ESPN hit piece on the stadium renovation

[iruletheskool]

I don't even think that the optics are terrible.

 

[Faux Sean Callahan]

I agree about the renovation though, I think we should just do a full new stadium

Ya I am there with you but once you are 100 years old there is a historic element I think has some value to some.

I do think a new stadium was probably a better decision history aside

 

[Southendzonehusker]

'Asked this week by The Associated Press whether he's considering state funding of the project, Pillen's office said he is not including any funding for Memorial Stadium in his proposed budget.

Alberts and other university officials say the project will not use taxpayer money, instead relying on private fundraising and the athletic department's surplus funds.

"In other words, we could stop the stadium project today, but that would not do anything to mitigate the $58 million shortfall," said Melissa Lee, spokeswoman for the University of Nebraska. "The dollars that will fund the stadium renovation cannot otherwise be used to pay university salaries or keep the lights on or fund an academic program."

Some in academia want to see private fundraising for academic programs and staff, much the way athletics raises money for athletic programs.

UNL sociology professor Christina Falci, who is president of the American Association of University Professors' UNL chapter, said higher education fundraising outside of athletics is concentrated mostly in boosting research centers, student services and endowed chairs, not in aiding humanities and the professors who teach them.

Without a push to bring in such revenue for academia, she said, "you're going to shrink the breadth of courses that students can take."'


This is what it all comes down to. The optics are horrible, the priorities are out of whack for how universities *should* be run, Pillen is a dope, but the renovation money is coming from different sources than the academics and university budget cuts. Two separate things. I think the renovation is unnecessary and silly right now, and I sure as hell think the budget cuts are ridiculous (and are keeping me from a much deserved raise at the moment) but it is what it is.

If you think the renovation is unnecessary when’s the last time you went to a game? The stadium sucks. It’s horrible for fan experience but it’s funny how much money the football program brings the school and they will still complain about these things.

 

[Havoc34]

I just sent this to a few friends who are fans of Michigan, Ohio state, and bama. They all laughed and one said “fuck sociology.” I don’t think anyone but snowflakes will care about this

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

ESPN is facing widespread criticism and has horrible optics.

Total fags.

 

[dsbigred1]

I don't even think that the optics are terrible.

They aren’t… if academics want more money, get better at raising it. It isn’t that difficult a concept to understand that if you can’t support the programs you need, cuts have to be made or you have to be innovative with fundraising.
But yea, we should feel bad for lackluster programs that don’t have demand…

 

[Baron Winnebago]

They aren’t… if academics want more money, get better at raising it. It isn’t that difficult a concept to understand that if you can’t support the programs you need, cuts have to be made or you have to be innovative with fundraising.
But yea, we should feel bad for lackluster programs that don’t have demand…

Yeah it's really just a supply and demand issue. Of course maybe that's a poor reflection on our society but I take the long view that the sun will expand and swallow the earth anyways so yolo

 

[stonesak]

Obviously we just need to put Kathleen Kennedy in charge of the Athletic Department.

 

[dsbigred1]

Yeah it's really just a supply and demand issue. Of course maybe that's a poor reflection on our society but I take the long view that the sun will expand and swallow the earth anyways so yolo

Yea, I wouldn’t get into the right and wrong of what people donate to, or what programs have value, because that is what the free market does better than anyone ever could.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

Media needs to move on from low hanging fruit and start highlighting the upcoming higher education apocalypse when we hit 18 year post-Great Recession

One of the issues with the low hanging fruit is...well...it's low hanging...these fucks that think they are writing the 'hard hitting' story that will not only bring Nebraska to its knees but all other Universities will cower at the notion of cutting school budgets to improve athletics....

NO ONE CARES!!!!

 

[Baron Winnebago]

One of the issues with the low hanging fruit is...well...it's low hanging...these fucks that think they are writing the 'hard hitting' story that will not only bring Nebraska to its knees but all other Universities will cower at the notion of cutting school budgets to improve athletics....

NO ONE CARES!!!!

New plan. We get a ladder and we move all the low hanging fruit... higher. Then we call it, less low hanging fruit.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

New plan. We get a ladder and we move all the low hanging fruit... higher. Then we call it, less low hanging fruit.

 

[NSECTA4]

Why is it so difficult for these smooth brains to understand that it is two separate accounts/budgets/funding

Because, if they accept it, it undermines their argument. They prefer to bitch and bemoan rather than admit they’re wrong.

 

[Huskersballz]

I didn’t come here to play school