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Anyone have the scoop on President Young?
unfrozencaveman
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Calls himself as a football president. To his credit, he did "oversee" what happened @ Utah, including '08
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Our Board of Regents is, how to put it...a little more "progressive" than I remember back in the day.
http://www.washington.edu/regents/officers/
We're fucked 4 life in this state.
Nuff said ...
I'd rather have this guy as AD than Woodward.
I love lamp
My only hope is he brings in Utah AD Chris Hill (http://utahutes.cstv.com/school-bio/utah-athdir.html), whose notable hires include Rick Majerus and Urban Meyer. I don't give a fuck, anybody who hired Urban Meyer to his 1st "major" college head coaching job has my vote of confidence. I emailed the Mormon my concerns, to bring in Chris Hill, provided statistical data from 7WS' miserable UW tenure, but he did not personally reply. Rather, he had a staff member reply to me. That reply left me feeling worse than before that we will nut up and hire a quality HC. Unfortunately, I think we are fuct for a very long time. I encourage any and all of you to email him to voice your concerns and include that you will not be attending any Husky games until a change is made: president@uw.edu
Young came to the UW after sleeping with the wife and daughter-in-law of U of Utah's two most generous donors.
Perhaps there are more, which means blackmail is possible. I'm holding out hope
Maybe Petrino is in play. Imagine those two going booming.
I would prefer that President Young simply and quietly find another job for Woody that better fits his background and skills somewhere on the other side of campus,...... following a successful search for a Joe Kearny/Mike Lude type of football knowledgeable and experienced athletic director whose primary responsibility will be to put championship Husky styled football back into renovated Husky Stadium, period. Enough with the fucking around which we've been suffering through now for over two decades! If a UW president can't do that, then he doesn't belong anywhere near Montlake.
It's been reported I believe in the news media and elsewhere that a group of high powered friends of the UW headed by Bill Gates Sr. has been formed to muster local business support and lobbying with state officials to come up with substantial funds to expand engineering and science colleges on the main and branch campuses. It's estimated that western Washington businesses and industry are running short of filling around 35,000 openings for tech jobs mostly at or near entry level and this problem is growing each year. The supply line to the Pacific Northwest for engineers and scientists from the rest of the USA has run dry and this shortage compounds the UW's struggles to staff research programs that might lead to spin-off capital ventures. Of course, it also means more and more engineers and scientists immigrating to the Seattle Tacoma area from Asia. Not good in my view during this period of high US unemployment and while my alma mater is turning away more student applicants for engineering and science fields than is being accepted.
The UW is a $9.1billion per annum operation that's trying to explode in taking business advantage of successes in research while the state legislature and governor continue to cut funding for higher ed. State funding for the UW was I understand cut again this year from approx. $400 million down to around $270 million which is getting so small that one wonders why the State even bothers with the UW at all. This funding is of course for undergraduate higher ed which is where the UW and other regional universities and colleges are coming up short in the tech disciplines. It's been reported that the Gates Sr. group has come up with a pledge of something like $50 million for engineering and science colleges, but I don't know if this is for just the UW or all the State schools.
With the UW's lack of state support and the dire consequences that's having on western Washington business and industry, president Young should have his hands full with University business that's far more important than Husky Football or anything in UW athletics going on east of Montlake. He needs to get a strong AD with plenty of associate AD staff into Tubby Graves and delegate them to take care of all Husky sports interests as they are paid to do. Just win baby! It ain't rocket science.