Re: RE: Tuna on Administrative Support

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In a message dated 12/14/96 3:50:36 PM, Matt Stannard wrote:

>This is just a hunch, but it seems to me that the vast majority
>of coaches who "don't like the direction debate is going" are
>people who've been coaching a long time.  Burnout, perhaps
>has set in, along with the understandable bitterness that comes
>from a lack of appreciation from one's peers and superiors for
>the time one has put into something she loves.

There is no doubt that debate can be demanding and exhausting, but then so is
coaching any big time college sport or continuing throughout one's career the
kind of publishing pace one might have during that time between appointment
to a tenure track position and the tenure decision itself.

The unfortunate thing about debate is that often instead of "retiring" from
coaching or seeking a different job debate coaches may "retire" their
programs to something far less demanding, or else have a "dummy" program
which does very little travel, invites the British team once a year, has an
on-campus debate once a year, etc.

I have seen this happen, and it is sad, because it is the students who are
often losing out because coaches won't leave their coaching jobs when their
desire to really coach has waned.

Tuna
A. C. Snider, University of Vermont

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