Totally agree.Originally Posted by DallasDog
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Totally agree.
"Like"I guess I shouldn't have said never (Connery.. never say never again)
What I would have done if I were Reneau, since there was already a 5 year contract that existed with the LSU football coach at the time.. I know LSU and the ULS systems are different and state law applies to everyone but the corndogs, but offer her the 5 and she either has to take it or not. Then there isn't the excuse they didn't meet her demands... plus the ULS system may have even shot the contract down and then it was the save face out for both Dr. Dan and Pigtails.
They both turned it into the clusterf@vk that it became...... if there was ever a better example of "We Are Louisiana Tech" now watch us shoot ourselves in the foot, I really can't think of it. Maybe there was a fruit basket involved somewhere that we don't know about???
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Kim can coach, but there's also a bit of a horse's *** to her.
Always has been... but like the article says you can deal with it, some even like it, when she is shoveling her sh#t the other way, but when it comes your way it will always be petty! I personally don't like that kind of thing, but I understand it to a degree.
pigtails is such a classless bitch. I hope some of you still delusional fools who blame Reneau will take the time to really digest this article. She got mad they didn't put her name on the floor...wow! what a narcissist!
But, beyond all of this, is this reality: she always wanted to attend LSU and be a part of LSU. She admitted she only agreed to grace Tech with her presence due to strictly, self-serving reasons. As a player she wanted to play for national championships and at that time Tech offered her the best chance vs. SLU and LSU.
Bottom line is Tech (Reneau) had ZERO chance of retaining her as head coach. Had he agreed to a 5-year contract (which he effectively did anyway), she would have just found another excuse to move on. Now, she is at LSU, the very epitome of classlessness. pigtails is finally home...
...who cares!
I'm an asshole! What's your excuse?
I remember the Alana Beard / Mulkey recruiting story. That is when many of us sorta realized the party was over.
It's odd to me that this was done. Baylor administration was thrilled she left. There is a group that loves her, but it isn't the president or AD. It kind of makes her look stupid- guess this is her TECH blue outfit. The WBB at Baylor are going to be just fine without Kim, and have a huge building project she did nothing but speak out against. No one cares what she has done- the administration is just glad she's gone.
Mulkey to the championship and all the bad mouthing her is because she’s not at Tech winning championships. Winners win because they’re not like everyone else. One of the biggest problems with Tech is that they don’t have an attitude of kick-ass.
Reminds me of two Nick Saban quotes.
“Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people.”
“If you want to make everybody happy, don’t be a leader. Sell ice cream.”
KM got out of Waco just in time. They lost 13 games this season alone. That’s more than Mulkey’s teams lost in the last five years before she left. She got out at the right time. And, she arrived at just the right time in Baton Rouge now that they are playing for the national championship.
Mediocre people don’t like high achievers, and high achievers don’t like mediocre people. I think Saban was thinking about the people at Baylor when he said that. Of course, the only way Mulkey would have Tech people hate her would have been if she stayed in Ruston. Tech admin and lots of Tech fans would have hated her pursuit of excellence.
Decent people don't like backstabbing traitors.
And good thing for pigtails the fashion police weren't handing out citations...whoa!
And, sure are a lot of LSU fans on this forum. Not me...
Go Iowa!
Speaking of Iowa. Made my day by beating that racist POS Dawn Staley. You know Staley is pissed about losing to a bunch of white girls.
I always think to back in the day on that Saturday afternoon. I was managing editor of The Ruston Leader and Buddy Davis was out of town. I had heard that day Leon had made his decision. He was being courted heavily by LSU (back in the Sue Gunter days).
"I'm not going down there, Tom," Leon said when I caught him on the phone. "I just got too much Ruston in me."
As far as I can remember that 's the only coach who has said in an interview that and actually stayed in Ruston coaching.
Oh, but what would've happened if he said yes to the Tiggers?
PS-Yes, I scooped my own sports editor. It was about the only time.
Whenever I would hear anything dealing with the sports scene, Buddy's automatic reply was. . . "You know, I just heard about that this morning." I always played this game with him to get his same reply.
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I understand your frustration. But it's clear that even had Kim accepted a deal to become Tech's head coach she wasn't going to be around past that first deal, if even for that long.
The root cause of what happened that day between Kim, Reneau, Oakes, and the Athletics Council was the fact we had funded women's and men's basketball at the same level for more than 20 years. We might have been the only program in Division 1 that had equal funding.
With Coach Barmore's private deal with Adidas, and camp money, the Lady Techsters had a bigger budget than the men's program with Lady Techster assistant coaches making more than the men's assistant coaches. When Jim Wooldridge left for the Chicago Bulls we were unable to conduct a real search for a new head coach. Keith Richard agreed to take the job for under $50,000.
In our presentation to the WAC we made a commitment to increase support for men's basketball if we were admitted to the league. That meant the Lady Techster budget was going to be frozen. Not cut, just frozen. That's the reason Kim asked Reneau for a verbal guarantee of a 5th year. Personally, I think he should have given it to her. But he told her he couldn't under the law.
At the same time, it's become clear over the years Kim was never going to accept those budget limitations. She might have been Tech's coach for a brief period, but it wouldn't have lasted long. The break might have been more amicable, but it would have always be inevitable.
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