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  • #1

    What is Andy Katz smokin?

    http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=katz_andy&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fblog%2findex%3fname%3dkatz_andy


    Will Northern Iowa lose its coach?posted: Monday, February 27, 2006 | Feedback

    Northern Iowa athletic director Rick Hartzell is expecting the suitors to come calling as soon as the Panthers' season is over, but there is only so much he can do to keep head coach Greg McDermott.

    Hartzell already has bumped up McDermott's salary to $325,000. He knows McDermott will be a hot name in the Midwest, but Hartzell said the Panthers are trying to become the Gonzaga of the Midwest and continuity is important to that process.


    Hartzell isn't that worried about a potential move to Missouri but said he wouldn't stop McDermott if Iowa were to call if Steve Alford goes to Indiana.


    Meanwhile, Hartzell said the Panthers probably have slipped back from a team that looked like a lock for the NCAAs to a team desperately needing a win. Hartzell doesn't think the Panthers, with seven Missouri Valley losses, are in the field of 65 right now. UNI (22-8 overall, 11-7 MVC) dropped into a tie for fifth place in the standings (and a 6-seed in the MVC tourney) after a blowout loss at home to Bradley and a last-second defeat at Southern Illinois -- two of four straight conference losses to close the league season.


    The Panthers face Missouri State on Friday in St. Louis in the MVC quarterfinals. If UNI doesn't win the conference tourney, it would have eight losses against Valley teams, something that might be hard to overcome.

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    Ya right I'm sure Hartzell said all this. Seriously, what did he do sit down and have a beer with Hartzell? Since when is Mac's salary, even with the extra money from the "winners circle", $325k?
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    His total compensation with camps and his shoe deal are probably around $325K.

    Eight Valley losses too hard to overcome?? Last year, when the league was nowhere near as good, we had eight losses and still got in.

    And if Iowa comes calling, is Hartzell just going to help Mac clean out his office and wish him the best of luck, without talking to him. C'mon Andy Katz!!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by EastonWest

      Meanwhile, Hartzell said the Panthers probably have slipped back from a team that looked like a lock for the NCAAs to a team desperately needing a win. Hartzell doesn't think the Panthers, with seven Missouri Valley losses, are in the field of 65 right now.
      This statement is 100%

      ....which leads me to believe that Katz is just trying to hear himself talk and throw out crap like most reporters from ESPN like to do. (Remember all their inside source that said Ferentz would be the next coach for the Houston Texans?? I was guilty of biting on that one, now I've seen the light with them)
      Last edited by Matt Trump; 02-27-2006, 10:40 AM.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Reed Rothchild
        This statement is 100%

        ....which leads me to believe that Katz is just trying to hear himself talk and throw out crap like most reporters from ESPN like to do. (Remember all their inside source that said Ferentz would be the next coach for the Houston Texans?? I was guilty of biting on that one, now I've seen the light with them)
        Katz has a poor track record when it comes to his rumors. If you go back to his archives, you'll find that right before Quin Synder (however you spell his first name) was fired or resigned whatever we want to call that, Katz had been told that nothing was going to happen to Synder during the season. Did Andy get that right? Nooo.
        "Lot of people talked about Ohio State or Georgetown or Michigan State or whoever, [or] Maryland in our bracket. When the brackets came out, the first team I looked at was Northern Iowa," Kansas Coach Bill Self.

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        • #5
          I'm no fan of Andy, but on the chance that the comments from Hartzell are true, why is our AD saying UNI is not a lock for the tourney? Especially when in my opinion, we are a lock (win or lose on Friday!)...Isn't his job to promote the program?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by OhNewby
            I'm no fan of Andy, but on the chance that the comments from Hartzell are true, why is our AD saying UNI is not a lock for the tourney? Especially when in my opinion, we are a lock (win or lose on Friday!)...Isn't his job to promote the program?
            It came to Andy in a dream. I don't believe, without videotape evidence proving otherwise, that Katz was told these things by Hartzell or anyone else at UNI. Nobody would say this about their program.
            "Lot of people talked about Ohio State or Georgetown or Michigan State or whoever, [or] Maryland in our bracket. When the brackets came out, the first team I looked at was Northern Iowa," Kansas Coach Bill Self.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by OhNewby
              I'm no fan of Andy, but on the chance that the comments from Hartzell are true, why is our AD saying UNI is not a lock for the tourney? Especially when in my opinion, we are a lock (win or lose on Friday!)...Isn't his job to promote the program?

              That is why it is I know you're trying to play devil's advocate, but it doesn't work like that with Katz or Hartzell.

              Hartzell is all about promoting UNI and has fought tooth and nail to do so in the past and is doing so now.

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              • #8
                I don't think Hartzell's comments are so far-fetched. He told the San Jose News earlier this year that if a team were to come calling on Mac offering him 'a million dollar' contract, he have to tell Mac to take it. He added that if that happens, he's already got a good coach to take his place: Ben Jacobsen. I was pretty suprised by his candor...

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DRAKELAWPANTHER
                  I don't think Hartzell's comments are so far-fetched. He told the San Jose News earlier this year that if a team were to come calling on Mac offering him 'a million dollar' contract, he have to tell Mac to take it. He added that if that happens, he's already got a good coach to take his place: Ben Jacobsen. I was pretty suprised by his candor...

                  They're not that far-fetched in reference to Mac's job. They are absolutely ludacris (not in a John Little-type way) in reference to Hartzell saying we aren't going to make the tournament.

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                  • #10
                    Is it a good sign that our leader says we're not getting in? I was kind of hoping he'd be our biggest cheerleader this week and next.
                    "10% of life is what happens to you, 90% is how you react to what happens."

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                    • #11
                      The 'source' and validity of WHO said that statement is bs. The substance of the actual statement is not.

                      We simply HAVE to win on Friday night. It is, in my estimation, an elimination game.

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                      • #12
                        Lunardi is the second Bracketologist to have 5 Valley Teams in as of TODAY.

                        UNI is an #11 seed playing #6 Oklahoma.

                        http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/bracketology


                        Would play (more than likely) #3 Illinois in the second round.
                        "10% of life is what happens to you, 90% is how you react to what happens."

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                        • #13
                          I would take any rumor from an ESPN talking head like Andy Katz, Digger Phelps, Chris Mortensen, etc. with a grain of salt.

                          These guys are in the business of creating buzz and news.

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                          • #14
                            with all this talk about if hartzell said UNI isn't a lock now or didn't, it just makes me smile and think, "the guy is human"

                            here's the deal folks....hartzell is going to be the main proponent of UNI Athletics because he runs the place, but if he feels that right now the team is on the outside looking in and says that to his friends around the county in college athletics (which he has many), but then goes out in the media and says "we are a lock, no question, i see us as a 9 seed right now, the valley tournament can only move us up.....yada yada" what will his boys around the country say to him??? maybe he just said the truth to some folks.....

                            what administrators/coaches/players say behind closed doors and what administrators/coaches/players say to the media usually differs from what i can tell. the examples are too many to reference in real life, so i'll reference my favorite from a movie......

                            "no sir i've quit drinking," said jimmy dugan

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