[Husker] More focus on football?

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Strong <gbrlist at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You're probably right.  The rules are probably based on the expectation of the traditional fall-spring semester system defining what a "full-time" student is.  If that system changes, then the rules will have to be tweaked somehow.
>
> Dave

I guess I'm not seeing the issue here.  If we were talking about a
normal summer session, which is currently not the same length as the
fall and spring semesters, then there may be an issue.  But if the
university goes to a trimester system, all semesters are equal, so you
would probably be required to attend any two of three semesters in a
calendar year, with a certain number of hours each semester, to be
considered a full time student.  My undergraduate school was on the
quarter session, and the summer session was basically equivalent to
the other three, so really if there were faculty to teach, you could
go to school all year round.  In effect though, you only needed to
complete 3 quarters to be full time.

My question goes back to the original poster.  Why would Nebraska,
more than any other school, like a change to make the summer session
more equivalent?  Why would this be of some advantage to the football
program (or fall sports in general)?

Nick