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Subject: * Expectations * Author: Rammey [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:39:49 11/10/04 Wed * What a great article on ESPN.com this morning about Columbia Athletics !! One day on the job, & Columbia University athletic director M.Dianne Murphy wasted little time saying what she thought of the school's sports performance. "The tradition of losing in most sport programs at Columbia frustrates and demoralizes alumni, students, faculty, and staff. Compared to our Ivy League peers, Columbia suffers significant underfunding and understaffing at all levels of our athletic program" * Unfortunately, the sad part is... The editor could have substituted Fordham's name into this article, and the same situation exists. When is the Fordham University Administration or the Athletic Department going to stand up and say "Enough is Enough, and let's raise our expectations for our sporting programs. Let's not accept below-average performance or below-average commitment to any part of the athletic department" * How true is that quote ? "Losing demoralizes alumni" ---Fordham, in comparison to its rivals, is not performing up to its standards and this should not be acceptable. *** I am obviously a demoralized alumnus, and I am sick of losing & the lack of commitment to athletics. Where is the sense of urgency at Fordham to improve our disgraceful record in all sports over the last 20 years ? ** WHY IS NO-ONE BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE LACK OF RESULTS IN OUR ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT ?? Embarrassing !! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Actually, it's an A.P. story and a good one. Here's a link -- Click here. (NT) ramMan 10:55:17 11/10/04 Wed I've copied and pasted the article inside this message. Click on this message to read it. -- ramMan, 11:02:07 11/10/04 Wed One important quote from this article, amongst every correct observation by the new AD, is the department will seek to expand their sports marketing to enlist further private fundraising for the dept. I predict in the next three - five year period Columbia will jump ahead of Fordham and its athletic position within nyc. Already, behind St. John's, Manhattan and in the future Columbia. Watch out; NYU might be on our heels at that time. (NT) -- toby, 11:13:57 11/10/04 Wed The best was that yesterday, Columbia hired Alexei Kasatonov to coach their club hockey team!!!! (NT) -- '85, 11:46:54 11/10/04 Wed What's most refreshing about this article is the absolute candor with which the new Columbia AD speaks. No political doublespeak/gobbletygook tiptoeing like the AD at Fordham, where he appears to look over his shoulder at all times. Hope Fr. McShane gives the new AD the power to display the same candor. (NT) Rambacker 14:12:51 11/10/04 Wed I think it was you Rambacker who posted he had heard that Frank would be replaced at the end of this academic year. Has that been confirmed? If so, is there a search ongoing? (NT) -- Curious george, 14:53:46 11/10/04 Wed I, like many others, have heard this rumor. As far as I know, there has been no official confirmation of it but the rumor is certainly widespread. (NT) -- Rambacker, 15:47:51 11/10/04 Wed doublespeak/gobbletygook tiptoeing has been a staple of fordham athletics for years. We raised 24.7 million this past year. My question to McShane in an e-mail was ???? Are we not raising enough money to stop this dean of student services as AD practice? (NT) -- pjd, 13:17:52 11/12/04 Fri Well, why don't we wait and see. I've heard of new brooms at Columbia before, and nada happened. I seriously doubt that 95% of the faculty, staff, and students at Columbia give two hoots about the football team. As at Fordham there probably are dispirited people over the chronic failures, but Murphy just might lose her job for her boldness. Stay tuned. I guarantee that many at Columbia are ticked at her right now. (NT) Drag-less 20:43:54 11/10/04 Wed They'd have to care to be ticked off. (NT) -- An Old Coach, 20:57:46 11/10/04 Wed Here's a link to Murphy's speech: http://www.collegesports.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/colm/genrel/auto_pdf/DianneMurphyAddress It's 12 pages long, but it's worth a read. I suspect she's a control freak. Note the talk about dress. But I'd hire her in a minute for Fordham. Her message strikes me as playing much better at FU than at CU. (NT) -- Drag-less, 21:05:39 11/10/04 Wed One last point: the president of CU was there for her speech, so he is probably on board with her program. And he was formerly president of Michigan. (NT) -- Drag-less, 21:15:30 11/10/04 Wed She has her work cut out for her. Her only shot is if the trustees are ready to spend big, big bucks and the president backs her with the faculty who will go nuts the first time she says athletes should get priority scheduling. For Columbia to even be competitive in the Ivy League would go down as one of the great turn arounds in the history of college sports. If she can do it, there's hope for Fordham! (NT) -- An Old Coach, 21:18:03 11/10/04 Wed The Kasatanov thing is the funniest I have ever seen. Columbia is a horrible club team, it would be like hiring Phil Jackson to coach an intramural basketball team from B-House. Too much vodka Alexei (NT) -- Nyet, 22:52:51 11/10/04 Wed