KFDM COOP

Going to the 4th.

3-0 Jasper in the 3rd.

6-0 BC after 3.

Coaching Loyalty An interesting take from Jay Bilas on coaching loyalty...it talks specifically about Bob Huggins and K-State, but I think it can be applied to all jobs... per ESPN Insider: I have grown a bit weary of one-way loyalty expectations. Now that Bob Huggins has left Kansas State for his alma mater, West Virginia, some people are losing their minds over his lack of "loyalty." Huggins was hired last year to take over at Kansas State after being fired at Cincinnati, and signed a multiyear contract to coach the Wildcats. After just one year, Huggins is leaving Kansas State to take over at West Virginia, which opened up after Michigan hired John Beilein, who also had a multiyear contract to coach at West Virginia. With the way that coaches get fired these days, usually without being allowed to finish their contracts, it is not at all unusual or unreasonable for a coach to leave for a better opportunity. In fact, it is almost necessary. Leaving firings and forced resignations aside, why is it OK for Roy Williams to go to North Carolina, but not for Huggins to go to West Virginia? Both are home-state and alma mater jobs that had great pull for the individual. Is there some time limit before one can break a contract and move on? And if it is so distasteful for a coach to leave a program with a multiyear contract, isn't it similarly distasteful for college presidents to allow their institutions to pursue coaches that are under contract with another school? Why do we consider the coaches unethical or disloyal when rival colleges dangle the offer in front of a coach they know is under contract? Coaches are always going to leave players who have relied upon them in recruiting, no matter how many years they have been at a school. That is just the way it is. Everyone expects loyalty when their own interests are at stake, but not when another party's are. When a program wants a coach, its fans and administrators show loyalty. When they grow tired of a coach, they do not show any such loyalty, they just want change. No one at Kansas State complained when Huggins hired Dalonte Hill away from Charlotte, and took with him a committed recruit in Michael Beasley. That was just recruiting. Now that Beasley may want to follow Huggins to West Virginia, Kansas State is having an attack of morality and saying that it will hold Beasley to his national letter of intent until a new coach is in place and he can make the decision. Why is it OK for Beasley to renege on a commitment to Charlotte in favor of Kansas State, but it is not OK for Beasley to follow Huggins to West Virginia or to go elsewhere? Kansas State hired Huggins assistant Frank Martin, partly on the promise that Martin can keep the recruits that Huggins brought in, arguably putting talent retention over long-term coaching ability and fit. One could argue that Kansas State may have situational ethics, and one's word or commitment only counts when it is made to Kansas State, not to anyone else. What did Kansas State expect when it hired Huggins? Did it expect him to end his career there? If the school did, why didn't Kansas State insist upon language guaranteeing that in the contract or insist upon a restrictive buyout? The free market works pretty well with regard to contracts, and the two sides are perfectly able to fully and fairly bargain an appropriate agreement. The truth is, if Kansas State were to insist upon locking up Huggins, he probably would not have agreed to it. Remember, when the West Virginia job came around the first time, before John Beilein took it, Huggins turned it down to stay at Cincinnati. Huggins was loyal to Cincinnati then, and the school fired him a couple of years later. Nice reward for Huggins' loyalty, huh?

2-0 Jasper in the 3rd.

6-0 BC after 2.

1-0 HJ in the first.

1-0 Jasper in the top of 3rd.

Jasper 1 WOS 0 bottom of 2nd. HR by Hart i believe.

5-0 BC after 1.

5-0 BC bottom of first.

Hicks will start for BC.

Looking good!!!!!!

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Valid point!!

CBS fires Don Imus from radio show NEW YORK -- CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters. Imus initially was suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his programs. "There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision." Rutgers women's basketball team spokeswoman Stacey Brann said the team did not have an immediate comment on Imus' firing but would be issuing a statement later Thursday evening. Time Magazine once named the cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most Influential People in America, and he was a member of the National Broadcaster Hall of Fame. But Imus found himself at the center of a storm after his comments. Protests ensued, and one by one, sponsors pulled their ads from Imus' show. On Wednesday, MSNBC dropped the simulcast of Imus' show. The Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with Moonves to advocate Imus' removal, promising a rally outside CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to persuade more advertisers to abandon Imus. Sumner Redstone, chairman of the CBS Corp. board and its chief stockholder, told Newsweek that he had expected Moonves to "do the right thing," although it wasn't clear what he thought that was. The news came down in the middle of Imus' Radiothon, which has raised more than $40 million since 1990 for good causes. The Radiothon had raised more than $1.3 million Thursday before Imus learned that he lost his job. "This may be our last Radiothon, so we need to raise about $100 million," Imus cracked at the start of the event. Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press

They changed it to try and beat the scattered showers Friday.

Friday for District 21 3A.

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