Earlier this week, The UWM Post published a piece from an anonymous fan that expressed dismay towards the school’s Athletic Director, Amanda Braun.
This prompted a response from Carl Mueller, Chairman and CEO of Mueller Communications. Mueller Communications is a Milwaukee-based public relations and communications firm.
I received this email on Thursday afternoon from Mr. Mueller:
Good afternoon –
On behalf of myself and Dennis McBride, who has been active on the UWM Alumni Association with me and a season ticket holder, we offer this rebuttal to an anonymous fan. Unlike the other letter writer, we are willing to stand up publicly behind our words and are unabashed about our pride in UWM.
Carl
H. Carl Mueller
Chairman and CEO
Below is the PDF that was attached to the email:
We will update this story as it progresses.
McBride and Mueller, do you two lie to each other as you write this garbage? You both ran track! You have no knowledge of team sports. This basketball team of yours now, with the garbage AD you support took last place this year, and took 34 games to win 10 (don’t count MSOE you fools)! THEY TOOK 10TH PLACE IN A TEN TEAM LEAGUE! This is your process? Your joke AD didn’t even want the current new era coach, and you both know that! What a joke! And don’t give me any b.s. of this magical tournament ‘run’! I have played more basketball in a month than you two combined your entire lives. Including three years at the joke now known as UWM. This new era hoop team lead by your lying, hypocritical, incompetent Athletic Director beat two terrible teams in the worst Horizon League ever and Valpo was no where near the team they were in the regular season. But you two treat this 3 game winning streak like the 1974 UCLA streak that reached 88 games until January 19, 1974 when it ended on the campus of the University of Notre Dame. You two have NO KNOWLEDGE of that do you? A real athlete and basketball player would know that. Why do you hide behind Braun? Attendance was DOWN 50% this season with your new era crap…..for one game, there was MAYBE 300 people in the arena you spend money to put your name on! My left big toe knows more about sports than the both of you and also knows what a fraud, joke, embarrassment your new athletic department truly is. Trust me, no 17 year old potential college hoop player is on his bed at night dreaming of coming to UWM and playing some of his home games in the crap HS gym you have on campus because your department is too stupid to schedule around a circus! Class act you two are supporting….
And M & M,
The fact that you two have to keep defending her only proves what a tool she really is. Have you talked to the numerous people who USED to work for her in the department? For PR people, are you that OBTUSE to the hurt she has caused, all for her own gain. 10 wins this year and last place is an improvement? You two constantly defend this joke of an athletic director. Why? People don’t expose her for the lying fraud that she is for the fun of it? How do you defend a 50% drop in attendance? Come you PR geniuses! How do explain going from 20 wins to 24 losses in one season? When is the last time you two coached a college basketball team? When was the last time you two ran a season of practices? When’s the last recruiting trip have you gone on? When’s the last time you stayed up all night scouting a team or watching video of an upcoming opponent? How many homes have you visited and how many recruiting ‘speeches’ have you done to a potential player and his family? YOU KNOW NOTHING about the game! You know NOTHING on what it takes to win 20 games at the mid-major level with no support and a backstabbing AD. No matter how much support you track guys believe you offered! You are all in a cloud thinking Pearl is coming back. Are you that stupid? Pearl rented you all like a bad car. And you all followed. I am closer to Bruce than the both of you…Actually talked to him last night! But you and your band of supporters how never played a day of college basketball all think you have some insight. What a joke. You must be obtuse, you follow the joke of the A.D. How do you explain as well that Jordan was NOT her first choice? You guys just keep spinning whatever you think the truth is. First things first, learn the game. Go back and support the bell lap and steeplechase until you really know what a basketball program is all about and how truly hard it is to WIN 20 games!