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wBB: Tara Goes to Montana (for a visit) - TheFarm07 - 05-26-2015

http://missoulian.com/news/local/montana-didn-t-hire-her-but-tara-vanderveer-keeps-coming/article_13ffb719-f11e-5ad8-9eb7-50f3e8ebb515.html

Re: wBB: Tara Goes to Montana (for a visit) - BobK - 05-26-2015

Great story thanks for posting.
Hope Jos gets the job

Re: wBB: Tara Goes to Montana (for a visit) - burger - 05-26-2015

Nice story from my local paper.  The most interesting part was that if Tara had taken the head coaching job at Montana, she would have been working under Monty, the men's head coach at the time. 

Does anyone know if this was standard practice at that time?  Is is still true anywhere else?  I thought that it was pretty outrageous, but Montana was (and still is) a pretty backwards place compared to the Bay Area.

Re: wBB: Tara Goes to Montana (for a visit) - CowboyIndian - 05-26-2015

(05-26-2015, 06:34 PM)burger link Wrote:  I thought that it was pretty outrageous, but Montana was (and still is) a pretty backwards place compared to the Bay Area.


My wife is reading "Missoula" by Jon Krakauer and would agree. I lived in Montana for several years (not in Missoula) and wasn't affected. But I wouldn't be, would I.

Montana - Redrum - 05-27-2015

My kid, the Stanford grad, is in Bozeman as a research professor.  Two years and she's really liked it.  But three years will be the max, it seems.  She is not put off by winters...yet.    In contrast, during a visit to her I met a fellow Southern Californian who had built a healthy construction biz in Bozeman over two decades.  He stated he was currently selling off all his future contracts to other construction businesses and headed for SoCal.  Hard to convey now his affect while he was talking, sort-of half combat fatigue half meth-user jitters.  "I just can't take another winter here.  I gotta get warm, man."

Re: wBB: Tara Goes to Montana (for a visit) - 81alum - 05-28-2015

(05-26-2015, 06:34 PM)burger link Wrote:  I thought that it was pretty outrageous, but Montana was (and still is) a pretty backwards place compared to the Bay Area.
I grew up on southern Idaho, where I thought of neighboring Montana as a bastion of progressive values compared with my environs.  On the other hand, mountain state conservatism used to have a strong populist streak--its libertarian skepticism about big government used to extend to big business.  Idaho and Montana were William Jennnings Bryan country shortly after they became states--notice all the old Grange halls in small towns that were the headquarters of the Populist movement.