Stranger said:
TheDom said:
Stranger said:
Crash Davis said:
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Crash Davis said:
Figured Stanger would want to sit a few plays out after claiming we dumped Knoll for budgetary reasons and then watching us hire the best coach in college tennis weeks later.
But I guess that would require some self awareness and/or humility.
According to the Waco Trib this morning, Matt Knoll has been nominated for membership in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Baylor may have hired a great new tennis coach, but so far he has won zero national championships at Baylor. If my memory serves me Knoll won two at Baylor.
And Mack Rhoads showed no class in firing Knoll at 10 am on Mother's Day, Sunday morning. Fortunately Rhoads will be shown the door the same day as little Matty.
Love coach Knoll and everything he did for our program.
But none of your defelections change the fact that you were totally clueless about why coach Knoll was let go. And if you can't applaud Rhoades for hiring an excellent replacement, you clearly have an agenda. He literally went out and got the best coach in all of college tennis. This "I'll wait and see if this coach can win at Baylor" approach is cute, but ultimately idiotic when you hire a coach that recently won 4 National Championships in 5 years.
It is ok to man up every once and a while and admit you **** the bed...I'm sure you'll deflect this and make it about someone else, but I wanted to be clear I'm talking about you.
I've never knocked the new hire. He seems to have great credentials. I wish him well.
My beef was with how Rhoads dismissed Knoll. Do you know why he fired Knoll? If so, please let the rest of us in on those facts. The version I got was not pretty. Perhaps you might enlighten us?
Oh Stranger... you do live in some weird world in your own head. Even after started a thread to speculate on Knoll firing and BU Athletics going broke you still twist it some kinda was to deflect after proven wrong. Perhaps, just maybe, Knoll resigned for the reasons he stated in his statement, "ready to move on to next chapter of my life." The guy coached at BU for 22 years. Was he supposed to coach there until he dies? And if he didn't do it exactly as you see fit then it must be some scandal??
And yes, you got it, Dr. Pepper float if we make it to bowl game. One more caveat though. If I win, (which I will) you have to wear the "I love Coach Matt Rhule" t-shirt I make, take picture and post on this site.
Fair enough, you're on.
Why are you blowing off how Knoll was dealt with? That's my beef. Some of us are not happy that BOR still runs the place with a sinister hand. I had it on very good authority that it was not Knoll's idea to leave and Rhoads handled it very clumsily. If you know better, please tell us. If he was to be replaced I'm glad they found an able replacement.
It still troubles many (most) of us that Baylor is still operating under a veil of secrecy and deception. It should trouble you as well.
Oh, and there is no period in the name
Dr Pepper.
You can name your Waco establishment to meet up after we start 5-1...
As far as the other stuff I think you're misguided in much of your anger and perspective. First & foremost Baylor Nation has to acknowledge and admit CAB, Ian, & Starr & several administrations positions Starr oversaw held the largest responsibility in this mess. They were fired for cause and justifiably. All of them overlooked their responsibility and to the greater good of Baylor and all those affected in this mess. As leaders of the school, their decisions in terms not implementing required laws and general lack of discipline and regard for rules played largest role. They were the ones hired and paid big $$ to operate the school's day-to-day business and collectively decided winning football games was more important than all else.
Regarding BOR, perhaps my perspective is different than most bc in my business I deal with members of boards everyday. These are generally highly respected good people who have become ultra successful in life. Some are boards are corporate and some nonprofit (voluntary) like Baylor. And the truth of the matter is in general all boards are complicated. In theory you have group of people that operate an organization in effort to make it better, safer, stronger through group input and decision making, as opposed to one person being all powerful. In reality you don't have a dictatorship but become less efficient as day to day business becomes cumbersome. Also voluntary boards are more detached bc those members have their attention elsewhere with other organizations they run on daily basis for profit and are really on that board for their name or influence, and rotate in & out every few years. Their time is spent on very high level general decisions. Power struggles and agendas among members does exist in all board but to argue that overall Baylor's BOR it some sinister organization out to destory Baylor is simply not reality. Or any worst & more incompetent than the millions of BOR that exist nationwide is also not reality. Boards consist of members who are people so you need to be more specific on who you are bashing among the board. To further complicate issues with any BOR but at Baylor in particular is the different interest groups that make up Baylor's BOR. To me there is way to many seats and the split between Baptist church-donors-students it very difficult with all the competing agendas. So when crisis hit and you need concise decision making it obviously came off very clumsy and disjointed. They could have done better in areas but again when you dealing with groups of people facing millions of dollars and survival of any organization at large with real legal liability it can take on war/bunker mentality. All the existing lawsuits is reason for lack of total transparency. MSU just paid out half billion. The BOR must protect against that happening to us. That cold hard truth. It will all come out one day and I suspect it will be more of the same that has been leaked recently. All this said, I am confident the majority of members of our BOR care about Baylor and want to do their part to make it a great university. The ones I have meet certainly did/do so. I think your perspective needs adjustment of how all this fits together. If you angry against Baylor BOR at large then you are really angry at the way the world of large non-profit organizations operate.
Mack Rhoades is a stud. Exactly type we needed running AD. He runs a tight ship and some people don't like that. I know a guy who I went to HS with he works within AD and has followed him to BU. He loves working for him. I suspect there has been little bit of ruffling of feathers with long time hold overs at BU. Usually the way it happens in any organization when new regime comes in. And Matty (as you like to refer to him) was absolute home run hire. He will prove it over time.
