We need to keep good people
http://www.centredaily.com/sports/story/559497.html
This pisses me off. Buried on the third page of the sports section is the bad news. Our men's and women's swimming coach got poached by Ohio State to be their women'sswimming coach. Wisconsin hired our women's soccer coach two years ago.
This pisses me off because it's about money. There is no reason to lose good coaches to other programs in our own league in any sport. It's a commitment to winning issue. Ohio State is willing to pay off a diving coach to win, and we just let it happen because we're cheap. We have one of the most successful women's soccer programs in the nation, and we let Wisconsin poach our coach? That's total BS.
I can live with not winning, but I get upset when I see other teams that are more committed to winning than Penn State is. I know, it's swimming who cares? Well, we only pay our football coach $500,000 grand a year. If he wasn't 82 and totally committed to Penn State in an almost irrational way, whose to say he wouldn't be the next coach at Indiana?
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I totally agree
by rmcmillen50 on May 3, 2008 12:31 PM EDT 0 recs
It is also about
by JGuiher on May 3, 2008 4:56 PM EDT 0 recs
Bill
by ignition719 on May 3, 2008 6:00 PM EDT 0 recs
This was about the pool
-Penn State has more teams than most other schools in the country
-The athletic deparment is fully funded by the NLC.
-Even still, there are brand new wrestling, track, and baseball facilities. I believe tennis is happening soon along with softball and golf.
-As far as Joe's salary, he makes a lot more through camps, etc. so that's overblown.
by speedomike02 on May 4, 2008 5:01 PM EDT 0 recs
I always like the Natitorium
While your point about the pool is well taken, Wisconsin grabbing our Women's Soccer coach did not have anything to do with facilities, Jeffery Field being one of the better college soccer venues in the nation.
Penn State does have more sports than most other schools, although Ohio State is not one of those schools. Just as an aside, and apropos of nothing, the Tennis building has been built for a while, and has been paying dividends in terms of recruiting and success.
by jesse. on
May 4, 2008 5:47 PM EDT
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Number of sports
But, I think you have some valid points. Now that I think about it, the swim coach leaving is a good example to support what you're saying. The swim team has been promised a new pool for about 10 years, but nothing has happened. Even with the men winning a Big Ten title in 1999 and the women winning 3 since. Dorenkott is not the first coach to leave because of this either.
This isn't a money thing, but it also doesn't help that club teams like hockey and rugby get nearly the same treatment as varsity teams. They get to use the same weightlifting facilities and take the varsity trainers' time. I know a lot of people like the hockey team, but it's still just a club team.
Regardless, we're still third in the Sears cup and that doesn't include the men's volleyball championship.
by speedomike02 on
May 4, 2008 6:42 PM EDT
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Hockey...
PSU is cheap in a lot of aspects, my brother does alot of work for the football program, and while he does admire alot of things that happen about the program, he also has told me numerous times where they "half ass" something to save a few bucks. It is suprising given what Joe has written in the past about attention to detail.
Just my thoughts...
by carolinaeasy on
May 5, 2008 10:53 AM EDT
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Hockey
by speedomike02 on
May 5, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
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Club Hockey
Even if you assume the exact same level of interest, and that's a pretty big assumption, the financial investment in bringing D-1 hockey to State College seems cost prohibitive to me. If we do decide to play, we have to go all out, so maybe we should get our house in order with are sports that are D-1 already.
Conversely, I have no problem with University extending some preferential status to players on the higher profile "club" teams.
by jesse. on
May 5, 2008 11:15 AM EDT
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On that subject
by JGuiher on May 5, 2008 4:49 PM EDT 0 recs











