[NU Sports] Two pieces of interest

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Folks I know who are close to Maryland football suggest that Vanderlinden got in hot water
with the AD and the college because his kids didn't usually go to class, and had a
cavalier attitude toward academics.

Maryland has always had pretentions of academic standards, even though they let an awful
lot of kids in, kinda like dOSU.

Van was well on his way to having a decent program, but he and Miss Debbie (the new AD)
clashed over something - they've never really said what.

Fridge came in and the first thing he did was require everyone to go to every class. If
you didn't you had to run the bleachers at Byrd every morning at 6 AM with Fridge.

The first day they did the running over half the team was out there.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at romaine.tssi.com] 
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 1:46 PM
To: Roy S. Lamberton
Cc: 'Weinbaum Willie'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Two pieces of interest

> Interesting that Vanderlinden is again on someone's short list for a head coaching job.

I don't find that surprising, he may not have succeeded at Maryland, but
that was going to be hard for any head coach.  (I think Ron was a year or
two away from succeess, but patience is not a virtue among ADs and fans.)

Working under Paterno, who delegates a lot more of the head coaching 
duties than some coaches do, has to have improved Ron's skills.  Gary
Barnett did not have much of a track record for developing his
assistants into head coaching material, either.

> Also that others of JoPa's staff are being approached as his term runs down.
> AND that JoPa hasn't officially worked out all the details of 2011.

Neither are particularly surprising.  I have not expected an 'in-house'
replacement there, if only because Graham Spanier appears to detest Paterno
(or at least his power base at Penn State, how many head coaches do you
think could announce they're coming back next year BEFORE discussing that
with the administration?) and by extension all of Joe's assistants are 
on shakey ground.  
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Mike Nolan