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Fire Tom Burman

I honestly believe he is exactly what UW and the Bot want. Safe and few problems.

It is painfully obvious Institutional aspiration for success is merely a stated goal, not a goal that is acted upon.

This is different from player aspirations for success. I'm sure most student athletes work hard and strive for success.
 
It's just frustrating because not only is he doing a poor job, but he is making $555k a year to do it.

There are handful of people in this state that make that much money and two of them are people under him. I've posted this before, UW could pay him half of that and he would still be there. Nobody else is paying him this much money to do this (or anything else) anywhere. Yet, there is 0 success of any sort to even point to.
 
This thread makes the most sense to me. I don’t want any coaches fired if he is in charge of picking another coach. The fire Jay Sawvel crowd needs to realize this. I’m also an AZ cards fan. I have come to the realization that as long as Bidwell owns the team, we will suck. Have to “cut off the head” before any real change can happen.
 
phxpoke said:
This thread makes the most sense to me. I don’t want any coaches fired if he is in charge of picking another coach. The fire Jay Sawvel crowd needs to realize this. I’m also an AZ cards fan. I have come to the realization that as long as Bidwell owns the team, we will suck. Have to “cut off the head” before any real change can happen.
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The same goes for the Dallas Donkeys and the New York Farts (Jets).
 
Question: will replacing TB improve things if the overall institutional culture doesn't change. It seems a component for the recipe for success is a driven, innovative, and intelligent AD backed by an extremely supportive and engaged president.
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
Question: will replacing TB improve things if the overall institutional culture doesn't change. It seems a component for the recipe for success is a driven, innovative, and intelligent AD backed by an extremely supportive and engaged president.
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The answer to this is probably completely un-knowable. It's really hard to parse out the difference between what is actually causing the outcomes and what is happening at the same time as the outcomes but really does not have a causal relationship.

Of all the things causing UW's problems....I think they fit into certain buckets...here are the high level categories I am pretty sure about:

  • Burman's ability to run a competetively good college athletic department is terrible
  • UW leadership (Pres, BOT) are not operating within a good incentive structure.
  • It's harder, right now, than it's ever been to have the level of athletic success at UW we want to see.
None of those things are helping right now. I don't know which one is doing the most damage. I will say, I hope it's the first two things and not the last one. Even talking about this stuff runs into accusations of excuse-making...I don't want to devolve into that.
 
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