Football interview vs. Ohio State

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09/30/2019 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about a big week on campus with ESPN GameDay on campus and an expansion of athletics facilities recently announced. Green also spoke about recent speakers on campus, including Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson and the FCC chairman, and the upcoming Homecoming celebration next week.

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[00:00:00.000](upbeat music)
[00:00:02.140]Welcome back.
[00:00:02.973]Counting down the kickoff here,
[00:00:03.806]on the Huskers Sports Network,
[00:00:04.639]headed to a 6-44 kick off tonight.
[00:00:06.880]For the Huskers and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
[00:00:08.840]And as we do each and every week
[00:00:10.360]Chance to sit down with the chancellor
[00:00:11.690]from the University of Nebraska
[00:00:12.660]Lincoln Ronnie Green, Wow!
[00:00:13.970]What a week!
[00:00:15.020]GameDay, here earlier today with their big show
[00:00:17.970]what a great showcase for the University.
[00:00:20.040]But you had a major announcement, yesterday.
[00:00:22.110]That's certainly gonna impact Husker football
[00:00:24.260]moving, moving down the road.
[00:00:25.660]What can you tell our audience about that?
[00:00:27.410]Well Greg,
[00:00:28.243]it's sure a big couple of weeks.
[00:00:29.610]We're in the middle of
[00:00:30.997]this, you know this weeks a huge week for us.
[00:00:32.970]Coming off the big win Illinois, last week.
[00:00:35.685]900th win of the program.
[00:00:38.760]A big uh, big mile marker, if you will.
[00:00:41.500]Not only the consecutive sellouts, we have
[00:00:43.660]and the most academic all Americans,
[00:00:46.530]that we're so proud of at 338.
[00:00:49.210]And now 900 wins in our football program.
[00:00:51.540]It's a pretty special thing.
[00:00:53.120]Um, but it puts us in a league company,
[00:00:55.690]nationally as you know.
[00:00:57.910]And so a big week,
[00:00:59.520]Ohio State in town tonight obviously.
[00:01:02.280]Big game, a lot of anticipation
[00:01:03.970]about this game for a long time.
[00:01:05.930]GameDay here today was a great thing.
[00:01:07.890]And seeing the hoards of Huskers Nation
[00:01:10.810]around that was exciting.
[00:01:12.840]And then ah, you know,
[00:01:14.090]um,
[00:01:14.923]we're in kind of this interesting time
[00:01:17.070]when it's the 150th anniversary year of college football.
[00:01:20.970]And ah, playing of college football nationally
[00:01:24.220]and our legacy of that here a 150th anniversary
[00:01:26.779]of the University of Nebraska
[00:01:28.410]this year we've been celebrating.
[00:01:29.730]And then yesterday we were so excited
[00:01:31.799]to be announcing a major expansion
[00:01:35.110]of our football facilities, and stadium facilities,
[00:01:39.640]And student athlete facilities.
[00:01:42.210]Uh, that we're excited about putting into place,
[00:01:44.620]here in the near future.
[00:01:46.160]And that has a 150 million dollar
[00:01:48.060]kind of ring to it too.
[00:01:50.240]So it's kind of fitting in that 150 year history
[00:01:53.630]to allows us to compete at the very top levels nationally.
[00:01:57.300]That we expect here in athletics and academics.
[00:02:00.990]So a huge week for us.
[00:02:03.710]A huge game tonight.
[00:02:04.947]And it's exciting to be here looking down the pipe
[00:02:07.390]of this game in Memorial stadium.
[00:02:09.510]Wonderful event yesterday.
[00:02:10.690]And just a huge thing for Nebraska football
[00:02:12.700]facilities really haven't been touched since 2006 .
[00:02:15.010]But there's been other things going on,
[00:02:17.200]on campus this week as well.
[00:02:18.500]You've had some majors speakers on campus.
[00:02:20.359]Last spring you had the CEO of Microsoft.
[00:02:22.453]But this year,
[00:02:23.490]eh this week you brought in another
[00:02:25.010]big name brand CEO
[00:02:26.430]and then somebody from the Federal Government was here.
[00:02:28.730]What was all this about this week?
[00:02:30.260]Well you know,
[00:02:31.130]We do have the opportunity to bring people
[00:02:34.230]to campus that are nationally and internationally known.
[00:02:37.040]We had a Noble Laureate here a week ago.
[00:02:39.647]Um, In the Ian Thompson forum.
[00:02:42.320]Last spring we had the Microsoft CEO,
[00:02:45.260]Satya Nadella here.
[00:02:47.160]At the invitation of Jeff Raikes,
[00:02:48.950]the namesake of the Raikes school of computers
[00:02:51.810]science and management.
[00:02:53.010]Um, here around the Raikes school,
[00:02:55.320]a design showcase last year.
[00:02:57.040]And this week um,
[00:02:58.950]I think they kind of timed this
[00:03:00.170]to these great game weekends.
[00:03:01.860]Right?
[00:03:02.693]I think every board associated with the University
[00:03:04.610]had some kind of meeting this week it feels like
[00:03:07.040]including the Raikes school.
[00:03:08.200]And including the Raikes board.
[00:03:09.443]Um, so Jeff was back in town
[00:03:12.240]and he here for the game tonight.
[00:03:13.870]And he brought a good friend of his with him
[00:03:16.390]ah, to visit with our students and our faculty
[00:03:19.380]and staff this week Kevin Johnson
[00:03:21.470]who is the CEO of Starbucks in Seattle.
[00:03:24.759]He's been CEO there since 2017.
[00:03:27.850]His career has spanned more than 30 years
[00:03:30.076]in the global businesses,
[00:03:32.390]including 16 years in Microsoft,
[00:03:34.350]Where Jeff knew him well.
[00:03:36.330]And 5 years as the CEO of Juniper networks.
[00:03:39.610]So a great conversation, yesterday
[00:03:41.398]uh,
[00:03:42.730]with our students,
[00:03:44.320]uh with Kevin Johnson from Starbucks.
[00:03:46.890]Um, and he got a chance to interact a lot
[00:03:48.910]with the Raikes students as well while he was here.
[00:03:51.540]We're just so grateful to Jeff and Trisha Raikes
[00:03:53.842]for what they do for the University
[00:03:55.837]and for this wonderful program that we have
[00:03:58.590]uh, in the Raikes school.
[00:03:59.600]And then our law college
[00:04:01.300]also had a big visitor here.
[00:04:04.684]Ajit Pai who is the chairman
[00:04:07.110]of the Federal Communications Commission.
[00:04:08.930]The FCC as the public knows it,
[00:04:11.440]uh, visited campus this last week.
[00:04:13.970]Um, hosted by the college of law
[00:04:15.910]space, cyber, and telecommunications law program.
[00:04:19.350]Uh, Gus Hurwitz is our facility member
[00:04:21.181]who manages that program.
[00:04:23.170]It's one of a kind in the world, here.
[00:04:25.910]Um, Pai participated in a public conversation
[00:04:30.730]that Gus moderated in the Nebraska Union.
[00:04:33.660]Um, it was part of a day long visit,
[00:04:35.810]that Ajit had through the Universities
[00:04:38.680]Robert B Daugherty Water for Global
[00:04:40.540]uh, Water for Food Global Institute.
[00:04:42.723]Um, uh, that we had last week.
[00:04:45.910]So he actually even visited a farm
[00:04:48.130]while he was here.
[00:04:49.145]Near Waverly, for a discussion about dry land
[00:04:51.780]farming operations precision technology AG,
[00:04:54.750]You know uh,
[00:04:55.583]Precision Ag as we refer to it
[00:04:58.240]and related data collection.
[00:05:00.020]Something of great interest to the FCC.
[00:05:02.930]So uh, opportunity again for our law
[00:05:05.520]our engineering, our business,
[00:05:07.060]our AG students to interact
[00:05:08.530]with a national leader, like Ajit
[00:05:10.780]and then Kevin Johnson.
[00:05:12.010]That we were talking about from Starbucks.
[00:05:13.550]So always bringing those kind of people here
[00:05:16.510]for our students to have those opportunities to learn.
[00:05:19.099]Fantastic!
[00:05:19.932]What a week!
[00:05:20.765]This will be tough to top,
[00:05:21.598]although next week may do that.
[00:05:23.280]It's a big week on campus, cause it's homecoming.
[00:05:25.530]We'll celebrate that next week
[00:05:26.860]at the North Western game.
[00:05:28.060]Yeah, we kick immediately in tomorrow,
[00:05:30.630]Um, to the homecoming week our 150th anniversary
[00:05:33.811]homecoming week.
[00:05:35.320]Uh, a full slate of activities
[00:05:36.990]all through the week.
[00:05:38.742]And then up on Friday with what's now being called
[00:05:40.870]Cornstock Festival, it's actually
[00:05:42.830]a kind of kick back
[00:05:43.860]to the old East campus days
[00:05:45.350]when they use to have Cornstock over on East campus.
[00:05:48.640]With Festival kind of environment
[00:05:50.230]on Memorial Plaza here on City campus.
[00:05:52.780]So looking forward to a great Homecoming week.
[00:05:55.390]And then the game of course with North Western
[00:05:57.730]next Saturday.
[00:05:58.563]So a big week!
[00:05:59.752]Excited about these new facilities
[00:06:01.960]and what that's going to do for our football program
[00:06:04.530]and the size of our football program.
[00:06:06.023]Coach Frost talks so much
[00:06:08.380]about wanting to bring that walk on program back
[00:06:11.170]to full heights.
[00:06:12.270]And this is gonna allow us to do that
[00:06:14.420]in new and great ways.
[00:06:15.630]So exciting great week here in Husker land.
[00:06:17.689]No doubt!
[00:06:18.522]Thank you so much for squeezin us in.
[00:06:20.210]Enjoy the game tonight.
[00:06:21.320]We'll chat again next week.
[00:06:22.710]Go Big Red!
[00:06:23.750]Ronnie Green with us here on countdown to kickoff.
[00:06:25.870]Matt Cookie will have our big ten blitz coming up next.

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