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Post by explorerman on Oct 7, 2020 4:58:24 GMT -5
William & Mary athletic director resigning after controversial decision to cut 7 sports: t.co/a4dPce9glDDecision wasn’t controversial... The way that it was handled was... Copying and pasting Stanford’s program cut letter was probably a bad start..
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Post by glorydays on Oct 7, 2020 5:35:42 GMT -5
William & Mary athletic director resigning after controversial decision to cut 7 sports: t.co/a4dPce9glDDecision wasn’t controversial... The way that it was handled was... Copying and pasting Stanford’s program cut letter was probably a bad start.. AD Samantha Huge seems to have have been a gem. Firing legendary FB coach Laycock was not a good way to make her bones. Sound familiar.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 7:31:22 GMT -5
William & Mary athletic director resigning after controversial decision to cut 7 sports: t.co/a4dPce9glDDecision wasn’t controversial... The way that it was handled was... Copying and pasting Stanford’s program cut letter was probably a bad start.. 4 of the W&M teams have also started to take legal action. La Salle doesn't want to go down that path, I'm sure. They also are not doing much to help their case. Radio silence from La Salle admin since the announcement. This had much more of an impact on students (the people a university is supposed to serve) than the art museum sale, which somehow created more outrage or publicity/Admin response.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 7:52:09 GMT -5
This had much more of an impact on students (the people a university is supposed to serve) than the art museum sale, which somehow created more outrage or publicity/Admin response. We got 11 pages out of that on here I'm taking the over on this one.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 7:58:12 GMT -5
La Salle will never upgrade the basketball facility. I have heard we are for years and nothing has come to fruition. I have finally accepted that fate for my basketball program over the past year. I really thought it was close two years ago but there is no way I can reconcile in my mind it will ever happen at this point. I love La Salle and will always wish the best for the school and program but the facilities discussion is over. Would love to be wrong but I don't think I am. Ash will need to find a way to appeal to better players who are willing to play in the current facility. Not an easy task for anyone but fingers crossed he can find a way to get it done. Meanwhile...an update on my Facebook feed from across the state this morning.... Attachment Deleted
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Post by explorerman on Oct 7, 2020 8:14:54 GMT -5
Decision wasn’t controversial... The way that it was handled was... Copying and pasting Stanford’s program cut letter was probably a bad start.. 4 of the W&M teams have also started to take legal action. La Salle doesn't want to go down that path, I'm sure. They also are not doing much to help their case. Radio silence from La Salle admin since the announcement. This had much more of an impact on students (the people a university is supposed to serve) than the art museum sale, which somehow created more outrage or publicity/Admin response. And what legal action are they going to take and on what grounds?
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Post by MisterD on Oct 7, 2020 8:36:34 GMT -5
Meanwhile...an update on my Facebook feed from across the state this morning.... View AttachmentIf Duquesne makes the tournament are you going to show up on TV out of nowhere and start posting incessantly on their basketball board?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 8:40:55 GMT -5
4 of the W&M teams have also started to take legal action. La Salle doesn't want to go down that path, I'm sure. They also are not doing much to help their case. Radio silence from La Salle admin since the announcement. This had much more of an impact on students (the people a university is supposed to serve) than the art museum sale, which somehow created more outrage or publicity/Admin response. And what legal action are they going to take and on what grounds? Well, I have no legal training. W&M was for Title IX violations, however, there could be some standing with La Salle regarding Bad Faith. Again, no legal experience, but there had to be knowledge and for the students/athletes/coaches to go to the school with the assumption of participating in a sport, and school ending those sports, might be something? I don't know. Just having to cover legal expenses would be very inconvenient and probably costly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 8:41:56 GMT -5
FWIW, Richmond just posted their practice facility, it looks great. Nothing over the top, but serviceable and a nice looking court.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 9:20:49 GMT -5
and start posting incessantly on their basketball board? ...from the guy with 7000+ posts on a basketball board
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Post by MisterD on Oct 7, 2020 9:37:54 GMT -5
Date Registered: Aug 13, 2013 at 11:04pm
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 9:43:05 GMT -5
Date Registered: Aug 13, 2013 at 11:04pm Date Registered: Oct 8, 2012 at 9:54amSo in the 10-month head-start you had on me, you made 4500 more posts.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 7, 2020 10:07:12 GMT -5
And what legal action are they going to take and on what grounds? Well, I have no legal training. Bingo. Two students from Eastern Michigan sued after they dropped Tennis and Softball. They sued on Title IX grounds however (and also Open Meeting laws but I think that was thrown out) and EMU was actually in violation of that law. www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/2020/01/21/emu-settles-womens-sports-lawsuit-awards-two-athletes-125-k/4537872002/La Salle is allowing scholarship athletes to keep their scholarships until they graduate. Them, or other students, will be allowed to transfer without sitting out if they want to keep playing their sport. They just won't be able to do so for La Salle. Being a La Salle Student-Athlete isn't a right and, assuming La Salle didn't break the rules when doing this, there should be no standing for a lawsuit.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 7, 2020 10:11:32 GMT -5
FWIW, Richmond just posted their practice facility, it looks great. Nothing over the top, but serviceable and a nice looking court. Amazing what a 2.5 Billion dollar endowment can do.
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Post by MisterD on Oct 7, 2020 10:19:09 GMT -5
Date Registered: Aug 13, 2013 at 11:04pm Date Registered: Oct 8, 2012 at 9:54amSo in the 10-month head-start you had on me, you made 4500 more posts. A lot of us were posting even before the tourney run. Big head start.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 10:34:14 GMT -5
Date Registered: Oct 8, 2012 at 9:54amSo in the 10-month head-start you had on me, you made 4500 more posts. A lot of us were posting even before the tourney run. Big head start. You've posted 7,045 times since joining 2,921 days ago...averaging 2.41 posts a day. 3 already today...so you're over your average. Congrats! I'm sure there will be at least 2 or 3 more.
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Post by theneumann64 on Oct 7, 2020 10:36:03 GMT -5
All right, if you two want to personally compare post counts and averages per day, so it over private messages. I can't imagine anyone else cares remotely at all.
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Post by gymrat67 on Oct 7, 2020 10:51:15 GMT -5
4 of the W&M teams have also started to take legal action. La Salle doesn't want to go down that path, I'm sure. They also are not doing much to help their case. Radio silence from La Salle admin since the announcement. This had much more of an impact on students (the people a university is supposed to serve) than the art museum sale, which somehow created more outrage or publicity/Admin response. And what legal action are they going to take and on what grounds? One significant point of differentiation between the W & M situation as compared to the La Salle situation is an " economic necessity " defense / justification in La Salle's case ( e.g., dwindling post COVID-19 Endowment of below $80 million ), versus W & M's current $1 billion Endowment.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 11:16:37 GMT -5
Only thing MAYBE that could fly is donors being upset about giving money in good faith to a program that was under consideration for elimination. I saw a baseball alum say they had raised $25K last spring for the baseball team. I suppose one could argue that those donors feel duped, but La Salle's fiscal year ends on May 31, and there will still technically be a program then that will have benefited from their donations. That being said, anyone can file a lawsuit about anything and it would just be added noise for the administration to deal with.
This is where it would have been nice to have The Screamer and his legal expertise to weigh in.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 7, 2020 13:02:45 GMT -5
. Them, or other students, will be allowed to transfer without sitting out if they want to keep playing their sport. Perhaps La Salle should have reallocated money from the XC program to the English department a few years back
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 7, 2020 19:26:49 GMT -5
. Them, or other students, will be allowed to transfer without sitting out if they want to keep playing their sport. Perhaps La Salle should have reallocated money from the XC program to the English department a few years back Are you knocking the typo where I put Them and not They while typing on my iPhone? That’s what you’re going with huh?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2020 21:17:26 GMT -5
Perhaps La Salle should have reallocated money from the XC program to the English department a few years back Are you knocking the typo where I put Them and not They while typing on my iPhone? That’s what you’re going with huh? Sounds like inability to use proper English. Not an autocorrect on the phone issue. The y and m are not close to each other. Glitter put you in a body bag.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 7, 2020 22:09:28 GMT -5
Are you knocking the typo where I put Them and not They while typing on my iPhone? That’s what you’re going with huh? Sounds like inability to use proper English. Not an autocorrect on the phone issue. The y and m are not close to each other. Glitter put you in a body bag. didn’t claim autocorrect. Just typo. Sue me.
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Post by LaSallePal on Oct 8, 2020 1:14:04 GMT -5
And what legal action are they going to take and on what grounds? One significant point of differentiation between the W & M situation as compared to the La Salle situation is an " economic necessity " defense / justification in La Salle's case ( e.g., dwindling post COVID-19 Endowment of below $80 million ), versus W & M's current $1 billion Endowment. This is the one thing that really bothers me about the entire thing. La Salle's statement went out of its way to cover for coronavirus. Whether or not that's actually the case, that's a textbook zero guilt easy scapegoat that the university chucked out the window. What's the rationale there? Worried about hurting coronavirus's feelings? Felt the virus has already had enough bad PR? I am baffled. While there may be standing for a lawsuit on other grounds which I won't be discussing, such a filing is unlikely to be forthcoming because of the unique circumstances involved (unless an organization established for this kind of lawfare decides to get involved). These things take years to play out when the legal system is functioning normally, and obviously it isn't right now... that's years spent (plus the money required) in a court of law instead of on a field of play, all to play for a team that has been torn to shreds anyway. There's one big wrinkle that I would like explained: The NCAA requires D1 schools to have 7/7 or 6/8 men's & women's sports at a minimum (FBS/FCS school requirements are slightly higher). (link) With the cuts La Salle now has 5 men's sports (men's rowing isn't a NCAA sponsored sport but still counts towards Title IX compliance) and 10 women's sports. Is La Salle actually in compliance? If so, did they need a waiver? If so, when did they apply for such a waiver and has it been approved?
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 8, 2020 5:27:19 GMT -5
Does Track count as two?
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 8, 2020 6:44:52 GMT -5
9/7 - Welcome to our New Assistant Volleyball Coach (https://goexplorers.com/news/2020/9/7/womens-volleyball-bekah-strange-joins-volleyball-staff.aspx)
9/29 - Don't let the door hit you on the way out
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Oct 8, 2020 7:14:14 GMT -5
Volleyball is the one sport I really wish they could have kept.
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 8, 2020 8:22:45 GMT -5
it does...so compliance is a non-issue in terms of number of sports. La Salle will be at 6 men's (7 for Title IX purposes with rowing) and 11 for women's sports.
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Post by gymrat67 on Oct 8, 2020 11:03:36 GMT -5
Two things jumped out at me in the FAQ that seemed bizarre: goexplorers.com/sports/2020/9/29/la-salle-athletics-faq.aspx1) " Lasallian values" were used as a criteria in assessing all programs. How exactly did they determine that women's field hockey, for example, showed more Lasallian values as a program than baseball. 2) With the savings realized, we will look to enhance critical student-athlete support areas, reallocate athletic scholarship funds to our women’s programs to better equip them for regional and national competition, and invest in other underfunded Olympic sport programs. So...reading that...we are cutting baseball to reallocate funds to women's programs...AND...cutting men's swimming and water polo, both Olympic sports, to better fund other Olympic sports. Makes perfect sense. Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted ( only kidding )
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Oct 8, 2020 12:11:51 GMT -5
( only kidding )
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