Posted on 03/21/2010 4:52:01 PM PDT by Captain Obamanator
Some have said that the stimulus hasn't saved any jobs, but here is a case where at least one job was saved.
According to an unnamed source, Oregon State University Athletic Director Bob DeCarolis was considering firing their basketball coach, Craig Robinson, after an 8-11 start (2-5 in the Pac 10 conference).
When word of this reached Washington, Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter was dispatched to Corvallis with $17 million in stimulus money for the university. The source now says that Craig Robinson's job is safe for this year.
For the record, Coach Robinson just happens to be ............
Michelle Obama's brother
Blatant mothers aren’t they!
Wow, really ???? Is this a joke? Please say yes. I can’t take it anymore!
Divine Rights of Kings. What’s your point?
We need more than an “unnamed source” if we can believe this. What other source do you have?
As an OSU alum I wanted nothing more than to see that POS fired.
Source? Not believing it without some sort of confirmation.
Obama's. ObamaCare will ensure a Republican takeover in 2010, which will force Obama to move to the right (or in his case, less to the left), which will ensure Obama's re-election.
As wicked as it sounds, it sounds even more like a sucker punch.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/a/craig_robinson_job_stimulus.htm
While it’s true that Oregon State University head basketball coach Craig Robinson is Michelle Obama’s brother, virtually everything else in this message is false.
Far from having his job on the chopping block, Robinson’s six-year coaching contract with OSU was recently extended through 2016 (an additional two years), and it had nothing to do with federal stimulus grants, according to Assistant OSU Athletic Director Steve Fenk. “For the record,” he said in an email, “Craig Robinson has coached Oregon State to its best back-to-back seasons since the early 1990s.”
Furthermore, though Oregon State has received a total of over $26,000,000 in federal stimulus grants to date — at least half of it in 2009 — there is no record of Department of Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter (or any other government official) being “dispatched to Corvallis with $17,000,000 in stimulus money.”
When I asked OSU Director of Athletics Bob De Carolis to comment on this rumor — which is as much a smear against him as it is against Coach Robinson and the Obama administration — his response was succinct: “There is absolutely no truth to any of this, period.”
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In just two seasons at Oregon State, Robinson has headed a turnaround that includes the Beavers winning 31 games since his arrival. The 31 wins are the most over a two-year period for Oregon State since 1991.
In his first season, Robinson’s team earned the College Basketball Invitational tournament title with a best-of-three series win over the University of Texas. With the championship, the Beavers captured the first post-season men’s basketball title in school history and Robinson was named District IX Coach of the Year by the United States Basketball Writers Association.
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