NSIAP... glass retiring at end of year
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very bad news for all of our present coaches. glass accumulated a great group of coaches. now it could all blow up. i fear this is bad news for IU athletics.
Im not sure it’s a “great group of coaches.” A few decent ones for sure. If we hire a good AD, we won’t have much to worry about. From a results perspective, losing Glass is a plus. He tolerates losing more than any AD that I have ever seen.
Dont disagree at all except the jury is still out on Arch. I never thought I’d see a day where baseball and women’s basketball and football were at this level but here we are. It’s great.
You are focusing on only one aspect of an AD's performance. It's a lot more than team performance, like "little" things like finances and construction/improvement of facilities. Fred has done a lot for IU athletics when it comes to the business aspects.
Are you saying that IU should drop baseball, softball, volleyball, track, and women's basketball?
True, but it's really "upon us." I have confidence that the search for a new AD will be done professionally and thoroughly.
By far my biggest concern is that we get someone who doesn’t understand the arms race. Fred was a driver of facility upgrades. Some say not enough. You have to be doing major projects in perpetuity.
You look at a guy like Morgan Burke;
He literally sat in his pocketbook and Purdue was forced to play major catchup.
Within the next decade, I would not be surprised if we should push hard for a new basketball arena. I think they should have leveled Assembly Hall and built a new arena but that’s water under the bridge at this point.
You look at a guy like Morgan Burke;
He literally sat in his pocketbook and Purdue was forced to play major catchup.
Within the next decade, I would not be surprised if we should push hard for a new basketball arena. I think they should have leveled Assembly Hall and built a new arena but that’s water under the bridge at this point.
I appreciate your response but I don’t see timing as a valid criticism. Virtually all coaching contract extensions are done in the wake of success with optimism running high. What better timing could there have been? Allen was in no danger of leaving and we extended him immediately after beating Purdue. If that’s not an emotional time to extend a contract, I don’t know what is but everybody is happy with that.
Maybe you don’t dislike Crean (I am neither for or against him) so can give a thoughtful reply but if we took this to the basketball boards, it would not be a reasonable or informed discussion.
Glass unnecessarily increased the compensation and extended the term of a guy who, in the end, didn't work out. I doubt that Glass is looking back on that as one of his finest moments.
And Allen very well may have been in danger of leaving. He was vetted by FSU, and Football Scoop reported that Arkansas had serious interest.
I'm sure it's unintended, but there's often an arrogant tone to your posts. Might be a good time to remember we're all swimming in a relatively small pond here.
Pat Kraft is the real deal. He will ruffle feathers to fix the gameday atmosphere. He is obsessed with what Barry Alverez did at Wisconsin. He obviously has a tremendous love for Indiana football, and I cannot wait to see what he would do to improve the athletic department.
Louisville’s AD Tyra had no college athletic administration experience. He had a name because of his Dad and he had financial experience. I think “outliers” are more common than you think and will continue to exist because in times of crisis familiarity trumps logic and there are often individuals who have unique experience that fits the needs of a particular situation. Need an example? Does this guy meet a need that transcends previous AD experience at his school?
https://msuspartans.com/staff-directory/bill-beekman/3
Hindsight is 20/20, isn't it? Crean didn't work out and that makes it easier to call it a mistake. That's the case with every coach who gets fired. And Allen made it very clear that he didn't have any interest in leaving. It doesn't really matter who "vetted" him, whatever that actually means.
The tone of my posts virtually always mirror the tone of the post I'm replying to. Intentionally. I'm not sure what you found arrogant about my post but I thought we were having a respectful disagreement. Evidently I was wrong but I won't lose any sleep over it.
Could you share more? Everything I can find online about him is really pedestrian and not terribly impressive. I'm not doubting, just would like to better understand why folks are so high on him.
MSU fans are *not* happy with Beekman. Crisis put a lot of unqualified folks in leadership positions at MSU.
My point was crisis often dictates the selection of AD’s. The fact that Burke, Swarbuck and Glass - all lawyers - ruled the athletic departments of the state’s three major universities concurrently was no coincidence.
Maybe a bad word choice on my part.....the most popular sport meaning basketball. Fred’s legacy in that sense will be judged on how well Archie does.
I’m of the belief that in the current climate (BTN, accelerated revenue).. any team in our league has to try hard to **** up. Even Rutgers will surpass the darker days Purdue and IU have seen in my life without much effort.
With coaches, recruits and other personnel, the relative appeal of the Big Ten v ACC, PAC 12 and Big 12 is much more in favor of the big ten than it was 15 years ago
I anticipate a good hire
I met with Pat, and actually worked directly under him to help get the "Quarry" started in about 2009. If you look at articles, we had the highest attendance increase in the nation that year. His passion and enthusiasm for IU football is off the charts.
Like I said, his guidebook was Barry Alverez''s book. His take away is that if you want to play big boy football, you need to act like big boy football off the field. He wasn't afraid to piss off a few old people to bring in a $#@* ton of new fans. It wasn't a job for him...it was a calling.
He did well in Chicago, and Temple's football team in particular has been very strong. I've kept up with his career because I always hoped his time would come here.
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