The recent “inaccurate resume” scandal may be claiming another victim this month. This time it involves U.S. Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin, who recently acknowledged discrepancies in her academic credentials that could jeopardize her position in the international sports community.
The recent “inaccurate resume” scandal may be claiming another victim this month.
This time it involves U.S. Olympic Committee president Sandra Baldwin, who recently acknowledged discrepancies in her academic credentials that could jeopardize her position in the international sports community.
I say let Baldwin stay and fire the no-life, asinine reporter who decided to spend his newspaper’s money to research George O’Leary’s background last December. After all, “O’Leary’s little lie” was the story that spawned the whole, “fire the qualified for being unqualified” fad which has Baldwin in a pickle right now.
O’Leary lost his job as Notre Dame’s football coach five days after leaving Georgia Tech. He falsely claimed that he had a master’s degree in education from New York University and had earned three letters as a New Hampshire football player.
I don’t care if he played parchezee with a blind chimpanzee when he was in college. If he is a good football coach and can maintain a successful program, he should be the guy wearing the head set and clipboard.
Athletic programs in Kaua’i aren’t that stupid.
I don’t think Waimea High School Athletic Director James Kitamura would ask for head football coach Jon Kobayashi’s resignation if he found the coach lied about playing for the Menehunes during his prep years (he did play for Waimea, by the way).
Kitamura wouldn’t care if Kobayashi played towel boy for his high school’s ultimate frisbee team as long as the coach continues to produce a respectable football program each year.
Since when did O’Leary’s letters at New Hampshire matter, anyway? Was Baldwin’s failure to complete her dissertation the reason the Olympic Committee couldn’t find a panel of ice-skating judges who didn’t have something against Canadians?
– “It’s an embarrassment to the University,” said a Notre Dame spokesman upon confirming O’Leary’s resignation.
I’d say the amount of television coverage Notre Dame gets despite their overrated football program (5 wins, 6 losses in 2001-2002 season) is what’s embarrassing (not to mention how four of its players were just charged in the rape of a fellow student). O’Leary might have been the guy who could have brought the Fighting Irish back to its classic upbringing.
– “I should have changed it a long time ago, but once it was published it got paralyzing,” admitted Baldwin. “Now I’m going to have to live with it for the rest of my life.”
Live with what? The fact that you’ve reached the pinnacle of the American Olympics Committee without a doctorate?
I find that impressive, unlike the writer for the University of Colorado’s alumni association, who threatened to publish Baldwin’s inaccuracies in a profile.
It’s a good thing that TGI could care less about where Waimea Basketball Coach Matt Taba went to school, or whether a KIF Umpire may have lied about his years as a little league referee.
If they are established, good at what they do and are consistently productive, they should be able to get away with the insignificant lies that got them through the door.
