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New NCAA President Announced

Very interesting. Baker has a really good calm under pressure demeanor. He's been vocally under fire as a Republican president in highly democratic MA for 2 terms, so he's got experience being hated. He was generally well liked and respected though. Also has an MBA and CEO experience of 1,000+ company.

Played basketball at Harvard, so loves ball.

It's a surprisingly inspired choice, but I'm surprised he agreed to do it.
 
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auror said:
Very interesting. Baker has a really good calm under pressure demeanor. He's been vocally under fire as a Republican president in highly democratic MA for 2 terms, so he's got experience being hated. He was generally well liked and respected though. Also has an MBA and CEO experience of 1,000+ company.

Played basketball at Harvard, so loves ball.
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Second for generally well-liked and respected… coming from my liberal daughter that’s high praise.
 
auror said:
He's been vocally under fire as a Republican president in highly democratic MA for 2 terms, so he's got experience being hated.
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Another comparison: He has experience being in an executive position that functions more as a prominent voice than a real power broker
 
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auror said:
Very interesting. Baker has a really good calm under pressure demeanor. He's been vocally under fire as a Republican president in highly democratic MA for 2 terms, so he's got experience being hated. He was generally well liked and respected though. Also has an MBA and CEO experience of 1,000+ company.

Played basketball at Harvard, so loves ball.

It's a surprisingly inspired choice, but I'm surprised he agreed to do it.
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Well he's not exactly hated. He has the highest approval rating of any governor. And he's a Republican in a highly Democratic state. The only person who didn't like him was the former president of the U.S. who called him a RINO (Republican in name only) because he's a moderate Republican and not far right.

I think he'll do a good job. He's a good leader. He's a good guy too. Not a slime bucket like Emmert.
 
HooperScooper said:
Well he's not exactly hated. He has the highest approval rating of any governor. And he's a Republican in a highly Democratic state. The only person who didn't like him was the former president of the U.S. who called him a RINO (Republican in name only) because he's a moderate Republican and not far right.

I think he'll do a good job. He's a good leader. He's a good guy too. Not a slime bucket like Emmert.
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Yeah that's why I said he was generally well-liked. But he is/was absolutely hated by some on the opposite side of his political spectrum (and really like you said the people on both extremes). Just saying he has experience being a scapegoat and pariah at times (see COVID policies when people were really passionate).
 
I live in Massachusetts and Charlie Baker is well liked by most. He is a middle of the road guy so the political extremes tend to not like his policies. And, he is a nice guy and he seems to listen to all sides. Is he always right? No and I think he would agree with me. With all the upheaval going on with college sports, I'm surprised that he is willing to take the job, but I wish hm good luck! And, Charlie, shouldn't there be more P5 schools in New England?
 
Wow this is a surprise. He was a very popular governor, very practical in his approach to most things. Quite moderate. I think he'll be good at this, but I never saw much outward interest in sports from him, so it is certainly unexpected. Hopefully they don't expect him to move to Indiana.
 
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auror said:
Very interesting. Baker has a really good calm under pressure demeanor. He's been vocally under fire as a Republican president in highly democratic MA for 2 terms, so he's got experience being hated. He was generally well liked and respected though. Also has an MBA and CEO experience of 1,000+ company.

Played basketball at Harvard, so loves ball.

It's a surprisingly inspired choice, but I'm surprised he agreed to do it.
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Don’t you see his being from Massachusetts is clearly a plan by Emmett to make us pay for BC stinking!!!!!!
 
It is an unenviable job for many reasons, but particularly coming in after the sheet show that was Emmert. He sounds like he is more of a consensus builder than a disruptor. That’s normally a good thing, but probably not in this case. We need someone to re-define the NCAA‘s role. At this point they are so inconsistent/ineffective in policing in the rules are so Byzantine that there discipline/enforcement arm probably needs to be completely rethought.

Basically, I think he will be a caretaker until the P5 decides to break off from the NCAA. He’s probably as good as anyone at that position.
 
auror said:
It's a surprisingly inspired choice, but I'm surprised he agreed to do it.
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That's what I thought as well -- very surprised he'd agree to it. But him, his wife, and two of his kids were all college athletes. Also a Mass resident -- he's very well liked as well, did a great job during COVID I thought (compared to his counterparts in neighboring states cough NY cough RI) but I think this is a slam dunk hire by the NCAA, which is an impressive statement to put in writing.
 
Charlie Baker is one of the few good ones along with Ned, now Ned make sure your boy Charlie gets us a seat at the table...

Governor Lamont Statement on Appointment of Governor Baker as President of the NCAA
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superjohn said:
Charlie Baker is one of the few good ones along with Ned, now Ned make sure your boy Charlie gets us a seat at the table...

Governor Lamont Statement on Appointment of Governor Baker as President of the NCAA
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Why is Lamont releasing a statement about Baker? Does he always comment on things that have nothing to do with him?
 
superjohn said:
Charlie Baker is one of the few good ones along with Ned, now Ned make sure your boy Charlie gets us a seat at the table...

Governor Lamont Statement on Appointment of Governor Baker as President of the NCAA
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Ned is considering presidential run. Depends on Biden’s decision. Ned is joes favorite governor in country so Ned will stay out of way. But point being ( and I don’t want to get into politics here and get banned) Ned Lamont is a player and people on both sides of aisle like him. Kind of like Baker is my overarching point, whom I respect.
 
If you could believe the predictions of doom
Hiring a new president for the NCAA is like changing captains on the the Titanic after it hit the ice berg
 
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Another thought about Charlie is that his financial experience may be perfect for leading the NCAA into the NIL era. Its great that they didn't pick some college administrator for the position
 
the king is dead, long live the king
 
Meh Doesn't make any difference who heads the insane asylum
They are all crazy and incompetent
 
Charlie Baker has always been pretty well recieved during his tenure as Governor (coming from a Boston resident). A little shaky at the end, but I think the big thing here is going to be his connections in the government with the NIL litigation and power struggle with the P5 possibly breaking away. The more I look at it the more it makes sense.

Interesting point though: He was a big proponent in getting sports gambling legalized in Massachusetts and had his fingerprints all over it.
 
Westies53 said:
Charlie Baker has always been pretty well recieved during his tenure as Governor (coming from a Boston resident). A little shaky at the end, but I think the big thing here is going to be his connections in the government with the NIL litigation and power struggle with the P5 possibly breaking away. The more I look at it the more it makes sense.

Interesting point though: He was a big proponent in getting sports gambling legalized in Massachusetts and had his fingerprints all over it.
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Well said!
 
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