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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #15 on: June 03, 2019, 03:21:02 pm »
stanley thinks athletics are incredibly important, is a big fan of bball, builds partnership, connects alumni.  cuts across socio-economic boundaries, focus on students first (athletics second).
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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2019, 02:44:48 pm »
Why Michigan State made 'home run' hire with sports-loving president Samuel Stanley
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2019/10/05/michigan-state-football-basketball-samuel-stanley-athletics/3881709002/

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ROSEMONT, Ill. – Steve Pikiell had been the men’s basketball coach at Stony Brook for four years when Dr. Samuel Stanley Jr. took over as president in 2009.

That season, the Seawolves made the National Invitation Tournament for the first time in program history. Seven years and six 20-win seasons later, they made their NCAA tournament debut.

And it began a record growth – both in other sports and with new facilities – for a university that was created in 1957 and an athletic program that had been in Division I for 25 years.

Pikiell, now the basketball coach at Rutgers, called Michigan State’s hiring of his old boss “a home run.” And for more than sports.

“We had a lot of firsts when he was there in athletics, and he was very supportive,” Pikiell said Wednesday at Big Ten media day. “But he did a great job for the whole university and the campus. He built new buildings. A visionary. Really a great guy, very smart and a great family guy. Just all the characteristics you want in a president.”

Hundreds of millions of dollars in donations poured in to Stony Brook – a 26,000-student university on Long Island in New York – for everything from new dorms to a computer science building to a $194 million cancer center that opened in January.

Pikiell called Stanley, who began at MSU on Aug. 1, an intelligent family man who “loves sports, loves student-athletes.”

“He would come to all the games – basketball, football, lacrosse, tennis, baseball. I mean, he’s a home run,” Pikiell said. “He’s a sports guy, likes all sports. … He’s a really good hire and he’s gonna help make the Big Ten even better.”
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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #17 on: October 08, 2019, 03:47:16 pm »
So many wrong facts in that article

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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2022, 05:17:21 pm »
And just like that in three years he's out.....

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/10/13/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-resigns-loss-of-confidence-board-of-trustees/69560712007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-announces-resignation/#x

Not exactly sure what was happening behind the scenes that could have drove him our or what have you, but MSU was always going to be a tough job with everything he was walking into from the get go.

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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2022, 05:57:01 pm »
not a lot of details in the press other than a faculty member got drunk at an event and touched someone... the articles seem to imply that stanley wanted the board to investigate.  but its worded so oddly...

in any event- reading the comments to this video statement, this is NOT a popular decision:
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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #20 on: October 18, 2022, 11:21:34 am »
And just like that in three years he's out.....

https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/10/13/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-resigns-loss-of-confidence-board-of-trustees/69560712007/

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/video/michigan-state-university-president-samuel-stanley-announces-resignation/#x

Not exactly sure what was happening behind the scenes that could have drove him our or what have you, but MSU was always going to be a tough job with everything he was walking into from the get go.

that school has been a mess for almost a decade now.

I was surprised he would leave Stony Brook to jump into such situation in the first place
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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #21 on: October 18, 2022, 06:38:49 pm »
This is pure conjecture but I wouldn’t be surprised if Stanley found it difficult to deal with woke extremism that some of the Trustees were pushing.

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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #22 on: November 01, 2022, 01:22:25 am »
Another athletics related embarrassment for Michigan State this past saturday. Geez.

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Re: Stanley named president of Michigan State
« Reply #23 on: November 01, 2022, 03:30:50 pm »
Another athletics related embarrassment for Michigan State this past saturday. Geez.

Yeah, that was really bad, and technically it's under Stanley since he hasn't left yet, only announced he's GOING TO resign. Ouch.