Red-White Spring Game interview

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04/15/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the recent hiring of Fred Hoiberg before discussing an upcoming Lied Center event with Jeff Raikes and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. He also discusses the Raikes School design studio showcase event, which highlights real-world software applications students design for organizations as part of a capstone experience.

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[00:00:00.427](upbeat guitar riff)
[00:00:02.050]We welcome you back to spring football coverage
[00:00:03.960]here on the Huskers Sports Network, 1:00 kick-off
[00:00:06.040]today for the Huskers in the red, white spring
[00:00:08.000]scrimmage, the second one for head football
[00:00:10.150]coach Scott Frost, and delighted to be joined by
[00:00:12.480]University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor
[00:00:14.100]Ronnie Green.
[00:00:15.160]I don't know that I've ever been around
[00:00:16.740]a program coming off of a 4-8 season where
[00:00:18.930]the excitement level is as high as it is
[00:00:21.080]for this year.
[00:00:21.913]Are you sharing in that enthusiasm
[00:00:23.440]about the upcoming year?
[00:00:24.427][Chancellor Ronnie Green] Oh, absolutely,
[00:00:25.480]you know as you, you think about the, the
[00:00:28.215]progress that has been made in that first year,
[00:00:31.720]and the progress that's continuing to be made
[00:00:33.950]as we ramp up for year two, uh, that's evident
[00:00:37.170]on all fronts, and uh, Scott and his folks um, share
[00:00:41.160]that enthusiasm and you continue to see the
[00:00:43.645]recruiting efforts paying off as we have recently
[00:00:46.920]here this past week, uh, you just can't, you can't
[00:00:49.680]help but be excited and anticipatory about how great
[00:00:52.470]it's going to be to see them on the field, even
[00:00:54.590]though it's a practice game.
[00:00:55.660]Right. And it's sold out.
[00:00:56.845][Chancellor Green] And it's sold out. That's right.
[00:00:58.720]Well, everybody's obviously always
[00:01:00.730]excited about football, but there's another sport that's
[00:01:03.120]gathering a lot of headlines here in the last week or so,
[00:01:05.430]and that's men's basketball, with the hiring of
[00:01:07.790]Fred Hoiberg, who, uh, my goodness are people
[00:01:10.630]excited about this hire, your thoughts about
[00:01:12.520]that addition to the staff.
[00:01:13.527][Chancellor Green] Well, a great hire obviously
[00:01:16.000]and tremendous excitement, in all of Husker
[00:01:19.040]athletics about that, and especially in
[00:01:20.920]basketball of course, and coming to lead Husker
[00:01:23.870]basketball, and you know he's, he, he reminded me
[00:01:27.000]a little bit as we kinda went through this process
[00:01:30.170]of sort of like Bill Moos, I mean we talked about
[00:01:32.370]Bill Moos, how he seemed like he was a Nebraskan
[00:01:34.140]that didn't know he was a Nebraskan, well
[00:01:35.570]Fred Hoiberg is a Nebraskan and he's just back
[00:01:38.040]to be a Nebraskan, all right? So, you know, it's
[00:01:40.940]great to see him come onboard and to have welcomed him
[00:01:44.070]here um, recently and the great fan support
[00:01:46.755]that he talked about, and the facilities that he has
[00:01:50.040]to work with, um, you just have to be excited about
[00:01:52.603]great things being ahead having someone like him
[00:01:55.470]here to lead our program.
[00:01:56.590]And, you were excited that his family
[00:01:58.150]has deep ties in the agriculture community.
[00:01:59.997][Chancellor Green] Oh, absolutely, you know at the,
[00:02:04.321]when we um, he introduced himself to Nebraskans
[00:02:07.152]here, um he talked about, deeply about his family
[00:02:10.030]and of course his grandfather, who was a coach here
[00:02:12.590]and his other grandfather who was a professor here
[00:02:16.030]of history and, and (clears throat) his father who
[00:02:18.877]was a professor at Iowa State, um, over his entire
[00:02:22.730]career um, with ag roots, and some rural sociology roots,
[00:02:26.228]it uh, it's just a really special thing to listen to him
[00:02:31.060]talk about how just felt like he was coming home.
[00:02:33.269]Yes. Well, the spring game's a great
[00:02:35.000]event for campus, a lot of alums and fans do come
[00:02:37.410]back to the campus to Lincoln to soak in the game,
[00:02:40.490]but I hear there's another great event attracting
[00:02:42.790]a big crowd on campus, what can you tell us about that?
[00:02:45.257][Chancellor Green] Well, every, every spring the
[00:02:48.130]Raikes School of Computer Science and Management,
[00:02:50.500]one of our elite, premier programs in the university
[00:02:54.109]um, has what they call their Design Studio Showcase,
[00:02:58.090]so, it, this program brings together computer science
[00:03:01.208]with management, with business, and these students,
[00:03:04.600]it's a very highly competitive program, it's very hard
[00:03:07.310]to get in this program, about 40 students per class
[00:03:11.260]um, through that, that school, and one of the elements of
[00:03:15.690]that is they do a design studio project, uh in their
[00:03:19.997]capstone, and it's with clients out in the real world
[00:03:23.810]that contract the Raikes School to develop um, applications
[00:03:27.488]for them, and that's rolled out every spring,
[00:03:30.930]in April, uh, so this coming week, uh, is the week for
[00:03:34.520]the Raikes School's Design Studio Showcase, and uh
[00:03:37.270]Jeff Raikes will be here, the namesake of the school,
[00:03:40.080]a native of Ashland, um, was a former exec of Microsoft
[00:03:44.429]in his career throughout his career, and ran the Bill
[00:03:48.210]and Melinda Gates Foundation before he retired here just
[00:03:51.230]a few years ago, um, Jeff will be here and his wife
[00:03:54.780]Trisha, and they've invited a special guest in, every
[00:03:58.270]year they have a, a kind of highlighted speaker
[00:04:00.899]associated with the Design Studio Showcase, and this
[00:04:03.790]year it's a big one, uh the CEO of Microsoft himself,
[00:04:07.400]Satya Nadella, will be here to both uh, interact with and
[00:04:12.733]work with the Raikes School's students, but we're also
[00:04:16.640]hosting him in a conversation for the greater public
[00:04:20.040]uh, big event that we'll be doing at the Lied Center
[00:04:23.030]on April 18th, um, doors open will open at 11:15
[00:04:27.030]that morning, we're opening it to the general public
[00:04:29.930]for a conversation with Satya and Jeff, Jeff Raikes, where
[00:04:34.970]they're talking about, uh, what's ahead in the future
[00:04:38.240]of tech development, and in what these Raikes School
[00:04:42.100]grads will be part of uh, as we move forward, so
[00:04:45.060]it's a great opportunity to have him here, very
[00:04:47.070]excited about that, looking forward to a packed
[00:04:49.560]Lied Center that day to listen to great conversation,
[00:04:52.250]might remember a few years ago, um, think it was
[00:04:54.888]um, maybe like 2009, so ten years ago, uh, there was
[00:04:59.430]a similar kind of event where uh, Bill Gates, the
[00:05:02.846]CEO of course at that time, a builder of Microsoft,
[00:05:07.000]and Warren Buffett had a conversation like that on
[00:05:10.160]the Lied Center stage, so we think this is gonna be
[00:05:12.290]a similar kind of event um, here in Lincoln that
[00:05:16.300]we're very excited about.
[00:05:17.830]That's fantastic. Jeff Raikes one of
[00:05:19.520]the great alums of the University of Nebraska, while
[00:05:21.580]they're in town are students gonna have a chance to,
[00:05:23.420]to maybe connect a little bit with Jeff?
[00:05:24.937][Chancellor Green] Yeah, so, Jeff comes in
[00:05:27.360]twice a year and works with the Raikes School students
[00:05:30.630]uh, once in the fall uh, last year actually we
[00:05:34.230]celebrated around the Colorado football game weekend,
[00:05:37.030]it was the 10th anniversary of the Raikes School, and
[00:05:39.910]uh, so Jeff and Trisha were here interacting with
[00:05:42.300]students, Jeff gave a big lecture to them that time
[00:05:45.048]um, and every year as I was talking about earlier,
[00:05:48.900]the Design Studio Showcase event in April, he's here
[00:05:51.830]every year for that, and interacts with them and is
[00:05:54.857]part of their presentations, and their showcase
[00:05:57.910]presentations, so he'll be doing that, along with
[00:06:00.280]Satya, um here this coming week and it'll be a great
[00:06:03.290]thing for them and we're looking forward to having
[00:06:05.690]them on campus.
[00:06:06.620]Awesome. Great things. Well, enjoy that,
[00:06:08.480]enjoy the game today, it's always just fun to have everybody
[00:06:10.780]come back to town, we welcome everybody back onto campus,
[00:06:13.459]as well.
[00:06:14.399][Chancellor Green] It's, it'll be great, it's it'll
[00:06:17.160]be a great, great day, um with um, all of those folks
[00:06:20.310]filling that stadium, watching the future of Husker
[00:06:22.829]football play out in front of our eyes. Go Big Red.
[00:06:26.250]Chancellor's with us here on our pre-game
[00:06:27.760]show, we've got more coming up next.

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