From: UAA Fan Blog
With somewhere around 2 minutes left in the 2nd period of last Saturday's game KRXP 103.9 FM's Ken Landau the "pride" of Colorado College's radio team was overheard on the B2 network (apparently during a radio break but while still "mic'd" for the B2 feed) saying "UAA just stinks." About 45 seconds later the Seawolves scored and went on to upset CC in overtime.
Just one problem. The Athletic Director of Colorado College graduated from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and is in the UAA Hall of Fame for his NCAA Swimming exploits.
Needless to say, the UAA fanbase was furious and ripped off a dozen emails to the AD about the perceived slight and he responded with a tersely worded email to the Seawolf faithful.
With somewhere around 2 minutes left in the 2nd period of last Saturday's game KRXP 103.9 FM's Ken Landau the "pride" of Colorado College's radio team was overheard on the B2 network (apparently during a radio break but while still "mic'd" for the B2 feed) saying "UAA just stinks." About 45 seconds later the Seawolves scored and went on to upset CC in overtime.
Just one problem. The Athletic Director of Colorado College graduated from the University of Alaska-Anchorage and is in the UAA Hall of Fame for his NCAA Swimming exploits.
Needless to say, the UAA fanbase was furious and ripped off a dozen emails to the AD about the perceived slight and he responded with a tersely worded email to the Seawolf faithful.
Please excuse the group e-mail but each of you expressed the same concern regarding the on-air comments of Colorado College's radio announcer Ken Landau. I am in complete agreement that it is inappropriate to say that another team “stinks”. In fact, I am not sure what game Mr Landau was watching because it was clear to everyone at World Arena Saturday that the Seawolves came ready to go and in fact controlled the play for most of the game.
I have a lot of respect for the young men who have the ability to play such a difficult game at such a high level. To even think that a team “stinks” is doing a disservice to all of the wonderful schools that make up the WCHA. We are fortunate to be part of the best hockey league in the country and we should be respectful of the honor of watching these young men perform.
I will be meeting with our Assistant AD for Marketing tomorrow to discuss this situation (he oversees our radio contracts). His name is Scott Lowenberg and he can be reached at slowenberg@coloradocollege.edu if you have any additional questions or concerns.
I am sincerely sorry if our radio announcer lessened your enjoyment of what was an outstanding hockey game. We will work to make sure it does not happen again in the future.
I should also point out that I am a UAA alum so maybe I am taking it a little personally when someone says UAA “stinks”.
Please feel free to respond if you have additional concerns.
Sincerely,
Ken Ralph
Colorado College Athletic Director
3 comments:
My lord. I've said far worse "off air" about some team or another.
Awww... did someone's little feelings get hurt? And you call yourselves hockey fans? Seriously, anyone offended by what one person thinks when it is that irrelevant needs to learn how to put on their big girl panties and deal with it.
I've never heard of the DU fans flooding Fox Sports with emails when the games are televised on the Fox Sports North and all of the bias displayed by those announcers.
What a pantywaist response. UAA doesn't stink, they suck!
Political correctness will be the death of us all. I'm surprised he didn't manage to work in a reference to the UAA "hockey-persons" or some such nonsense.
UAA fans need to get a grip too. Who do they think they are? North Dakota fans?
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