When your radio announcer quits.... Topic

The Instagram post of the radio announcer at UW-Milwaukee

To quote Groucho Marx "Hello, I must be going!" Before the decision is made for me, I am officially announcing my retirement as the voice of Milwaukee Panthers Men's basketball. I would say it's taking the last life boat off the Titanic, but that would be unfair to the crew of the Titanic. Never have so many competant, talented people been run off by such a talentless group of entitled beaurocrats. No matter how much the coaches, players, and support staff care, they can't overcome incompetent administrators. UWM leads the world in incompetent administrators. I criticize awful athletic directors like Koonce, Costello, Geiger, and Braun. It's not their fault. Hell, if they elected me President I'ld take the job. If I suck at it, it's not my fault. I'm not qualified to be President. Should Amanda Braun turn down an AD job just because she's horribly under qualified? Hell no. She's a bad AD, and a deplorable human being, but those are the cards she's been dealt. Those in charge of the UW System have failed to hire effective administrators. Failed. F F F F! It has been my pleasure to work with the wonderful players and coaches for 17 seasons. The players, coaches, parents and the fans have been like my family. I will miss Panther hoops the rest of my life. Best of luck to my friends that are still imprisoned at UWM Athletics. Fight on, brothers (and sisters.) Keep your heads low and make us proud. Finally, best of luck to LaVall Jordan, his staff, and the players. As so often happens in the NCAA, it's not your fault. Win and get out quick, because long term is fatal at UWM Athletics. Panther Nation, it has been my pleasure.Cheers!
4/19/2016 7:19 PM
That's pretty awesome!
4/20/2016 12:11 AM
Too bad I couldn't be the guy that started a 'slow clap' from the background, the interwebs do have their limitations.

The ridiculous sacrifice made in the modern age to propagate the seemingly absolute importance of individualism is exemplified with the ease at which it can be (and is) superfluously disregarded for the propagation of one's banality. I'm not a cynic at heart whatsoever...but these flashes of light are entombed almost as quickly as they happen these days.
4/20/2016 5:18 AM
This Milwaukee program seems to be a total mess.
The basketball team was academically ineligible for the 2015 postseason. The players worked to raise their grades to a point where they had the best cumulative gpa of any team on their campus. 20 wins in the Horizon League, with road wins @ Minnesota and Wisconsin. Nice season but nothing close to a NCAA bid. The AD steps up and announced they would not be accepting any invites to postseason. The AD adds that at UW-Milwaukee they don't strive for anything other than first place.
A booster steps up and offers to pay for any expenses incurred this postseason.

Then the coaching search.
The AD fires the head coach and hires a search firm to find his replacement. A recommendation from the search firm, TJ Otzelberger, an assistant at Iowa State and native of Milwaukee, is interviewed on Wednesday April 6th. The AD tells him he is the new coach and he arranged for his wife and children to drive to Milwaukee for the Thursday press conference.
Prior to that press conference on Thursday morning the Chancellor announces he has hired Lavall Jordan, an assistant at Michigan, as the new coach. Press conference on Friday.

4/20/2016 1:46 PM
When your radio announcer quits.... Topic

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