It’s the end of an era in Westchester. The women’s volleyball coach at LMU, Steve Stratos, has coached his last game as the Lions head coach. It was announced today that Bill Husak will not renew his contract as Head Coach. While the Lions have had a less than stellar year, and I do think change is important in an athletic program, I think it’s important to examine the real reason why LMU Athletics has been unsuccessful the past few years.
The answer: Bill Husak.

As you know, my friend Reid is playing volleyball overseas in Russia.  He was just inducted into the Loyola Marymount University Hall of Fame last weekend and he asked me to attend and accept on his behalf.  It was a great honor and extremely humbling to represent Reid and I’m truly thankful for the opportunity.  

It was a little disappointing that the Athletic Director, Bill Husak, didn’t show face since he’s the one that dropped our men’s volleyball program.  I don’t expect much from him anyway, I mean look what he’s done with…

The Vista’s Magazine I blogged about earlier is finally here.  The hard copies should be arriving any day now, but they’ve already posted the article online.  You can check it out here…

I knew going in that one of the highlights of the Web Expo would be hearing Jason Fried speak.  For those of you who aren’t familiar with Jason, he currently runs 37signals and also developed Ruby on Rails.  His talk was great, very informative, precise, and to the point.

I also attended sessions on “The reinvention of marketing and PR” and “Lesson’s learned in scaling and building social systems”.  Both were interesting, but I was still hoping to learn more.  I still haven’t had that “wow” moment yet.