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Instead, he would take the place of legendary UVM coach Mike Gilligan, who’d been at the helm for the Catamounts since Sneddon was a freshman in high school...
...filling some pretty big shoes,” Roy said. “Coach Gilligan was there for I don’t know how many years. He was basically the mayor of Burlington...
...It’s hard to replace a legend like Mike Gilligan,” said Vermont Captain Jaime Sifers said, “but Coach Sneddon is the best replacement they could’ve gotten...
More controversial than Hutton's verdict on the BBC was his conclusion that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to reveal Kelly's name to reporters once Kelly had told his bosses at the Ministry of Defense that he had met Gilligan but had not said all the things the reporter had broadcast. Yet the diary of Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, shows that he was obsessed with outing Kelly, sure that this would "f___ Gilligan." Hutton focused instead on the worry of some officials that if they concealed that a civil servant had come forward...
...Kelly for leaking to reporters his disquiet that the government had oversold evidence of Iraq's WMD, giving a different slant to his bosses and parliamentary committees and then despairing as he realized his dissembling would be revealed. But Hutton saved most of his fire for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan for making "very grave" and "unfounded" charges in a live radio broadcast last May after he met Kelly. Gilligan reported that the government "probably knew" that a central claim in its dossier on Iraqi WMD--that some were deployable in 45 minutes--was false when the claim was inserted. Testimony...