Screw Trev

[cipsucks]

6 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

He bolted as fast as Bill Byrne, ironic both ended up at A&M.....

 

 

Bill Byrne was here 10 years, which is unheard of.  He not only saved the baseball program, he put it into national prominence.  He kept his hands off volleyball and football.  If Tom would have continued coaching, Bill would have gone down as the greatest AD in Nebraska history. He still might be. If he only gave Danny one more year....

[Dead Dog Alley]

1 hour ago, cipsucks said:

 

Bill Byrne was here 10 years, which is unheard of.  He not only saved the baseball program, he put it into national prominence.  He kept his hands off volleyball and football.  If Tom would have continued coaching, Bill would have gone down as the greatest AD in Nebraska history. He still might be. If he only gave Danny one more year....

 

1.  If he'd told Tom that no, we are not giving the head coaching job to Frank, you can either keep coaching or I'll bring in someone new.

2.  If he'd kept Danny one more year, or else paid for the barbecue bill when he went down to Tulsa

3.  If he hadn't messed with the Devaney seating arrangement when he tried to wring out some more money and ended up wrecking the home court advantage

Edited April 26 by Dead Dog Alley

[AuroranHusker]

2 hours ago, cipsucks said:

 

Bill Byrne was here 10 years, which is unheard of.  He not only saved the baseball program, he put it into national prominence.  He kept his hands off volleyball and football.  If Tom would have continued coaching, Bill would have gone down as the greatest AD in Nebraska history. He still might be. If he only gave Danny one more year....

 

When the Solich tenure was soured by a 7-7 season, Byrne bolted to A&M in the dead of night....

 

[AuroranHusker]

1 hour ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

 

1.  If he'd told Tom that no, we are not giving the head coaching job to Frank, you can either keep coaching or I'll bring in someone new.

2.  If he'd kept Danny one more year, or else paid for the barbecue bill when he went down to Tulsa

3.  If he hadn't messed with the Devaney seating arrangement when he tried to wring out some more money and ended up wrecking the home court advantage

 

There's a reason he's known as Dollar Bill..... he craved more & more money from any & all avenues. He screwed the pooch at allowing football/basketball donations to compound.

 

[HuskerFever]

 

[TourneyBound]

5 minutes ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Seems similar to my budget……

[AuroranHusker]

4 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

 

Maybe he could go ahead & dock his own pay for going to A&M, since A&M is the one paying $79M for a coach to go away.... sounds like a 'you' problem, Trav.

 

[hhcmatt]

If we could get a tournament win out of the complete destruction of college athletics as we know it, it would be appreciated. 

[HuskerFever]

Time to go home, Trev. Byeeeee.

 

[kldm64]

10 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Time to go home, Trev. Byeeeee.

 

 

Or congrats to A&M for being the National Champion Runner up.  Great series to watch and they played some outstanding baseball.  Maybe it's time for NU fans to quit being so bitter and not make everything so personal.  Trev made a business decision to take a different job.  It happens.  Congrats to Trev and Texas A&M for a great championship series and congrats to the Vols for a tremendous season and your National Championship.  Well deserved...

 

 

 

[OmahaHusker]

30 minutes ago, kldm64 said:

 

Or congrats to A&M for being the National Champion Runner up.  Great series to watch and they played some outstanding baseball.  Maybe it's time for NU fans to quit being so bitter and not make everything so personal.  Trev made a business decision to take a different job.  It happens.  Congrats to Trev and Texas A&M for a great championship series and congrats to the Vols for a tremendous season and your National Championship.  Well deserved...

 

Was chatting up some A&M fans Saturday night after they won the first game of three. Were nice enough guys, but I jokingly brought up the Trev thing and one of the dudes pulled a complete 180. "All you Nebraska fans do is b*tch about Trev. He saw a hotter girl with more cash and moved on from his raggedy, old gf. It's pretty simple." All I could say was take it easy man...

[cornfed24-7]

1 hour ago, kldm64 said:

 

Or congrats to A&M for being the National Champion Runner up.  Great series to watch and they played some outstanding baseball.  Maybe it's time for NU fans to quit being so bitter and not make everything so personal.  Trev made a business decision to take a different job.  It happens.  Congrats to Trev and Texas A&M for a great championship series and congrats to the Vols for a tremendous season and your National Championship.  Well deserved...

 

 

 

Nah. F√€k that guy.

[kldm64]

36 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

Nah. F√€k that guy.

 

Classy

[cornfed24-7]

4 minutes ago, kldm64 said:

 

Classy

About as classy as his exit

[Navin R. Johnson]

Regardless of all that, the CWS was a lot of fun to watch this year.

[Swan88]

It seems that Trev is good at managing coaches: e.g., he hired Rhule and didn't fire Hoiberg, and all NU sports teams seemed to improve under his leadership.

But the business and change-management parts of the job are huge these days: and whether he is up to handling those parts remains to be seen.

At Nebraska:

• Trev was highly visible (as compared to Troy Dannen, who isn't)--whether that is a good thing or bad (or if they even let him do that) remains to be seen at Texas A&M;
• Trev's stadium expansion initiative will move forward at Nebraska--in a modified form--but it had some questionable elements, including the total cost and whether Husker Nation would get behind it;
• Trev had some odd views on NIL, which seems bizarre in this NIL-crucial environment; and
• Trev seems to want a large role in the rapidly-changing college sports world, but in his highly-visible role at Nebraska, he created more of an "Aw-Shucks" image than one of high-competence in that area of responsibility.

[kldm64]

45 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

About as classy as his exit

 

He got a job offer and accepted it. Exactly what are you expecting that he is never allowed to leave Nebraska?  He went from UNO to UNL to Texas A&M very quickly so he must be doing something right.  I was hoping he would stay at UNL longer but if someone offered me more money, I'd do the same thing he did. Hard to hold a grudge against him for taking a job offer with potentially better opportunities (especially with the deep pockets Texas &M has).  

[Vinny]

2 hours ago, kldm64 said:

 

He got a job offer and accepted it. Exactly what are you expecting that he is never allowed to leave Nebraska?  He went from UNO to UNL to Texas A&M very quickly so he must be doing something right.  I was hoping he would stay at UNL longer but if someone offered me more money, I'd do the same thing he did. Hard to hold a grudge against him for taking a job offer with potentially better opportunities (especially with the deep pockets Texas &M has).  

Isn't your stance on players getting paid and bouncing from school to school for better paychecks almost the opposite of this?

 

I think as a former Husker, fans had higher expectations for how his tenure would go than it did. Less than three years here, leaving with a giant stadium project falling apart and friction created between the athletic department and just about every relevant body tangential to it. 

[cornfed24-7]

5 hours ago, kldm64 said:

 

He got a job offer and accepted it. Exactly what are you expecting that he is never allowed to leave Nebraska?  He went from UNO to UNL to Texas A&M very quickly so he must be doing something right.  I was hoping he would stay at UNL longer but if someone offered me more money, I'd do the same thing he did. Hard to hold a grudge against him for taking a job offer with potentially better opportunities (especially with the deep pockets Texas &M has).  

Sure if you want to frame it that way. And by no means do I mean that man any ill will when I say F√€k that guy

 

Edited June 25 by cornfed24-7

[Huskerpapa]

1.  I'm not sure I would categorize Trev's move as shocking.  Instead I would call it surprising.  Many thought his projects, recent raise, recent hires, tended to cement him in place.  It perhaps is a Nebraska thing.

2.  I don't believe for a moment that his leaving was a money thing.  He had just received a raise that he was happy with and the salary at A & M wasn't dramatically higher.  Besides, he has a $4.2 buyout of his Nebraska contract.

3.  He seemingly turned his back on his Nebraska lore/legacy.  Doing so is "unique" to most Nebraska fans.

4.  Many in the know, believe the lack of, or change in leadership, soured Trev's take on what he wanted to accomplish here.  No idea what that means; but it must have been serious enough to be the first Lemming off the cliff.  Thankfully, no one of high significance followed him.

 

Edited June 25 by Huskerpapa

[kldm64]

1 hour ago, Vinny said:

Isn't your stance on players getting paid and bouncing from school to school for better paychecks almost the opposite of this?

 

I think as a former Husker, fans had higher expectations for how his tenure would go than it did. Less than three years here, leaving with a giant stadium project falling apart and friction created between the athletic department and just about every relevant body tangential to it. 

 

My stance is college players shouldn't be getting paid as they are already getting paid with free education, meals, clothes, etc.  However, now that they can get paid, it's hard to blame them leaving to make more money.  I have said that now college kids are getting paid, it has ruined college sports like we know it.  There is no difference between college and pro now.  It has completed changed the landscape in college sports for how you recruit now.  You don't sell them on your school but rather what kind of NIL deal you can put together for them. Things change and even if I prefer the days before NIL, just have to adapt to the way it is now cause it ain't going to go back.

 

I would agree with you that fans had higher expectations for Trev and his tenure here at Nebraska.  I was one of them but I'm just not someone who needs to take cheap shots at him for leaving if he felt like that was a better opportunity for him.  It obviously had to be a hard decision to leave the school he played his college days at so there had to be strong reasons for him to walk.  I may not have liked it either but I try to be objective and understand his side as well.

[AuroranHusker]

1 hour ago, Huskerpapa said:

1.  I'm not sure I would categorize Trev's move as shocking.  Instead I would call it surprising.  Many thought his projects, recent raise, recent hires, tended to cement him in place.  It perhaps is a Nebraska thing.

2.  I don't believe for a moment that his leaving was a money thing.  He had just received a raise that he was happy with and the salary at A & M wasn't dramatically higher.  Besides, he has a $4.2 buyout of his Nebraska contract.

3.  He seemingly turned his back on his Nebraska lore/legacy.  Doing so is "unique" to most Nebraska fans.

4.  Many in the know, believe the lack of, or change in leadership, soured Trev's take on what he wanted to accomplish here.  No idea what that means; but it must have been serious enough to be the first Lemming off the cliff.  Thankfully, no one of high significance followed him.

 

 

Ironically Trev didn't get a raise at all. He got a shorter deal, in fact. This move was about Trev not liking the potential new President, Jeffrey Gold, yet I will confess that is strictly my opinion.

[cipsucks]

Without looking it up, I can't tell you the new athletic director's name.  To me, that's a good thing.  Do great things behind the scenes, don't mess with the good, quietly fix the not so good, wash, rinse and repeat.  That was never going to happen with Trev. Not necessarily his fault. He was always going to be in the spotlight, whether he wanted it or not.  I like our trajectory right now. Sometimes trades work out for both teams. 

[AuroranHusker]

27 minutes ago, cipsucks said:

Without looking it up, I can't tell you the new athletic director's name.  To me, that's a good thing.  Do great things behind the scenes, don't mess with the good, quietly fix the not so good, wash, rinse and repeat.  That was never going to happen with Trev. Not necessarily his fault. He was always going to be in the spotlight, whether he wanted it or not.  I like our trajectory right now. Sometimes trades work out for both teams. 

 

That's certainly possible. Troy Dannen is his name. He's a nice fellow, I met him on his 1st day on the job while in Memphis for March Madness. I hope it works out well, for all parties. I'm not happy at Trev but I clearly don't hate the guy, either. It was a business decision, I'm sure.

 

[Huskerpapa]

10 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

That's certainly possible. Troy Dannen is his name. He's a nice fellow, I met him on his 1st day on the job while in Memphis for March Madness. I hope it works out well, for all parties. I'm not happy at Trev but I clearly don't hate the guy, either. It was a business decision, I'm sure.

 

Yeah, some people would not state that he is a nice fellow.  But that is not a  number one trait.  He needs to be fair and reasonable with exceptional business acumen.   At times he must have a quick trigger, and then have the sense to slow play a situation when necessary.  Being nice does count though when dealing with most patrons and to the populace that provides $$$.