You are correct, so the results were actually worse - only the three titles you mentioned. (The Presentation has been adjusted.) We'll be looking forward to your Monday article.

BTW - As you know, I needed a Blog/Post 101 from "Noah", so could you clarify what the name of this is: "Environmental Science Hybrid Cars | Electric Cars in Ireland", and its relevance 4 or 5 comments above?

FOJL - received several requests for the presentation already. Are you interested?

EN

Bilslky and his stooges (especially Mahoney and Roth) are not savvy
enough in the media relations and alumni development arenas
to understand such things. They should be, but they are not.

FOJL

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Todays stop on the 2009 FOJL North American Tour
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Who outside of M. Soccer, M. Fencing and W. Lax won an Ivy League title?

Also, Monday's DP will have a look back at the past year in Penn Athletics, so we'll have some of these stats. Be sure to check it out (again, that'll be on dailypennsylvanian.com, not here on The Buzz).

Permit me to copy two excerpts from your above comments:

DAVID: "That level of academic and athletic achievement is what Penn strives for. And one gets the impression Glen Miller understands none of this."

FOJL: "If we hold Miller accountable to his W/L record, we MUST
do the same to Bilsky."

Exactly! Whether gauged by Excellence (Ivy Titles) or simply Competitiveness (# of teams with winning records in Ivy competition) the facts should speak. In '08-'09 7 out of 33 Penn teams had winning records - 4 Men, 3 Women. Ivy Titles were split 2 & 2 for a total of 4. Is that the level of achievement that Penn strives for?

I AM HAPPY TO FORWARD A PDF PRESENTATION TRACKING PENN PERFORMANCE VIS OTHER IVIES 1998-2008 ON REQUEST. Send an e-mail to ernie@thethinktank.biz with subject line "Penn Trends"

Note, Brown, Columbia, and Dartmouth are omitted from the charts due to presentation limitations (mine). It doesn't change the conclusions, and if you'd like the complete data sets, they are in Excel, and I'm happy to forward these as well - including to Weightman Hall if they are interested. My only request is that you distribute them to other Penn stakeholders. Who knows, if we get lucky, the DP might consider doing a slide show on the front page to facilitate reader access.

EN

The AD and his handpicked stooges are nothing more than Toxic Assets.

They have excess waste. They spend incessantly on pet projects.
They overpay themselves. They are not liked by their co workers.

Isiah Bilsky is nothing more than a egomaniac and a dictator.

His reign of terror is similar to that of Jean-Claude Duvalier and his father François "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Another relevant analogy is that of Mobutu Sese Seko. The AD's mismanagement of his department's economy, and personal enrichment from its financial and natural resources, makes his name synonymous with kleptocracy.

A case in point is his relationship with the failing media company DOUBLEDOWN Media.

Please read

http://www.foliomag.com/2009/breaking-doubledown-media-shuts-down

This was a toxic firm which Bilsky chose to engage with. To produce a horrific fundraising "magazine" which became the laughingstock of the fundraising community. And then when asked to defend this, he retreats like Mobutu Sese Seko.

Just another notch of his mismanagement of UP funds.

100% Toxic

I am disgusted. We alll should be.

As my Penn roommate and I put it, "...and thems his good points!" But seriously, I very much appreciate every poster's consternation with the recent Miller experience, but I see him as more symptom than cause of the problem.

The problem, as others have also chimed in, goes beyond Miller. There is an analogy between the damage caused by Isiah Thomas as President, GM, and coach of the Knicks, with Isiah Bilsky's damage to the entire Penn sports program during his tenure. Henceforth I'm referring to AD Bilsky as Isiah Bilsky!

Steve, I know you are an ardent BB fan. But read again David Wallman and FOJL's comments, and note Penn Sports has its own toxic assets that are dragging down the program. Removing Miller will not solve the fortunes of Crew and other sports, and may not even revive the fortunes of BB. After all these have all resulted from Isiah Bilsky's decisions and management. Thoughts?

EN

I'd have no problem with these guys splitting if Miller was replacing them with better players, but I fear he's not. I'd also have no problem with Miller's fiery, even arguably abusive, attitude towards his players if it were producing results, but it's not.

Let him hurl chairs onto the court (that'd be entertaining at least, which the team isn't) if that gets Penn to its (and, of course, this is entitled) "rightful" place as Ivy Kings.

I may be proved wrong (and as Ernie Nounou says, I hope I am): But I'm seriously dubious that, as purely a coach, Miller really is anything special, anything distinguished, in relation to his Ivy peers. I'm more concerned that he's weaker than his Ivy coaching peers, which means that while his recruits may be keeping pace (questionable), his actually weak coaching may be more of a problem than one thinks?

I disagree with many assessments that have previously lauded his brilliant offensive schemes, etc. At this level, every one of these coaches (and their staffs) know the x's and o's, and can prepare for, and run, pretty much any scheme. I saw nothing last year that, from a coaching standpoint, remotely shone well on Miller.

These are my positive thoughts for the weekend.

Someone whose opinion I respect took exception to my characterization of this your post. Accordingly, my apology! It was strictly fury, not personal.

EN