Originally posted by IamHawkeye:
Originally posted by 73chief:
Originally posted by IamHawkeye:
Originally posted by 122950:
Tom Keating
Go get him!
For starters, he will get get the attention of the Iowa HS coaches - and the audience of some better Iowa talent.
Isn't it about time that we buried Christine Grant and her ilk?
Since Grant hired Stringer, and I think, a few other successful coaches (field hockey) IMO this statement needs explaining. So please.
Don't want to put words in 122950's mouth but I believe he is referencing the AIAW philosophy that Christine Grant promoted where participation opportunities for women in sports was the end goal as opposed to promoting a competitive winning program. The majority of women's sports at Iowa have been mediocre at best for a very very long time. Volleyball being the least competitive of them all. There is still a very strong faction of former Christine Grant, Women's Athletic Department personnel that have remained in the merged department over the past 13 years that have still influenced the coaching hires and overall direction of many of the women's programs. Most of these women's prograsm have not been competitively successfull. Volleyball being a prime example.
I would say that under Grant Iowa won a lot more than after the merging. Of course, the addition of PSU added a school with strong women's programs and now Nebraska (soon MD and Rutgers). And some of the things won under her direction were partly because some of the other B10 schools hadn't got the word yet. Still, if Grant and the AIAW were opposed to competitive programs she must have changed. I'm not crazy enough to take the time to figure out who she hired and what happened under their coaching. But--it implies a profound disrespect to write "Grant and her ilk" for someone who fought for women's sports at Iowa and elsewhere.
BTW, I watched the earliest telecasts of the AIAW basketball championships. Did you? Those schools are no longer a factor now in the major championships of the NCAA. They emphasized women's basketball when the large schools were slumbering.
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