FB: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[bulk19]

If I were to put myself in the columnist's shoes, I probably would have overlooked the initial inicident, probably not written an opinion piece about it, except for the fact that the police were called. Since the police were called, the columnist then gave his opinion on the situation, and the coach over-reacted to that opinion piece...

It was the coach's reaction that then made it all a news story...

Kudos to the young reporter who is learning his profession, and taking crap for doing what he's supposed to do - write opinion pieces, cover the news - and not backing down to those who try to intimidate him. Too bad a lot of today's main stream media lack the courage to stand up to those who try to do that...

When he hits the "real world" of professional journalism, he will probably be threatened, or intimidated, by people who carry far more weight than a D3 football coach does in the big picture of what is our society...  A good reporter doesn't back down those with that kind of clout...

[Warhawk 96]

I was asking someone to tell me where this person works. Nobody wanted to answer. I'd be glad to remove him if it's the same one ... but nobody gave me a response that I recall.

I have no idea if or where the guy works but he has all of the watermarks that point to him being the infamous one.

[BoBo]

Can't argue with that but I didn't get far beyond you calling me naive, I guess.
I agree that it didn't need to be written but I can tell you I've read stories like it a bunch of times. But it's a little different when the coach reacts like that and even more different when the coach is paid by the state taxpayers ... that's why it got blown up outside the campus media, I am pretty sure.

Fair enough...I should have choosen a better word...

[raiderguy]

Well I hope "Jimmy Olsen" reads some of the comments left about his article in the RP.

A refereence to Maurice Clarett, "The likelihood of such events occurring at UW-Whitewater is highly unlikely, if not impossible." Not so fast my friend! (I love that line. Thanks Coach Corso!)
According to one of the responses there just may be something to this special treatment issue but it does not have anything to do with student ID's .
An article much more newsworthy than weight rooms and monitors. Or maybe it is just a silly overblown comment by a jealous student that doesn't get underarmour to wear to class.Then it makes it into the opinion section of the RP, and the rest they say is history.

WOW if "Jimmy" writes about this you better get LL some oxygen. Or put him on a 24 hour watch.

TC
That WAS a cheap shot.

I realize people may become jealous of success of a person or program. I know  LK is very proud of the graduation rate of his athletes. He talks about it all the time during recruiting and at public speaking engagemnents. It is higher than his winning % on the football field. So if he is High and Mighty about it, what is wrong with that? Gee he had one such athlete awarded academic student athlete of the year for all divisions in football by ESPN The Magazine this year. He should be proud of that! Oh did I mention he was coach of the year according to voting by fans and his peers?

I just don't understand why any alumni would be upset about that? Isn't that why the students are attending MUC? If they happen to win an occasional  game or two on the gridiron that's just icing on the proverbial cake, not a bad thing. These must be the same alumni that don't attend games because the team wins all the time?
I guess he needs to start losing so people can be proud of "Dear Old MUC". Then they will start attending more games and forget about graduating. It's highly overated.

[Goo 62]

A little birdy told me that when the cops showed up they were upset that the workers in the weight room called them for the reason they did.

[BoBo]

The Packers are bringing UW-River Falls center Scott Witte, a native of Cedarburg, in for a tryout. The 6-5, 328-pound Witte started for 3½ years for River Falls.  The tryout will take place at the Packers rookie mini-camp this weekend.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

A little birdy told me that when the cops showed up they were upset that the workers in the weight room called them for the reason they did.

Was it Campus Police or City of WW Police?

[BoBo]

A little birdy told me that when the cops showed up they were upset that the workers in the weight room called them for the reason they did.

Was it Campus Police or City of WW Police?

I would imagine it was the campus police...that's why they're there.

[Assassin14]

Witte gets a tryout with the Packers!!! He has been busting his tail to get a tryout, working on his quickness.  Good luck Scott! UWRF gettin some pro football exposure here, exciting! 

[BoBo]

Though this is about a situation in the NHL, it's kind of an interesting comment IMO.  You might have heard about the NY Rangers Coach (John Tortorella) being suspended for a game due to a run in with some Washington Capitals fans sitting behind the bench area during the playoff game last friday in Washington. These are the comments made Before Game 6, by Jim Schoenfeld, an interim assistant coach who doubles as the club's assistant general manager and filling in as coach during the 1 game suspension, in defended Tortorella's actions.

"I know the heart of the guy and I know the thing that triggered him," Schoenfeld said. "It wasn't any sling to him, and there were many. It was what was said about one of his players.

"It's easy to say you've got to be in control, you've got to keep it in check, you've got to turn the other way. There are rules, but there is a certain part of your being when you're a coach. It's just like being a parent, and there are certain things you'll put up with when people slander your kids and there is a certain line people cross. That's what happened with Torts.

"You can say what you want to Torts ... call him whatever you want. He'll tell you what to do with your horse, but he's OK with that. Don't get down on the people he cares about. He will fight for them, and that's what he did."

I was thinking about the response to what happen last week when I read this...

BTW, the Rangers management have ask the NHL to discipline the Caps for a poor response from their security during the incident.

[Pat Coleman]

I doubt it's necessary to suspend Leipold for a game.

[Devil Badger Gopher]

We should all thank the reporter for gettting the board going in the off-season.  He also got many more people to read his column due to the headline.  It was an attention grabber.  Then thousands more got to read it through the national exposure.  This could be a new way to get your foot in the door with a big news organization after graduation.

[the champ is here to stay]

I saw the copy of the paper today,and the funny part was that it was not even on the front page it was in the middle of the news paper.
I still think the way LL reacted is funny. Yes I understand he is passionate about the football program,and whitewater athletics in general. However so was the guy you replaced,and I never remember seeing Brez act that way after there was a front page story about players under his watch getting doing worse (Beaver in 05, fight downtown in 03). He would complain quietly and let it go except for when some of the players thought they would be cute and start a F*** the RP and their sports editor group on facebook in 2005, which resulted in a team meeting with the AD. He was upset about that,and that made the front page. These guys names weren't even mentioned, and LL reacts very poorly.
Yes the campus cops were mad. I mean they had to get up from doing nothing which is what they normally do,and actually get in their squad cars and drive the two minutes from the police station to the williams center. Probably even turned on the sirens because they don't get to do that much.

[Sakman 1111]

I declare this subject has been totally beaten to death.... It now ranks with complaining about the cannon, coach Z, or D3 public vs. private as totally over discussed issues. Let's move on.....

[wildcat11]

sak,

What are you talking about?  This is the only entertaining thing on the football board right now.  Let's keep this thing going!

I bet Coach Z would have never flipped out like LL did.