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Post by ahoyadad on Dec 29, 2009 13:09:16 GMT -5
It has been aprox 7 months (mid May) going on 8 since AD Muir left for DE and as of today (as far as I know) GU has not yet named a new AD. Does anyone know differently? Why is it taking so long?? It seems to me that a new AD....the right AD is critical to the football program?
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Post by hoyaLS05 on Dec 29, 2009 14:08:19 GMT -5
You are certainly correct about the importance of a strong AD to the football program.
But think of this in football terms: How many teams search for, find, and name a new coach mid-season? Just about none. For an athletic director, the school year is the season, which puts as right at mid-season. Just as it would be difficult to make a strong hire for a coach in October, I don't think it is easy to find an AD in December. While we might see someone named at the start of the second semester, don't be shocked if this drags into the early summer. I know they were prepared to wait that long when they named Porterfield interim.
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Post by ahoyadad on Dec 29, 2009 14:48:04 GMT -5
You are certainly correct about the importance of a strong AD to the football program. But think of this in football terms: How many teams search for, find, and name a new coach mid-season? Just about none. For an athletic director, the school year is the season, which puts as right at mid-season. Just as it would be difficult to make a strong hire for a coach in October, I don't think it is easy to find an AD in December. While we might see someone named at the start of the second semester, don't be shocked if this drags into the early summer. I know they were prepared to wait that long when they named Porterfield interim. that's unfortunate since the position has been vacant since the end of school last year....... |
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Post by Jack on Dec 29, 2009 15:08:55 GMT -5
The position is not vacant, it is filled quite capably on an interim basis by one of the most intelligent and respected administrators at the university, a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus who has the ear of the President. Finding a full time replacement is not necessarily a job that is accomplished in the space of a few months in the summer, and it is apparently difficult to pry someone away from their current job (especially a head AD, which is where we assume the search is focused) during the school year.
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Post by ahoyadad on Dec 29, 2009 15:22:09 GMT -5
The position is not vacant, it is filled quite capably on an interim basis by one of the most intelligent and respected administrators at the university, a Rhodes Scholar and an alumnus who has the ear of the President. Finding a full time replacement is not necessarily a job that is accomplished in the space of a few months in the summer, and it is apparently difficult to pry someone away from their current job (especially a head AD, which is where we assume the search is focused) during the school year. My comments were in NO way a knock against the interim AD and I apologize if they read that way. I am simply wondering way the process takes so long having read several other posts on this board stating that no changes would be made in the program until a new FULL TIME AD was named. |
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Post by hoya4ever on Dec 29, 2009 15:49:35 GMT -5
Don't know enough about ADs, but why don't we just keep Dr. Porterfield? Again, I don't know whether there is any specific knowledge required, but IMO, we would be hard pressed to find someone more devoted to the University, not because it's a job, but because it is a whole lot more.
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Post by theexorcist on Dec 29, 2009 16:12:56 GMT -5
Don't know enough about ADs, but why don't we just keep Dr. Porterfield? Again, I don't know whether there is any specific knowledge required, but IMO, we would be hard pressed to find someone mored devoted to the University, not because it's a job, but because it is a whole lot more. Porterfield has about thirty other jobs. Georgetown, as you might know, has a lot of .... let's say opportunities in which they can improve. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Dec 29, 2009 16:55:41 GMT -5
I would suggest that, among the 30 jobs that Porterfield has, he should not take the one in McD long term. I support GU athletics as others do on here and think it benefits from his leadership, but that would be at the expense of his other roles. More importantly, it also perpetuates the general inattention to the need to attract competent, skillful administrators to fill roles as we did with Bernard Muir instead of something where we simply shift the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Dec 29, 2009 21:08:21 GMT -5
You are certainly correct about the importance of a strong AD to the football program. But think of this in football terms: How many teams search for, find, and name a new coach mid-season? Just about none. For an athletic director, the school year is the season, which puts as right at mid-season. Just as it would be difficult to make a strong hire for a coach in October, I don't think it is easy to find an AD in December. While we might see someone named at the start of the second semester, don't be shocked if this drags into the early summer. I know they were prepared to wait that long when they named Porterfield interim. UNLV just named a new AD. They had three major candidates, all of them with PAC-10 ties. Their acting AD, a guy who has been with the program for about 25 years and was serving as acting AD, was passed over. |
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Post by Oh My! on Dec 30, 2009 10:57:41 GMT -5
We can likely all expect an announcement of the hiring of a new AD in the very near future (I would surmise before the end of January).
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Post by derhoya on Dec 30, 2009 15:30:59 GMT -5
We can likely all expect an announcement of the hiring of a new AD in the very near future (I would surmise before the end of January). Yep. A couple candidates were being shown around a couple weeks ago. I'm more interested in what OC is hired and how that affects the rest of the offensive staff. Spring practice will be interesting.... |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Dec 30, 2009 15:50:18 GMT -5
Thanks for the info. If you don't mind, could you characterize generally who we are looking at? Are we looking at folks with AD experience? Local candidates?
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Post by Oh My! on Dec 31, 2009 10:56:05 GMT -5
AD Experience: Yes. Not Necessarily Local. May or May Not Come From a School w/ a Football Program.
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Post by theexorcist on Dec 31, 2009 11:45:05 GMT -5
AD Experience: Yes. Not Necessarily Local. May or May Not Come From a School w/ a Football Program. Does the school name rhyme with "Macall", "Shmovidence", or "Barkette"? |
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Post by ahoyadad on Dec 31, 2009 12:22:04 GMT -5
AD Experience: Yes. Not Necessarily Local. May or May Not Come From a School w/ a Football Program. Does the school name rhyme with "Macall", "Shmovidence", or "Barkette"? or possibly rhymes with "Mofstra" or comes from the "NorthEast"?? |
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Post by Oh My! on Dec 31, 2009 12:35:12 GMT -5
Not to my knowledge on any of these accounts. NOW..........
No further comment from me until official announcement. Thanks.
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Post by reformation on Dec 31, 2009 16:46:29 GMT -5
I think the quality of the candidate will be a function of what type of decisions that the AD is allowed to make--its not clear whther we are looking for someone to help set direction + actually look to improve our performance vs a pure administrator vs maybe someone who is focused pretty much focused on fundraising or maybe sportsmarketing. Its nice to have someone who is good at everything, but that is pretty rare.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Jan 5, 2010 10:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by theexorcist on Jan 5, 2010 12:10:19 GMT -5
Interesting. A large number of ADs have previous jobs that involved them at some point with the NCAA. Since a large part of the job is maintaining institutional control, and since people who are going to break the rules won't be good sources of what the rules are, he'll need to be careful on that front. With that said, the other parts of the job involve maximizing revenue and determining how to allocate resources. Be interesting to see how this works. |
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Post by SFHoya99 on Jan 5, 2010 19:44:38 GMT -5
Hmm, 1999 to now -- not exactly Domino's finest hour.
Still, an interesting choice.
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