![]() ![]() Things would have been different if Rick Hartzell were still the athletic director at Northern Iowa. They've changed dramatically, and for the worse. If you care about the University of Northern Iowa, who do you believe? Who do you trust?ĭo you trust Dannen? Schellhardt? O’Connor? Allen? All of the above? None of the above? Pick your poison. To be fair, O'Connor acknolwedged he might have been out of the loop. Allen was not available, but shortly later another of the school’s vice presidents – Jim O’Connor – returned the call on Allen’s behalf and flatly denied that any decisions had been made to drop the sport. ![]() Last week, when the story broke that UNI was dropping baseball, a reporter called UNI President Ben Allen’s office for comment. Tom Schellhardt, the vice president who oversees the athletic department, assured Coach Rick Heller his program would not be cut, and then it was. Troy Dannen, UNI’s director of athletics, said he wouldn’t cut any sports to solve budget problems, then did just that when he announced last week that baseball would be dropped after the 2009 season if the team doesn't raise $1.2 million by April 5. Top officials said one thing, then did another. It’s called credibility, and the school just lost it. ![]() The University of Northern Iowa has a bigger problem than dropping its varsity baseball program. ![]()
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