Mario Sategna OUT as University of Texas Track and Field Coach

Need a dynamic new head coach in Austin.

The men have won a few conference titles under Sategna but don't compete for national titles.

Tonja Burford-Bailey shouldn't be given an interview and needs to leave too. The women stink compared to when she came in

Not sure how much this has to do with it, but this thread definitely alluded to this.

I was on the team before and during Mario’s time as head coach. This isn’t unexpected. Mario never had full support from the whole staff. Also heard of lots of problems from the women’s AD. Hard to lead a team with no support. I hope he lands somewhere where he is appreciated.

I would not immediately accuse Sategna of anything. One should be assumed innocent until proven guilty.

juuuo wrote:

Need a dynamic new head coach in Austin.

The men have won a few conference titles under Sategna but don't compete for national titles.

Tonja Burford-Bailey shouldn't be given an interview and needs to leave too. The women stink compared to when she came in

Are you kidding? Buford-Bailey checks all their boxes. It's hers.

The Pope wrote:

juuuo wrote:

Need a dynamic new head coach in Austin.

The men have won a few conference titles under Sategna but don't compete for national titles.

Tonja Burford-Bailey shouldn't be given an interview and needs to leave too. The women stink compared to when she came in

Are you kidding? Buford-Bailey checks all their boxes. It's hers.

B-B is there to check affirmative action boxes so the AD can cover his butt.

Porkie wrote:

B-B is there to check affirmative action boxes so the AD can cover his butt.

How predictable! Let me guess - another fat, old white guy who never competed beyond D3 level should be the head coach as far as you are concerned.

It does seem like Buford-Bailey would fit the bill handily, but the newly hired AD has started contacting people for recommendations for the job.

senatecongress wrote:

Porkie wrote:

B-B is there to check affirmative action boxes so the AD can cover his butt.

How predictable! Let me guess - another fat, old white guy who never competed beyond D3 level should be the head coach as far as you are concerned.

Being deliberately obtuse to "win" shows how awful your stance is. People are asserting that she is incompetent, their evidence being how much worse the women's team is now then they were. If we accept the premise that she is incompetent, we have to find the reason why she is there still.

Occam's razor calculator says.... the AD is keeping her because of the expectation of having minorities in coaching positions.

2nd option is that the AD knows something about the women's team slide, and doesn't blame the coach (this is 2nd because generally coaches get fired when it's their fault or it even looks like it might be their fault).

3rd option is blackmail.

If you're going to refute their argument, nix the ad hominem racist assertion (i.e. doing what you accuse them of doing) and attack their claim that she is incompetent.

My HS coach was a pole vaulted and my college coach was a IH in college and both sucessful.

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What a bunch of cute gibberish words to simply agree with a racist comment!!! This is self evident in that the commenter (Porkie) never stated a position on her (in)competence level ...he (yes I am going with the statistical odds on the commenters gender AND race) spoke specifically to her race in a prejudicial way and never remotely stated or alluded to being incompetent (because her accomplishments as a coach would refute such a claim and plus the only the person whose interpretation of her level competence matters is the AD-and the AD has stated where he lays on that).

You got defense because you at one of those people sensitive to the word and becomes distracted and blinded to the truth in your face. So no you’re wrong, this tool made a racist comment (no ad hominem was needed to see that) and you sat there for all of 2 seconds, got emotional, didn’t read the tool’s comment thoroughly, consequently making up some poppycock assertion that was never asserted.

So take several clueless seats back and let those of us whom are not melting snowflakes compare and properly interpret the comments of those with hate in their hearts. Like I did yours!

senatecongress wrote:

Porkie wrote:

B-B is there to check affirmative action boxes so the AD can cover his butt.

How predictable! Let me guess - another fat, old white guy who never competed beyond D3 level should be the head coach as far as you are concerned.

You're quick to play the race card. Look at the history here, re Bev Kearny who when she took over, fired Jane Frederick, former world record holder in the heptahlon, as a first act, to bring in her own posse. How did that work out?

Now they're doing that again. What's the common denominator?

As for your personal comments, my friend John McDonnell fits that description as well.

You probably never heard of him.

Porkie wrote:

senatecongress wrote:

How predictable! Let me guess - another fat, old white guy who never competed beyond D3 level should be the head coach as far as you are concerned.

You're quick to play the race card. Look at the history here, re Bev Kearny who when she took over, fired Jane Frederick, former world record holder in the heptahlon, as a first act, to bring in her own posse. How did that work out?

Now they're doing that again. What's the common denominator?

As for your personal comments, my friend John McDonnell fits that description as well.

You probably never heard of him.

Didn't John McDonnell win and beat Jim Ryun at a Kansas Relays mile one year? Thought I read that somewhere in the Desmond "Dessie" O'Connor thread.

They call me........hepcat wrote:

Porkie wrote:

You're quick to play the race card. Look at the history here, re Bev Kearny who when she took over, fired Jane Frederick, former world record holder in the heptahlon, as a first act, to bring in her own posse. How did that work out?

Now they're doing that again. What's the common denominator?

As for your personal comments, my friend John McDonnell fits that description as well.

You probably never heard of him.

Didn't John McDonnell win and beat Jim Ryun at a Kansas Relays mile one year? Thought I read that somewhere in the Desmond "Dessie" O'Connor thread.

I believe John beat Jim Ryun in a 2 mile on a hot, humid night down in Louisiana. Can't remember which University hosted the race. Timmons was having Ryun race up for some strength work, and McDonnell said, "I'm your Huckleberry," and proceeded to take him down like a big dawg.