Football vs. Northwestern interview

Ronnie Green Author

11/09/2020 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about serving on the NCAA Presidential Forum and attending his first quarterly meeting via Zoom. He also recapped the university's annual Celebration of Service, in which faculty and staff are recognized for their 5-year milestones in service.

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[00:00:00.000](upbeat instrumental music)
[00:00:02.550]Welcome back it's "Countdown to Kickoff",
[00:00:04.050]Huskers and the NorthWestern Wildcats
[00:00:06.170]having played today here in Evanston.
[00:00:08.040]And as we do each and every week
[00:00:09.210]during "Countdown to Kickoff"
[00:00:10.410]a chance to catch up with the chancellor
[00:00:12.360]from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ronnie Green.
[00:00:14.970]And doggone it, I know everybody was excited
[00:00:17.170]about last week, Halloween,
[00:00:18.680]the Badgers, good weather in Lincoln,
[00:00:21.060]but in the age of COVID, I guess we have to kind of,
[00:00:24.140]get used to these hit and miss type situations.
[00:00:27.960]Yeah, I think we've all gotten really good Greg
[00:00:29.880]in rolling with the punches and we'll continue to do that.
[00:00:33.400]It was a real disappointment for everybody
[00:00:35.671]to have the game canceled.
[00:00:37.970]Our first home game of the season,
[00:00:40.530]everyone was looking forward to it
[00:00:42.100]and it was Halloween to boot,
[00:00:43.940]you know, as you've said the same at the same time,
[00:00:46.980]but unfortunately things didn't work out well in Wisconsin,
[00:00:50.660]as we know, and now they're out again this week
[00:00:54.320]as well with their game for Purdue.
[00:00:57.180]So feel for them and feel for that loss,
[00:00:59.430]feel for our players and the loss of an opportunity to play
[00:01:02.520]and to get to play at home for the first time
[00:01:05.330]even though under the kinda unusual circumstances.
[00:01:07.900]So moving forward and happy to be you know, here today
[00:01:12.370]and have the opportunity to be playing in Evanston
[00:01:15.150]and play in Northwestern
[00:01:16.850]and looking forward to a great game.
[00:01:18.810]You've obviously had a front row seat
[00:01:21.010]to all these discussions about Big Ten football
[00:01:23.580]with your position at the university.
[00:01:25.290]But I understand you've gone beyond this, the Big Ten level.
[00:01:28.430]You're doing some things at the NCAA level,
[00:01:30.660]tell me about that.
[00:01:32.540]Well, yeah, I did just recently assume the position
[00:01:37.200]on the NCAA Presidential Forum
[00:01:40.810]as the Big Ten member of that forum.
[00:01:43.910]So, there are two NCAA groups
[00:01:47.820]that are oversight groups, in governance of the NCAA.
[00:01:52.940]And this would be in D-1, Division 1 portion of NCAA.
[00:01:57.790]There's the board of governors
[00:01:59.290]that's like the board of directors.
[00:02:01.070]You wanna think of it that way.
[00:02:03.470]That make the kind of decisions day to day
[00:02:05.935]from a board perspective.
[00:02:07.800]And then there's, what's called the presidential forum,
[00:02:10.100]which is what I just assumed the position on
[00:02:14.650]that advises the board .
[00:02:16.410]So, it represents
[00:02:18.720]the 32 Division 1 conferences
[00:02:22.700]across the NCAA.
[00:02:24.590]So not only the A5 you know, that we're part of,
[00:02:29.370]but the FCS schools
[00:02:32.240]and the other D-1 conferences across all of Division 1.
[00:02:38.020]They have quarterly meetings
[00:02:39.740]so I actually had my first one of those about a week ago.
[00:02:44.360]A four hour zoom call, you know, version of a meeting
[00:02:48.880]and had the opportunity to be involved
[00:02:50.598]in that level of discussion.
[00:02:52.410]And not only the things that the board of governors
[00:02:55.930]are going to be considering.
[00:02:57.160]So think of the things you're recently,
[00:02:59.120]like, changed schedules and change protocols,
[00:03:03.510]championship schedules, championship brackets,
[00:03:06.430]all of those kinds of things that the board is considering
[00:03:10.150]we advise on.
[00:03:11.630]But currently we're also advising on things like,
[00:03:14.136]name, image, and likeness.
[00:03:16.220]And all of the conversation around that
[00:03:18.550]or student athletes,
[00:03:20.800]that's in change in a very big period of change currently.
[00:03:24.750]And then also the forum has been challenged
[00:03:28.180]by the NCAA to look at long-term sustainability issues
[00:03:33.560]for the NCAA, right.
[00:03:35.340]Both financial sustainability,
[00:03:38.510]as well as some of the things that are occurring
[00:03:41.190]in terms of change in athletics.
[00:03:42.870]So I decided to join that and as fate would have it,
[00:03:47.650]at the same time that I came on to represent the Big Ten
[00:03:50.760]for the next three years.
[00:03:52.660]My former colleague, Donde Plowman,
[00:03:54.650]who was our executive vice chancellor here
[00:03:57.630]and dean of the Business College here
[00:04:00.320]until a year ago when she left to become the chancellor
[00:04:03.410]at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville
[00:04:06.110]came on the forum at the same time I did,
[00:04:09.200]representing the SEC.
[00:04:10.640]So Donde and I are getting to have some fun together
[00:04:13.693]working in the NCAA now as part of that forum.
[00:04:16.973]Oh, that's fantastic.
[00:04:18.620]NCAA Ronnie green,
[00:04:19.520]the chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
[00:04:21.430]fifth year as chancellor,
[00:04:23.740]your 11th year working at the university, congratulations.
[00:04:26.460]I didn't realize it had gone that far.
[00:04:27.720]Oh my goodness. This time fly.
[00:04:29.940]You did recently invite some university members
[00:04:33.000]to come celebrate with you, faculty and staff
[00:04:36.150]on their milestones.
[00:04:37.500]Were you surprised by the highest number of years celebrated
[00:04:40.660]by a university employee?
[00:04:43.230]Yeah, yes Greg, absolutely.
[00:04:45.290]You know, it's,
[00:04:46.610]we are blessed with a amazing level of talent
[00:04:50.960]at the University of Nebraska.
[00:04:53.390]We have about 6,400 employees
[00:04:56.350]at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in our flagship campus
[00:04:59.830]between our faculty and staff
[00:05:01.690]across all elements of the university.
[00:05:04.420]And every year we do have a celebration
[00:05:07.720]that celebrates the length of service of our employees.
[00:05:11.040]So in five-year increments, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25,
[00:05:15.100]all the way up to 55,
[00:05:18.210]years of service.
[00:05:19.730]So this was one for me, it was kind of hard.
[00:05:21.960]I scratched my head a little bit and I said,
[00:05:23.470]really it's been 10 years since I came back
[00:05:26.680]to the University of Nebraska.
[00:05:28.484]And it will be the,
[00:05:30.860]this year is my fifth year at this role.
[00:05:33.060]That's equally hard to believe.
[00:05:36.140]This year we recognized a thousand
[00:05:38.900]of our faculty and staff
[00:05:40.810]who hit those milestones of times of service.
[00:05:44.150]And if you can believe it,
[00:05:45.900]we had 13 of our employees,
[00:05:49.520]13 of our community members who had been here 45, 50
[00:05:54.380]or 55 years in time.
[00:05:57.900]We had two people who have been here 55 years
[00:06:01.140]of length of service.
[00:06:02.750]One of those has had four family members
[00:06:05.530]who also have been employees of the university
[00:06:08.180]generationally back across earlier generations
[00:06:11.470]of their family.
[00:06:12.790]One of those 45 year employees,
[00:06:15.920]the shooter was Harvey Perlman.
[00:06:17.170]My predecessor is the chancellor here at UNL,
[00:06:20.498]and he hit his 45 year mark.
[00:06:23.940]I joked with him a little bit in that celebration,
[00:06:27.540]because I remember when he stepped down as chancellor
[00:06:30.093]five years ago.
[00:06:32.180]That celebration,
[00:06:33.013]I talked about how he had been at the University of Nebraska
[00:06:37.800]from the time he came here as a student, since 1959.
[00:06:43.178]You can put that in context all about eight years
[00:06:46.250]of that time, he had been at the University of Nebraska.
[00:06:48.970]So people like that,
[00:06:51.080]who have dedicated and committed their service
[00:06:54.380]to this institution, through teaching and research
[00:06:57.610]and all of the various activities
[00:06:59.520]that we have as the statewide campus for Nebraska.
[00:07:03.880]It was great to celebrate with them,
[00:07:06.650]you know, and just to mark that
[00:07:10.050]even in this time where we couldn't all be together.
[00:07:12.450]We had some fun doing it across the campus
[00:07:15.600]here in the last few weeks.
[00:07:17.150]That is fantastic.
[00:07:19.060]My word as the time go.
[00:07:19.893]Well chancellor, we appreciate the sit down visit
[00:07:21.330]we'll hope, keep our fingers crossed
[00:07:22.920]we get a chance to do it again next week back
[00:07:24.750]in Lincoln for the Penn State game.
[00:07:27.166]We're certainly are looking forward to seeing Penn State
[00:07:29.970]come to town.
[00:07:31.323]We're looking forward to them being here
[00:07:33.796]and looking forward to our opening home game of the season
[00:07:36.875]to being near Memorial Stadium next week
[00:07:40.593]and hope for a great game today. Go Big Red.
[00:07:44.430]Green with us here on "Countdown to kickoff".
[00:07:46.150]Matt Courtney will join us next with the Big Ten blitz.

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