Walter Offutt

[BirdGrad2011]

I believe he is referring to your post where you were talking about the rumored names for a replacement for Offutt.

I’m not putting any names out because it’s only rumored and I don’t think it’s anywhere far enough along to even bank on.

I trust Pedon will get it right.

 

[TIMMY]

Rollie Massimino.

 

[BTbird]

His last night as a coach was Night With The Redbirds. His office was cleaned out by the next day. He was never planning on returning.

That is bizarre.

 

[Buffett1]

There’s no names to put to anything. His last night as a coach was Night With The Redbirds. His office was cleaned out by the next day. He was never planning on returning.

You can speculate whatever you want, but the fact remains if it was just baby leave he wouldn’t have cleaned out his office and he would’ve been back when Pedon said the leave ended.

Odd quote then… if Pedon was aware office was cleaned out.
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Illinois State head coach Ryan Pedon said assistant coach Walter Offutt's paternity leaves ends on Jan. 30. "I assume he'll be back on the 31st," said Pedon on Friday morning.

 

[BirdGrad2011]

You realize sometimes HR and/or legal will advise not to make comment. The university itself has ever addressed it. So why would he tell Benson “golly gee I don’t know. His office is empty.”

 

[Buffett1]

You realize sometimes HR and/or legal will advise not to make comment. The university itself has ever addressed it. So why would he tell Benson “golly gee I don’t know. His office is empty.”

He said “ I assume he will be back not Golly gee as you put it. Very odd … ps when one uses the word assume…….

 

[BirdGrad2011]

Some of you are so dense. It did not catch Pedon by surprise.

 

[Buffett1]

Some of you are so dense. It did not catch Pedon by surprise.

So bad hire then. Watch the name calling.

 

[BirdGrad2011]

So bad hire then. Watch the name calling.

I suppose you could say that, but the issue didn’t arise at job offer or hiring. It was not the baby either.

 

[Buffett1]

I never said it was the baby. But ok.

 

[Humdinger]

Rollie Massimino.

Rollie got whacked. I think it was in an episode of The Sopranos. Man just looking at Rollie you knew he had to be on the arm...

 

[Buffett1]

Rollie got whacked. I think it was in an episode of The Sopranos. Man just looking at Rollie you knew he had to be on the arm...

Use to assist Chuck Daly another Good Fella. …wink wink

 

[Aggie]

Sometimes we just never know the answers to things and sometimes we probably should not know. I get “the taxpayers have a right to know”. Or, we gave money to this program and “we have a right to know”. But sometimes it is just best if you put the file folder on a corner of your desk and let time take care of it. Have no idea or inside information, but I do believe we need to chalk this up to a “mysterys of ISU” special and move on. Going forward it is so, so much more important who is chosen as the next assistant versus what could of, would have, should of happened.

 

[CaliRdBrd]

Too bad it wasn’t related to the baby. I had all kinds of “Buttigieg paternity leave” jokes lined up.

 

[SlackBooDom]

I have no idea who BG2011 is or who his particular sources are, but he’s right.

We can move on and focus on getting our new assistant, but just for clarity, he is right. Since you’re going to be snarky about it:

With how these leaves work, Offutt was far past any paid or unpaid leave he could take and keep his position. With that being the case, along with the stone wall about the subject by the department, can you provide any actual backing supporting your claim that this was just a standard parental leave? Or are you just making “broad statements with no backing?”

We don’t need to know what the specific issue was. If he truly decided to stop being a coach because he wants to be a stay-at-home Dad, great. That’s an easy, even noble, story to tell, but not the one being told.

Can you point me to where I said this was paternal leave? If you can I would happily donate to the charity of your choosing.

 

[SlackBooDom]

I’m not putting any names out because it’s only rumored and I don’t think it’s anywhere far enough along to even bank on.

I trust Pedon will get it right.

So you don’t know any of the names then?

 

[MadBird]

I would sure like to see our moderator lock this thread so "poor" coach Offutt's name doesn't keep coming up every time someone wants to throw out a possible assistant coach name or gripe about some rumor someone tosses out there about paternity leave or Pedon's "bad choices" or some other crap. Let's get a thread called Assistant Coach Crap or something and let's have at it. Let's let Coach Offutt go off into the sunset quietly.

 

[Redbirdfan76]

100% agree. Let’s all move on.

 

[BirdGrad2011]

So you don’t know any of the names then?

or maybe I don’t want to throw out a name that might not go anywhere just to have you say “you were wrong.” No shit. A hire hasn’t been made and more than 1 person is considered. It’s not solid enough for me to put it out there.

 

[Bird Friend]

We're getting another grad assistant, aren't we?