[Vision2020] Skewed Priorities or Business as Usual?

[lfalen]

I would agree that Akey seems to be better than most of the other coaches  the UI has had and I would not favor firings him. The Athletic department though should not be exempted from the same cut requirements of other departments.
Roger
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From: "Sue Hovey" suehovey at moscow.com
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:10:38 -0700
To: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com,  "Wayne Price" bear at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Skewed Priorities or Business as Usual?

> Stepping in where I really don't know beans...about coaching, I mean.   But 
> I do agree with Tom.  Rob Akey is an impressive human being.  Not since 
> Chris Tormey (who was my 201 aide when he was going to the U of I) has there 
> been a coach so genuinely involved in the lives of the people in the 
> community, in the schools, and who wants the very best for his players. 
> Last year's game against Louisiana Tech made the season for me.  Admittedly, 
> I never went to a school with an outstanding football team--high school, 
> Baylor U, U of I, so I don't have an experience with winning consistently. 
> It would be nice though, to have the opportunity to celebrate as my U of 
> Oklahoma brother does (well not last year,) but I do believe that under the 
> direction of Rob Akey and his staff they will be able to recruit players 
> with academic ability as well as athletic prowess.  Here at the U of I that 
> has to be an uphill battle.  The loss of scholarships is a sad reflection on 
> one important aspect of the program., but I believe it's too soon to blame 
> Akey.   We are still paying for Dennis Erickson's arrogant approach. 
> Anyway, I think Rob Akey a good person, and he and Molly bring positives to 
> the community in much greater measure than just football.  I think of it 
> this way, I feel a lot more content watching football games as Akey builds 
> his program, than I did watching Erickson build his image.
> 
> Sue H.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 8:46 AM
> To: "Wayne Price" <bear at moscow.com>
> Cc: "vision2020 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Skewed Priorities or Business as Usual?
> 
> > Wayne Price blindly asks:
> >
> > "First, why are we keeping a football coach that failed to meet the
> > minimum NCAA Academic Progress Rate?"
> >
> > Coach Rob Akey's first season at UI was 2007.  One of his first acts was
> > as head football coach was to cut 20 student-athlete names from the roster
> > for failure to meet team/school standards.
> >
> > If you will remember correctly, it was Coach Akey's predecessor, Dennis
> > Erickson, whose approach to football was philosophy was "Win at ALL Costs,
> > regardless of academic or (sometimes) criminal records".
> >
> > So, you see, Mr. Price . . .
> >
> > The University of Idaho is no longer "keeping a football coach that failed
> > to meet the minimum NCAA Academic Progress Rate".
> >
> > Tom Hansen
> > Moscow, Idaho
> >
> > "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
> > and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >
> > - Unknown
> >
> >
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