Why is Skip Bertman low-balling Dennis Shaver?

Look Red, if a point needed to be made twice, it's mine :hihi:

 

Red55, at least you seem to concede that Chancellor is overpaid, but the only reason I brought up women's basketball is because you brought up the general subject of non-revenue sports. And how else do you determine what a coach is making other that looking at what other coaches in that sport are making?

Having said that, you must live in a fantasy world if you think Henry resented Bertman. Why on earth would Henry have ever been jealous of Bertman? He won championships three years before Bertman and four years after Bertman, and Joe Dean gave him everything he wanted. To the contrary, Bertman was resentful of Henry and when he was coaching baseball he made sure everyone in the athletic department knew it. Bertman resented the fact that Henry had a bigger budget than he did and often griped that some of the track money should go to the baseball program. Bertman resented the fact that since he never won a national championship in a year that Henry didn't win a national championship, he always had to share his championship celebrations with Henry. But Bertman's greatest sin occured in 2004, after he became the AD, when the track team won both the women's and men's indoor national championships and he could not even find it in his heart to congratulate Henry. And you really show your lack of knowledge when you compare track attendence to baseball attendence. Track hosts three outdoor meets a year while baseball plays 30+ home games a year. In order for track attendence to equal baseball attendence, track meets would have to be moved to Tiger Stadium and 10,000 seats would have to be taken out in order to make room for the track, then the meets would have to sell out. So let me pose my question to you again. Why did Bertman low-ball Henry after he won six national championships in three years?

 

and a new contract has been accepted.

the question really should be that is shaver is satisfied enough to accept a new contract, why do you still have a broomstick up your ***?

 

I don't know how I'd ever live without track at LSU. Pay him millions.

 

I agree. A good track program can benefit our football team. Good basketball and baseball programs benefit our football team less. I really like basketball, but I love football.

 

The High School I graduated from is a powerhouse in Soccer. several State Titles in the last 12 years. I haven't been to a single game however, because I don't give a ch!t about soccer. To me it's irrelevant how successful something is, if I'm not a fan of it I won't watch. How many of Megan Falcon's tennis matches did you watch this year? Did you even know she had a 28 match winning streak at one point? As an example, swimming/diving is the only National Championships Auburn is capable of winning, doesn't mean they show up in droves to watch.

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I just hung up with a friend who hangs around MLB parks, at times, and is a well-respected HS baseball coach in our area. He coached his daughter the last two years in 8U Coach Pitch softball (Pony). Like me, he was all baseball until getting involved, and surprised with how much fun it was and didn't realize just how big girls' softball was.......relatively speaking.

I find our members in TF to be quite the exception in regards to Women's Sports at LSU and they've gotten a lot of support. Our society, in general, isn't as interested in women's sports but the public has the right to decide what interests them.

I am in the minority when it comes to Nascar, etc. Don't much care for golf, unless I'm napping and like to turn the vol. down where I can barely hear the spectators clapping. :hihi: