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did Doherty to Tulsa fall through?
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 3:48 pm
by King Crimson
seemed like it was a done deal....but i haven't heard anything about it for a while. I've been busy as hell so haven't been keeping up with things.
Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:49 pm
by Pablo
Dickie V. was pimping that deal online or on the tube a week or so ago. Haven't heard anything about it since.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:20 am
by RadioFan
Last story I saw about it ...
Not in town to interview
Doherty passes through Tulsa on his way to Stillwater for Cowboy broadcast.
BILL HAISTEN
World Sports Writer
01/22/2005
Tulsa World (Final Home Edition), Page B9 of Sports
Matt Doherty was in Tulsa on Friday, but apparently not for any reason related to the head-coaching vacancy at the University of Tulsa.
A college basketball television analyst, Doherty traveled to Tulsa from Los Angeles, where on Thursday he worked the Saint Mary's-Pepperdine telecast. On Saturday, Doherty provides color while Dave Armstrong does play-by-play during the Baylor-Oklahoma State ESPN Regional telecast.
The 12:45 p.m. OSU game is carried locally by KJRH channel 2 (Cox cable 9).
Attempts to reach Doherty by telephone have been unsuccessful.
A former coach at North Carolina and Notre Dame, Doherty is believed to have an interest in the TU position. In print and on television, ESPN's Dick Vitale has campaigned on Doherty's behalf.
This week, during a national teleconferece with sports writers, Vitale said, "The perfect guy for that job is Matt Doherty. He would bring the passion, the work ethic and his experience at Notre Dame and North Carolina. You can tell the athletic director, whom I've left a message for, that I would endorse Matt for that job."
After arriving in Tulsa on Friday, Doherty drove to Stillwater to watch Baylor and Oklahoma State practice.
Golden Hurricane athletic director Judy MacLeod has said that TU will not hire a coach before the end of the season.
Don Tomkalski, assistant athletics director for media relations, said Doherty did not meet on Friday with MacLeod or any other TU official. Tomkalski said the interview process may not begin until March.
Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:44 am
by King Crimson
thanks RFan. it's kind of funny to me to see Vitale be so pumping it up about Doherty to Tulsa, leaving messages, blah blah blah, etc.
fact of the matter is Tulsa has had more NCAA tournament success over the last decade than Notre Dame i'd wager.
sure Tulsa is Tulsa and Notre Dame is Notre Dame...but names and results are often different things....despite what makes media ratings or expert blatherings.
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 2:51 pm
by RadioFan
King Crimson wrote:sure Tulsa is Tulsa and Notre Dame is Notre Dame...but names and results are often different things....despite what makes media ratings or expert blatherings.
Yeah, some of these guys are so used to everybody telling them how "great" they are, they think they actually have an impact on coaching/personnel decisions.
Memo to Vital and other ESPN hacks: You're overpaid broadcasters with overblown egos. Concentrate on calling the game and stop trying to pretend your comments on coaching decisions and player transfers have any meaning whatsoever.
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:28 pm
by King Crimson
if it were up to Dickie V. the NCAA field would be like 100 teams and *no coach* should *ever* be fired.