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Post by PantherU on Mar 25, 2014 23:35:25 GMT -6
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Post by tyrunner0097 on Mar 26, 2014 0:25:18 GMT -6
And the leadership carousel continues...
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Lutzow10
Freshman
MILWAUKEE PROUD - PANTHER STRONG
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Post by Lutzow10 on Mar 26, 2014 0:29:48 GMT -6
This one i am not to broken up about though. I think we can do better. It makes me nervous because there is a chance we get someone worse, but Lovell wasn't great. He was a good to decent chancellor. He didn't seem to care about athletics. Here is our chance for change. Let's just hope to god its in the right direction.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 26, 2014 5:53:12 GMT -6
Here's what I was told about Lovell's behavior at our NCAA Tournament game:
"He spent the entire game sitting on his hands. He barely seemed interested at all. Either he had checked out on the season completely or his mind was on something else. UWM guy, my foot!."
No, I'm not bothered by this one bit. You can't spend your life thinking that you could be doing worse when you just might be doing better.
Good luck to him at Marquette.
P.S. -- MU also needs an athletics director. I wonder if he'll take Amanda with him.
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Post by skrapheap on Mar 26, 2014 7:07:23 GMT -6
I have said repeatedly that they should just change the university name to UW-Interim.
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Post by PantherU on Mar 26, 2014 7:51:40 GMT -6
Make no mistake. It's not good.
Sent from my SCH-R970 using proboards
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Post by BBFran on Mar 26, 2014 9:00:19 GMT -6
Viewing Mike's departure through the lens of athletics is absolutely looking through the wrong end of the binoculars. There's a reason MU made this hire -- Mike and UWM were eating MU's lunch in terms of the growth of the University, the leadership, the programs and schools coming on line. This is a huge loss to Milwaukee, made palatable only by the fact that the initiatives already up and running will make the position very attractive to other candidates.
It's very, very hard to be a Chancellor or University president, which is why they tend to have limited tenures. There's no politics like faculty politics. It's even harder at a public University that has to deal with a hostile state government at every step of the way. I hate to lose Mike but I completely understand why he's doing this. He probably just got a huge salary bump, for one thing, and he has a young family.
I wish him all the best and hope this portends better r4elations between the two universities at every level, including athletics.
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Post by uwm97 on Mar 26, 2014 9:43:44 GMT -6
Cry me a river about "state government" and how "hard the job is," Fran. You want politics? Wait to see what's in store for him at Marquette when the basketball coach - who isn't even hired yet - is calling the shots there.
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Post by ghostofdylan on Mar 26, 2014 9:54:21 GMT -6
It's hard not to view this through the prism of athletics on a basketball message board.
As has been said many times by some who are now lamenting Lovell's departure, men's basketball (or football) is the front porch or doorstep of a university.
Seems to me that Lovell, like Santiago, wasn't our greatest ally in terms of advancing an athletics agenda. After all, we still struggle mightily to define ourselves in the marketplace and have yet to break ground on desperately needed baseball, track and basketball practice facilities.
I've never heard a disparaging word about Mike, but Milwaukee athletics needs something more than a nice guy.
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Post by yuhayden on Mar 26, 2014 10:06:38 GMT -6
It's hard not to view this through the prism of athletics on a basketball message board. Exactly.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 26, 2014 10:33:38 GMT -6
I am as devoted a fan of Panther basketball as there is and I agree that athletics can be the billboard for the University, but how his departure affects the basketball program -- here or at MU -- is truly negligible compared to its importance to the institution as a whole.
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Post by Super King on Mar 26, 2014 10:35:00 GMT -6
...Even though at a major urban public research university they are less than secondary to the functioning of the school.
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Post by uwm97 on Mar 26, 2014 11:20:29 GMT -6
I would like to thank Lovell for toughing it out as UWM Chancellor these past three years. As Fran stated, he should be commended for getting by on a measly $330,000 salary while having to put up with all those really mean Republicans in the state legislature. We can only hope to attract a qualified candidate willing to sacrifice under such difficult circumstances.
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Post by pnthr97 on Mar 26, 2014 11:41:45 GMT -6
Viewing Mike's departure through the lens of athletics is absolutely looking through the wrong end of the binoculars. There's a reason MU made this hire -- Mike and UWM were eating MU's lunch in terms of the growth of the University, the leadership, the programs and schools coming on line. This is a huge loss to Milwaukee, made palatable only by the fact that the initiatives already up and running will make the position very attractive to other candidates. It's very, very hard to be a Chancellor or University president, which is why they tend to have limited tenures. There's no politics like faculty politics. It's even harder at a public University that has to deal with a hostile state government at every step of the way. I hate to lose Mike but I completely understand why he's doing this. He probably just got a huge salary bump, for one thing, and he has a young family. I wish him all the best and hope this portends better r4elations between the two universities at every level, including athletics. Precisely. This is a TREMENDOUS loss for UWM.
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Post by pnthr97 on Mar 26, 2014 11:46:20 GMT -6
I would like to thank Lovell for toughing it out as UWM Chancellor these past three years. As Fran stated, he should be commended for getting by on a measly $330,000 salary while having to put up with all those really mean Republicans in the state legislature. We can only hope to attract a qualified candidate willing to sacrifice under such difficult circumstances. Sorry, but this is completely inappropriate, IMHO. What Chancellor Lovell has done for UWM is remarkable, and the university is at a crucial time in its growth and stature. Losing him right now could have devastating results. I am a huge supporter of UWM athletics. But first and foremost, I am a huge supporter and alum of the university. Don't forget, if the university becomes irrelevant, so does athletics.
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