Ben Sasse leaving FL

[steinek11]

Just the way you asked that questions speaks volumes.

Listen, I voted for Trump twice and will vote for him again because I’d rather nail my hand to a burning building than vote for a Democrat.

The point I’m making is that with Trump it’s always personal. Frankly, the way he behaved at times during his first day in the White House was beneath the office, with pettiness, vindictiveness and bullying. He seems to have learned some decorum over the last couple of years. But his instincts at times are just baffling. I don’t mind an aggressive and forceful nature, but it is dumb to pick fights and make enemies because of a fragile ego. Better to win some people over instead of creating voters who only want to vote against you, even in spite of how awful the alternative is.

As I remember it, he could not take even a little bit of criticism from Sasse without acting like a big baby, further proving Sasses point. You just don’t need these unforced errors.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

He actually is, though. Despite anything Sasse said while in office, he was voting with Trump at all times. Only voted to impeach when he had one foot out the door and needed the PR. Other than that, the practice of running higher eduction like the mob and bilking all of the money out while not doing any actual work was NOT invented by Sasse. It certainly isn't a practice isolated to a political party, that ****'s been going on forever all across the spectrum.

Not true. He did NOT vote like that. That's why he didn't run for reelection. He was more than likely getting booted in the primary

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

Did you read the contracts or know anything about them? Go through their budgets, or just believed an author that seemed really butt hurt about staff not living in Gainesville. The value of their homes was important to this story.
Couldn't be the comprehensive review toward strategic priorities from over 200 campus stakeholders to allocate resources. These are hundreds of millions of dollars. Their athletic department took in another 30 million.

Value of their homes should have ZERO to do with it. I don't care if they're green and from Mars. If they are good at their job that's all that matters. What does the price of their house have anything to do with it other than create jealousy

 

[inWV]

Is this a serious question?

New positions are "invented" all the time. If those new positions were an asset & helped UF, then what's the issue?

Many jobs can be done remotely. Why do they have to reside in Florida?

Just because a student newspaper can't find out what these people do, doesn't mean they just getting paid to do nothing. Do people honestly think the University itself doesn't check on these things? Do they believe there's zero oversight on what Ben Sasse does / doesn't do?

University executives are expected to be part of the university community, attend campus events and press the flesh with local machers. Maybe even teach a class or seminar. Back office type work, such as personnel, contracts, and purchasing could be remote. Those people are drones and simply pushing paper. But university administrators are supposed to be campus leaders and it’s pretty damn hard to do that if you’re in Washington DC instead of Gainesville.
Sasse bagged out of his Senate job right after getting reelected. He spent just enough time in Gainesville to pick up a nice chunk of change. Now he’ll do a little teaching down there until he’s off to his next gig. I’m sure his goal is to somehow be the head of the University of Nebraska system.

 

[inWV]

Not true. He did NOT vote like that. That's why he didn't run for reelection. He was more than likely getting booted in the primary

He shut his mouth for a period of time when he was running for reelection and he did get reelected. Google says Trump did endorse Ben Sasse for his 2020 reelection.

 

[HuskerO58]

University executives are expected to be part of the university community, attend campus events and press the flesh with local machers. Maybe even teach a class or seminar. Back office type work, such as personnel, contracts, and purchasing could be remote. Those people are drones and simply pushing paper. But university administrators are supposed to be campus leaders and it’s pretty damn hard to do that if you’re in Washington DC instead of Gainesville.
Sasse bagged out of his Senate job right after getting reelected. He spent just enough time in Gainesville to pick up a nice chunk of change. Now he’ll do a little teaching down there until he’s off to his next gig. I’m sure his goal is to somehow be the head of the University of Nebraska system.

I have a hard time believing that anyone actually cares about university executives being a part of the university community.

I couldn't have cared less before, during or after my time at UNL and I doubt I was in the minority.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

I do know this. Ben sasse motor home was at memorial stadium and he he got booed profusely. It couldn't exit fast enough. He was a never Trumper. He was not getting re elected and baled out after he alienated the majority of Nebraska on one side and the deep state in DC/dems who were salivating on the other

 

[inWV]

I do know this. Ben sasse motor home was at memorial stadium and he he got booed profusely. It couldn't exit fast enough. He was a never Trumper. He was not getting re elected and baled out after he alienated the majority of Nebraska on one side and the deep state in DC/dems who were salivating on the other

Ben Sasse got re-elected in 2020 and would have been re-elected in 2026 had he chose to run. The 6 year clock of Senate terms almost always wipes out the butt hurt of certain voters, in this case, the hard core MAGA crowd.

 

[HUSKERFAN66]

Whatever I was there and witnessed it. He saw that the handwriting on the wall and bailed

 

[huskerj12]

The guy is a sleaze, and this thread is proof that he was always hypocritical and phony enough to annoy everyone on every side of the spectrum.

 

[steinek11]

The guy is a sleaze, and this thread is proof that he was always hypocritical and phony enough to annoy everyone on every side of the spectrum.

I used to defend Sasse as s pretty stand up guy. But this is swampy af. U of Florida was getting a big name, but they weren’t expecting him to be a grifter.

 

[BTF69]

This is more of a UF issue. Schools are sooooo poorly run and managed, especially finances.

I worked at a private school and for the longest time our account/business manager/HR person was the same person, a retired old lady that worked about 20 hours a week.

When she retired the new school president brought in an actual money guy. Within the first week he found out the school was paying 7 different cell phone plans AND he found an account with 20K in it and no one knew what the hell it was for.

University systems are no different the just numbers are just bigger. That is why a lot of educators and others LOVE to get in the university system, no one knows what the **** is going on.

 

[NebChicago]

Who stomped on the University of Florida worse? Sasse or Frazier?

Do you ever watch the iconic Tommie Frazier run vs UF and think… “holy **** what terrible tackling!”

 

[huskerj12]

This is more of a UF issue. Schools are sooooo poorly run and managed, especially finances.

I worked at a private school and for the longest time our account/business manager/HR person was the same person, a retired old lady that worked about 20 hours a week.

When she retired the new school president brought in an actual money guy. Within the first week he found out the school was paying 7 different cell phone plans AND he found an account with 20K in it and no one knew what the hell it was for.

University systems are no different the just numbers are just bigger. That is why a lot of educators and others LOVE to get in the university system, no one knows what the **** is going on.

This is probably true, but you'd think a guy who loved playing the part of a "principled conservative" would want to clean that up, not revel in it.

 

[dinglefritz]

This is more of a UF issue. Schools are sooooo poorly run and managed, especially finances.

I worked at a private school and for the longest time our account/business manager/HR person was the same person, a retired old lady that worked about 20 hours a week.

When she retired the new school president brought in an actual money guy. Within the first week he found out the school was paying 7 different cell phone plans AND he found an account with 20K in it and no one knew what the hell it was for.

University systems are no different the just numbers are just bigger. That is why a lot of educators and others LOVE to get in the university system, no one knows what the **** is going on.

Some of that is because they promote academics with zero experience managing a business to run the "company". They come in and just assume that this is the way it's done. They're really good at having meetings and conferences where they talk about stuff.....

 

[BTF69]

Some of that is because they promote academics with zero experience managing a business to run the "company". They come in and just assume that this is the way it's done. They're really good at having meetings and conferences where they talk about stuff.....

This is sooo true!

OR they try to hire cheap. So why not hire a nice sweet retired old lady that can come in and "pay the bills" each month.

 

[BTF69]

This is probably true, but you'd think a guy who loved playing the part of a "principled conservative" would want to clean that up, not revel in it.

Yeah, it is all an act when it comes time for it to be YOUR money and YOUR friends.

Lord knows I would take the million.

 

[WHCSC]

Take the money and run. F Florida

 

[Lincoln100]

The guy is a sleaze, and this thread is proof that he was always hypocritical and phony enough to annoy everyone on every side of the spectrum.

He’s the sleaze? Don’t you support drag queen story hour and pedos?

 

[huskerj12]

He’s the sleaze? Don’t you support drag queen story hour and pedos?

 

[Lincoln100]

So, “yes.”

 

[HuskerO58]

The guy is a sleaze, and this thread is proof that he was always hypocritical and phony enough to annoy everyone on every side of the spectrum.

A true Husker fan. Taking down other P5 schools!!

 

[HuskerO58]

This is more of a UF issue. Schools are sooooo poorly run and managed, especially finances.

I worked at a private school and for the longest time our account/business manager/HR person was the same person, a retired old lady that worked about 20 hours a week.

When she retired the new school president brought in an actual money guy. Within the first week he found out the school was paying 7 different cell phone plans AND he found an account with 20K in it and no one knew what the hell it was for.

University systems are no different the just numbers are just bigger. That is why a lot of educators and others LOVE to get in the university system, no one knows what the **** is going on.

Sasse is just teaching UF a lesson. They'll thank him later.

 

[steinek11]

Take the money and run. F Florida

It wasn’t that much money, and he kind of wrecked himself for future endeavors. He’ll need to go into business next.

 

[BTF69]

University executives are expected to be part of the university community, attend campus events and press the flesh with local machers. Maybe even teach a class or seminar. Back office type work, such as personnel, contracts, and purchasing could be remote. Those people are drones and simply pushing paper. But university administrators are supposed to be campus leaders and it’s pretty damn hard to do that if you’re in Washington DC instead of Gainesville.
Sasse bagged out of his Senate job right after getting reelected. He spent just enough time in Gainesville to pick up a nice chunk of change. Now he’ll do a little teaching down there until he’s off to his next gig. I’m sure his goal is to somehow be the head of the University of Nebraska system.

This is true and it was SO MUCH more the "norm" when educators were elevated up to admin positions. Now, often times, outside hires are made with pretty much no education experience in terms of teaching and being on campus/around town.

It happened with AD's too, to a smaller extent.

 

[Charlie Marlow_rivals363743]

I’m just laughing at the idea of some old retired lady handling all the finances for the University of Florida. Probably has a second set of books to handle her gambling addiction.