Jeff Meyer in consideration for Liberty U HC opening
Per various outlets, Michigan basketball assistant Jeff Meyer is in the mix for the Liberty University head coach position. He was the head man at LU for 16 years before being fired in 1997. It's probably worth noting that LU is a private Christian school and would probably be looking for an experienced coach who is also an Evangelical Christian (which Meyer is).
This would be a huge loss for Michigan. Aside from his coaching prowess, Meyer is the probably the best recruiter on Beilein's staff. He was the lead man on many of UM's highly rated recruits, including top 5 player Mitch McGary.
As a preemptive reminder - there is a no politics/religion rule.
Can we have a no fake colleges rule?
I think we can not as Staee and Ohio are in our conference and we play them.
hopefully he doesn't wreck their program too.
/s
If he's our best recruiter, then it's not that huge of a loss.
I have a feeling any recruiting issues (debatable as those may be) have less to do with the assistants and more to do with Beilein.
Meyer has been a very good recruiter in Indiana. There's a reason Crean hates him.
That and being a part of Kelvin Sampson's staff.
If that was it, why didn't Crean confront Meyer after any of the previous games we played against them? Meyer came here in 2010. "You wrecked out program!" happened in March 2013.
Crean's outburst came not long after Zak Irvin picked Michigan. Meyer was his lead recruiter.
I always assumed it was b/c Crean finally got IU back on track in 2013 with Zeller n co, and we just happened to be ranked #1 and lost to them at Assembly Hall. Meyer just happened to be on our coaching staff and Crean took it out on him due to being on the staff that buried IU which Crean dug IU out of somewhat.
you assume there is logic in Crean's madness. Don't try to understand his mind, it will hurt your head.
Jeff's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Meyer_%28basketball%29
It would be interesting to take the same job 18 years after you last held it.
Yeah, seems a little like.....
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(A: Fine. It would be just fine.)
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You're wrong. You're thinking of Bob Jones University. Liberty, in fact, has a contingent of minority students on par with national averages.
If you're going to criticize a school for ignorance, be careful not to be ignorant yourself.
Liberty is the one that nearly lost its tax-exempt status for banning a student group associated with a major political party from reserving campus spaces, etc., and that requires its biology department to teach young earth creationism. It's a fake school, but (unlike Bob Jones) at least possibly less racist than Ole Miss.
Kinda similar to how the University of Michigan was going to force InterVarsity off-campus for requiring its leadership to be ::gasp:: Christian.
I've now violated my own admonition. Oh well.
Just because certain people want to make a sensationalistic story out of something doesn't make it true.
Got a legitimate media source that says UM was "going to force" you off campus?
Man, let it go already. It seems clear you have an ax to grind with Liberty University, but I don't think it's that relevant to the OP.
I have an issue with fake schools calling themselves universities, yes, but ypsitucky seems to have a bone to pick with Michigan and I'm just trying to get him to be minimally responsible about what allegations he makes.
Are you really comparing Michigan with Liberty? On any level. I passed commenting my first time I was on this thread, but you have chosen to engage on the issue. This isn't just a religious school; its Jerry Falwell's school--akin to Pat Robertson's Regent University.
Now on point, if Meyer is interested in being a head coach again, this may likely be his best opportunity (at his age). On the other hand, being an assistant in our program may well be a better gig.
As is typically true of this sort of stuff, it is absolutely untrue.
http://www.michigandaily.com/news/2university-says-it-didnt-kick-christian-group-campus2
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Oh idk maybe b/c biology has nothing to do with religion?
Either way who cares. It's Liberty U for crying out loud. I don't think many people take the school seriously anyway.
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It undermines its credibility big time. If I'm a science student taking biology, I expect to be taught biology not creationism. Is that hard to understand?
If I want to be taught creationism, I'll take a course on Christianity or w/e religion's form of origin story I'm curious about.
As I said before, it's Liberty U for crying out loud.
People are really getting off-topic here.
What difference does it make what they teach there? The issue at stake is whether we might lose our assistant coach.
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March 21st, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^
Yeah the 70 something % Christian majority in this country are under serious trouble from that crazy minority...
Wait...
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March 22nd, 2015 at 12:08 AM ^
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...that one of your nose hairs created the earth 4 days ago and there is the exact same amount of scientific evidence and logical reason to believe either story. So yes, they might be teaching the truth..
if only there were ways of knowing if it were the truth. Like, some method people could use to measure the evidence against and for the hypothesis.
i hate humanity
Do you also have no problem with UNC teaching fake African American Studies classes? I mean, if they'd rather do that, they should be allowed to, right?
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not from a scientific or intellectual standpoint--you know, the purpose of education.
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It's like this:
If someone truly believes in Jesus as god or son of god and in the alleged miracles he performed then no, they are not intelligent. So if that's what you mean by intelligent Christians then there is no such thing. I can prove this logically.
Some people who've never thought deeply about their beliefs or questioned them can have their eyes opened by the simple logic of why it's absurd to believe. Others whose only response to logic is blind and unfounded believe are beyond reaching.
If by Christian, you include people who believe in the core teachings/philosophy of life and how to treat each other, of the almost assuredly fictional character of Jesus, without believing the hokus pokus or beleiving because of the myths of hokus pokus, then intelligent Christians do exist.
The worst of the worst are those that believe because of the alleged hokus pokus and out of fear of punishment but they actually abhor everything about what the alleged Jesus actually stood for and preached and taught. That makes up the vast majority of American self proclaimed Christians.
I'm an athiest or anti-thiest but I'm much more of a Christian than most who claim to be.
People who share the thinking and feeling of Jesus would be killed by most "Christians" and most American's if they had the chance, if they didn't actually think it was the real Jesus. They'd call him a communist, a socialist, a dirty libral, a hippy, a terrorist, and worst of all, anti Amuracan!
But at the end of the day, most people aren't well versed enough in the history, philosophy, evolutionary biology, physics and other various academic disciplines that could be drawn upon to truly make an exceptional, compelling case for being a devout Christian or fervent atheist. And that's why it's almost always best to just drown out the folks who feel the need insist that their stance on religion is the correct one.
March 22nd, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^
I am amazed that there are so many educated people who apparently deny scientific analysis and proof.