

The Nebraska system has been a player in academic circles in the last 10 years. The Nebraska of 1997 doesn't lead the B1G medical task force over schools like Northwestern, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and others who all have top shelf medical schools. We probably have more mentions this year in media for that, than we've had on SI/ESPN in the last 5 for football. We regularly contribute to issues of national importance. Nebraska has also stepped up its game in cybersecurity and counter terrorism studies which also bring in nice dollars.

On the field our success in the last 20 can largely be summed up as the #1 university in fired coaching staff payouts and a couple of nice wins over some good MSU teams in the Riley and Pelini era. And if you really want to pull some history out of the closet, the one Zac Taylor year or that time we got Miami'd in the Natty.

We can have a football team and good school. Plenty of teams do it, in this league in particular.

TL/DR

UNMC would need to cure cancer to be 'more famous' (your words) than the Huskers.