So which is it Dana?
Monday, April 2nd:
Dana Altman, head coach of (at the time) the Creighton University Bluejays announces that he is leaving Creighton for the head coaching job at Arkansas. A press conference which included a weird strange “Pig Sooie” call with president, A.D, members of the media and then head coach Dana Altman all joining in. And in the video you can see that Dana is either disturbed at the sight of what was taking place or had a really bad lunch on the flight to Fayetteville. But he also said “And with your permission I’d like to finish my career at the University of Arkansas.”
Tuesday, April 3rd:
Dana Altman, head coach of (at the time) the Arkansas Razorbacks decides that he is going to come back to Creighton as head coach. Sighting reasons of what’s best for his family and his love of “home”, talked to Creighton AD Bruce Rasmussen (who gladly accepted him back) and, made the decision to return to the Bluejays.
Stay tuned for developments on Wednesday, April 4th…
In all seriousness, Dana has ended any chance for him to coach at any big name school after this flip-flop. He has long turned down job after job after job to stay at Creighton and he has been well compensated for it at CU. Which is what made the Arkansas decision so strange. The Iowa job was out there for the taking and seemed to be the logical fit for Dana and even die hard Creighton fans shouldn’t have been surprised if he took the job with the Hawkeyes...but ARKANSAS?!!?! A passion for sports yes, maybe even a little bit crazy, but why would the normally stoic and at times almost boring Altman go to Arkansas? And we weren’t even to the most shocking news yet, he decides to come back. He got cold feet. He was at the alter, waiting to get married and he ran away. He chickened out.
So now the big fish is back in the small pond and Creighton *cough*bandwagon*cough* fans will adore him until he retires. Altman has the talent to coach a “BCS” team, but obviously he doesn’t have the stones. He has the talent to coach a team to the final 4, but now he will be lucky if he ever sees the Sweet 16.
Welcome back Dana. 
The Comments
foxspit April 4, 2007 at 7:23am
I heard that Arkansas gave him about 7 million reasons to take the job. Tough to walk away from that but he’s probably better off in the long run. Then again, $7 million is like hitting the lottery.
I admire him for swallowing his pride and making a decision that was best for him and his family, even if it leaves him with a little bit of egg on this face. If his family wants to stay, he’d probably better listen to them.
I’m not a Creighton fan, but I can appreciate the temptation Altman felt with the Arkansas offer. Couldn’t have been an easy call to make when he decided to stay.
Fletch April 4, 2007 at 8:20am
Kudos for someone else in this area to point out the bandwagon fans. Dana has cemented his place as a big fish in a small pond, which I think is good, because he would have been way over his head at Arkansas. It’s good for Creighton and good for the state, but I hope the Huskers trounce them repeatedly from here on out now that Doc is in da house!
D.M.B. April 4, 2007 at 1:29pm
I’ve known Creighton fans have been bandwagons forever. I heard them described perfectly the other day.
A majority of Creighton basketball fans are casual Nebraska fans living in Omaha. They want to root for a winner and would like to root for Nebraska but since the program is down and Creighton is doing well they pledge their allegiance to Creighton basketball. What happens if Nebraska suddenly becomes good again? I betcha those fans are gonna make the trip down I-80 and Creighton attendance goes down.
Fletch April 4, 2007 at 1:37pm
I still think beer sales have something to do with the differences in attendance.