Sounds pretty vague Mick, do you know exactly what your role will be?
RETIRED Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse will swap a tracksuit for the tweeds of academia this week, becoming a vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University.
In a job switch few predicted after Malthouse's 40 years as an AFL player and coach, he will lecture in a range of subjects, including physiotherapy, sports administration and marketing.
La Trobe vice-chancellor Professor John Dewar conceded the taciturn coach was not an obvious candidate for a career in tertiary education.
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''Mick is probably not someone who would automatically be associated with universities. But he is a successful leader who will help inspire young people,'' Professor Dewar said.
''A big part of our mission is to build aspiration in communities that would otherwise not have considered university.''
He said Malthouse would expand La Trobe's expertise in sports medicine and administration, and establish strong ties with state sporting bodies.
Malthouse's tough persona concealed a renaissance man with a genuine interest in education, he said.
''I find him passionate, engaging and inspiring. The Mick that the public don't see is the side of him we expect our students to see.''
Despite having no tertiary qualifications after starting with the Saints as a 17-year-old from Ballarat, Malthouse has always been an inveterate reader with a particular fondness for military history and eastern philosophy.
He would regularly invoke Confucius, Churchill, Rommel and Orwell, while his coaching contemporaries blandly referred to ''processes'' and ''key performance indicators''.
When coaching the West Coast Eagles in 1997, Malthouse channelled Mao Zedong to explain a shock loss to Richmond.
''As Chairman Mao said, 'It's no good picking up a rock only to drop it on one's foot,''' he told a confused media scrum.
Oddly enough, the 58-year-old will also mentor journalism students at La Trobe, after terrifying footy reporters for decades with his withering glare and combative style.
Malthouse once grabbed a journalist in a headlock and reduced others to tears with his post-game tirades. La Trobe's prized recruit was unavailable for comment yesterday
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RETIRED Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse will swap a tracksuit for the tweeds of academia this week, becoming a vice-chancellor's fellow at La Trobe University.
In a job switch few predicted after Malthouse's 40 years as an AFL player and coach, he will lecture in a range of subjects, including physiotherapy, sports administration and marketing.
La Trobe vice-chancellor Professor John Dewar conceded the taciturn coach was not an obvious candidate for a career in tertiary education.
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Illustration: Matt Golding
''Mick is probably not someone who would automatically be associated with universities. But he is a successful leader who will help inspire young people,'' Professor Dewar said.
''A big part of our mission is to build aspiration in communities that would otherwise not have considered university.''
He said Malthouse would expand La Trobe's expertise in sports medicine and administration, and establish strong ties with state sporting bodies.
Malthouse's tough persona concealed a renaissance man with a genuine interest in education, he said.
''I find him passionate, engaging and inspiring. The Mick that the public don't see is the side of him we expect our students to see.''
Despite having no tertiary qualifications after starting with the Saints as a 17-year-old from Ballarat, Malthouse has always been an inveterate reader with a particular fondness for military history and eastern philosophy.
He would regularly invoke Confucius, Churchill, Rommel and Orwell, while his coaching contemporaries blandly referred to ''processes'' and ''key performance indicators''.
When coaching the West Coast Eagles in 1997, Malthouse channelled Mao Zedong to explain a shock loss to Richmond.
''As Chairman Mao said, 'It's no good picking up a rock only to drop it on one's foot,''' he told a confused media scrum.
Oddly enough, the 58-year-old will also mentor journalism students at La Trobe, after terrifying footy reporters for decades with his withering glare and combative style.
Malthouse once grabbed a journalist in a headlock and reduced others to tears with his post-game tirades. La Trobe's prized recruit was unavailable for comment yesterday
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/m...eam-academe-20120211-1syo7.html#ixzz1m7GjR4Ny
