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Post by notpriddy (COIF) on Dec 18, 2014 6:11:08 GMT -5
I agree and think she will be the one to break the trend. Who cares about the trend. Just hire a RR, whether that's a male or a female. The US was hell-bent on electing the first African American President; and now the US is the laughing stock in the world. Who cares about trends. I was attempting to take a break from posting on VT. Let the posters from the Final Four teams dominate VT until the season is over. However, this political BS really rankled me. Contrary to your statement, I believe the election of President Obama has actually raised the esteem of the U.S. around the world. Trying to clean up the mess his predecessor left him in the Middle East and the American Economy has proven a Herculean task. And to add to that, he is saddled with a "do nothing" Congress whose lone goal seems to be to thwart any solutions to these issues, and be sure to make Obama's a "failed Presidency". Moderators, I realize this is way, way off topic, however should you choose to delete or move my posting, please be sure to delete or move jsn112's as well.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2014 8:38:58 GMT -5
I agree and think she will be the one to break the trend. Who cares about the trend. Just hire a RR, whether that's a male or a female. . This is the big thing. Hire the best coach. Once we start looking at gender as a determinant, we cheapen everything. It's a dream, but I wish applications would always be by number--no gender or age or anything....so that for a first weed-out of candidates, it's purely by abilities. I realize that that won't work with a small pool--the anonymous "Big Ten Champion / 2013 Final Four" resume will be obvious.
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Post by mizunoman on Dec 18, 2014 9:23:30 GMT -5
I was wondering about this aspect of the issue. The original article states that no one in the athletic department was taking a stand for women coaches. I wondered how that was playing out seeing as the terminated field hockey coach's partner was the SWA. Now we see how that played out...what a mess...
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Post by BigTenVball on Dec 22, 2014 12:15:33 GMT -5
Just a slight update. The SWA, partner of the hockey coach suing Iowa, has been "reassigned" duties, to oversee construction progress of projects at Iowa. Temporary, until the lawsuit is adjudicated. (wow, can't believe I actually used that word!)
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Post by BigTenVball on Jun 3, 2015 18:42:00 GMT -5
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Post by Mocha on Feb 12, 2016 20:08:12 GMT -5
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Post by jbhuntin on Feb 12, 2016 20:53:40 GMT -5
I wonder
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Post by jbhuntin on Feb 12, 2016 21:04:56 GMT -5
When collegiate volleyball started in the early 70's (around Title IX passage), women coaches FAR outnumbered male coaches. In fact the AIAW was primarily a women's sports organization run by women (Shoji, Pettit, Banakowski, Erbe, Rose and Haley bucked the trend and were not real popular). It was only when volleyball became an NCAA sponsored sport (1981) and colleges began hiring full-time coaches that men became interested in pursuing women's volleyball coaching positions and even then, women far out-numbered men. Those jobs, even at what now would be considered bigtime jobs, paid peanuts and only the die-hards wanted those positions and most also involved teaching. I would suggest that these jobs that people assume are set up for success became successful due to the sacrifice, hard work and coaching skill of those first coaches who just happened to be coaching at those particular schools. They've also paved the way for the high salaries, travel, facilities, etc that you see today. Currently, EVERY time a bigtime job opens, WOMEN are the first contacted (Wise, Lynch, Rockwell, previously Brown, Corbelli, etc). They have traditionally turned down those jobs; AD's then turn to the best possible male coaches. Young female coaches have by far greater opportunities to secure jobs and move up the ladder often without having to pay as many dues as the male coaches. Women are given a MUCH longer leash on the mental abuse stuff that for some reason is a much more prevalent charge nowadays; male coaches literally have zero tolerance on this issue and get fired much more often. I believe a big part of the problem specifically at Iowa is their recent change to a united athletic department ending decades of a separate male and female athletic department; lot of bitterness still around Iowa City. It is an honor to be in the company of intelligent people
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