Memories can be a funny thing. I suspect that the trivial items that stick in our brains are somehow related to our individual personality. Some people tend to think (and remember) the best….and others the worst. Some people are so self-absorbed that they only remember things that directly impact them. Some people have near photographic […]
Q&A With N.C. State Assistant Pete Strickland
We’re at a place that’s high profile, and people may say ‘Those fans are tough, they drove (former head coach) Herb (Sendek) out.’ No, no, no, I’ve been where fans don’t care. I’ll take N.C. State any day of the week. StarNewsOnline Other than chuckle a little, I’ll leave this particular dead horse alone. The […]
All Is Not Well And Good With Duke Athletics
Many thanks to RAWFS for pointing out a rather scathing commentary from John Feinstein and the responses from DBR. Five years later, Alleva had lived down to everything expected of him: taking a bad football program and making it worse, hiring a crony as baseball coach who HAD to be fired because the team was […]
No Greater Love
I still remember reading a book in elementary school about the stories of several different Medal of Honor winners. While it is impossible to imagine compiling a book about MOH winners without including a chapter on Audie Murphy, his story was not the one that stayed with me all of these years. Now that the […]
Schools Take Different Approaches
Schools take different approaches in promoting new coaches Butch Davis has been everywhere for North Carolina this offseason. On a billboard overlooking a busy highway in Burlington, staring back at newspaper readers in a full-page ad, even in streaming video form filling up fans’ e-mailboxes. It’s all part of the Tar Heels’ aggressive attempt to […]
Why search firms are now key to finding a coach
The first rule of Parker Executive Search is that you don’t talk about Parker Executive Search. Northern Illinois Athletic Director Jim Phillips quickly rattled off his reasons for hiring PES to assist in his search. “Five things that to me were really important in this search that Dan Parker and his team were able to […]
NCAA Releases APR Scores
From the N&O: On Wednesday, the NCAA released its latest Academic Progress Rates (APR) — an average score meant to show how athletes on each Division I team are making progress toward their degrees. Men’s basketball, baseball and football teams have been the most likely to face penalties after the first two years of data. […]
Majerus Returns…to St Louis?
Rick Majerus got out of coaching three years ago because of health concerns. Now his biggest worry is putting Saint Louis on the basketball map. Majerus replaces Brad Soderberg, who won 20 games in the last of his five seasons but failed to generate even an NIT bid his last three years. Soderberg was fired […]
Athletics Costs Outpace Returns
In 1929, the average salary of head football coaches was a little more than $6,000 – about $65,000 adjusted for inflation. That amount of money probably wouldn’t turn heads today, but it was enough then to spark heated public dialogue about ethics and money in college athletics. The Carnegie Reports on the study of college […]
For Your Own Good
Those are words that no kid want to hear when things are not going well. Now that I am on the flip side of the parent/child relationship, I appreciate people that have both the guts and compassion to tell someone else what they NEED, but not necessarily want, to hear. Thus this little blurb stood […]
