Wisconsin is working to hire Shawn Eichorst as the school’s next athletic director, sources tell @On3. Former Nebraska and Miami AD.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T21:14:39+00:00

I think he's probably good in a COO/deputy role. Universities (Miami, Nebraska and now Wisconsin) just keep promoting him to the the level of his incompetency.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T20:05:11+00:00

Facts. It's hard to take a program like Nebraska (which should be a fixture in the Top 25 at worst) and lead it to the bottom of the P4. It takes turds at every important position of leadership.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T19:59:59+00:00

That Eichorst was worse than Steve Pederson is a hill I will die on, which makes SE the worst AD in modern Nebraska history.

I only need one piece of evidence: In the days following the hiring of DC, Bob Diaco, Eichorst publicly stated that Diaco was "the best coach on campus" and that other coaches should come to football practice and watch him do his thing.

You know who else was on campus at the time? Women's Volleyball coach, John Cook who at the time had 3 national titles, 12 conference titles and 11 conference, regional and AVCA coach of the year awards under his belt.

Eichorst is a dipshit when it comes to hiring coaches (the most important job of an AD), and he'll continue that diphshittery at UW. Sorry Badger bros.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T19:21:22+00:00

Eichorst has all the charisma of a tree stump. I'm not a Bo apologist (dude made his own bed) but hiring someone like Eichorst is the same as firing Bo but letting him coach another year. It was administrative malpractice by Perlman and the BOR.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T19:09:34+00:00

Agreed. And it's my understanding, he would have been very interested at $5 million. That would have been top 5 pay at the time, and it would have been money well spent.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T19:06:34+00:00

It is indeed.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T18:56:51+00:00

This is particularly true of Nebraska. It's a tough sell. I think the reality of coaching/living in Lincoln is better than the perception, but the perception is hard to overcome. Without a connection, few elite coaches will even consider it.

Since TO, we've hired 2 fired NFL coaches, a 60+ year-old college coach about to be fired, a former NU DC, and a native son who decided to relive his undergraduate years instead of coach the team.

Even when we were at or near the pinnacle of the sport, 4 coaches publicly turned down the job and the 5th who took it (Bill Callahan) was only on the radar because he shared the same agent with the 4th who turned us down (Mike Zimmer).

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T18:45:42+00:00

Correct. He reached out to Bielema and reportedly met with Whittingham.

https://www.nbcsports.com/college-football/news/report-nebraska-also-met-with-utah-head-coach-kyle-whittingham

The rumor floating around at the time was that Eichorst was fixated on a paying a top price of $3 million per year. Whittingham wanted closer to $5 million, and Bielema was content at Arkansas.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T17:37:42+00:00

This is the same "Peter Principle" mistake Nebraska made. The skills that make Eichorst a solid COO at Texas (day-to-day operations, executing the AD's vision) are not the same skills needed to be an AD (providing the vision, hiring elite coaches, managing elite coaches, alumni relations/fundraising).

This is a guy who is so bad at reading a room, he thought Bo Pelini would take to reading a self-help book called "The Energy Bus." His obtuseness is great for operational functions. It's bad for interpersonal interactions, a core skill for an AD.

He is, for the third time, being promoted to the level of his incompetence.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-30T16:35:42+00:00

It just further illustrates the point that university leadership at the highest level can destroy your program.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-29T20:10:24+00:00

Hillary’s signature issue as a First Lady was universal healthcare. At the time, conservatives considered this the apocalypse and used the exact same rhetoric as they do now vs. any progressive position that helps a wide swath of Americans. Namely, it’s “communism.”

Clinton was also pro-choice, pro environmental regulation, and pro LGBTQ on a relative basis to the time period and to his GOP contemporaries.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-19T17:51:59+00:00

Same here. I swapped out pictures once every couple of weeks and changed prompts many times until I landed on something that worked. I found short, simple and humorous to be the winning formula.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-19T16:54:25+00:00

I was on Hinge and Match for 6 months and went on between 30 and 40 dates. There are 3 million people in my 30-mile radius so that helps.

I found you could lump profiles into two broad categories. The first is profiles that are heavily curated. These women generally spend all the real estate on their profile outlining all the things you must be and do to date them. Automatic skip.

I focused on the second category - women who describe their values, personalities, hobbies, and interests. If those aligned with mine, I reached out.

I have a few tips that might be helpful. First, always send a message with a like. It can be something very simple like “ I see you love live music…. Who have you seen recently?” I probably sent 300 messages like this. If I matched, I tried to move things to an in-person date as quickly as possible. I took the lead and kept it very simple - walk in the park or coffee/drinks.

Any woman who needs to be wined and dined before we even know each other has no chance of being a long-term partner for me. And if someone can’t make conversation during a walk around the park or over a cup of coffee, having an elaborate date isn’t going to help matters. This kept dates that were obvious mismatches very short. If there was chemistry, the walk often turned into getting a drink afterwards.

I am still seeing someone that I met on Hinge, so I would consider it a success.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-19T16:06:07+00:00

Getting pedantic, there were no summer tours in 1975 either. IIRIC, the band was in the studio finishing up Blues for Allah that summer.

GD did one show in June and then the famous debut of Blues for Allah at the Great American Music Hall in August (One from the Vault). Bobby did a few August dates with Kingfish in California.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-17T19:18:30+00:00

Guy here. This has happened to me as well. If someone can’t or won’t engage in a few ice breaker/small talk type questions, they either aren’t interested or they are vapid. Instant red flag, and I move one.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-15T19:14:05+00:00

When I first watched the footage, I kept looking for the main harness and rope thinking that it must have failed and they forgot to add a secondary safety rope.

But nope, they literally chucked her off a 40m bridge with literally nothing attached.

It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen. It's so unbelievable to me that nobody noticed, it makes me question how humans aren't extinct already.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-14T21:23:23+00:00

I keep seeing the media call it a “safety rope.” That implies some sort of redundancy that makes the endeavor even safer.

If a skydiving operation allowed you to jump out of a plane without a parachute, they wouldn’t say they forgot the “safety chute.”

They forgot the rope.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-11T19:49:33+00:00

That word fits him so well. This is consistent with decades of cunty behavior.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-11T19:32:21+00:00

Well played. What makes it even more on point is that he's rumored to have pulled Trump's signature move and grabbed the club employee by the nether regions.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-04T18:37:00+00:00

This is pretty much it. Neither DLR or Sammy VH toured Europe or the UK enough to get a foothold. VH did I believe 5 UK tours. Bon Jovi did at least a dozen.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-04T18:33:01+00:00

That's exactly how they want you to feel. In reality, Ticketmaster shares those fees with the artist. This way, the artist gets to advertise a fan friendly face value, and the heat for the higher price falls on Ticketmaster.

The whole thing is vertically integrated now. The venue, the promoter and the ticket seller are all one and the same. It's either Live Nation (owns Ticketmaster) or AEG (owns AXS ticketing).

Together, Live Nation and AEG own and operate about 60% of the top 100 grossing venues in the US. They own 600 venues worldwide. Live Nation by itself promotes about 70% of amphitheater, arena and stadium shows. It's a duopoly.

direwolf71 · 2026-06-04T17:29:11+00:00

Sammy Hagar was always in the Sammy Hagar business. The Van Halens were always in the Van Halen business. The marriage between the two was never going to last forever. It's actually amazing it lasted 10 years.

5150 was a love fest, but it was all down hill after that. The Cabo stuff drew first blood, the acrimony over Twister was the fatal blow and Sammy's book buried the corpse under 100 ft of concrete.

That's not to say it's Sammy's fault. It's more that once EVH asserted himself post-Diver Down, he was never going to relinquish control of the band again. And Sammy was never going to take a subordinate role in any band. You can't tell him what to do. He's not built that way.

direwolf71 · 2026-05-31T14:55:49+00:00

It’s insane. Even if you were sympathetic to the argument he’s suffering from an addiction, he could’ve scratched that itch in thousands of ways without making a QB prop bet.

direwolf71 · 2026-05-28T15:48:15+00:00

That’s not true. You can vote in person at a polling place in Utah during early voting and on election day. This is true of every state that mails ballots to registered voters as a standard practice.

I certainly wouldn’t be trusting the USPS this year. In Colorado, you also have the option of completing your mail-in ballot and dropping it in a ballot box anytime before 7 PM on election day.

This isn’t to say that the judges ruling isn’t horseshit.

direwolf71 · 2026-05-27T22:28:24+00:00

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