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From the UNO school paper:
http://www.unogateway.com/vnews/disp.../4500a16d595bc
Medicine for the Maverick spirit in turmoil
Left Field
Jason Glenn
September 08, 2006
Not too long after I became sports editor here at the Gateway, all hell broke loose in the UNO athletic department. Coincidence? Maybe. All the same, the intensive media coverage and public scrutiny of the layoffs, budget cuts, conference changes, feasibility studies, booster demands, planning committees and Cadillac leases have given me a persistent and recurring bout of stomach distress.
My girlfriend thinks I should be thankful that all of this important real news-type stuff has happened on my watch because it gives me a chance to flex my journalistic pecs, but around mid-July I started getting vertigo anytime I saw the letters “UNO” in a World-Herald headline. . . .
D-II or not D-II, that is the question . . .
What it means to UNO is that they probably have to find a new conference or make the jump to D-I themselves. I think they should go for the gusto. Even if it means getting hammered a little to start out with, there’s no better publicity than having your name in the national box scores every week. . . .
Score-bored
After looking at the pictures of South Dakota State’s scoreboard the Beef Club has on their Web site as an example of what they want for UNO, I walked down to Caniglia Field and took another gander at the existing big board. Compared to the shiny, instant-replaying colossus at SDSU, our scoreboard looks like something you’d see at a little league game ... in 1950. . . .
It is hard to be a Mavrick fan, I guess that is why there are so few of them. ;D ;D
Go State!
http://www.unogateway.com/vnews/disp.../4500a16d595bc
Medicine for the Maverick spirit in turmoil
Left Field
Jason Glenn
September 08, 2006
Not too long after I became sports editor here at the Gateway, all hell broke loose in the UNO athletic department. Coincidence? Maybe. All the same, the intensive media coverage and public scrutiny of the layoffs, budget cuts, conference changes, feasibility studies, booster demands, planning committees and Cadillac leases have given me a persistent and recurring bout of stomach distress.
My girlfriend thinks I should be thankful that all of this important real news-type stuff has happened on my watch because it gives me a chance to flex my journalistic pecs, but around mid-July I started getting vertigo anytime I saw the letters “UNO” in a World-Herald headline. . . .
D-II or not D-II, that is the question . . .
What it means to UNO is that they probably have to find a new conference or make the jump to D-I themselves. I think they should go for the gusto. Even if it means getting hammered a little to start out with, there’s no better publicity than having your name in the national box scores every week. . . .
Score-bored
After looking at the pictures of South Dakota State’s scoreboard the Beef Club has on their Web site as an example of what they want for UNO, I walked down to Caniglia Field and took another gander at the existing big board. Compared to the shiny, instant-replaying colossus at SDSU, our scoreboard looks like something you’d see at a little league game ... in 1950. . . .
It is hard to be a Mavrick fan, I guess that is why there are so few of them. ;D ;D
Go State!
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