It looks like Quin Snyder may be getting closer to his first NBA head coaching job: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/8...ching-job.html
Last edited by Newton_14; 05-31-2014 at 09:12 PM.
Deseret article says he earned a doctoral degree at Duke ... really? I heard about the MBA but not the doctoral degree.
Would Jazz players have to refer to him as Dr. Quin (Medicine Man)?
Sage Grouse
---------------------------------------
'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
Ah, yes - technically a doctorate, but seldom what I think of as a doctorate (since holders of it do not go by Dr. So-and-So).
Didn't Bilas do the same thing, or did he just get his JD?
Speaking of JD, to me, having entered Duke in fall 1985, there is only one true JD, and it's not Juris Doctor or Jordan Davidson.
PS: Mods - is it possible to change the thread title? When this one got resurrected I thought to myself, "I didn't even know Quin was with the Lakers - I thought he was with the Hawks!" Perhaps it should just be more generic/timeless, like "Quin Snyder, coach" or something of that nature.
Last edited by cspan37421; 05-31-2014 at 08:07 AM.
I think the reason that American attorneys don't use the title doctor (as they do in some foreign countries) is that until relatively recently a law degree was a bachelor of laws, which was pretty bizarre after seven years of study. It may also be that in many countries lawyers can't earn what their American counterparts do, but the title of doctor at least confers some social standing.
According to this link, most schools did not change from the LL.B. to the J.D. until the 1960's. The link also says that Harvard gave all of its graduates the J.D. retroactively, but I think that Duke did things differently. By coincidence, when I was in high school in the late sixties and early seventies (oh, Lord) I knew a guy who went to Duke law and he was complaining that the law school offered to give him the J.D. in exchange for a cash contribution. He was a partner at a major law firm in LA and he was indignant so he refused.
http://asklib.law.harvard.edu/a.php?qid=37309
Let's say he gets the job and wins big. I bet they'd build a statue to him ... and then all the pigeons would run to him.
Off topic I know, but...
Maybe I am just being elitist (PhD in biomedical engineering), but I cannot call anybody who has a JD a "Doctor of anything". At least in academia, being a "doctor" implies having produced some new knowledge that has been reviewed and accepted by senior level peers in the field. There are people who get PhDs in law, and they are by academic standards, "doctors". Law school (getting a JD) is a trade school, like business school (getting an MBA), that results in very well paying jobs (much more than I currently make, which is maybe why i am bitter and territorial, lol).
As an aside, anytime I have to introduce my self as Dr blah blah, I always make sure to add that I am a fake doctor. I am not the kind of doctor that helps people, lol.
Interestingly, I've learned that in Australia, PhDs are considered real doctors, and MDs are considered the fake doctors. Everything truly is inverted down under, huh?
Ahh...slow day. Has practice started yet?
Perhaps he once had too much too soon, but Quin has more than paid his dues at this point. A great lesson in perseverance.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/11...tah-jazz-coach
Welcome back to Head Coaching Quin
Wow, what a huge upgrade, going from an assistant in Russia to a head coaching gig in the league . . . Even on a rebuilding franchise, that's a pretty big career swing. That's like getting a 3 waived off, and then a 4 point play the other way.
And it is a pretty gooxd opportunity too. The Jazz were one of the worst 5 teams in the NBA last season, though their talent is better than that. They do have some young talent, and are getting more in a couple weeks with a top-5 and 23rd (?) picks in the draft. They may have the opportunity to pick up a big-time FA if they take the "exception" with their one huge contract (on an oldish player). So, in sum, poor recent results, so expectations will be somewhat low, some good young talent for QS to teach, and more coming. Not a bad scenario to walk into...