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Sep 19, 2024
4:54:32pm

calvindyer All-American

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

You telling me you have have stolen even a little Himmelfarb to impress your friends?

Never recited a little Getrude to win over your spouse or tennis buddies?

We were all mesmerized by some late night CSPAN with the famed historian and it just gets into your bones!

Plus Batemen had that wavy white hair like pristine duck.

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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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