So, what do we know about this guy, Chuck Swoboda the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees at MU? BB Friendly?
I've known Chuck since I was 16 years old. Not sure how he feels about our hoops program but he has always been a super guy, very down to earth hard worker etc.... He was at MU when we were Warriors but on the decline(Bob Dukiet) so hopefully he yearns for the glory days of MU hoops and the program has another booster on the Bot's.
Quote from: john31 on May 11, 2012, 12:24:08 PM
I've known Chuck since I was 16 years old. Not sure how he feels about our hoops program but he has always been a super guy, very down to earth hard worker etc.... He was at MU when we were Warriors but on the decline(Bob Dukiet) so hopefully he yearns for the glory days of MU hoops and the program has another booster on the Bot's.
Did he have an older sister that graduated from MU in 83?
http://www.marquette.edu/about/leadership/swoboda.shtml
Charles M. Swoboda, Eng '89, was elected to the Marquette University Board of Trustees in 2004, served as vice chair from 2011 to 2012, and was elected chair of the board in 2012.
He is chairman and chief executive officer of Cree Inc., where he and Cree are leading the LED lighting revolution and setting the stage to obsolete the incandescent light bulb through the use of energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED lighting. Cree is an innovator of LED lighting as well as semiconductor solutions for wireless and power applications.
Chuck joined Cree in 1993 and has held numerous executive positions influencing and leading Cree culture, technology and business from near start-up to today's market leadership. Chuck has served as a member of the Cree Board of Directors since 2000, as chief executive officer since 2001 and chairman of the board since 2005.
After receiving his degree from Marquette University's College of Engineering in 1989, he was employed by the Hewlett-Packard Company.
In 2010 he was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Carolinas. He received the Spirit of Marquette Award in 2004 and is a member of the Marquette University 1881 Society.
Isn't Cree, Inc., a big Obama supporter? Didn't Obama's Job Council meet there last year?
Quote from: ATWizJr on May 11, 2012, 12:59:12 PM
Isn't Cree, Inc., a big Obama supporter? Didn't Obama's Job Council meet there last year?
Not that it matters, but yes.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/13/president-obama-visits-north-carolina-s-cree-inc-and-meets-council-jobs-and-competit
Appears he lives in my neck of the woods. If he is anti-hoops in any way I'll have to TP his house.
He is not anti hoops. I do a little work with them and when he found out I went to MU we talked about Bball for a solid thirty minutes.
Quote from: Abode4life on May 11, 2012, 02:42:09 PM
He is not anti hoops. I do a little work with them and when he found out I went to MU we talked about Bball for a solid thirty minutes.
Did he only want to talk about the traditional players?
Big Obama supporters? President likes hoops, they must like hoops. President is not traditional, so maybe good news!!
Quote from: Abode4life on May 11, 2012, 02:42:09 PM
He is not anti hoops. I do a little work with them and when he found out I went to MU we talked about Bball for a solid thirty minutes.
But I hear from "reliable" people that 90% of MU fans would be totally OKAY being SLU?
Quote from: Goose on May 09, 2012, 09:21:23 AM
I was mocked for saying we could become SLU and for 90% of MU fans they probably would be accepting of that.
FYI, this whopper is BEGGING for one of AnotherMU84's famous polls.
Maybe we should all email him!!
Lab
You crack me up. Adobe says something you like and you pull an inside job.
Quote from: newsdrms on May 11, 2012, 02:54:20 PM
Big Obama supporters? President likes hoops, they must like hoops. President is not traditional, so maybe good news!!
The president is more traditional than non. But he is a community organizer.
Chuck is young, a great guy and a Friend of Basketball. Talked to him at many away games. Great choice for the university.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on May 11, 2012, 06:04:01 PM
Chuck is young, a great guy and a Friend of Basketball. Talked to him at many away games. Great choice for the university.
Despite the company he keeps...
Obama flew into Seattle yesterday for a $36,000 a plate Brunch in Medina. Only problem I have with his travels is that when he comes to town he really Effs up traffic. Yesterday it was around the T Mobile campus. Inconvenienced a sh1tload of people so he could scrounge political loot.
Quote from: warthog-driver on May 11, 2012, 06:07:53 PM
Despite the company he keeps...
Obama flew into Seattle yesterday for a $36,000 a plate Brunch in Medina. Only problem I have with his travels is that when he comes to town he really Effs up traffic. Yesterday it was around the T Mobile campus. Inconvenienced a sh1tload of people so he could scrounge political loot.
Key is $36,000 a plate. Pilarz ain't no dummy.
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on May 11, 2012, 06:15:37 PM
Key is $36,000 a plate. Pilarz ain't no dummy.
Mrs Warthog and I were going to attend but we heard they were serving domestic champagne so we of course took a pass. Not many retired Air Force Colonels invited to that "Brunch." The Obama crowd tends to look down their noses at hairy, smelly, foul-mouthed aviators who reek of single malt and Cuban cigar smoke and cheapened themselves by serving in the military. I hear Barbra Streisand and Harrison Ford were there, though. Ed Asner could not make it, unfortunately, as he was fomenting a people's uprising with Danny Ortega somewhere in Central America.
Did Streisand give BO head?
Quote from: Dr. Blackheart on May 11, 2012, 06:04:01 PM
Chuck is young, a great guy and a Friend of Basketball. Talked to him at many away games. Great choice for the university.
Sure you're not confusing him with Chuck Swirsky?
Quote from: warthog-driver on May 11, 2012, 06:22:56 PM
Mrs Warthog and I were going to attend but we heard they were serving domestic champagne so we of course took a pass. Not many retired Air Force Colonels invited to that "Brunch." The Obama crowd tends to look down their noses at hairy, smelly, foul-mouthed aviators who reek of single malt and Cuban cigar smoke and cheapened themselves by serving in the military. I hear Barbra Streisand and Harrison Ford were there, though. Ed Asner could not make it, unfortunately, as he was fomenting a people's uprising with Danny Ortega somewhere in Central America.
I usually love reading your posts Warthog, but this one was just lame, seeming to rely on lazy stereotypes. You're better than that (at least the quality of your posts are).
Quote from: warthog-driver on May 11, 2012, 06:07:53 PM
Despite the company he keeps...
Obama flew into Seattle yesterday for a $36,000 a plate Brunch in Medina. Only problem I have with his travels is that when he comes to town he really Effs up traffic. Yesterday it was around the T Mobile campus. Inconvenienced a sh1tload of people so he could scrounge political loot.
Sooooo, what you're telling me is........he's the president
Ed Asner is a Running Dog
Quote from: john31 on May 11, 2012, 12:24:08 PM
I've known Chuck since I was 16 years old. Not sure how he feels about our hoops program but he has always been a super guy, very down to earth hard worker etc.... He was at MU when we were Warriors but on the decline(Bob Dukiet) so hopefully he yearns for the glory days of MU hoops and the program has another booster on the Bot's.
If you have known him for a long time (I'm assuming that your not 17 now), and you are an MUBB fan (I'm assuming you are b/c you are on this site), and you don't know how he feels about MU hoops, we should be a bit concerned.
As an unabashed and unrelenting supporter of the incandescent light bulb, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Quote from: warthog-driver on May 11, 2012, 06:22:56 PM
Mrs Warthog and I were going to attend but we heard they were serving domestic champagne so we of course took a pass. Not many retired Air Force Colonels invited to that "Brunch." The Obama crowd tends to look down their noses at hairy, smelly, foul-mouthed aviators who reek of single malt and Cuban cigar smoke and cheapened themselves by serving in the military. I hear Barbra Streisand and Harrison Ford were there, though. Ed Asner could not make it, unfortunately, as he was fomenting a people's uprising with Danny Ortega somewhere in Central America.
We get it, you're proud to have served in the Air Force.
You don't see the rest of us thumping our chests every chance we get about what we do, so maybe take it down a notch.
"we should be a bit concerned." Are you Goose in disguise?
Or should we change the name of this board to the Marquette Tin-Foil hat paranoia board?
Quote from: LloydMooresLegs on May 12, 2012, 09:16:40 AM
If you have known him for a long time (I'm assuming that your not 17 now), and you are an MUBB fan (I'm assuming you are b/c you are on this site), and you don't know how he feels about MU hoops, we should be a bit concerned.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 12, 2012, 09:50:06 AM
We get it, you're proud to have served in the Air Force.
You don't see the rest of us thumping our chests every chance we get about what we do, so maybe take it down a notch.
I get it now Hards. Conservative commentary pi**es you off. Liberal, not so much. OK.
Quote from: mu-rara on May 12, 2012, 10:59:49 AM
I get it now Hards. Conservative commentary pi**es you off. Liberal, not so much. OK.
Where was the liberal commentary? I'll gladly report it too.
Furthermore, it is warthogs constant talk of his military career that I was referring to. I'm the only one that finds it self aggrandizing?
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 12, 2012, 12:28:52 PM
Furthermore, it is warthogs constant talk of his military career that I was referring to. I'm the only one that finds it self aggrandizing?
No, you're not the only one. And smoking Cuban cigars supports a brutal communist dictatorship.
Quote from: Hamostradamus on May 12, 2012, 01:12:18 PM
No, you're not the only one. And smoking Cuban cigars supports a brutal communist dictatorship.
+1
Quote from: madtownwarrior on May 12, 2012, 10:02:35 AM
"we should be a bit concerned." Are you Goose in disguise?
Or should we change the name of this board to the Marquette Tin-Foil hat paranoia board?
No- sorry - don't claim any inside knowledge - my point was just that it seems really off that the poster who knows the new chair doesn't know I he is a fan of MUBB. Doesn't mean he won't support the program and be good at his job. Just surprising, and that's probably how I should have put it.
Quote from: Hards_Alumni on May 12, 2012, 12:28:52 PM
Furthermore, it is warthogs constant talk of his military career that I was referring to. I'm the only one that finds it self aggrandizing?
It's hardly constant, but it is pretty awesome. Any reason to rip him about it twice in the same thread?
Amazing how fast an interesting thread can degenerate into crap.
Good to know that we might have a good addition to the BOT. Our navigation of the BE disaster and near to mid-term management of our hoops program will have big implications for the University as a whole.
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