Jane Doe's Attorney

[fanofzoo]

I'm surprised no one (until now) has noted an interesting connection between Jane Doe's attorney in her civil case against JJ and a significant event in the State of Montana's football history. Josh Van De Wetering (Jane Doe's Attorney) is the son of Dr. John Van De Wetering. John Van De Wetering was a history prof at UM who went on to become President of what was then Eastern Montana College. Some on this board probably recall that President Van De Wetering ended the football program at EMC soon after taking his position there. I had him as a prof here at UM....nice guy, not a lover of sports. This was in the 70's when football was pretty much uniformly scorned by faculty members.

I am not suggesting a conspiracy. Relax, this is e-griz, nobody here believes in conspiracy theories. However, I think it is fair to speculate that Josh may share his father's lack of affection for football. Also, that he might be part of that portion of the Missoula community that feels football needs to be taken down a notch.

 

[grizpsych]

I'm surprised no one (until now) has noted an interesting connection between Jane Doe's attorney in her civil case against JJ and a significant event in the State of Montana's football history. Josh Van De Wetering (Jane Doe's Attorney) is the son of Dr. John Van De Wetering. John Van De Wetering was a history prof at UM who went on to become President of what was then Eastern Montana College. Some on this board probably recall that President Van De Wetering ended the football program at EMC soon after taking his position there. I had him as a prof here at UM....nice guy, not a lover of sports. This was in the 70's when football was pretty much uniformly scorned by faculty members.

I am not suggesting a conspiracy. Relax, this is e-griz, nobody here believes in conspiracy theories. However, I think it is fair to speculate that Josh may share his father's lack of affection for football. Also, that he might be part of that portion of the Missoula community that feels football needs to be taken down a notch.

WHAT A STRETCH! Maybe Josh's dad cares about running a college appropriately.

 

[Gaeilge1]

Didn't have Dr. John as a professor but I did have Maxine as a professor in the Humanities Department. Certainly not one of my favorite professors.

 

[PTGrizzly]

Yes, I'm sure that this guy is helping to sue JJ because he thinks the football program needs to be taken down a notch. Very plausible.

 

[argh!]

I'm surprised no one (until now) has noted an interesting connection between Jane Doe's attorney in her civil case against JJ and a significant event in the State of Montana's football history. Josh Van De Wetering (Jane Doe's Attorney) is the son of Dr. John Van De Wetering. John Van De Wetering was a history prof at UM who went on to become President of what was then Eastern Montana College. Some on this board probably recall that President Van De Wetering ended the football program at EMC soon after taking his position there. I had him as a prof here at UM....nice guy, not a lover of sports. This was in the 70's when football was pretty much uniformly scorned by faculty members.

I am not suggesting a conspiracy. Relax, this is e-griz, nobody here believes in conspiracy theories. However, I think it is fair to speculate that Josh may share his father's lack of affection for football. Also, that he might be part of that portion of the Missoula community that feels football needs to be taken down a notch.

WHAT A STRETCH! Maybe Josh's dad cares about running a college appropriately.

funny, i thought that made a lot more sense as a hypothesized 'ulterior motive' than some of those made regarding the filing of criminal charges against johnson by fvv and co... in the end, that is all any of them are, anyway.

 

[LakGriz]

Witness list also included an "oday (no o' follow by a capital D, as in O'Day)

curious if he was from Jim's family -- Brian, I think it was.

 

[mtgrizrule]

Witness list also included an "oday (no o' follow by a capital D, as in O'Day)

curious if he was from Jim's family -- Brian, I think it was.

Yes, Brian is Jim's son. I coached Brian in baseball. Great kid, and now adult. :thumb:

 

[PTGrizzly]

Witness list also included an "oday (no o' follow by a capital D, as in O'Day)

curious if he was from Jim's family -- Brian, I think it was.

Yes, Brian is Jim's son. I coached Brian in baseball. Great kid, and now adult. :thumb:

Well that certainly makes things a little more interesting.

 

[NorthwestFresh]

Stop the presses!

Did you know that Diane Barz, lead of the "independent investigation", studied law at UM? :shock:

It's Montana. Everybody is connected to someobody, somehow, if you're from the state. It's the out-of-staters who try to come in and swing their self-professed big dix around who started the problems at UM.

 

[Teton Cat]

Another interesting fact about the respective attorneys involved......Dave Paoli's older brother (and Dave himself too) played for CMR. Alpha might remember his older brother Fred.....I played in the 1973 Shrine game with Fred Paoli (He was declared the game MVP).....he was one GOOD football lplayer played BOTH ways on the line....he was by far the best football player in Montana at the time!!!

 

[PlayerRep]

Another interesting fact about the respective attorneys involved......Dave Paoli's older brother (and Dave himself too) played for CMR. Alpha might remember his older brother Fred.....I played in the 1973 Shrine game with Fred Paoli (He was declared the game MVP).....he was one GOOD football lplayer played BOTH ways on the line....he was by far the best football player in Montana at the time!!!

Fred was also the captain of the USA rugby team, played about 10 years for the USA Eagles, captain of the Colo St football team, and state heavyweight wrestling champion. Coached rugby at Harvard briefly, and coached the Bozeman rugby team for a number of years. Probably more aggressive and tenacious than even his aggressive and tenacious brother Dave. A very good and successful plaintiffs lawyer, like his brother.

 

[Blgs Griz Fan]

I doubt Van D had much to do with EMC dropping football. There was a large contingent of Yellowjackets boosters and fans that loved their basketball program and it's dominance in the Frontier Conference. They always felt EMC was too good for the Frontier in b ball and wanted to move. Eventually they did but at the expense of football. Football was dropped to fund the move up for b ball.
As a sidelight, Football Coach Bob Lee had a good run at EMC. At one point he was very close to signing a player that would have put the program on the map nationaly. That player was named Mercury Morris.
The loss of football really hurt EMC in the Billings community and in fact shifted a ton of support to Rocky Mountain. There have been attempts to revive football includiing one anonomous donar offering 250K to do so.
I really hope this JJ issue goes away and very soon. It is really sad for both parties.

 

[billingsgriz]

MSUB is a commuter, nontraditional school--and a very good one at that !!! I am biased as I graduated from both MSUB and UM, but the school does play a vital role in Montana's largest city, including the city college (college of technology where welders are being trained for The Bakken and nurses for Billings Clinic and St. Vincent's Hospital), to its excellent education school, growing business school, and innovative Downtown Billings Campus for classes and seminars in addition to the main campus tucked up under the rims.

Given the expense of football and the lack of interest at MSUB in resurrecting the program, I don't see a Yellowjacket football team anytime soon.

Rocky has a pretty good following as do the high school football teams in town, and we have plenty of Billings kids--John Schmaing, Sam Gratton, Ryan Burke, Brady Gustafson, not to mention another Lebsock--that are GRIZ. Both Hauck and Pflu did a great job of recruiting Billings, and I am condifent Coach Delaney will maintain and maybe even expand that recruiting pipeline down here.

 

[billingsgriz]

MSUB is a commuter, nontraditional school--and a very good one at that !!! I am biased as I graduated from both MSUB and UM, but the school does play a vital role in Montana's largest city, including the city college (college of technology where welders are being trained for The Bakken and nurses for Billings Clinic and St. Vincent's Hospital), to its excellent education school, growing business school, and innovative Downtown Billings Campus for classes and seminars in addition to the main campus tucked up under the rims.

Given the expense of football and the lack of interest at MSUB in resurrecting the program, I don't see a Yellowjacket football team anytime soon.

Rocky has a pretty good following as do the high school football teams in town, and we have plenty of Billings kids--John Schmaing, Sam Gratton, Ryan Burke, Brady Gustafson, not to mention another Lebsock--that are GRIZ. Both Hauck and Pflu did a great job of recruiting Billings, and I am condifent Coach Delaney will maintain and maybe even expand that recruiting pipeline down here.