You think you have a hard time recruiting now? Sorry but you will never get a high school kid believing in a Female coach . Would you get press for it yes but think of the bad press you are going to get when you fire her or can you really ever fire her because you have let the current coach do his thing for the past 10 years .
Geezus little buddy. You're going get kicked out of the Democrat Party for that anti-woman, anti-woke and anti-Social Justice comment; but I am glad you spoke the TRUTH.
And on the same level, having a woman Athletic Director is probably in the same conversation. If a woman AD is such a great idea, thirty of forty percent of the schools in the country would have them by now after we promoted Andi Myers to that position. That was a Glass Ceiling hire across DI sports, and that was twenty-two years ago!!!
The negative thing about her for me was, which had nothing to do with her compliance knowledge, student grades or her dedication to ISU. She was probably as good as anyone with that, but it had more to do with her personality. And how was that? When you're out in the public as an AD you need to put your hand out and meet people, but she didn't do that. She was basically unapproachable at ISU home and away games, specifically at Alumni tents. The covey of women that were around her was impossible to get past, nor did she try to get away from them, or tell them to stop hovering so that she could go meet Alumni. After a couple of attempts, I said screw this. I can't imagine how many other friends of ISU and Alumni she turned off by that style. I don't think she was aloof, she was just clueless of her surroundings in those social settings. She probably needed to someone to mentor her to say, hey WTF up when you're out and about, and go talk to the men too.
The best that we've had recently at meeting and greeting was Prettyman. After the first time we met at a Golf Outing, he had remembered my name wherever I saw him. And we must have run into each a dozen times during his tenure. He gave Lansing a contract extension that he probably shouldn't have, but the man was an affable people person....and must have had hundreds, if not a few thousand of first names memorized.
