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Michelle Obama’s Brother Left Oregon State’s NCAA Basketball Program in Shambles
Free Beacon ^ | March 19, 2015 | Brent Scher

Posted on 03/19/2015 5:32:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway

One team President Barack Obama didn’t have the opportunity to pick when he joined ESPN this week to fill out his NCAA March Madness bracket was Oregon State, which has yet to recover from a disastrous six years under the guidance of his brother-in-law, Craig Robinson.

Robinson, Michelle Obama’s brother, was fired by Oregon State after six straight disappointing seasons as head coach—the team went 39–69 in the Pac 12 and never made the NCAA Tournament or the NIT.

Not only did Robinson fail to get results at Oregon State, he also left a mess for new coach Wayne Tinkle. Tinkle inherited a team without a single player averaging four points a game.

He had to hold open tryouts to fill out the team’s roster—a practice almost unheard of for a program playing in a major conference.

Tinkle’s team overcame and wound up with a 17-14 record.

Just 1,351 people showed up to watch Oregon State lose to Radford in the first round of the post-season College Basketball Invitational in Robinson’s final game as the team’s head coach.

This year, Tinkle declined an invitation to the CBI tournament. One reason for the decision was that the depleted roster he inherited, which in the end had just seven recruited scholarship players on it, was exhausted.

Tinkle’s team also has bigger and better things to look forward to in coming years than the lowly CBI tournament (which Robinson’s team played in four out of six years).

Three of the top 150 recruits in the country are going to Oregon State next season, a feat Robinson never came close to equalling. Robinson even used the promise to recruits that his players would get access to his political connections.

Benjamin Schorzman, a sports reporter for Oregon’s Register-Guard, said he was surprised Robinson even lasted six years.

“Robinson just couldn’t deliver on any of his promises when he was hired,” said Schorzman. “Frankly I think his relationship to the Obamas was the only reason he lasted six years because Oregon State was middling to bad every year.”

Despite his team not making any major post-season tournaments, Tinkle was named a semi-finalist for the Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year Award.

“I think the reaction from people this year to what Tinkle did tells you everything you need to know about where OSU was,” said Schorzman.

Robinson spent the past year as an analyst for ESPN, and is rumored to be in the mix for the head coach position at Holy Cross. Robinson was paid nearly $1 million a year by Oregon State, and received a $4 million buyout when he was fired. Tinkle made just $800,000 in his first year as coach, though his contract elevates in its final years.

Oregon State basketball paid the price for its decision to hire Robinson as coach in 2008, much like we are all paying the price for electing his brother-in-law to be president that same year.

Also Obama is terrible at basketball.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: basketball; beavers; craigrobinson; michelleobama; ncaa; ncaab; obama; oregon; oregonstate; oregonstatebeavers; robinson
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1 posted on 03/19/2015 5:32:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Like her husband and AmeriKKKa?


2 posted on 03/19/2015 5:32:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: nickcarraway

All the family is good for.


3 posted on 03/19/2015 5:35:54 PM PDT by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval officer.)
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IjDqm-JHrA


4 posted on 03/19/2015 5:36:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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To: nickcarraway

I read this this morning. Just a microcosm of what the USA will be in 2 years years.


5 posted on 03/19/2015 5:38:47 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: nickcarraway
Yes, many of us living in Corvallis knew that Robinson's only reason for getting the job was his SIL, Moochelle.

OSU alumni showed their displeasure with his hiring by withholding alumni contributions.

As a side note, when my daughter graduated from Oregon State in 2012, the mooch was the guest speaker :-(

6 posted on 03/19/2015 5:39:02 PM PDT by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
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To: nickcarraway

Make that sister, not SIL.


7 posted on 03/19/2015 5:39:50 PM PDT by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
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To: nickcarraway

Has he screamed “racism!” yet?

He will.

And obama will back him up.

Watch out Oregon State - you are about to be audited.


8 posted on 03/19/2015 5:51:39 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (Consider this Diem Carped.)
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To: nickcarraway

I blame white privilege.

And global warming.


9 posted on 03/19/2015 6:02:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: nickcarraway

Another Obama family failure


10 posted on 03/19/2015 6:04:06 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everything they touch turns to sh!t. Imagine what the Magnum PI house will look like.


11 posted on 03/19/2015 6:04:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think you need to take your concerns to your local barista immediately.


12 posted on 03/19/2015 6:06:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: nickcarraway

“...new coach Wayne Tinkle...”

A step up in coaching .... Wayne Tinkle ....really?


13 posted on 03/19/2015 6:14:57 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (When Socialism changes to Communism: When they take your guns and bring out theirs.)
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To: PROCON

Mike Riley seems to be a good fit for Nebraska football....


14 posted on 03/19/2015 6:18:06 PM PDT by MountainDad (Support your local Militia)
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To: nickcarraway

It looks like incompetence runs in the family. That’s two strikes demonstrating the uselessness of affirmative action. Throw in prezzy and you have ground-zero in failure - it’s the quantum singularity of failure.


15 posted on 03/19/2015 6:18:07 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: nickcarraway

Not surprising...the entire Family is a total failure.


16 posted on 03/19/2015 6:21:05 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: MountainDad
Mike Riley seems to be a good fit for Nebraska football....

I'm glad to hear it. Riley is a fine coach, it was just time for him to go to the next level.

I hear Cornhusker football is big in Nebraska :-)

17 posted on 03/19/2015 6:22:09 PM PDT by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah, but they met their diversity quota for 6 years! You racists need to quit measuring sports teams (and other pursuits) by performance and remember what is important! /sarc


18 posted on 03/19/2015 6:22:54 PM PDT by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period. REPEAL 17 !!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee,I wonder how he got that job????

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19 posted on 03/19/2015 6:24:34 PM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: MountainDad

BTW, love the claymore on your trailer hitch :-)


20 posted on 03/19/2015 6:25:11 PM PDT by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unless you're donating blood.)
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