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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Suspending golf program is risky
Letters to the Editor | 2/10/09
Posted online at 12:33 AM EST on 2/10/09
To the Editor:
In response to your article "Golf program to terminate at season's end" (Feb. 3): I was a junior in college when Bill Shipman took over as coach of our golf team. I can tell you firsthand that he put in monumental effort transforming a program that was best characterized as unmanaged, unfocused and underachieving into a top-performing team. A change like that does not happen overnight, and in this case things were certainly still on the upward trend. Without stability in the program, all is undone as current players lose focus and recruits go elsewhere. In the board meeting this was just a $22,000 light switch, but when they go to turn it back on, see how long it takes for the program to return to a level Brandeis can be truly proud of.
-William Tickle '03
In response to your article "Golf program to terminate at season's end" (Feb. 3): I was a junior in college when Bill Shipman took over as coach of our golf team. I can tell you firsthand that he put in monumental effort transforming a program that was best characterized as unmanaged, unfocused and underachieving into a top-performing team. A change like that does not happen overnight, and in this case things were certainly still on the upward trend. Without stability in the program, all is undone as current players lose focus and recruits go elsewhere. In the board meeting this was just a $22,000 light switch, but when they go to turn it back on, see how long it takes for the program to return to a level Brandeis can be truly proud of.
-William Tickle '03
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