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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Posted by Don Ruiz @ 04:58:31 pm
The news is in the next post down ... the one about acting atheltic director Scott Woodward deciding not to apply for the full-time job and to remain instead as the university's vice president for external affairs. However, the most interesting thing Woodward said today was an impression he has picked up over the past few months running the UW atheltic department: "My only concern is a worry about some complacency issues and an acceptance of mediocrity," he said. "People were assuming that doing the right thing and winning were mutually exclusive, and they're not. … Winning is a very important core value of what we do. Frankly the other things – being compliant, doing things in the best interest of the student-athlete – are underpinnings. They're what we do, and to accept anything less is in my book a non-starter." It's an interesting statement, although largely meaningless without names attached. However, it's very close to the language university president Mark Emmert used when he and athletic director Todd Turner decided to part ways. And it certainly indicates that the highest reaches of the university believes that some folks in athletics need to raise the bar of their own expectations. The 2008-09 athletic year should be fascinating.
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Posted by Don Ruiz @ 03:03:05 pm
Scott Woodward, who has been acting as UW athletic director since the departure of Todd Turner, announced today that he will not seek the permanent job. Woodward sounded like he enjoys the duties but that president Mark Emmert seems to need him doing other jobs for the good of the overall university. One of those jobs will be continuing in a lead role of trying to get legislative funding for a major renovation of Husky Stadium. That plan failed last session, but Woodward said he will work the political process to try to have been success for the proposal in the next session. An Emmert-appointed committee is already working to identify candidates for the athletic director job, and Emmert is expected to name someone over the next month or so.
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Posted by Don Ruiz @ 09:54:24 am
Former WSU running back Reuben Mayes was named today to the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame class. Here's the full list:
It's a nice list, but my main reaction is to wonder how Billy Cannon took this long. I was just getting old enough to start following sports when Cannon was becoming a living legend in my homestate of Louisiana. He led LSU to its first national championship. He made a long and amazing punt return against Ole Miss which was replayed on local sportscasts every Halloweeen night for as long as I lived there. He went on to a nice pro career and was the model for the sports/soap opera movie "Everybody's All-American."
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