+1Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:01 pmHow about lacrosse just ain’t that important. When those Hopkins officials got off the plane and saw the Michigan and Ohio State athletic facilities they may have realized it.Sagittarius A* wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:47 pmI'm saying I don't think he's the guy to turn the program around, for various reasons, but also it wasn't their goal in hiring him.wgdsr wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:03 pm$$$$.Sagittarius A* wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 12:54 pmMy response to that would be more along the lines that the brass wanted a culture change.
I don't think they really care to have a DI athletic profile, and want more of an academic profile that they can leverage for the school.
They're fine if D3 does well, but I believe they are just as happy if D1 lacrosse is marginal.
Run a clean program, stay out of trouble, expectations are not high anymore.
Otherwise, why would Milliman have taken the risk of coming here?
and sometimes people are ok with expectations as they do things they believe are aligned with the career aspirations and goals.
in any event, i guess you're no longer saying that the brass ignored all the red flags in hiring him.
Everything with them is a smoke-screen, like the press release of hiring a search firm when they already had the guy picked out.
UMD, for instance, wants to be a sports powerhouse. That's part of their image. The image they want for JHU is a high end academic/medical/research institution.
So I don't think they actually care that much about lacrosse and probably prefer if the Lacrosse powerhouse image is decoupled from the University. That's my take of reading between the lines.
From Milliman's perspective, if he doesn't make the playoffs in the next couple years (assuming worst case) he can still argue he didn't get the support he was promised from the University. The Cornell team he put together went on to reach the Championship game, so he can leverage that for a new role. I'm sure other AD's etc can see what's been going on at Hop so I think he will be able to safely move on.
Everyone laughs at me on here (to each his own LOL) but I think we need a change at the top if the program is ever going to come back to prominence again. That's my take for what it's worth.
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