Trev to A&M

HuskerNation1 said:
This is a major shock but I agree with the sentiment that there are internal issues. Losing Carter and Alberts in the same year is not a coincidence.
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And the political power play to move AD decisions to the regents also doesn't sit well. That happened late last year or earlier this year...

This is going to be a thread where Politics is going to crash head-long into athletics, and it's not going to be pretty, because one of the main reasons for the dysfunction is sitting in the Governor's chair and was sitting in that chair in the previous term. 

And people can make up boogeymen all they want, but at the end of the day, when your state pushes policies that push kids away from the University (not just athletically-gifted kids--all kids), take the decision-making process for important functions out of the AD's hands, and you prop your friends up via cronyism to be Regents without having a fecking clue what needs to be done to maintain or support a state institution...it's not a shock you have dysfunction and a lack of vision. 

Elections have consequences, and the MAGA crowd in their myopia may have the (unintended?) consequence of killing off one of the prize jewels of the state and its Athletic Program. 

 
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DevoHusker said:
Agreed not a money thing...he was already top 10 nationally.

If he is aware of issues higher up, and has still been this successful, but chooses to leave instead of workingthe fix, I will lose respect for him.
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The problem is that it isn't something he can fix.  He can't fix the board of regents or the governor who's boots they lick.  You'd think that pillen being a former football player would do everything he can to make the university & it's athletic department happy, but he's more interested in avoiding press conferences where he might have to explain why he does what he does.

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Rot is a pretty strong word. Coaches, ADs, administrators, and frankly people in every other profession will leave a company to join your company, then leave your company for another company that pays even better. 

Wait. He's leaving for the SAME money?
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In the last year we've lost Ted Carter, Ronnie Green, and now possibly/probably Trev Alberts.

Now, it's not impossible for those things to not have a causal relationship with the dysfunction and lack of support from the state/regents/etc. But when you look at the not-so-secret reality that Ricketts and Pillen have been taking a blowtorch to the university, it's hard not to draw some pretty strong correlated conclusions.

 
Cdog923 said:
He may not have the power to assist in fixing what is broken, nor have the trust in the people that do. 
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Decoy73 said:
Like maybe someone whose name rhymes with "villain."
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Or maybe someone who was born on third base, acts like they hit a triple with their daddy's money, and looks like this:

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