FB: American Rivers Conference

[KCDutch]

FBDaddy-
I agree with softball have a nice a pace to it. I think your close to DM by some of your posts, have you watched any North Polk games?  Usually very good and well coached.

[Klopenhiemer]

FBDaddy-
I agree with softball have a nice a pace to it. I think your close to DM by some of your posts, have you watched any North Polk games?  Usually very good and well coached.

DM East has been very good as of late as well. 

[sportsknight]

All I can tell you about girls softball in the DM area is that Roosevelt's coach wrote me one of my first pieces of hate mail in college.  For an English teacher, there were a lot of grammatical and punctuational errors included.

[Kilted Rat]

While I was running today, I saw the following clever phrase on the sign of the Drake Library Bar:

"Keno, Thanks For One Great Season"

[DutchFan2004]

While I was running today, I saw the following clever phrase on the sign of the Drake Library Bar:

"Keno, Thanks For One Great Season"

That is something that can not be taken away from the Drake family.  They may be feeling angry now, or at least some of them, but Keno did something that few have done for the Bulldogs.  You can not blame Keno for providing for his family. 

[DutchFan2004]

17  Jake Nero  a good solid TE. 

[dutchfan1]

While I was running today, I saw the following clever phrase on the sign of the Drake Library Bar:

"Keno, Thanks For One Great Season"

That is something that can not be taken away from the Drake family.  They may be feeling angry now, or at least some of them, but Keno did something that few have done for the Bulldogs.  You can not blame Keno for providing for his family. 

Yes, yes, I know he was struggling on $300,000/year at Drake.....it really, really must have been rough..... that's about minimum wage here, right? 

You know, I really want to wish Kimo well -- he's a great guy that I've met personally a few times. He's good people. I'm disappointed that he is leaving after being head coach for one season -- he's abandoning something that is just getting started.  It's dissappointing to see.

[footballdaddy]

FBDaddy-
I agree with softball have a nice a pace to it. I think your close to DM by some of your posts, have you watched any North Polk games?  Usually very good and well coached.

They are in our conference so we see them at least three or four games a year counting tournaments. We actually beat them at Alleman last year. Softballkid has actually got two hits off of Sammy Snygg in her career,more than a lot of players have.

[DutchFan2004]

While I was running today, I saw the following clever phrase on the sign of the Drake Library Bar:

"Keno, Thanks For One Great Season"

That is something that can not be taken away from the Drake family.  They may be feeling angry now, or at least some of them, but Keno did something that few have done for the Bulldogs.  You can not blame Keno for providing for his family. 

Yes, yes, I know he was struggling on $300,000/year at Drake.....it really, really must have been rough..... that's about minimum wage here, right? 

You know, I really want to wish Kimo well -- he's a great guy that I've met personally a few times. He's good people. I'm disappointed that he is leaving after being head coach for one season -- he's abandoning something that is just getting started.  It's dissappointing to see.

You seem to be a wise young person.  With the carreer moves you have made in the short past why are you so hard on Keno?  A chance to triple your salary and I am willing to bet you are moving on.  One thing here comparing you and Keno is that you being a single woman only has to provide for yourself.  Keno being a father of one and who knows how many more wants to provide for the family.  If you look at the big picture as a whole and not with your heart maybe you would see more clearly.  Am I disappointed with him leaving yes I am, but not to his downfall.  His marketability went sky high with Drakes on court success.  What if he never again would have won the Valley?  Then he would be missing out on a huge pay day.  Do you not think that he can get a small D1 job any time?  With a 7 year deal worth 7 million he may not have to worry about finding another job.  If he is successful there he may not need another job.  I can not fault him doing what he did. 

[Walston Hoover]

Keno's stock is quite possibly the highest is will ever be. Time to sell. The guy can get fired in 3 years and due to his contract, still have more money than working the next 21 years at Drake. For that, I cannot blame the guy. Did Providence pay too much? Most definitely, and they are taking a huge risk. If anyone is to blame, blame the AD for not doing more to try and keep him around.

[Walston Hoover]

17- Rick Willis's losses in 9 years at Wartburg.

[sc_stormchaser]

I realize we're talking basketball on a football board, so I'll keep it short. Keno wasn't making $300,000 at Drake....try half of that. Dr. Tom's base salary his final year was $225,000 and he was doing Drake a favor. Do you think they would pay Keno $75,000 more with no prior head coaching experience? It doesn't really matter, anyone would have done the same thing.

Drake will always have the lowest paid coach in the MVC. So if the winning keeps up, Bulldog fans will have to get comfortable seeing coaches leave. I'd rather have this problem, than the ones they had to deal with over the past 25 years.

You can't blame the AD....Drake has had and always will have a complex about paying the basketball coach more than the president.

[the_mayne_event]

i agree with DF2004 -- You have to take what you can get.  Yes, he had some loyalty there, but there is no way anyone can say they would give up that much of a raise.
I will also agree that Providance overbid on how much they are paying Keno.  Yes he was the COY, but he is still very unproven.  You can say he won with his players, but not really.  Yes he was on the coaching staff, so he probably had some reason to the current players attending Drake.  You could also say, because the chance of going Pro after playing ball at Drake is somewhat unrealistic, they went there for the education factor more then the sport factor.  Keno has yet to do much recruiting on his own as the head coach, and being in the Big East (arguably the best in teh NCAA), it will be difficult to recruit against the other top notch Big East schools with such an unproven track record.  I hope he does well also.
You can't be bitter of him leaving.  It isn't like he sold out.  He paid his dues under his dad and had a better opertunity.  No, 300k or whatever he made isn't exactly chump change, but his new contract is somewhat of elite status in NCAA basketball coaching jobs
It isn't like Drake is deep rooted in basketball (or any sports) tradition.  They had an incredible year, leave it at that.

[DutchFan2004]

Keno's stock is quite possibly the highest is will ever be. Time to sell. The guy can get fired in 3 years and due to his contract, still have more money than working the next 21 years at Drake. For that, I cannot blame the guy. Did Providence pay too much? Most definitely, and they are taking a huge risk. If anyone is to blame, blame the AD for not doing more to try and keep him around.

I would agree that on the surface that they offered to much and they have a huge exposure.  On the other hand the only thing that is definate is that he will be the coach next year.  If he can produce and turn the program around they may have made a great offer.  I also agree that his stock was at the high point and it was time to sell.  He cashed in at the right time.  I don't think there is any one to blame in this instance.  The AD had her hands tied by the budget and did what she could.  If there is any one really to blame is the Drake backers.  They should have opened up their wallets for the AD to keep him.

[dutchfan1]

So.....is anyone else going to the Bon Jovi concert this weekend?