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Post by Phaedrus on Dec 30, 2023 15:01:42 GMT -5
The current players on the team hit the nail on the head: This is about an Administrator who cannot accept the fact that they made a really bad hire. And more importantly, they appear to have made that hire based entirely on trust and the recommendation of their colleagues/friends/previous hires at another institution. Any kind of objective reference and background check would have raised enough flags to make someone consider the value of this hire from the beginning. The sheer willfulness of ignoring so many complaints, not following up on promised meetings, and deliberately mis-stating facts suggests that the problem is much bigger than hiring a bad coach. Anyone who knows Chris or has followed his career knows well that he has a penchant for exaggerating his own role and personal accomplishments. It's pretty hard to exaggerate a 4-24 record in Season one and 1-27 record in Season 2, but somehow he's managed to get other to rationalize it for him. Just incredible. Unfortunately that is the way sports like volleyball work. The AD doesn't want to deal with the minor sports, so they delegate to an associate AD, usually the SWA. If the associate AD does not have connections within the sport, they reach out to anyone they think is connected, which results in people doing favors for each other. This is no different from the good old boy network that had been in operation for years in sports, it is just that there are less connection between the ability and reputations of those recommended and reality.
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Post by chatchu-off moksri on Dec 30, 2023 15:03:52 GMT -5
I'm so disgusted. Gonzales should be fired immediately. I'm convinced Goree and Bastuba are also completely insane, especially Goree.
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Post by volleyguy on Dec 30, 2023 15:06:12 GMT -5
The current players on the team hit the nail on the head: This is about an Administrator who cannot accept the fact that they made a really bad hire. And more importantly, they appear to have made that hire based entirely on trust and the recommendation of their colleagues/friends/previous hires at another institution. Any kind of objective reference and background check would have raised enough flags to make someone consider the value of this hire from the beginning. The sheer willfulness of ignoring so many complaints, not following up on promised meetings, and deliberately mis-stating facts suggests that the problem is much bigger than hiring a bad coach. Anyone who knows Chris or has followed his career knows well that he has a penchant for exaggerating his own role and personal accomplishments. It's pretty hard to exaggerate a 4-24 record in Season one and 1-27 record in Season 2, but somehow he's managed to get other to rationalize it for him. Just incredible. Unfortunately that is the way sports like volleyball work. The AD doesn't want to deal with the minor sports, so they delegate to an associate AD, usually the SWA. If the associate AD does not have connections within the sport, they reach out to anyone they think is connected, which results in people doing favors for each other. This is no different from the good old boy network that had been in operation for years in sports, it is just that there are less connection between the ability and reputations of those recommended and reality. It appears that it was the AD who had the connection and was responsible for this hire, though. At the very least, that's the narrative that is being projected in the article. I doubt that was completely invented. It seems more likely that one side or the other has pushed that narrative out their.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 30, 2023 15:10:03 GMT -5
Could not be a worse time to be on the Palouse for college volleyball.
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Post by Phaedrus on Dec 30, 2023 15:15:04 GMT -5
Unfortunately that is the way sports like volleyball work. The AD doesn't want to deal with the minor sports, so they delegate to an associate AD, usually the SWA. If the associate AD does not have connections within the sport, they reach out to anyone they think is connected, which results in people doing favors for each other. This is no different from the good old boy network that had been in operation for years in sports, it is just that there are less connection between the ability and reputations of those recommended and reality. It appears that it was the AD who had the connection and was responsible for this hire, though. At the very least, that's the narrative that is being projected in the article. I doubt that was completely invented. It seems more likely that one side or the other has pushed that narrative out their. The question is not who had the connection, but whether it was a trustworthy connection? Let us just say that the reputation has been out there for many years.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Dec 30, 2023 15:16:15 GMT -5
I had no idea Gonzales was back coaching college ball. Dude’s had a problematic history going all the way back to his Cal Juniors days and as Gimmillaro’s Mini-Me at LBSU in the 90’s…and yet he was allegedly recommended for the Idaho job by Sheffield? Double Yikes.
The Lord Farquaad comparison was amusing, not to mention pretty spot-on.
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Post by Brutus Buckeye on Dec 30, 2023 15:19:31 GMT -5
What did Goree say?
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Post by volleyguy on Dec 30, 2023 15:30:21 GMT -5
It appears that it was the AD who had the connection and was responsible for this hire, though. At the very least, that's the narrative that is being projected in the article. I doubt that was completely invented. It seems more likely that one side or the other has pushed that narrative out their. The question is not who had the connection, but whether it was a trustworthy connection? Let us just say that the reputation has been out there for many years. I am aware of that and said the exact same thing in my original post.
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Post by volleytips101 on Dec 30, 2023 15:30:55 GMT -5
Perfect example of a person who is not a great coach but got around some influential people early in his career developed a huge ego and now thinks he can do what he wants. It’s really sad that A.D’s fall for all the crap he brought with him. Also he was never a full-time coach with USA.. I am sure USA volleyball loves that his name is linked to them.
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Post by volleyguy on Dec 30, 2023 15:39:24 GMT -5
She gave a full-throttle defense of Gonzalez and attacked the honesty, integrity and motives of the players:
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Post by Cooper on Dec 30, 2023 15:46:20 GMT -5
I really hope people spend the time to read this entire article. These young women were utterly failed in so many ways. I couldn't believe what I was reading...and it kept going, and going. The physical and mental abuse was allowed to continue for way too long.
Heads should roll. Gonzalez, Gawlik, Walsh, Eckles, Goree, Bastuba, Logan, Krišková...all of them. All complicit. All terrible human beings.
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Post by hammer on Dec 30, 2023 16:00:03 GMT -5
Meanwhile litigation lawyers are lining to get a cut of the pie in huge potential victim abuse lawsuits:
$$,$$$,$$$
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Post by rainbowbadger on Dec 30, 2023 16:10:19 GMT -5
At one point Hazzard told assistant coach Kriskova that she was injured and asked to modify the drill.
“That’s not my problem,” Hazzard recalled Kriskova telling her.
“It felt bullied,” a starter said recalling Gonzalez and Kriskova’s treatment of Hazzard during the drill. “(Hazzard) looked very distressed. She looked physically in pain but also emotionally she just looked wrecked.”
Hazzard said she burst two bursa sacs in her right knee, one in her left during the drill.
“My knee swelled up to the size of a softball which caused a panic attack,” she said. “I was freaked out at how strange they looked. The bruising lasted for a week.”
This makes me feel ill. I cannot believe this. Krišková, of all people, with all the knee stuff she went through at Wisconsin, how she could be so unsympathetic to modifying drills, etc.
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Post by devilhorns24 on Dec 30, 2023 16:21:58 GMT -5
What a heartbreaking read. Absolutely disgusting how these girls are being failed by those around them.
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Post by badgerbyproxy on Dec 30, 2023 17:04:09 GMT -5
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