Football interview - Illinois

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10/02/2017 Added

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Ronnie Green talks about the appointment of interim Athletic Director Dave Rimington and other ongoing searches for leadership roles at the university currently filled by interim appointees. Green also recalled his State of the University Address, in which he encouraged the university community and its fans and supporters to work together to help move the university forward for the state.

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[00:00:02.148]Welcome back to Champagne.
[00:00:03.171]Tonight the Huskers getting ready to take on the
[00:00:05.205]Fighting Illini in the first road game
[00:00:07.065]in Big Ten conference play.
[00:00:08.438]And we're delighted to be joined,
[00:00:09.414]as we are each and every week in our
[00:00:10.633]countdown to kick off show by University of Nebraska,
[00:00:13.162]Lincoln chancellor Ronny Green.
[00:00:15.041]Big announcement this week with the appointment of
[00:00:16.917]Dave Remington as the interim athletic director.
[00:00:19.121]We spoke to you about this on Tuesday.
[00:00:21.682]I'm sure it's reassuring to be able to call on somebody
[00:00:24.205]who's not only so accomplished as an administrator
[00:00:27.427]in the professional world but also somebody
[00:00:29.300]with great Husker ties.
[00:00:30.608]What kind of charge did you give Mr. Remington
[00:00:33.094]now in his interim role?
[00:00:34.683]Well, we're very pleased following the
[00:00:38.918]announcement of the leadership change in our
[00:00:41.364]athletics director position, to be to reach out
[00:00:44.823]to somebody like Dave Remington.
[00:00:47.106]He's a legend in his own right in Huskerdom
[00:00:52.150]from his playing days here and South Omaha boy
[00:00:55.577]that was arguableythe best defensive lineman in the
[00:00:59.705]history of the sport, you know.
[00:01:02.275]An academic an all American, a hall of fame academic
[00:01:05.020]all American who has led very successfully for
[00:01:10.109]well over 20 years now at the Boomer Esiason Foundation,
[00:01:12.389]working in the cystic Fibrosis area.
[00:01:16.183]So proven leader, somebody that knows how to run a business,
[00:01:19.810]in this case a foundation, philanthropy business.
[00:01:23.838]And for him to be willing to pull up from New York
[00:01:26.647]where he lives with Lisa, his wife, and four children
[00:01:31.613]to come an month or two with us to help us through the
[00:01:37.278]leadership transition, bringing on a new AD it's a big deal.
[00:01:41.357]And we're really honored to have Dave coming in and
[00:01:44.265]serving in that role and leading
[00:01:47.038]our athletics team during this time.
[00:01:49.356]He will not be in Champagne, he's back in Lincoln.
[00:01:52.005]The big volleyball match tonight
[00:01:53.594]with a nationally ranked team.
[00:01:54.859]They're going to retiring Jordan Larson's jersey.
[00:01:56.733]Another one of those duties athletics directors have to
[00:01:58.816]deal with as well, so he's going to have his hands full.
[00:02:02.031]He's got his plate full.
[00:02:03.296]Yeah, he's got his plate full.
[00:02:04.356]We got the game tonight here is Champagne and looking
[00:02:09.349]forward to that game, but volleyball's a big weekend,
[00:02:13.834]with volleyball this weekend with Minnesota and Wisconsin.
[00:02:17.421]So Dave was kind of joking with me earlier in the week.
[00:02:20.718]He said I'm going to go learn a lot about
[00:02:22.104]volleyball this weekend and start there.
[00:02:24.750]So just really happy to have Dave here as kind of a
[00:02:29.798]very stabilizing, calming influence
[00:02:32.125]during a time of transition for our leadership team.
[00:02:35.504]We've got one of the best leadership teams in athletics
[00:02:38.319]in the country, no doubt about that.
[00:02:41.168]But it gave us an opportunity to bring in somebody from the
[00:02:44.058]outside to work with us kind of during the transition.
[00:02:48.009]So great to have him here.
[00:02:49.678]Well as chancellor of a big university,
[00:02:52.212]you have done this before with
[00:02:54.492]interim leadership during an ongoing search.
[00:02:57.470]You're on the process of searching for some permanent hires
[00:02:59.714]in some other leadership positions on campus.
[00:03:02.161]Where are you at in the process for those searches?
[00:03:04.320]Well we have two, two really prominent positions
[00:03:07.604]in our university senior team,
[00:03:10.250]Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development,
[00:03:13.999]held by Prim Paul, who we lost a little over a year ago
[00:03:18.569]to cancer, that position has been filled with an
[00:03:22.604]interim leader this past year, Steve Godder.
[00:03:26.392]Computer scientist from our facility who became
[00:03:29.595]Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
[00:03:33.516]a couple of years ago.
[00:03:35.060]So Steve's been leading that group very successfully
[00:03:37.710]this past year and now we're in a permanent search
[00:03:41.416]for the next permanent Vice Chancellor to lead our
[00:03:43.941]research efforts, so excited about that.
[00:03:47.569]Also, our Student Affairs division.
[00:03:50.455]So think of everything to do with student life, housing,
[00:03:54.359]activities across campus, campus rec, all of those
[00:03:57.414]kinds of things that fall up under Student Affairs.
[00:04:00.565]Juan Franco served for about 11 years in that role.
[00:04:05.832]Recently passed away in August this year.
[00:04:10.152]There was a transition there.
[00:04:12.106]Lori Bellows has stepped into that role.
[00:04:15.387]Actually had been planned for her to step into that role
[00:04:18.281]prior to Juan's death on July first.
[00:04:23.418]We'll be looking next year for the
[00:04:25.662]permanent leader at that position.
[00:04:28.106]Kathy Ferrall, our Dean of College and Business serving in
[00:04:31.082]the interim capacity there, we have a notional search
[00:04:32.961]underway for that position currently.
[00:04:37.315]We got both great interim leaders, I got Dave
[00:04:41.673]over in athletics, we've got Steve, and we've got Lori,
[00:04:44.860]and we've got Kathy and searches underway for
[00:04:48.407]those permanent positions in the future.
[00:04:51.219]I want to ask you about your State of
[00:04:52.473]the University address which you gave a couple of weeks ago.
[00:04:55.075]You closed your address with a sentiment about working
[00:04:58.095]together as Nebraskans always do.
[00:04:59.929]How has that sentiment factor into how you approach
[00:05:03.228]your role and your hope that the university can
[00:05:05.631]achieve during your tenure here?
[00:05:07.826]Well you know, there's that famous line in
[00:05:09.326]Dear Old Nebraska U we'll all sit together
[00:05:12.426]in all kids of weather for dear old Nebraska U.
[00:05:15.717]You know, I know that's a sentiment about
[00:05:18.121]Nebraskans in general but we do have
[00:05:23.887]times of transition like we're experiencing now.
[00:05:27.090]We have, our budget we've got a little bit of a challenge
[00:05:31.287]in our budget, I talked about that in the
[00:05:32.875]State of the University address and we're addressing that
[00:05:36.807]and not changing the momentum or the trajectory
[00:05:39.980]the university is on and growing and
[00:05:42.019]doing so many good things with that growth.
[00:05:45.559]So it is true, we all stick together in all kids of weather
[00:05:48.615]for dear old Nebraska U and
[00:05:50.118]I know that's what people are doing with us as we fulfill
[00:05:54.968]our mission and put that education in place for our students
[00:06:00.795]in a way that is unparalleled in my mind anywhere else.
[00:06:05.495]The research that we're doing here and the play that we
[00:06:08.702]have on the athletics field and arena.
[00:06:11.840]Absolutely, we'll all stick together stick together
[00:06:13.141]in all kind of weather for dear old Nebraska U.
[00:06:15.173]Go big red.

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