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Background: I’m a male in my lower 30s who has never cast a ballot a single time for a D in a federal election.
Now you know who I am, I shall opine.
I find it interesting that the male dominated boards of Fortune 500 companies are more and more open to female top leadership. Immediately coming to mind is Carly Fiorina (HP, AT&T, Lucent) and Meg Whitman (also HP). Women have broken the glass ceiling and are able to operate, and thrive, as the chief executive for successful organizations. These roles are full of stress and they have to manage egos on the Board and throughout their organizations.
Is athletics a different beast? I would find it strange to see a female on the sidelines of a men’s college basketball team just in the same way as it might have seemed strange to see a woman as a CEO in the 1950s.
Coaching an athletics program requires the same amount of thoughtfulness and management (and some would say to a lesser degree) than the chief executive of a Fortune 500. Athletics brings with it raw testosterone that may be visible in the business community but perhaps not the forefront of the business community.
Debbie Yow has proven herself fully capable and I love her leadership style and what she’s done for the university. I would like to think that I would require the same “proof” of job expertise of any male that occupied that job given the disaster the previous male brought to the athletics program.
Still, managing educated business minds is different from managing yet-to-be educated student athletes. Would a 5-star power forward be willing to accept leadership from a female as a head coach? I think that’s the question that any hiring panel will have to ask themselves before handing the reigns to their first female head coach.
Bama Fan’s #1 excuse in regards to their “weak” schedule: Of course it’s weaker than the rest of the SEC. We don’t have to play ourselves.
I always like this although the syntax is a bit off.
“This is Much More Than Red”.
You can parlay that into the University’s Academic goals as well.
Short answer: you can’t. Time Warner is one of the only cable companies in the nation that require their subscribers to have both an Internet and a TV package to get ESPN3 or other digital only properties. Most other cables want you to have their Internet service to get it. TWC just shows themselves to be the awful company that they are.
You can get the NFL Sunday ticket without DirecTV or other cable package. That takes care of that. MLB and NBA have similar programs. For live sports, college is really where there’s a gap in the market. Unless they’re on an over the air broadcast channel, you’re going to go to a bar. Once you add up your beers and nachos, you might as well have stayed home, made some popcorn and bought cable.
I’m stuck right there right now.
And Tau, I thought about penning two articles, the case for and the case against. This one is obviously the for.
Are there metrics saying get rid of Glennon? Sure.
Points taken Tau, however, the sack metric is misleading due to the inability for the Tampa Bay line to buy him any time. That also explains his YPA as well.
It’s all about where you go. Had Philip gone to NY (as was where he was drafted and Eli Crybaby didn’t demand a trade), Philip would have 2+ rings.
Glennon landed in TB which gave him an incredibly opportunity to start – but not a place where he can thrive… yet.
Don’t get why we are not giving Warren any touches down the stretch.
Some things never change. Buckets couldn’t get a touch down the stretch in the Missouri game too.
Haha. Never been to central PA and now don’t want to.
Almost went to law school in Oxford. The lady situation is A+.
Money talks. And from what I know, they got plenty of money. No, it’s not a Top Tier job. But it’s between Top and Mid Tier for sure.
With the coffers of Penn State, why would they even go after Schiano? Seems like they could have the pick of the litter if they wanted.
I can’t imagine Penn State getting a better coach. He’s recruited well and won games in the face of nearly unprecedented NCAA sanctions. Got the top QB in the land. That Hackenberg kid can play.
I don’t think there are reports at all, btw. Just some internet fueled “tail number” games going on.
During halftime, do a twitter search for Bill O’Brien. There are apparently rumors that they fired BOB at Penn State. Hilarious. Doesn’t even begin to pass the smell test.
Only following on GameCast… but why the hell has TJ Warren attempted 3 3-point shots when we’re 5″ taller in the front court?
What the hell? TJ, man I love you, but that ain’t your shot.
