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Post by FIUBlue82 on May 22, 2007 22:33:11 GMT -5
The list of potential candidates is long...very long. We just have to wait and see.
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Post by FIUFootballer on May 22, 2007 22:34:01 GMT -5
WOW. I just saw on Channel 7 that DP wasn't allowed to hold his press conference on campus, he had to hold it "across the street." WTF is wrong with PG to not allow this man, who helped build the ONLY respectable program our school has ever seen, to hold his press conference officially and on campus sorrounded by a supporting crowd??? I don't care if he was given the option to retire gracefully, I am utterly embarrased by this administration right now, and I'm not even a baseball fan!!!
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fiu12
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Post by fiu12 on May 23, 2007 2:51:27 GMT -5
like i said: PIECE OF CRAP as a PERSON
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Post by MiRi on May 23, 2007 8:03:22 GMT -5
They showed him hugging his son. Both looked like they were crying. He was all choked up while making his statement. (He just basically said that he did it the right way... the Danny Price way.) While I agree that a change was needed, I hate seeing this man go this way. From my experiences, he's a very nice man. He deserves a better send out.
I hope they don't take away his retired number.
Maybe we could do something nice for him as a whole group. Maybe if we all write him a little message of thanks and well wishes and somehow get it to him.
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Post by FIUFan on May 23, 2007 8:13:47 GMT -5
WOW. I just saw on Channel 7 that DP wasn't allowed to hold his press conference on campus, he had to hold it "across the street." WTF is wrong with PG to not allow this man, who helped build the ONLY respectable program our school has ever seen.... umm... I'm sure Women's hoops and Men's Soccer would beg to differ here. As far as how this is being handled; I wish Danny could have gone out gracefully with a final season but my impression is he was going to fight this until the bitter end. He could have announced his retirement at the beginning of the season and made this year his swan song. Then if he did anything, i.e win a regional or something, then he would have had leverage with other situations. Unfortunately he was as obstinate as he ever was and is now paying the price (no pun intended) with an unceremonious end. It's a tough situation, but in my opinion, you've got to break a few eggs to make a cake.
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Post by FIUBlue82 on May 23, 2007 8:18:19 GMT -5
www.miamiherald.com/588/story/115765.htmlFIU BASEBALL FIU's Price heartbroken after getting fired Danny Price commented for the first time since he was let go after 28 years as the baseball coach at FIU. BY PETE PELEGRIN ppelegrin@MiamiHerald.com After nearly 35 years with Florida International University baseball, Danny Price said his good-byes at an impromptu news conference in Tamiami Park on Tuesday afternoon. Price had been with FIU since the baseball program began in 1973. He was an outfielder who got the first hit in the program's history and was the first team captain. Price became head coach in 1980 and won more than 1,000 games. But after five seasons without a postseason appearance, Price was dismissed Saturday night after the Golden Panthers were swept by Florida Atlantic and eliminated from qualifying for the Sun Belt Conference tournament. Refraining from comment since his dismissal, Price spoke for the first time Tuesday. Said Price, ``Let me tell you wholeheartedly that when I look at you today, yes my heart's broken, part of it torn out. My uniform was torn off. Yes, I'm hurting . . . This is one of the hardest things I've ever done, but I didn't quit on anybody.'' This season, the Golden Panthers were 26-29 overall and 12-17 in the conference, where they finished in 10th place. Price believed that even with his third losing season in 28 years, he could have turned the program around and got back to the NCAA postseason for the first time since 2002. ''My only regrets are I didn't get to do it my way,'' Price said. 'My way would have been for the administration to have come to me and say, `Coach, you've been here 28 years. How can we help to get back on top?' I wasn't asked that.'' Price said when he met with athletic director Pete Garcia late Saturday, Garcia 'asked me how do you want to handle this?. . . . He just kept alluding to resigning and I just said, `Pete, I don't quit. I won't quit. It's not part of my stuff.' '' Apparently, after Price was let go, there was a misunderstanding at the baseball stadium. Price said Tuesday he was escorted off campus by university police late Saturday. But the FIU athletic department sent out a statement Tuesday night saying it never called the police to escort Price off campus. ''No sir, that was not case,'' said FIU Chief of Police Bill King, when asked if police had been called to escort Price. ``That might have been Coach Price's perception. . . . Officers didn't even know he was terminated. I don't think we would ever have to escort a person like Danny. I think it was just a matter of different perspectives.'' According to King, university public safety officials on duty noticed a ''suspicious vehicle'' in front of the baseball stadium late Saturday with its lights on and front door open. Upon investigating, officers met Price on the ground floor near the stadium elevator, where he informed them of his firing. Reached for comment Tuesday night at the Sun Belt meetings in Destin, Garcia said: ``Danny Price built this program and Danny Price will always be welcomed back. We will always be grateful for what he was able to accomplish here. He is as good a human being as you will ever meet. You can't mention FIU baseball without mentioning Danny Price.''
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Post by FIUFootballer on May 23, 2007 8:28:51 GMT -5
WOW. I just saw on Channel 7 that DP wasn't allowed to hold his press conference on campus, he had to hold it "across the street." WTF is wrong with PG to not allow this man, who helped build the ONLY respectable program our school has ever seen.... umm... I'm sure Women's hoops and Men's Soccer would beg to differ here. Sorry but I'm a football die-hard and a flu-like-symptoms-hard basketball and baseball fan, womans b-ball and soccer are not in my realm of major college sports. Either way, very dissapointed in PG. I always gaive him the benefit of the doubt, even when he fired DP, but to disrespect a man that has done and committed so much of his life to our school is unacceptable.
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Post by FIUMAN on May 23, 2007 8:59:25 GMT -5
Maybe we could do something nice for him as a whole group. Maybe if we all write him a little message of thanks and well wishes and somehow get it to him. That is a great idea. We can possibly email him if his FIU's email is still valid and he checks it we can send it to priced@fiu.edu or group all the letters and have someone that is in contact with him deliver them.
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Post by MiRi on May 23, 2007 9:45:05 GMT -5
I was thinking if we make a thread here and everyone can just post a little message for him. I'll print it out and see if I can get it to him somehow. I don't know if his FIU email address still works. I doubt it.
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Post by jdsippin on May 23, 2007 10:53:56 GMT -5
I’ll start by saying it was time for a coaching change in baseball…but wow!..not allowed to have the press conference in the stadium he built(yes he raised the $$$)...I feel bad for FIU athletics and their fans...this lack of respect is becoming very obvious and has no place in college athletics...even the Garcia supporters on this board have to admit this was disgraceful...they owed it to Danny to work something out (settlement, reassign, etc.)...they obviously did not really attempt to try and work it out by calling a coach in on a Sat night when his emotions are all over the place...then just firing him...even if they asked him to retire first, this was not the way to handle it...Garcia and his administration is making way too many enemies with the former FIU staff and supporters and I will bet that something is going to come back and bite him…and it could be in a big way causing a huge negative impact on FIU athletics…time will tell.
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Post by fiufan on May 23, 2007 19:37:57 GMT -5
Total disgrace by the FIU administration in the way they handled this. FIUFAN, your comments:
"Unfortunately he was as obstinate as he ever was and is now paying the price (no pun intended) with an unceremonious end.
It's a tough situation, but in my opinion, you've got to break a few eggs to make a cake. "
are off base. There was no price to pay, except the one that Pete didn't give Danny. I'll tell you what's tough, no respect for someone who built this program and put FIU on the map. Don't even compare the women's basketball program and the baseball program, I've been with both coaches on the road and Cindy can't compare to Danny. Danny's blood, sweat, and tears are all over this program.
I spoke to Danny Sunday night and he obviously was upset. All he wanted was an opportunity to sit down with Pete and get some support. Pete knows what he is doing, he wanted his own regime and say he got FIU on the right track and then bolt to UM when Paul Dee leaves next year.
Danny will bounce back and will be okay along with his wife and Danny Jr. Let's move on, but I am disgusted in the way this went down.
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Post by FIUFan on May 24, 2007 8:32:15 GMT -5
You know fiufan I'm glad you are pushing me to say what I really feel about the baseball program. First let me say I was a fan before the days of Mike Lowell and I remember teams that scared the crap out of you. Those teams would run at the drop of a hat, they had speed to burn at every position. The pitching was awesome, you could rattle off the four starters in the rotation and know you were going to get solid performances from everybody; remember the teams with Collazo and Banks and the freshman flame-thrower. Those teams played great defense, pitched and ran.
Lately his teams have had little pitching, play poor defense and wait around for the three-run homer. FIU, the STATE school in Miami, should be a threat to go to Omaha every single year. Instead, we are mired in the depths of an also-ran southern conference.
What happened to the teams of the 90's? Was there a key departure? Does the program have a black-cloud over it when it comes to recruitment? I don't have the answer to any of these questions. What I do know, is the program is getting progressively worse. We got swept by an 8th seed FAU. We haven't beaten the UCG in a number of years. We missed the Sun Belt tourney finishing 10th out of 11 teams. We finished under .500 when half our schedule is full of Her Lady's Charity of the Northeast.
This program needs fresh blood. Danny has seen the writing on the wall for the last 2 or 3 seasons. This guy had a chance to go out a hero when Mello was around; he chose to fight, and that's commendable, but fiufan he's got no more bullets.
Danny chose not to face reality so our new AD faced it for him.
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Post by FIUBlue82 on May 24, 2007 8:33:45 GMT -5
Joe Rose took a shot at Danny Price this morning. He asked a great question (which I am paraphrasing, not quoting). "How many kids from Miami-Dade does Danny Price have on that roster? There's no excuse for not having more or a better record since FIU is located in Miami..."
I AGREE, Joe.
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Post by FIUFootballer on May 24, 2007 9:32:15 GMT -5
Fan - I don't think the issue is whether Danny should have been fired, it's more a problem with the way he was fired and the total lack of respect or appreciation. Just not the right way to lead an administration.
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Post by FIUFan on May 24, 2007 10:05:18 GMT -5
I tend to agree with you 'Footballer, but PG comes in with a lot less of the emotional baggage we all carry for this University.
Given that, this guys in a hurry, which I appreciate since I'm more of a sports fan than a politician.
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