Newspaper: Larry Must Go [Des Moines Tribune Editorial Calls for ISU Basketball Coach Dismissal]

ESPN and Des Moines Tribune ^ | April 30, 2003 | ESPN News Service

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In a published editorial the Des Moines Register called for [Iowa State Basketball Coach Larry] Eustachy's dismissal, writing that there really is no other outcome.

'The problem is that the man in the pictures is not just another party goer. He is the Iowa State University head basketball coach.

Larry Eustachy doesn't belong at college parties, drinking and snuggling up to female students.

It is pathetic really, and sad. A 47 year old man wallowing in the youthful days of college.

Eustachy has let the University down and undermined the basketball program. The question is whether it is possbile to repair the damage. Can parents and student athletes still trust him to be a leader? Not likely, he has to go.'

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Players still back him and say they will leave if he is fired without going to booze counseling

[nonliberal]

THis story reeks. The party happened over a YEAR ago! I think there is more to this than we know. Might be an attempt by another Big 12 school to sabotage recruiting. Eustachy had one of the better recruiting classes in the country.

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This was probably the work of the Antlers in Missouri, but Larry didn't help himself by going to the party at K-State either..

[Southack]

Iowa's Senator Harkin just went down to Cuba to reward Castro for killing three dissidents, and the Iowa newspapers can only manage to criticize a *coach* for a party thrown over a year ago?!

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Such are the ways of the American Media.

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[KellyAdmirer]

He did not break any laws or do anything inappropriate while on duty. He is guilty only of being boorish in his personal life, and if we canned everyone who did that, the GDP would crash. Bob Knight survived punching guys out and throwing chairs, and this guy is in trouble for flirting and drinking?

The fellow who turned him in who was so "bothered" by the "old man" had some kind of major axe to grind (why the long wait to send the pictures to the paper?), wonder what really got his panties in a twist. There has to be more to this story.

Tell him no more frat parties or getting smashed in enemy territory. Next?

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I think you have a point, but the PC nature of the university solving problems probably require some alcohol counseling here..

[Eric in the Ozarks]

For its part, the Register did publish nearly a full page of strongly worded letters critical of Harkin's remarks about the war in Iraq.
It wouldn't bother me to see this liberal ass retired back to his home in the Bahamas.

[robertpaulsen]

"Van De Velde said he had no information to dispute the students' accounts of the parties, but added, "No laws were broken that we know of."

Well, there you go. If it's not illegal, I can do it. And that's exactly what he told his wife of 16 years and his two sons.

"Van De Velde said, "I think he understands he has some challenges and some deficiencies that he needs to address."

Yeah, it's called LACK OF MORALS.

[drjimmy]

He did not break any laws or do anything inappropriate while on duty.
Of course there is more to the story. You should check out the other threads on this, and you will find that it is even more sordid than originally thought. One of the parties was over a year ago, but the other was just three months ago. These took place while he was on a road trip with his team, so he was on duty. I say "with his team" loosely, since he actually travels by himself in a motor home rather than with everyone else. How conveeeenient for getting some coed nookie. Eustachy is going down (unlike the coed who declined his request for a BJ at one of the parties). Of course, this could all be a vast Jayhawk-wing conspiracy against him (just like the vast right-wing conspiracy against BJ Clinton).

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'some deficincies,' that guy is beginging to sound like Baghdad Bob!

[SoDak]

Apparently, the Register holds the ISU coach to a higher standard than the President. If I remember right, the Register was on the side of the toon during impeachment. This guy hasn't done anything that Billie Jeff hasn't.

[The Great RJ]

Too bad he isn't Black--the coach at the University of Minnesota implicated in a major scholastic cheating scandel was paid millions.

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And the paper doesn't see the connection, I am sure.

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This guy could still get a bunch of dough-he is under a 1 million per year contract till 2011!

[SoDak]

Of course not. The left has no principles or ethics, only the feeling that it's their divine right to wield power by any means.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

It is confusing, isn't it? Just what is morality and immorality to the DM Red Star?

However, if what I read today on another thread about Eustacy is true, it's a good thing they are getting rid of the creep. All he needs is a perjury charge and he's fit to become the front runner for the Democratic nomination for president.