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Tennis: Men's coach Michibata resigns after 12-year tenure
Published: Monday, April 23rd, 2012
After the conclusion of his 12th season as head coach of the men’s tennis team, Glenn Michibata resigned from his position Monday. Princeton lost its last two games of the season this past weekend, ending its Ivy title hopes ...(back to the article)
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is there a trend here-- lax, football, field hockey, ice hockey, hoops, more?-- coaches leaving since Shirley became President?
Dig into this! You're an independent news organization, not just an arm of the university. I can get all this from GoPrincetonTigers, I want some real analysis, some real digging. Why did he leave? Someone's got to know and be willing to talk, if only on the condition of anonymity. It's easy to just report the facts/scores/general knowledge, be a real newspaper, give us analysis, depth, new information.
I believe he was fired.
@JEM'69 Tierney left to add to his legacy by building lacrosse out west; Gadowsky left for the second highest paying hockey job in college and the most attractive new program in decades; Hughes reportedly was saved by Tilghman earlier in his tenure when the AD thought he should go. Sydney Johnson is still a mystery to me but Tilghman's finger prints are nowhere near that decision. In short, she has virtually nothing to do with any of this.
@thetruth
I should add that Shirley has been President since 2001, and thus around for more than a decade. The departure of the four coaches mentioned is hardly a revolving door over that time span, esp. since Hughes should have been let go long ago. As for the others, each had his/her reasons.
Believe it or not, while Princeton is a great place, the challenges of coaching, dealing with Admissions, and modest salaries, all enter into each coach's decision making.
And as saddened as I was to see Sydney Johnson depart, realize that he reportedly doubled his salary (he's still a young guy, and needs to plan for his family's future), and that currently Harvard accepts as many as eight basketball players per class, while Princeton is fortunate to get four per year.
Ask the AD, if he can stop talking about himself and his role with the 1965 NCAA team.
Neither article makes it sound like he was fired - both the Prince and GoPrincetonTigers say "resigned" repeatedly and he's praised by Walters in the GPT article heavily, which I would not expect if he was fired. Either give us more evidence or stop making shit up.
@JEM'69, I am not a Shirley apologist in the least but your comments show that you are simply reaching to connect her to events which have nothing to do with her.
Would you therefore also give her credit because, since she assumed the presidency in 2001, overall the Princeton athletics program has been more successful than any Ivy program in history? No, because she is too senior to have any direct involvement in whether the lacrosse goalie has a good save percentage.
By the way, I think that Johnson left because he saw the door to admissions had been opened all the way for Amaker and was afraid that, without equal cooperation here in Tigertown, he had been get out before Amaker built a dynasty, drying up job offers for second-place Princeton coaches.
I resent that remark. We were a fine team of young, excellent student-athletes!
My captcha was fight, and that's what I intend to do against slanderous fools like you who didn't play for Princeton in '65.
The man was fired, and that's well known and amply documented.
We will never know what the real reason is, but we certainly know that Glenn Michibata is a class act, on and off the court. He is not just your regular tennis coach, he was a role model, a mentor, an inspiration, and a friend to his players. His positive influence on the young men on his teams is more important than winning a title, not everyone would agree, though.