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Coach Mike Hamlet To be or not to be the Alabama head coach? By: Malamute, 1 May 2003
It's time to revisit that editorial and add our comments to it based on the recent dalliances of ex-WSU coach Mike Price, who is to be or not to be Alabama's next head coach. Our apologies go to the Seattle Times editorialist--a keen judge of character-- who to this day remains anonymous. It's time for him to stand up and take a bow. Excerpts from his editorial are below. Scene 1, Act 1. Mike Price, 57, spends hundreds of dollars at a topless bar in Florida the night before a young woman in his hotel room tries to charge more than $1,000 in food and drinks to his bill. At the nightclub, Price buys a dancer several drinks and has three private dances in the back area of the club; he spends $200 on the dancer, but nothing happens beyond dancing. In all, Price spends several hundred dollars in cash at the club buying and tipping all the girls, this according to newspaper accounts. Scene 1, Act 2. Enter the anonymous Times' editorialist, who spouts lines from his infamous editorial, with comments by Malamute (me). Anonymous: Juxtaposed with Neuheisel, “Cougar coach Mike Price is a different matter. His solid reputation and patient success naturally attracts attention." Malamute: Yep, he certainly attracts attention, The (Alabama) president said Wednesday evening he and athletic director Mal Moore were reviewing Price's "behavior in certain public settings and the appropriateness of that behavior." Anonymous: "He (Price) has made Washington State University proud." Malamute: Mike Price is just a credit card away from becoming a credit to the Cougar program and making them proud. Anonymous: "He (Price) has earned the right to seek new challenges and other coaching opportunities.” Malamute: Yes, he sought new challenges at Arety's Angels (the nightclub) in Pensacola and he may be seeking new coaching opportunities. Anonymous: "But Price is the coach we (Seattle Times) want to stay put. His teams play hard for him and he runs a clean program." Malamute: Yep, he runs a clean program. There was no sex, no touching, no lap dancing, according to the dancer, "Destiny" Stahl, who also said that "Price was a gentleman." Anonymous: "He (Neuheisel) is always looking over the shoulder of the person in front of him, scanning the crowd for whom to schmooze next.” Malamute: Never looking over the shoulder of the person in front of him, the bald-headed Price sat in the first row of the topless bar and never scanned the crowd for someone to schmooze next, according to all accounts. Anonymous: “Neuheisel is the fellow at the holiday party who never quite makes eye contact." Malamute: Price definitely makes full eye contact--especially with dancers. Last Act: Anonymous and Mike Price, dressed as a fool, take center stage. Anonymous, quoting from Hamlet: "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell! I took thee for thy better." Price, quoting from the Twelfth Night: "Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere." ---------------- Material from The Seattle Times and Tide Sports.com, May 1, 2003, is used in this article Reference: TideSports.com
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December 2002, Rick Neuheisel is mentioned as a candidate for the
head-coaching job at UCLA vacated by the firing of Bob Toledo. A Seattle
Times editorial entitled, "Coach Rick Hamlet," rankles Husky fans by
what they perceive as an invidious comparison drawn between Neuheisel and
Mike Price, WSU's coach.