Football interview - Akron

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Ronnie Green talks about the excitement on campus for the first game and the unique atmosphere at Nebraska. Green also talks about the fact that the university, across academics and athletics, and the state share the same grit and that he has heard tremendous support from Nebraskans as he's visited communities in the past few weeks.

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[00:00:04.160]Welcome back, Countdown to Kickoff here
[00:00:05.250]in the Husker Sports Network,
[00:00:06.590]just a little over an hour away
[00:00:08.220]from the beginning of the Husker's 2018 season
[00:00:11.170]and the first season under new head coach Scott Frost.
[00:00:14.320]We're delighted to be joined as we will
[00:00:15.600]each and every week during Countdown to Kickoff
[00:00:17.330]by the Chancellor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
[00:00:19.500]Ronnie Green, here we go.
[00:00:21.440]These guys have put a lot of work and effort
[00:00:23.480]into getting ready for this upcoming season.
[00:00:25.696]The stadium's gonna be packed to the gills
[00:00:27.650]as it always is again tonight.
[00:00:29.232]Man, there's just a great energy
[00:00:32.250]around Lincoln, around campus.
[00:00:33.530]I'm sure you felt that all week.
[00:00:35.098]Oh, we sure have.
[00:00:36.427]There's no place to go to a football game
[00:00:38.260]like Memorial Stadium and we all
[00:00:39.935]understand that, we know that.
[00:00:42.177]There's this extra buzz this year
[00:00:44.050]associated with the start of this special season.
[00:00:46.773]We have a beautiful vibrant campus that people come to
[00:00:50.770]and then to be able to experience Husker Nation in that way
[00:00:54.120]is just really, really special.
[00:00:55.966]We hear all the time from fans who come here,
[00:00:59.560]we know this is part of our tradition,
[00:01:01.940]part of our legacy at Nebraska
[00:01:04.010]about the Nebraska fans, the knowledge of those fans,
[00:01:07.430]the courteous nature of those fans,
[00:01:09.880]the niceness of Nebraska fans.
[00:01:12.160]That's part of our game day experience, certainly.
[00:01:14.799]I get to go to away games all through the year,
[00:01:18.570]as you know, Greg, and get to visit
[00:01:20.820]all of the other campuses and we can truly say that
[00:01:23.850]there is no place to go to a football game like Nebraska.
[00:01:26.500]That's just a fact.
[00:01:29.205]And you think about this sell out streak that we have had,
[00:01:32.395]the 362nd consecutive sell out,
[00:01:36.870]dating all the way back to 1962.
[00:01:38.980]I was born in 1961, so that was a long time
[00:01:41.602]for us to have that record.
[00:01:44.480]There's just no place like Nebraska on a game day.
[00:01:47.692]And then we actually have a lot to herald ourselves to
[00:01:53.310]about remarkable nature of our people here,
[00:01:56.640]the remarkable nature of our university.
[00:01:59.500]We talk about our university being the DNA
[00:02:02.390]of the state of Nebraska and when you're talking about
[00:02:05.460]our student athletes on the field,
[00:02:07.380]our students in academic classes,
[00:02:09.440]our researchers in the lab or in the field
[00:02:11.960]or in the studio across our campus,
[00:02:14.407]our extension educators working out
[00:02:16.900]all across the 93 counties in the state of Nebraska.
[00:02:20.400]We're all Huskers and we all are united in that work.
[00:02:24.657]We all have the same grit.
[00:02:26.850]We all have the same glory.
[00:02:28.954]And when we achieve that kind of glory,
[00:02:31.140]it's really with our entire state
[00:02:32.625]that we feel so specially here on game day.
[00:02:35.840]One thing, Chancellor, that I hear
[00:02:37.222]from Nebraskans about you is that they love the fact
[00:02:41.250]that you get out and you come visit them around the state
[00:02:44.100]and you go hear their concerns and those type of things.
[00:02:46.890]And you did a lot of that here this summer.
[00:02:48.800]What was that like for you?
[00:02:50.100]Well, we do like to get out in the state
[00:02:51.920]and to visit with communities and with stakeholders,
[00:02:54.380]with alums, with business leaders,
[00:02:56.120]with school administrators, people in the education sector,
[00:03:00.090]the healthcare sector.
[00:03:01.570]And we did do a lot of that these last six weeks.
[00:03:04.580]I logged about 1500 miles (laughing)
[00:03:07.190]Oh wow. on these various trips
[00:03:08.830]in late July and August to 19 different cities and towns
[00:03:13.010]across the state.
[00:03:13.960]33 stops in locations where we got a chance
[00:03:17.210]to make those visits and have that dialogue.
[00:03:19.474]What I hear universally is
[00:03:22.900]the strong level of support for the university,
[00:03:25.830]the strong level of feeling of importance of what we do
[00:03:28.879]and what we fulfill through our three tier mission
[00:03:34.060]of teaching, research, and extension.
[00:03:36.590]So tremendous support out across the state,
[00:03:39.360]tremendous understanding of the need for college education
[00:03:42.481]and the need that says over 70% of the jobs of the future
[00:03:46.366]are going to require that kind of level of education,
[00:03:50.037]and a real firm understanding of that in these visits.
[00:03:55.074]Strong understanding of the growth and momentum
[00:03:58.170]that the university has experienced
[00:03:59.890]over these past three years.
[00:04:01.250]Three consecutive years of high level enrollment for us.
[00:04:04.741]Research output that continues to climb
[00:04:07.605]and that matters for Nebraska,
[00:04:09.940]areas that are important for us here in the state.
[00:04:13.030]Innovation campus just recently being named
[00:04:16.120]one of the best innovation campus research
[00:04:18.360]public private partnership campuses in the world.
[00:04:21.310]Among the top 100 universities in the world
[00:04:24.250]and earning U.S. patents to protect
[00:04:26.240]our research and discoveries
[00:04:27.690]that comes out of the university
[00:04:29.950]along with that strong research effort
[00:04:31.970]at UNMC at the med center in Omaha.
[00:04:34.760]A record number of students earning Fulbright's
[00:04:37.270]to study all over the world, 16 of them this past year.
[00:04:40.880]So just that level of understanding of that momentum
[00:04:44.630]and that appreciation of that momentum
[00:04:46.815]we hear from our stakeholders all across the state.
[00:04:49.920]Well, we welcome everybody that's in town today,
[00:04:52.712]but it's our folks who maybe are coming to games next week
[00:04:56.570]or throughout the season and coming back to Lincoln
[00:04:58.710]for the first time in several months.
[00:05:00.450]Let's talk about what's on campus.
[00:05:02.170]There's probably some new things,
[00:05:03.130]new features around campus.
[00:05:04.260]Well, another thing we hear when we're out
[00:05:05.930]across the state is the common statement of people saying,
[00:05:09.427]"Wow, the campus has changed and continues
[00:05:12.010]to change and continues to grow."
[00:05:13.600]And we have seen some of that occur
[00:05:15.610]over the last several months so when people come to campus,
[00:05:18.942]they'll see a brand new student health center
[00:05:21.772]and home for the University of Nebraska Medical Centers
[00:05:24.478]Lincoln Division of its College of Nursing
[00:05:27.480]over on the Antelope Parkway, a facility unlike it
[00:05:31.430]anywhere in the big 10 or nationally
[00:05:33.480]where we have Nebraskan Medicine
[00:05:35.307]now delivering that healthcare for our student population
[00:05:39.050]here on campus and being housed jointly
[00:05:41.110]with that education program for UNMC.
[00:05:44.040]Very, very excited about that new facility.
[00:05:47.099]If you are going through tailgates today prior to the game
[00:05:52.500]and you're on the east side of Memorial Stadium,
[00:05:54.749]you'll see a major renovation that has occurred
[00:05:58.250]on what we refer to as Memorial Mall on the loop road.
[00:06:01.380]People might think of it historically as being
[00:06:03.707]where we've done considerable work this summer
[00:06:07.258]to replace the north side of that Memorial Mall.
[00:06:12.130]It has all new surfaces and reuse of the brick
[00:06:15.095]from the original loop road that was there
[00:06:18.475]as part of a phase project where that whole space
[00:06:21.920]will be redone over the course of the next several years.
[00:06:24.500]So beautiful new setting for Memorial Mall
[00:06:28.210]for folks to take advantage of in our campus.
[00:06:31.330]And then our former College of Business Administration
[00:06:34.210]building, our business college moved into Hawk's Hall
[00:06:37.300]a year ago on the end of that
[00:06:39.380]Memorial Mall space. It's been a year?
[00:06:40.707]A year last August. Oh my gosh.
[00:06:42.304]Beautiful facility there for our business college.
[00:06:45.311]Opening up the former home of the college,
[00:06:48.933]the old CBA building some might refer to it as
[00:06:52.444]on our city campus, that was recently renamed
[00:06:55.820]in honor of Louise Pound, one of our most famous alums
[00:06:59.971]of one of the people who pioneered being an athlete
[00:07:05.490]as a woman in the late 1800's, early 1900's.
[00:07:08.880]Went on to a 48 year career on our faculty
[00:07:11.570]in the department of English here on our campus,
[00:07:14.301]named now Pound Hall in her honor.
[00:07:17.550]And we have repopulated that building
[00:07:19.700]and are excited about that being used
[00:07:21.270]by our College of Arts and Sciences
[00:07:22.830]and by our students and by our College of Education
[00:07:25.500]and Human Sciences.
[00:07:26.333]So lots of change on campus continuing
[00:07:28.185]as we continue to develop the campus
[00:07:30.530]to meet the needs of our university.
[00:07:32.050]Fantastic, great stuff.
[00:07:33.250]Always things move and change and that's what's so fun
[00:07:35.570]about being around the university.
[00:07:36.640]You just feel that energy.
[00:07:37.715]We appreciate your time.
[00:07:39.290]We know you're really busy.
[00:07:40.139]We'll let you go so you can go get to your seat
[00:07:42.170]and enjoy this game.
[00:07:43.003]This is gonna be a fun night.
[00:07:44.370]It's gonna be a fun season, I think.
[00:07:45.740]Can't wait, could be grand.
[00:07:47.070]That is University of Nebraska Lincoln Chancellor,
[00:07:49.010]Ronnie Green, here on Countdown to Kickoff.
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[00:07:58.266]plus quality fuel to get you to and from the game.
[00:08:01.853]Just like the Huskers, Pumpin' Pantry
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[00:08:07.499]That'll wrap up my portion of Countdown to Kickoff.
[00:08:10.100]Stick around, Matt Coney has
[00:08:11.257]the Big 10 Blitz coming up next.

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