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Serious comment about our football president Ana Mari

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,765 Founders Club



Isn't it interesting how visible she has become with DeBoer here but under Lake and Pete she wasn't really visible at all? (from a football perspective)
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  • HairyBallsDawg
    HairyBallsDawg Member Posts: 1,078




    Isn't it interesting how visible she has become with DeBoer here but under Lake and Pete she wasn't really visible at all? (from a football perspective)

    I didn't even know who she was until the B1G stuff was happening while Cohen was on her way out. Was she this visible last year?
  • UWerentThereMan
    UWerentThereMan Member Posts: 3,475
    Wish she was around back in the 90's/2000's. Fuck that upper campus.
  • phineas
    phineas Member Posts: 4,732
    she would be a fool not to get all the free pub she can while the program is at potentially the best level it will ever be
  • TheHB
    TheHB Member Posts: 6,731
    whlinder said:

    I don't know how to separate "from a football perspective" with the visibility she has to display. The news of the past year has necessitated visibility from the leadership. All the conference uncertainty, then actual change, puts the spotlight on her. Washington moving to the Big 10 at same time the Pac-12 dies is one of the biggest college sports news stories in the past few decades, and the only one where Washington is at the center of the story. That story is still playing out and then is accompanied by 11-0. She should be front and center. Good leadership owns their decisions instead of hiding from them.

    This, and it’s easy to be out front when you’re 11-0.

    7-4 and headed to the LA Bowl might be a different story.

    Don’t twist. I’m on the AMC train (so to speak). But still.
  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,765 Founders Club
    whlinder said:

    I don't know how to separate "from a football perspective" with the visibility she has to display. The news of the past year has necessitated visibility from the leadership. All the conference uncertainty, then actual change, puts the spotlight on her. Washington moving to the Big 10 at same time the Pac-12 dies is one of the biggest college sports news stories in the past few decades, and the only one where Washington is at the center of the story. That story is still playing out and then is accompanied by 11-0. She should be front and center. Good leadership owns their decisions instead of hiding from them.

    In other words, if she's in New Jersey speaking at a conference about the importance of recycling or whatever, she's visible but it has nothing to do with football.
  • WoolleyDoog
    WoolleyDoog Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 5,755 Founders Club
    Has it always been assumed that she's anti-football? I guess I had assumed but aren't American Cubans actually super capitalist? Did some research and wild her brother was killed in the Greensboro Massacre. Seems he definitely wasn't anti-communist.
  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,122 Standard Supporter




    Isn't it interesting how visible she has become with DeBoer here but under Lake and Pete she wasn't really visible at all? (from a football perspective)

    I think the stark reality that football revenues could crash and take down the entire AD including our beloved women's softball fixed some heads in upper campus.

    You've got the windfalls from the Pete Era bumping revenues. Then you have a fall-off and then the crash from Covid, followed by the very real possibility of TV revenue drying up. I'm sure there were some very real come to God meetings had.

    Upper Campus attitudes may be more focused on "equity in sports" than winning but very few want to see the outright demise of the colleges athletics department.

    Combine that with all the FREE PUB for the university and someone in leadership realized they could ride that train.
    I buy this way more than that the she loves football takes I've seen on here. Constantly.