What are some qualifications the university president should have?
- Understand the value of athletics to the University
- Able to educate the academic side of the University of this reality
- Be capable of hiring a forward thinking AD that understands the changing landscape of college athletics
Long term vision of how to remake the university for the needs of the future.
A practical understanding of Nebraska's role of educating Nebraskans
The ability to make the extremely difficult calls that are going to be necessary as we get into 2027 and beyond as we get to the Great Recession contraction of the collegeable population
And then yeah what you said about athletics. Bama had an enrollment boom under Saban. Some of that was because their leadership saw they could attract 32+ ACT students from northern states with generous scholarships who Illinois, for example, turned their nose up because they're elitist toot sniffers.