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Messages - Roy Dow

#1
Mr. Collinge,
The director/producer certainly would appreciate any assistance with entry to the LA Film Festival.  Your brother-in-law may be able to help. 

The documentary, as noted in the article, did play at the Santa Barbara Film Festival but was not accepted to Sundance or the Tribeca/ESPN film festival.  I know he is pursuing LA among others at this time.

Thank you.
#2
Just one correction brown eagle, Caltech had no role in the making of the documentary other than being the subject.  The producer, Rick Greenwald, developed this project through his initiative and hard work and, at this time, no return on that personal investment.  He is in conversation with a number of companies regarding distribution rights.  But Caltech certainly did not provide any funding or solicit the making of this documentary.

Actually another correction to the article:  the attendance was closer to 500.  The reporter perhaps could have used any number of Caltech people in attendance (including Nobel prize winners) to help with the more accurate count.  Hope you get an opportunity to see the doc at some point in time, sooner rather than later.  It does tell the "story" of the 05-06 team, but it actually uses that season and the basketball program to also tell the Caltech story, capturing the mission and essence of what goes on here quite effectively.
#3
I recognize dhf is a wonderful fan of DIII basketball and posts with great enthusiasm for DIII, but be careful in introducing me into this scenario so callously without knowledge of what happened.  The regional committee has a certain "charge" in our process as does the national committee for setting up the tournament.  The process is/was followed at each level, a welcome process from the days of the "old boys" network selecting the teams to participate, and a mistake was made and unfortunately had to be corrected publicly.

As of 6 a.m. on the Pacific coast this past Monday, I was greeted at home with the original seeding. Upon arrival later that morning at the office (and not much later) the seedings had changed.  You suggest that I should have noticed the  Miss Col/MHB problem and apparently did not "advocate adequately" after the re-setting of the pairings. 

You don't know what happened to change the seedings and you don't know what ensued  (phone calls, emails, etc.) to question my representation of my conference.  Suffice to say, a change was made after recognition of an error and another change was not going to be made.  As you know, policy is for conference foes to avoid each other in the opening round games and just a year removed from CMS and OXY being paired in the first round, citing that policy seemed unjust but was the correct decision by the national committee; a decision that does not seek the input or approval of the regional reps.  Last year's situation and this year's situation are 2 distinct unrelated decisions based on not-so-easy to satisfy parameters in setting the national tournament.