IT just keeps getting )(*$ING better all the time!
http://www.neworleans.com/index.php?...431&Itemid=578
IT just keeps getting )(*$ING better all the time!
http://www.neworleans.com/index.php?...431&Itemid=578
This is a great read by Wags. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised at how fairly he seems to treat Benoit. I expected an absolute skewering of Benoit and his role in this mess.
Ryan really is a piece of work, isn't he?
Keep it coming, Wags.
It's been a year since I sat in that meeting where ryan lied and berated student athletes and their parents, not to mention the people giving their all to help the dept. And yet, my hatred for him has not diminished ONE IOTA! These articles continue causing me moments of tourette like outbursts but I am SO DAMNED GLAD that this is coming out in a more public way. I just wish it would make even the larger news.
I keeps readin' and I keeps learnin'.
Wags mentioned the "**** rolls uphill" comment on the Ryan Facebook page. What he left out was that comment was his description of his job as Chancellor!
Does anyone know the name of the Alumni Association Past President that Wags refers to as speaking in favor of Division III?
Barry LeBlanc was there and spoke in favor of DIII.
Does anyone know why Ryan did what he did and made the decisions he made?
If what Wags is writing is true or even half-true, Ryan is simply one for the books. Did Ryan hate athletics? Did Ryan hate UNO? I thought he was a professor, but did he hate students that bad?
How did Ryan survive for as long as he did?
I don't know if anyone other than Ryan can answer the first question.Originally Posted by ajrobt
In my opinion he decided that he wanted football and didn't want to work (help rasie the money because that wasn't his responsibility) to make it part of the existing athletic department structure like others schools in the State. The DIV III idea would work on paper so he used Katrina and the budget cuts as his excuse.
He used the opportunity to make athletics look like it ran a deficit of $5.5 million dollars after Katrina. My line of reasoning makes that bogus since the University has to balance its books every year, so he knew where the money went, even if it wasn't athletics. It is also my opinion that the student vote was "rigged" for the eventual outcome. (....Conspiracy theory....just saying....)
He then decided to throw the athletic department under the bus, got some of the "anti athletic" faculty to voice their support of the process to drop to DIV III and basically lied to everyone else about how it would work.
I don't believe he hated athletics but he would only listen to one opinion and that was his own. Many offered to help and all were told that he was ask for help when he needed it.
Talking to a couple of deans and administrators on campus, his style was perfect right after the storm as he took control and kept things moving forward. I don't believe he hated students but he did hate being told he was wrong and the only person he would listen to was himself.
Again these are my opinions. Others may have different ones.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
I have been speaking to someone inside UNO and ryan's insolence went far beyond athletcis. Ask those working for the Metro College.
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