RE: This book is a home run waiting to happen

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Sep 19, 2024
7:14:13pm

HiLife All-American

RE: This book is a home run waiting to happen

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New Vale Hale book: “Out of the Blue”

The Y's Insider

10:38am

He did his best. He was never the right guy for a role like that. Rondo would

fulano

10:42am

He went on to be a Vice President at UVU and President of the Chamber of Commerc

byubyu

10:47am

His AD role at BYU qualified him for those roles (resume wise anyway)

fulano

10:51am

He was in the AD office like 20 years before being named AD. He was qualified

byubyu

11:04am

OK. I work with a lot of people who have been in my industry/company 20+ years

fulano

11:06am

And I'm saying his resume was impressive enough to get those jobs prior to

byubyu

11:17am

Not sure what Val did to hurt you, but I hope you can recover

NYC and Japan

12:54pm

Okay, but you acted like he went from AD to high school girl's basketball ref as a career move.

Knee Brace

11:05am

you are right. My bad. I did not know about his career. I just saw him reffing

fulano

11:08am

That’s his point. None of those things are athletics related.

andrewg3

1:25pm

No. His point was that Val was officiating 9th grade girls games and using that

byubyu

1:32pm

True. He didn't flame out, but he wasn't a great athletics mind either. Former

andrewg3

2:43pm

Val Hal would lik a word with you.

Q-grr

10:42am

I remember taking a Comm class with Val. He was a good guy . . .

85fan

10:43am

Me too. He was a very good professor. AD, not so much, but he is a great guy.

cosmohio

11:29am

Val sucked

10:49am

This book is a home run waiting to happen

Hazzard

12:30pm

RE: This book is a home run waiting to happen

Coop

12:48pm

RE: This book is a home run waiting to happen

HiLife

7:14pm

What a disaster the AD became under his stewardship.

ebv

1:44pm

The trio of Val, Skousen, and Bateman nearly killed BYU athletics

arizonacougarfan

2:01pm

And the BOT members who promoted & appointed them. We'll leave them unnamed, of course.

SinkingQuffa

2:44pm

uh oh

BYU Grounds

3:41pm

In some ways Bateman was to academics what Hale was to athletics.

Emmett Fitz-Hume

3:56pm

Let he who has not pretended to be Gertrude Himmelfarb throw the first stone!

calvindyer

4:54pm

At least Val Hale didn't pull a UU business valuation, a la the PAC.

TrueBlue67

2:40pm

Guys, it was Bateman that sucked not Val. They hired Val cause they

bookofdaniel

3:17pm

He was the worst ever. Such a terrible president.

3:47pm

I think there's a lot of truth to this. That said, while Val may have been good

Emmett Fitz-Hume

3:48pm

He couldn’t do his job the way he wanted it. In a way, Bateman was the AD. Every

bookofdaniel

4:24pm

The switch to navy and tan was 100% Bateman's idea, not Hale's. Hale was

Threw and Through

5:02pm

You summed up everything I was trying to say with this. Next time I’ll just

bookofdaniel

5:48pm

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