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Every time this grifter shows up in the press – well, he& #39;s never available for comment, but there& #39;s always a group of elected and/or well-paid surrogates to dutifully blow smoke on his behalf – my outrage grows at why more people aren& #39;t outraged. https://bit.ly/3nTeFwr ">https://bit.ly/3nTeFwr&q... (1/n)
This time, though, even I have to admit just how well this guy has played the people of Nebraska – especially those who we entrust with our university, arguably our state& #39;s most precious resource. #NUforNE (2/n)
His time was really well-spent. He reached into matters he had no business in, vacationed with millionaires, complained he didn& #39;t get paid enough, pitted people and institutions against one another, meddled in athletics, and punished perceived challenges to his omniscience. (3/n)
We figured he was a poor administrator dude getting bad advice. What we weren& #39;t aware of at the time was that as he was raining down pain on the institutions, he was busy arranging lucrative post-presidency deals for himself. That& #39;s some Trump-level work right there. (4/n)
I also give him great credit for recognizing how to slither into the ranks of the state& #39;s insular, self-justifying moneyed class, and for discovering that the really big bucks aren& #39;t in trying to improve students& #39; lives or raise the quality of the system& #39;s institutions. (5/n)
Nope, he rightly ascertained that the big money is in the tightly intertwined football network – coaches, fundraisers, donors, ex-athletes, assorted hangers-on, etc. He fits that scene like a glove; his membership in the Red Blazer Club has made him a millionaire. (6/n)
Looking back on the hellscape he and his enablers created at the system& #39;s academic institutions from 2015-19, my only regret is that he didn& #39;t figure out how he could leverage his role as president to fully enrich himself much, much sooner ... (7/n)
... because there would& #39;ve been less damage inflicted upon fewer people: those who actually want to live in Nebraska, who work to make it a better place, who might care about things beyond getting pushed around by Wisconsin or Ohio St. – or, now, Illinois – on Saturdays. (8/8)
