tnt said:
Now you are getting my point PR There was a problem from day one with and for RE. As uofmman1122 pointed out it didn't bounce around. IT was steady and dramatic. It had already started. I can promise you RE was made aware by my cousin (a HUGE donor) who told him and even gave him the numbers. Perhaps the connection with the Bad Press that started in 2008 is anecdotal at best. And perhaps its even more anecdotal that every finalist withdrew from the presidential hiring process. But that point is had the problem been dealt with BEFORE the Bartz report, enrollment dealt with firmly realizing there was trouble ahead There may never have been a Bartz report, Instead two presidents left it up to a senile Dean, and ex Pat Williams Political hack, and a coach to keep everything under wraps and in house. The job was beyond Pflu (not that it was his job to begin with) and Oday was forced to walk both sides of a deep crevice. As I predicted here before the Bartz report came out we could expect both the DOJ and NCAA to get involved. There was no one driving the boat, so Outsiders and the Press did.
Okay, now for the actual facts.
1. Under RE, the enrollment decline occurred and increased. RE didn't even stop the decline. Enrollment was down again this fall.
2. Frosh enrollment was 1709 in 2010 when RE arrived. It had been 80 higher in one year, 2008 (which was the year after the 2007 bad press of the burglary). The next highest year going back to 2001 was 1756, so 47 higher. Sorry, but enrollment was not in steady decline before RE got here, based on the frosh numbers. A tiny decline only.
3. What was the bad press in 2008? I don't recall anything specific. Griz went to the national championship.
4. The Barz report actually didn't show much negative stuff. It confirmed that the sexual assault stuff on the UM campus was less than average compared to compared schools. There were any big things in the Barz report. It said there was some sexual assault at UM, just like at every other school. Don't know what problem you think needed to be dealt with prior to the Barz report.
5. I had always assumed that the other finalists withdrew because they knew RE was going to be selected, but I don't know.
6. How were the dean, AD and coach keeping anything in-house? Don't understand that. What crevice was O'Day walking between?
7. The NCAA didn't get involved in anything at UM related to the sexual assault. They came to investigate whether Tru/Kemp had gotten extra benefits, apparently because someone (perhaps Gee) told them about the situation.
8. RE certainly wasn't driving the boat, or at least in the right direction. The DOJ investigation was biased, basically stupid, and uncovered nothing. Van Valkenberg was correct to tell them to stuff it. The City and the University probably should have done that too.
9. I agree with your assessment of the dean.