My second favorite softball coach
- Thread starter jdeck30
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I wish my first favorite softball coach would come out of "retirement" to save the program she built at the University of Iowa.
Saw her in Oklahoma City Thursday. You would have a better chance winning powerball.
Really? Even if Barta ends up moving on?
I just keep picturing a softball version of Bill Snyder riding to the rescue. There's little doubt that she could restore the program to its former glory and have it right back where it was in a New York minute. The question, of course, is whether she'd want to...and I suppose it's wishful thinking on my part to believe that she would, or that she'd even consider such a thing.
How long until Barta is gone? How old is Gayle? She was certainly nearing "normal" retirement age as it was. She came to Iowa in '87, which was two years before Snyder went to K-State to begin with.
She's only 62. Mike Riley just got hired to take over Nebraska football at the age of 62. Saban is 62. Pete Carroll is 63. And Snyder was about 70 when he came back in 2008.
It's not going to happen. But it should. It'd be one thing if she was a mediocre coach with a few good seasons here and there, but she was one of the best coaches in the history of the sport. Just seems wrong that the UI's way of thanking her was with a rousing golf clap after dropping a free weight on her toe as she headed for the door.
Blame Barta, and no one else.
Reason #8,764 why he should be unceremoniously thrown out on his ass.
Barta obviously has some compromising pictures of someone to have held onto his job for this long. Kind of like a lot of CEOs in this country...you stroke the right people and don't make waves. Plus it helps to have that cash cow, aka, the BTN pumping millions into the coffers.
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