FB: American Rivers Conference

[Klompen]

Doolittle, Central would be a good choice.   

[doolittledog]

The only steering I will attempt is steering our kids away from Loras...and Notre Dame

After that, anyplace fair game for them to look at.  Including Central

[Willie University]

The only steering I will attempt is steering our kids away from Loras...and Notre Dame

After that, anyplace fair game for them to look at.  Including Central

shame on you.....it's full ride scholarship or the Spartan Nation for my kids. I cannot imagine myself wearing ANY other colors and I give my friend crap every time I see him wearing central colors even if it is in the support of his nephews. My opinion, he's a turn coat    You can support your relatives without wearing the colors of a rival 

Of course I will keep a open mind "slightly" if UD doesn't offer their academic area of interest 

Willie U

[doolittledog]

If my kids end up an another IIAC...and play sports...I will come to watch them at their school and I will cheer for them.  BUT, I will still be wearing my Spartan Blue and White and will also be cheering for my Spartans. 

[5 Words or Less]

If-ya can't beat'em ... hire 'em

DECORAH, IOWA . . . Luther College Director of Athletics Joe Thompson has announced that Cindy Fredrick has accepted the position of head volleyball coach. Coach Fredrick takes over the Luther volleyball program with an impressive resume that includes 23 years as a head coach at the NCAA Division I level

• 1982-85 Assistant coach at the University of Iowa
• 1985-89 Head coach at Weber State University
• 1989-2004 Head coach at Washington State University
• 2004-08 Head Coach University of Iowa
• 2008 to present Assistant Director of the Wartburg-Waverly Sports and Wellness Center

http://www.iowaconference.com/news/2009-10/0222luther_fredrick.html

[warthog]

doolittledog:

The parent being a U. of Dubuque grad and the child being a Wartburg grad worked for our family.  It will work for your family.

[Willie University]

doolittledog:

The parent being a U. of Dubuque grad and the child being a Wartburg grad worked for our family.  It will work for your family.

HA, you knew better then to say that to me 

[warthog]

A special encore presentation for AZDutchman -

Thought for the day:

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

- Earl Warren

[Klompen]

The only steering I will attempt is steering our kids away from Loras...and Notre Dame

After that, anyplace fair game for them to look at.  Including Central

shame on you.....it's full ride scholarship or the Spartan Nation for my kids. I cannot imagine myself wearing ANY other colors and I give my friend crap every time I see him wearing central colors even if it is in the support of his nephews. My opinion, he's a turn coat    You can support your relatives without wearing the colors of a rival 

Of course I will keep a open mind "slightly" if UD doesn't offer their academic area of interest 

Willie U

Ah Willie, you're true blue, but I bet underneath it all, you still bleed red.   

[AZDutchman]

Warthog,
I appreciate the special encore presentation!

[sportsknight]

Well, there I go thinking that there wouldn't be much off-season talk around here.  You fellas have been busy.

Here's my take on the Willis stuff: I'd rather play for a school that has to replace a head coach because he got the call from a higher division than one that has to replace a head coach because he wasn't winning.  Like Jake Taylor says in the movie Major League "Wouldn't you rather be with somebody who's in demand?"  Beyond that, Wartburg has a very talented group of assistant coaches that, if Willis did move on, would be able to keep the program at the level that Wartburg fans have become accustomed to. 

Is Willis looking to get out of Waverly? I don't think so. Is he weighing his options to see what the best possible situation is going to be? Probably. After all, if you don't have a desire to move onward and upward in your given career, then it might be time to pick a new one. Let's face it: the days of coaches staying at the same school for multiple generations (a la Central's Schipper, Simpson's Williams, and Loras' Bierie) are long gone.  That's just not the way the coaching profession works anymore.  For Willis to have spent 13 years at the same school, that puts him at the far end of the program loyalty spectrum.  Not quite to JoePa, but definitely further along the line than anyone else in the IIAC right now.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Well, there I go thinking that there wouldn't be much off-season talk around here.  You fellas have been busy.

Here's my take on the Willis stuff: I'd rather play for a school that has to replace a head coach because he got the call from a higher division than one that has to replace a head coach because he wasn't winning.  Like Jake Taylor says in the movie Major League "Wouldn't you rather be with somebody who's in demand?"  Beyond that, Wartburg has a very talented group of assistant coaches that, if Willis did move on, would be able to keep the program at the level that Wartburg fans have become accustomed to. 

Is Willis looking to get out of Waverly? I don't think so. Is he weighing his options to see what the best possible situation is going to be? Probably. After all, if you don't have a desire to move onward and upward in your given career, then it might be time to pick a new one. Let's face it: the days of coaches staying at the same school for multiple generations (a la Central's Schipper, Simpson's Williams, and Loras' Bierie) are long gone.  That's just not the way the coaching profession works anymore.  For Willis to have spent 13 years at the same school, that puts him at the far end of the program loyalty spectrum.  Not quite to JoePa, but definitely further along the line than anyone else in the IIAC right now.

Waning, perhaps, but not long gone by any means.

There are plenty of coaches (in all sports) who are quite content to stay d3 forever.  It doesn't pay as well, but it has other (perhaps more important) advantages.  I could easily rattle off a dozen d3 football or basketball coaches who have been approached MANY times, and chose to stay d3.  (You think bigger schools haven't offered the moon to Larry Kehres?! )

[warthog]

Mr. Ypsi is correct.  Way back in my day, whenever Coach Levick hadn't been seen around campus for a few days, the rumors would begin flying that he was off looking for a different coaching job.  The only one that ever seemed to have any validity was the Drake job.  I believe that was when Maury John headed off to Iowa State.  Buzz made a career in small college basketball and did OK with it.  (Even though I bet this year drove him crazy sitting in the bleachers and watching the Knights pee down their legs.)  

[warthog]

Thought for the day:

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

- Fred Brooks

[AZDutchman]

Attended the first Varsity football meeting tonight? Football is under way!

Recruiters floating around campus. I, myself, don't hold too much towards recruiters.

I have a lot of experience. I just need to turn it into good judgement.