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[CV Griz Fan]

Good analysis Gailege. And consider the perverse incentives for Engstrom to agree to these charges: the more severe the findings and punishment, the more they seem to justify his firing---that's what it was--- of Pflugrad and O'Day.

Not surprising that the only one named in the report, at least as reported in press accounts, to take the fall was Pflugrad. Engstrom is happy to have it pinned on him.

With RE at the helm I'm afraid that my alma mater is doing nothing but going downhill. It will be interesting to see the enrollment figures when they come out this fall. Maybe they'll have to "retire" a few of the tenured professors who should have been gone long ago.

The problem seems to be the pervasive powers of Engstrom. Here is a guy who can manipulate district attorneys, county judges, federal judges, regents, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Justice, and now the NCAA. The man can seemingly make anyone and everyone do and say what he wants them to. There is no stopping him in his diabolical plans.

I noted your sarcasm. I would need to read the emails from the time frame in question to have a true opinion, but I feel like Dr. Engstrom is the one who acted like a leader. He did what he felt needed to be done, and owns the decision.

The University of Montana's problem stems from a 97% acceptance rate along with 45% five year graduation rate. If Dr. Engstrom puts things in place to fix this than he's our guy.

A leader? Another view would be that Engstrom mishandled much of the situation in the past almost 2 years and caused some of Montana's problems and made others larger than they needed to be. This view would include over-reacting to the 12/11 sexual assault reports, insinuating that athletes were involved, appointing an independent investigator (who found little or nothing related to the football team), and letting the Missoulian push him around; going overboard in dealing with sexual assault allegations and insinuations, instead of determining what was factual and what wasn't and putting in perspective that Montana's situation involved fewer sexual assaults that most similar college campuses and cities; listening to the likes of Pat Williams, etc. too much; over-reacting in firing the athletic director and coach, without a stated reason; rolling over and not properly fighting the DOJ investigation (and now receiving national criticism for Montana himself); not properly handling and defending the NCAA investigation, including not hiring NCAA-experienced counsel for 6 months, not fighting back on several issues that perhaps could have been defended better (bail/legal fees) and being content to have the former coach and athletic director thrown under the bus; and allowing all of this to snowball so that it has contributed to a significant decline in enrollment, and likely continuation of the decline, which severely reduces university revenue from tuition and state allocation, which may be causing many on the faculty to become disenchanted with Engstrom and the likely decline in the quality of education. Just a contrary view pieced together from what some people have said and what I think. This doesn't look like leadership to me.

RE is a poor leader? That is the "understatement" of the year IMO. Great post!

 

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The problem seems to be the pervasive powers of Engstrom. Here is a guy who can manipulate district attorneys, county judges, federal judges, regents, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Justice, and now the NCAA. The man can seemingly make anyone and everyone do and say what he wants them to. There is no stopping him in his diabolical plans.

I noted your sarcasm. I would need to read the emails from the time frame in question to have a true opinion, but I feel like Dr. Engstrom is the one who acted like a leader. He did what he felt needed to be done, and owns the decision.

The University of Montana's problem stems from a 97% acceptance rate along with 45% five year graduation rate. If Dr. Engstrom puts things in place to fix this than he's our guy.

A leader? Another view would be that Engstrom mishandled much of the situation in the past almost 2 years and caused some of Montana's problems and made others larger than they needed to be. This view would include over-reacting to the 12/11 sexual assault reports, insinuating that athletes were involved, appointing an independent investigator (who found little or nothing related to the football team), and letting the Missoulian push him around; going overboard in dealing with sexual assault allegations and insinuations, instead of determining what was factual and what wasn't and putting in perspective that Montana's situation involved fewer sexual assaults that most similar college campuses and cities; listening to the likes of Pat Williams, etc. too much; over-reacting in firing the athletic director and coach, without a stated reason; rolling over and not properly fighting the DOJ investigation (and now receiving national criticism for Montana himself); not properly handling and defending the NCAA investigation, including not hiring NCAA-experienced counsel for 6 months, not fighting back on several issues that perhaps could have been defended better (bail/legal fees) and being content to have the former coach and athletic director thrown under the bus; and allowing all of this to snowball so that it has contributed to a significant decline in enrollment, and likely continuation of the decline, which severely reduces university revenue from tuition and state allocation, which may be causing many on the faculty to become disenchanted with Engstrom and the likely decline in the quality of education. Just a contrary view pieced together from what some people have said and what I think. This doesn't look like leadership to me.

RE is a poor leader? That is the "understatement" of the year IMO. Great post!

Absolutely. All our President needed to do was 1. fight the press/put them in their place, 2. Tell the NCAA to piss off and 3. Tell the Department of Justice wear to stick it. If I'd known the University of Montana President could do these things at whim I may have put in for the job. Do you understand we are not a big fish in the eyes of the NCAA? Raking Montana across the coals would mean absolutely nothing to them.

I am going to base my evaluation on President Engstrom after I see agenda to fix our real problems; the poor aforementioned graduation rates.