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Missoula Rises is giving Griz Nation a chance to submit some questions

PDXGrizzly said:
My question: the perception exists in the Missoula and greater UM communities that sexual harassment, assault, bullying, etc are part and parcel with the atheletic department, specifically the football team. The petition created by Ms. Davey, signed by over 800 people, demonstrates this. Moving forward, how is the University Administration, athletic department, and football program going to address this?

Follow up question for the opposition: what specific instances occurred, along with university inaction, that would have created the impression that the Football team was “out of control”? Please limit your responses to actual instances and not unsubstantiated allegations.

Let’s have everyone lay their cards on the table. Sniping and innuendo are not going to solve this issue. What is the end result that everyone would like?

Let’s stop beating around the bush.

:clap:

+1
 
Bjorn Bjornstein said:
Glendivegriz said:
BWahlberg said:
Glendivegriz said:
Thanks but doesn't address the question. Closed group so doesn't say much. Obviously, a very political organization from their website. Just wondering about source funding.

From their site:

Missoula Rises is a community-led, local group committed to the protection of the rights of our community members. Our group serves Missoula, the Bitterroot Valley and surrounding areas. We seek to effectuate local change with the intent that our local work will eventually have an impact on a larger scale. We are non-partisan and inclusive. Diversity is key. We seek input from all people and understand the success of our message depends on the diversity of voices. Missoula Rises will further the protection of human rights through: education, dialogue, vigilance, accountability and activism.

My guess (because I don't fully know) is that this group really isn't funded formally and organized/recognized as a company. I see it's more of a collective group of people that use mostly facebook to organize and plan events. I think most events and things they do is all volunteer. Again, that's a guess.

Huh, they are selling stuff on their website. Money has to be accounted for I would think. If you find out, I am curious.

For what it's worth, "Missoula Rises" doesn't show up in the Secretary of State's database of registered businesses nor has the name itself been registered...

Look for yourself if you'd like to: https://www.mtsosfilings.gov/mtsos-...25079a2b59cbfdb8&_timestamp=32292487816344720

I had already done that hence my question.8
 
GGNez » Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:49 pm
I'm sorry.....what was the question???

GG, the question is how to craft a question that holds Ms. Davey accountable and might result in some recanting of her original position as well as the Krakauer (sic) cover page/meme. The crafting of type of question is best led by a lawyer like PR. As I have said there may be only one opportunity to do this and if it is presented as a gotcha it won't be answered. So if you all really want an apology of sorts, and a semi-apology will be all that we get in my opinion, it is going to take some thoughtful crafting of ONE question that isn't too long, doesn't pontificate, gets to the heart of the issue quickly, and is worded so that avoiding an answer would to be to Ms. Davey's disadvantage. I'm glad to help but based on your wonderful edit to my poorly phrased question about fear of both sexes, I think both you and PR are the people to do it. I'm willing to be a listening ear as I did a great amount of technical writing, as well as working a very political position before I retired.
 
And Catfish I know the UM contingent aren’t going To go after her. That time has long since passed when Haslam decided to legitimize her fallacies...so were gonna have to just go from there. But I’ll say this: if she hasn’t changed her position and softened and shows a willingness to listen to reason I won’t listen to a word she has to say.


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For those of you that haven't seen this or would like to read through it again. Many of the questions on this thread directed at Ms Davey she answers in this article. Credit to Kyle and Skyline.

Some of her responses to these questions baffle and disappoint me. "....being talked about....common knowledge....I was just told of them...." Judge for yourself, but her mind is made up. Hauck created the rape culture here.

Anyway, I hope this event comes and goes with all sides calling it a draw. You really can't argue with some people. Haslam and Hauck and Bodnar will need to listen, and nod their heads and smile in acknowledgment. That's about all you can do. Bring on spring football.

https://skylinesportsmt.com/qa-lisa-davey-creator-of-the-online-petition-to-not-hire-bobby-hauck/

Q&A: Lisa Davey, creator of the online petition to not hire Bobby Hauck


Kyle Sample
November 29, 2017

In the midst of swirling rumors and back and forth arguments over who should be the next head football coach of the Montana Grizzlies, a petition started by a local woman working in conjunction with a local advocacy group has urged Montana athletic director Kent Haslam to reconsider the man reported to be the front-runner for the job.

Lisa Davey, a graduate student studying communications at Montana, has collected more than 250 signature on a petition hoping to stop Montana from bringing Bobby Hauck back to the post he held for seven wildly successful, but sometimes controversial seasons from 2002-2009. Posted to the website, Change.org, the petition, promoted by Rise Missoula, a group working to promote diversity, lists its goal as sending “a clear message to the University of Montana and the athletic program that women are more important than winning.”

On Wednesday, Kyle Sample of Skyline Sports interviewed Lisa Davey to discuss the origin of her petition and her protest for why she thinks Bobby Hauck should not return as the head football coach at Montana. What follows is the transcript of that interview.



What was your motivation to create this petition?

I’m a Griz football fan and have missed almost no games; we have season tickets; I travel to games out of state. I grew up watching it and loving the sense of community especially at the home games, at the tailgates and building those connections. A lot of times too being a Griz fan bridges other divides that are growing in our world and country right now. I’ve always appreciated that about what Griz football brings to Missoula.

I was following some message boards and people were sharing that they thought Bobby Hauck might be interviewed. They were like, ‘Bring Hauck back.’ I thought there would be no way that the university would be that stupid. There is no way they would do that. Then I woke up and realized they had actually interviewed him and just had a sinking feeling in my stomach. Initially just made a Facebook post tagging the university and Griz football – they had to be kidding me. I didn’t want to go back to an era of having to excuse football players’ behavior in order to enjoy supporting the team.

When I posted that, I was surprised at the initial response. It was shared four times in the first 20 minutes. People in Missoula that have worked with me in other political, or other citizen advocate activities commented and one of them suggested that maybe we should do an online petition. Initially I said I don’t know if online petitions are a good motivator. We took that conversation offline briefly and decided it wasn’t appropriate to have people take time off work to show up at the university all on one big action. We knew action needed to be quick; that they would make a hiring decision with relative speed and they needed to know we were feeling upset about it. An online petition was a way for people to act quickly in the first 24 hours and to try to gauge kind of the emotions of the community.

You said in the Independent article that “the university is still dealing with impacts of Hauck’s tenure”. I was wondering if you could expand on that.

I think as it’s been reported in articles that there were a significant number of charges and arrests made during the time that Hauck was the coach here. More than there are per average. I’ve heard a lot of comments of “Ah, football players are going to get in trouble.” Regardless of whether you think that’s true or right, there were more than when Hauck was here. I think the general attitude of the program absolutely led to the university experiencing enrollment difficulties. Internally on campus the divide between academics and athletics continues to grow. Instead of bringing the community and the campus together, it’s pushing those further apart.

Is it your belief that Bobby Hauck created that atmosphere?

Yep it is.

I think potentially he did not create it single-handedly. But when you’re building a team, whether you’re building a football team or a team at work, you create the culture of the team. You teach them who they are and what they can do. I think that by the end of Hauck’s run the team really felt like they were undefeatable. I think that carried forward into how they treated other members of the community.

Do you think that created rape culture? I don’t know if those were your exact words, but reading the comments on the petition there have been some assertions that it created rape culture. Do you believe that was the case?

I certainly do and I’ll explain why a little bit. I am in no way accusing him personally of raping anyone – Twitter has been brutal today. But if you look at the series of charges and then arrests that happened during his tenure as coach it escalated from getting in a fight over a girl at a bar to then partner abuse to biting a woman to just before he left, or as he was leaving, there were reports of rapes coming forward. Of course the most famous rape case was after he left, but it was somebody he recruited and trained.

The reports of rape, did you find those or where you told of them?

I believe just told of them. I think for anyone who grew up in Missoula it was being talked about. There is always a certain amount of people talking to each other and backing each other up before somebody is brave enough to come forward. I think especially giving that Pflugrad, who I would not rehire either, had to shut down initiation parties that Hauck had permitted. It was sort of common knowledge that there was rape culture present.

I noticed on the petition you added the book, the Missoula book and it says “Bobby Hauck’s Missoula”. Can you explain that?

I really think that’s the culminating point that we were at. I think a good metaphor for it is (former president Royce) Engstrom lost his job at the university because of management issues and campus culture issues and enrollment issues. Now Sheila Sterns is dealing with cleaning this up; she’s actually doing the layoffs and making tough decisions about how things have to go down. You can agree or disagree with the decisions she’s making, but fundamentally a lot of it goes back to Engstrom’s time on campus. I think that’s also true with what happened with Griz football. The coach left, but it was his long tenure and building the team and creating what would happen and it was going to take a couple years for those players to leave.

I’m not alone in feeling like the team was out of control. … The team was out of control when Hauck left. I think he left an out of control team to another coach. I don’t agree with how that coach handled it either, but I believe it happened when Hauck was coach.

You were quoted in the story saying, “He laid a significant foundation of, ‘If you do well, you get to be at the top of this community and you will have power and leeway.’” Is that a conclusion you reached after talking with people who were involved in the program or school administrators or school officials or anybody?

I think that’s just an observation with having been a fan during that period and interacting with people. I also came to that opinion after teaching students who following kind of the Department of Justice getting involved were incredibly proactive about decrying rape culture and decrying acting like they were above and really trying hard to be humble. I think that those were corrective measures put in place.

You said you were a fan and you go to a lot of Griz football games and you grew up in Missoula so I assume you’ve been doing that for awhile. When some of these arrests were being reported in such did you have a hard time reconciling your fandom with your social activism or your beliefs?

Absolutely.

How did you do that?


Well there was a period that I did not watch games and where I was uncomfortable being a fan. I probably backed off from the program a little bit.

There are defenders of Bobby Hauck who say that he was a disciplinarian with his players and he handled things internally. All of these players were removed from the team. What is your response to that?

I would say he definitely did not prevent it. I think you can be a disciplinarian and maybe an authoritarian and still not be able to control a team. I think about if you’re holding a handful of sand and you just grip it tighter and tighter and it just slips through your fingers – he obviously did not know how to manage the team’s behavior off the field.

What do you hope is accomplished with the petition?

Well, I hope the university doesn’t hire Bobby Hauck. I hope the university really considers the impact of the message that they’re sending with the community. I think as the university is making cuts that are related to an out-of-control football team, you don’t hire somebody who had an out of control football team.

I’ve had some productive dialogue with the athletic director and I think that is very beneficial. I think that also opens up avenues for the community beyond the GSA to ineract with the athletic department and provide impact.

You’ve had communication with Kent Halsam since this petition was posted?

Yes.

Do you think that was productive?

It hasn’t been unproductive. I think he is open to talking to us and listening, which is great. I do worry that he has already made his choice. But if he has made his choice I think we will push really hard to force Hauck, if he is hired, to have a good conversation and not just convince them that he knows how to handle the players, but to have a conversation with the community.

Does it give you any confidence that that could happen considering he didn’t have any off-field issues at UNLV or in his capacity as associate head coach at San Diego State?

He wasn’t the head coach at San Diego. That I think there could be enough other factors there. I think he knew that his career would be over if there were any issues. I think there, assuming that Missoula is isolated, then there is a synergy between the way Grizzly athletics functions in Missoula and the way he coaches that I don’t trust to create a team of good citizens.

Is it fair to say you’re skeptical?

Yes.
 
Lost cause.

I go back to my initial statement. NOTHING good can come of this. She’s dug in, made her position clear, and nothing is going to change her mind. I think it’s a giant mistake for Bodnar, Haslam and Hauck to allow themselves to get sucked up into this witch hunt.
 
Per Kyle Sample, she is a total piece a of anti-Griz shit and needs to be wiped off and placed in the proper place. :finger: Fools!
 
griz71 said:
sdk.catfish said:
I would like to chime in my thanks to Brint for being willing to take this on. I would like to see a question something like the following but I could use a little help framing it. While I don't feel this way, possibly because I'm retired and have no job to lose, it is clear to me (from the the 24 page thread above all threads) that it is real and an issue that has the potential to derail some positives that could come from this seminar. It has something to the posts from CDA, PR, Ringneck and others yesterday. So roughly:

With the increasingly public nature of alleged sexual harassment incidents that have have been brought forth in the political and entertainment sectors, we observe men that are not perpetrators moving away from normal interactions with females, especially within the business place, because of the fear of unwarranted litigation. We see females as well with hesitation to interact with males both because of a fear of sexual harassment and their fear of being perceived as trouble makers. With fear comes the flight or fight phenomenon which is not conducive to resolving differences. How does Missoula Rises propose to dampen the fear factor on both sides so we can move forward in a unified and progressive fashion in resolving harassment issues the Missoula community and the UM campus.

I welcome any edits that can retain the concept but wouldn't be off-putting like mine can tend to be.

Well constructed Fish. :thumb:

I don't think many, if any, men are concerned about unwarranted litigation. They are concerned about being in a situation in which a woman can make unwarranted or marginal accusation. In today's atmosphere of trial by twitter and social media, there is no way, or good way, to fend off an accusation. So, I think some men are going out of their way not to be in situations involving being along and socializing with some women, especially ones they don't know or trust. In today's atmosphere, an unsupported accusation can hurt a career, just like a supported one can.

I have not seen or noticed women hesitating to interact with males, anymore than they have been hesitant for years or decades. There is way less sexual harassment in the workplace now than there was 30 years ago, especially in certain businesses and industries. Hollywood and the media may be some of the exceptions to that.
 
sdk.catfish said:
I get all the Lisa Davey questions, I really do, however they appear to me at least, to be picking a fight in a public forum which won't go over that well. Hauck, Haslem and Bodner will not take this approach I would advise us to be very careful with it as well. I would hope there is a way to soften the edge a little to still make the point that she played fast and loose with the facts while still maintaining the high road. I know some of you want vindication but this is not the time or place. I think Griz fans will be perceived in a better light if those type of questions are toned down a little. And since there will be many opinions, I doubt whether Brint will have the luxury of hauling out a list of 10 questions specifically pointed at the Davey petition or her subsequent actions. Just my opinion but I would try to get the most salient points incorporated into one pointed, but non-threatening question, that has a chance of being answered.

Do you actually think that any of these edgey questions will get asked in the forum, unless they take questions from the audience? I don't.

If Bodnar and Haslam are involved with the forum, the Davey types will be much better behaved.
 
Most of what Davey said in these Q&A's with Sample are completely unsupported, and mostly just plain dumb. She believes what some Missoulian writer (who wasn't around at the time) wrote, even though his article was completely full of mistakes and misleading. I marked up the article pointing out the mistakes and sent it to a senior editor at the Missoulian. Didn't see any retractions or corrections. I'd be happy to debate Davey on all of the bad behavior stuff too, to set the record straight.

"You said in the Independent article that “the university is still dealing with impacts of Hauck’s tenure”. I was wondering if you could expand on that.

I think as it’s been reported in articles that there were a significant number of charges and arrests made during the time that Hauck was the coach here. More than there are per average. I’ve heard a lot of comments of “Ah, football players are going to get in trouble.” Regardless of whether you think that’s true or right, there were more than when Hauck was here. I think the general attitude of the program absolutely led to the university experiencing enrollment difficulties. Internally on campus the divide between academics and athletics continues to grow. Instead of bringing the community and the campus together, it’s pushing those further apart.

[Davey has no knowledge of the culture of Hauck's team. As O'Day has said, the culture of Griz football was a culture of winning, and winning the right way with hard work and heart.]

Is it your belief that Bobby Hauck created that atmosphere?

Yep it is.

I think potentially he did not create it single-handedly. But when you’re building a team, whether you’re building a football team or a team at work, you create the culture of the team. You teach them who they are and what they can do. I think that by the end of Hauck’s run the team really felt like they were undefeatable. I think that carried forward into how they treated other members of the community.

Do you think that created rape culture? I don’t know if those were your exact words, but reading the comments on the petition there have been some assertions that it created rape culture. Do you believe that was the case?

I certainly do and I’ll explain why a little bit. I am in no way accusing him personally of raping anyone – Twitter has been brutal today. But if you look at the series of charges and then arrests that happened during his tenure as coach it escalated from getting in a fight over a girl at a bar to then partner abuse to biting a woman to just before he left, or as he was leaving, there were reports of rapes coming forward. Of course the most famous rape case was after he left, but it was somebody he recruited and trained."
 
Here's the title of Davey's petition:

"Tell the University of Montana not to hire Hauck. Women are more important than winning."

No bias there, right?

Jeez, what does she think Hauck has done to women? I'd love to see Davey debate Hauck's wife on that one. I hear she's articulate and tough (in a discussion).
 
Ms. Davey's word choice ought to be used to her disadvantage; i.e., synergy. A military term from a predominately male centric force in the late 80s and brought into everyday vernacular in the 90s. Sychronized and energy can only mean one thing, even in the civilian sector. She, and one can only assume the rest of the communications dept. are too young and inexperienced to know the history of what they are futily moving into. A decent military officer or lawyer will destroy her and her mysinogist "mentors" in a true debate.

Reveal her for what she is and show her vendetta in this public forum.
 
PlayerRep said:
Most of what Davey said in these Q&A's with Sample are completely unsupported, and mostly just plain dumb. She believes what some Missoulian writer (who wasn't around at the time) wrote, even though his article was completely full of mistakes and misleading. I marked up the article pointing out the mistakes and sent it to a senior editor at the Missoulian. Didn't see any retractions or corrections. I'd be happy to debate Davey on all of the bad behavior stuff too, to set the record straight.

"You said in the Independent article that “the university is still dealing with impacts of Hauck’s tenure”. I was wondering if you could expand on that.

I think as it’s been reported in articles that there were a significant number of charges and arrests made during the time that Hauck was the coach here. More than there are per average. I’ve heard a lot of comments of “Ah, football players are going to get in trouble.” Regardless of whether you think that’s true or right, there were more than when Hauck was here. I think the general attitude of the program absolutely led to the university experiencing enrollment difficulties. Internally on campus the divide between academics and athletics continues to grow. Instead of bringing the community and the campus together, it’s pushing those further apart.

[Davey has no knowledge of the culture of Hauck's team. As O'Day has said, the culture of Griz football was a culture of winning, and winning the right way with hard work and heart.]

Is it your belief that Bobby Hauck created that atmosphere?

Yep it is.

I think potentially he did not create it single-handedly. But when you’re building a team, whether you’re building a football team or a team at work, you create the culture of the team. You teach them who they are and what they can do. I think that by the end of Hauck’s run the team really felt like they were undefeatable. I think that carried forward into how they treated other members of the community.

Do you think that created rape culture? I don’t know if those were your exact words, but reading the comments on the petition there have been some assertions that it created rape culture. Do you believe that was the case?

I certainly do and I’ll explain why a little bit. I am in no way accusing him personally of raping anyone – Twitter has been brutal today. But if you look at the series of charges and then arrests that happened during his tenure as coach it escalated from getting in a fight over a girl at a bar to then partner abuse to biting a woman to just before he left, or as he was leaving, there were reports of rapes coming forward. Of course the most famous rape case was after he left, but it was somebody he recruited and trained."

Well this is what disturbs me the most. She may as well be saying...."I heard some stuff.....or whatever."

She believes what she wants to believe in her heart. I wonder how she would feel if someone started a petition about her boyfriend based mostly on unfounded rumors. The state of the University of Montana today lies solely on Haucks shoulders. That's the connection she is selling.
 
The University of Montana is finally pushing back! Let Krackouse write one more book and then there will be enough written work to reveal how much he has fabricated in his writings as he goes about trying to destroy those who evidently deemed him not worthy in his youth. Perhaps he was rejected by this University's journalism school when he was young? Who knows? What about Davey and her professors? The truth always comes out.
 
More and more I think about this. Haslam has no spine. He’s not a leader. Look how’s he’s handled other issues? He’s no different than Engstrom. Such a chicken shit weasel..
 
PDXGrizzly said:
My question: the perception exists in the Missoula and greater UM communities that sexual harassment, assault, bullying, etc are part and parcel with the atheletic department, specifically the football team. The petition created by Ms. Davey, signed by over 800 people, demonstrates this. Moving forward, how is the University Administration, athletic department, and football program going to address this?

Follow up question for the opposition: what specific instances occurred, along with university inaction, that would have created the impression that the Football team was “out of control”? Please limit your responses to actual instances and not unsubstantiated allegations.

Let’s have everyone lay their cards on the table. Sniping and innuendo are not going to solve this issue. What is the end result that everyone would like?

Let’s stop beating around the bush.

I was possibly challenging the notion that the UM football team even plays a significant role in sexual harassment, assault, bullying, toxic masculinity, and whatever other terms Missoula Rises edits into their ongoing statement in the next 24 hours. But for the sake of this forum, I think you nailed it and hinted at that challenge in a more constructive way, so being realistic in what will be asked, I nominate your questions.

It's worth reading the comments on the petition regarding why each person signed. If not for pure entertainment, it certainly captures quotes from a large sampling of the signees, putting naivety on misinformation on full display. For the sake of the petition creators, they should have left this option out.
 
grizcountry420 said:
More and more I think about this. Haslam has no spine. He’s not a leader. Look how’s he’s handled other issues? He’s no different than Engstrom. Such a chicken shit weasel..

Yep. Haslam has failed.
 
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