Comments on: Longtime Track Assistant Parts Ways With Hogs http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/2009/07/09/longtime-track-assistant-parts-ways-with-hogs/ Covering the Arkansas Razorbacks Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:54:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Anthony Sears http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/2009/07/09/longtime-track-assistant-parts-ways-with-hogs/comment-page-1/#comment-727 Anthony Sears Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:28:22 +0000 http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/?p=5421#comment-727 Bucky is NO John McDonnell or Dick Booth. He can't even wash their jocks. The dynasty is over. The Razorbacks will now go back to where they were in the old Southwest Conference which is garbage. Bucky and Case are way over their heads and obviously do not know how to deal with the biggtime. Texas A&M, Oregon, LSU and Florida are going to kick thier collective butts back to Iowa. Long needs to have his head examined for this fiasco. I know of 400K that will not go to the university now because of this and OTHER screw-ups by Long. He's an idiot and he hired an equal idiot to replace McDonnell. Bucky is NO John McDonnell or Dick Booth. He can’t even wash their jocks. The dynasty is over. The Razorbacks will now go back to where they were in the old Southwest Conference which is garbage. Bucky and Case are way over their heads and obviously do not know how to deal with the biggtime.

Texas A&M, Oregon, LSU and Florida are going to kick thier collective butts back to Iowa.

Long needs to have his head examined for this fiasco. I know of 400K that will not go to the university now because of this and OTHER screw-ups by Long. He’s an idiot and he hired an equal idiot to replace McDonnell.

]]> By: ryan joseph http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/2009/07/09/longtime-track-assistant-parts-ways-with-hogs/comment-page-1/#comment-721 ryan joseph Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:02:24 +0000 http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/?p=5421#comment-721 This is tragic for arkansas track and field and the legacy Coach Mac and Booth created. Everyone who supports Arkansa track should organize against this. This is tragic for arkansas track and field and the legacy Coach Mac and Booth created. Everyone who supports Arkansa track should organize against this.

]]> By: Mike http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/2009/07/09/longtime-track-assistant-parts-ways-with-hogs/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Mike Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:57:52 +0000 http://hogblog.nwaonline.net/?p=5421#comment-718 You have to begin to wonder if the word loyalty exist anymore and if it does, is it a word to be used in the same breath as "Razorbacks?" How do you take a man who has given you 27 years of his life, pass him over for a head job that is rightfully his and then fire him after one year, in the middle of July? In todays or any days economy, do you really wait until the middle of July when everyone has found jobs, to fire someone? Yes, if they were derilict in their duties, poor in character or simply not performing. Yet, here we have Dick Booth who, without him we would have not won either the indoor or outdoor SEC titles, a man who could have been bitter about not being given the chance to lead the program he gave 26 years of his life to, and he is simply swept out the door. You have to ask yourself what is really going on inside the track program at the University of Arkansas? Is this what we have come to? Are we teaching the athletes that if we do not feel comfortable with you, we will simply replace you? Because, if they can so easily get rid of a man who has in the past and currently, given his all for us what is to stop us from getting rid of you as an athlete whom we hardly know? If I was a coach recruiting against us I would repeatly use this as a weapon against us. I would remind every athlete I recruit that Arkansas recruits about how they treated a man, a coach who had devoted his life to them! It speaks volumes about the Athletic Director, the head coach and everyone involved in Arkansas athletics that allowed this to take place. It is hard for me to imagine that former Arkansas Track athletes who knew and respected Dick Booth would not be ashamed at the way he was treated by the so called razorback track office. Maybe that is the way things are done in Northern Iowa, I hope it is not a trend that is developed in Northwest Arkansas. You have to begin to wonder if the word loyalty exist anymore and if it does, is it a word to be used in the same breath as “Razorbacks?” How do you take a man who has given you 27 years of his life, pass him over for a head job that is rightfully his and then fire him after one year, in the middle of July?
In todays or any days economy, do you really wait until the middle of July when everyone has found jobs, to fire someone? Yes, if they were derilict in their duties, poor in character or simply not performing. Yet, here we have Dick Booth who, without him we would have not won either the indoor or outdoor SEC titles, a man who could have been bitter about not being given the chance to lead the program he gave 26 years of his life to, and he is simply swept out the door.
You have to ask yourself what is really going on inside the track program at the University of Arkansas? Is this what we have come to? Are we teaching the athletes that if we do not feel comfortable with you, we will simply replace you? Because, if they can so easily get rid of a man who has in the past and currently, given his all for us what is to stop us from getting rid of you as an athlete whom we hardly know?
If I was a coach recruiting against us I would repeatly use this as a weapon against us. I would remind every athlete I recruit that Arkansas recruits about how they treated a man, a coach who had devoted his life to them! It speaks volumes about the Athletic Director, the head coach and everyone involved in Arkansas athletics that allowed this to take place. It is hard for me to imagine that former Arkansas Track athletes who knew and respected Dick Booth would not be ashamed at the way he was treated by the so called razorback track office. Maybe that is the way things are done in Northern Iowa, I hope it is not a trend that is developed in Northwest Arkansas.

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