Good Article

[mred]

Susan Harman wrote a good article on the firing of Halterman and the Texas win over Tennessee. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3275275&BRD=2034&PAG=461&dept_id=331740&rfi=6Here it is.</a> I also added a link to it on the main page.

[Jennifer]

I tried to access this both from your link here and the frontpage and neither worked.
COuld you just post the article?
Thanks!

[Daddo]

I had the same problem with the story from Ames on Halterman's firing.


Originally posted by Jennifer:
I tried to access this both from your link here and the frontpage and neither worked.
COuld you just post the article?
Thanks!

[mred]

That's odd. I just tried it again and it worked... Here is the full text:

Halterman won't return with the Cowboys.

The news that Oklahoma State will dump Dick Halterman, its women's basketball coach since 1983, was more a sign of the times than it was a judgment on Halterman's contribution to the program or his success.
Halterman entered the season with a 317-218 record at OSU, but the team is 11-13 this season and 3-8 in Big 12 Conference play. The Cowgirls have upset Kansas State and played rival Oklahoma close. But there's no getting around being in 11th place in the standings.
OSU Athletic Director Terry Don Phillips announced Tuesday he would recommend to the board of regents that it not renew Halterman's contract.
"For many years, women's coaches, as long as you didn't do something stupid, people didn't care enough to make changes," ISU coach Bill Fennelly said. "The sport is more important to people and more important to administrators. The media covers it more."
Coaches are paid more. Attendance is a potential revenue stream in an era in which all athletic departments are insatiable consumers of money. Expectations for coaches go beyond just not embarrassing the school.
This year in the Big 12 alone, Nebraska's Paul Sanderford and Kansas' Marian Washington have been under pressure during losing conference seasons. Sanderford has taken teams to the Final Four in his previous job at Western Kentucky, and Washington has more than 500 victories under her belt with 17 20-win seasons. But this season Nebraska is 4-8 in Big 12 play and Kansas is a desultory 0-12.
Halterman is the first to be shown the door, but he likely will not be the last.
Halterman, like Washington, probably is under more pressure because of the success of the rival in-state school. Oklahoma is a top 5 team en route to its third league title in a row, while Kansas State is the up-and-coming team of the league.
"I don't know for sure but I'd be shocked if (OU's success) didn't play into it," Fennelly said. "Oklahoma State kind of had things going. All of a sudden, Oklahoma makes this big run and becomes a national power so it probably magnified it even more."

T for Texas, T for Tennessee.

Texas' upset of No. 3 Tennessee Tuesday night in Knoxville can only help the Big 12 in its quest for postseason berths and favorable seedings. The Longhorns had won just one of their last five games before stunning the Vols, 69-66.
"It says a lot about our league in a lot of ways," Fennelly said. "A team that's fifth in our league can go on the road and beat a team that everybody thinks is a legitimate contender. And it didn't happen in November. Because it's late in the season it brings even more attention to the Big 12."
In head-to-head competition against the Southeastern Conference, of which Tennessee is a member, the Big 12 is 6-4. ISU has beaten Mississippi State and Auburn. Texas Tech has beaten Vanderbilt. Colorado and Texas both beat LSU.
"I can't say I'm not surprised," Fennelly said. "I'm happy for (coach) Jody (Conradt) and her team. They weren't exactly playing great. It gets everyone's attention. It helps Texas dramatically, but what it does is it just reinforces what the coaches have been saying about our league. This is not the first-place team in our league that's been playing great. And for us, we went to Texas and lost at the buzzer."


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[mred]

Originally posted by mred:
That's odd. I just tried it again and it worked...

For me, this link works but not the one on the main page.

[HoopScoop]

Zwire has such goofy html addresses that sometimes it doesn't translate correctly when using the Add-a-Link feature. All Zwire publication articles I actually create a new special page for here on HoopScoop. That includes Ames Tribune and Norman Transcript.

The Halterman article from Ames Tribune is working now.