SiouxFallsSioux/Hawk Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Did anyone ask Elliot if she applied for the AD position that was recently open at UTSA? Does the new AD plan on keeping her or is she doing exactly what Irle just did ? Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 14 hours ago, UND-FB-FAN said: Donors Careful, you'll be accused of "spending other people's money". Quote
The Sicatoka Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 14 hours ago, UND Fan said: I know and like Mike and while I know he would work his rear off, I am not sure he is quite ready for the job. Being successful at the job would require him (due to his limited experience) to surround himself with talented assistants. I have some concern whether Mike has the contacts/knowledge to know who can handle specific duties. IMO - he can not rely on some who are currently in the department. This is a very reasoned assessment. Quote
southpaw Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 13 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Careful, you'll be accused of "spending other people's money". Well, when your solution to getting rid of a coach who just signed a 4-year extension is to have other people pay for it, then yeah you're just spending other people's money. That coach just led UND to its biggest tournament ever. I don't want to turn this into a bashing of Jones thread, but at some point we are going to be stuck with coaches people don't like and the solution is not to always buy them out instantly. And that's not an attitude of accepting mediocrity, it's an attitude of accepting that we can't do a buyout without funding from other sources. And I'm not ready to take money that could have been donated to other programs just to get rid of a coach that won the conference tournament last year. 1 Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, southpaw said: Well, when your solution to getting rid of a coach who just signed a 4-year extension is to have other people pay for it, then yeah you're just spending other people's money. That coach just led UND to its biggest tournament ever. I don't want to turn this into a bashing of Jones thread, but at some point we are going to be stuck with coaches people don't like and the solution is not to always buy them out instantly. And that's not an attitude of accepting mediocrity, it's an attitude of accepting that we can't do a buyout without funding from other sources. And I'm not instantly ready to take money that could have been donated to other programs just to get rid of a coach that won the conference tournament last year. Private fundraising is becoming the biggest funding source for intercollegiate athletics. How do you think the IPF was funded? The ND Legislature? I don't think so. If you are against raising private funds to pay for stuff like this, then you don't have a problem with me. You have a problem with the funding model for intercollegiate athletics in general. And this thread isn't about MBB, it's about the AD position. And whomever gets hired will have to ask for "other people's money" to help us reach our goals as an athletic department. I return everyone to their regularly scheduled speculating. 2 Quote
homer Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 12 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Private fundraising is becoming the biggest funding source for intercollegiate athletics. How do you think the IPF was funded? The ND Legislature? I don't think so. If you are against raising private funds to pay for stuff like this, then you don't have a problem with me. You have a problem with the funding model for intercollegiate athletics in general. And this thread isn't about MBB, it's about the AD position. And whomever gets hired will have to ask for "other people's money" to help us reach our goals as an athletic department. I return everyone to their regularly scheduled speculating. So he question Kennedy asks is do you go with guy that has experience fundraising or go with the guy that has experience making fairly solid hires. I think you are both right that with our last AD and old athletic dept. structure the money wasn’t there to buy out anyone. I’m not sure that with schools our size a multi year buyout will be there in the future. Should be an interesting rest of the week. 1 Quote
southpaw Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 11 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: Private fundraising is becoming the biggest funding source for intercollegiate athletics. How do you think the IPF was funded? The ND Legislature? I don't think so. If you are against raising private funds to pay for stuff like this, then you don't have a problem with me. You have a problem with the funding model for intercollegiate athletics in general. And this thread isn't about MBB, it's about the AD position. And whomever gets hired will have to ask for "other people's money" to help us reach our goals as an athletic department. I return everyone to their regularly scheduled speculating. If it's not about MBB, then why bring up a post that was specifically about buying out the MBB coach? I work in intercollegiate athletics with a school that created a non-profit organization to handle all of the donations that come into the athletic department, so I'm very familiar with how things get funded. Private funding is extremely important to any athletic department and the new AD will need to rely on that private funding if they want to sustain and improve the athletic department and its facilities. However, the new AD also has to prioritize those private donations and I'm assuming buying out the reigning conference champion basketball coach is a lot lower on the list than a lot of other coach related financial issues. Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 1 minute ago, southpaw said: If it's not about MBB, then why bring up a post that was specifically about buying out the MBB coach? I work in intercollegiate athletics with a school that created a non-profit organization to handle all of the donations that come into the athletic department, so I'm very familiar with how things get funded. Private funding is extremely important to any athletic department and the new AD will need to rely on that private funding if they want to sustain and improve the athletic department and its facilities. However, the new AD also has to prioritize those private donations and I'm assuming buying out the reigning conference champion basketball coach is a lot lower on the list than a lot of other coach related financial issues. My biggest problem with the characterization of private financing as "spending other people's money" is that nobody is forcing these people to write checks. They do it because they want to. If they don't want to fund something, they don't have to. The key word is "voluntary". Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 3 minutes ago, homer said: I think you are both right that with our last AD and old athletic dept. structure the money wasn’t there to buy out anyone. I’m not sure that with schools our size a multi year buyout will be there in the future. Assuming your point is correct, the next AD has to resist the temptation to give out multi-year contract extensions like candy. It backfired with Mussman and it is backfiring with Jones right now. 1 2 Quote
chicofelipe Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 On 1/6/2018 at 10:23 AM, jdub27 said: The nickname was literally a public vote. With significant changes to the process during the process. Quote
southpaw Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 8 minutes ago, fightingsioux4life said: My biggest problem with the characterization of private financing as "spending other people's money" is that nobody is forcing these people to write checks. They do it because they want to. If they don't want to fund something, they don't have to. The key word is "voluntary". And that's where I think my snarky post should have been more clear. I wasn't characterizing all private funding as spending other people's money, just you saying "we need to buy him out" but not actually contributing to that buyout. I think we all want to prioritize other people's money into the sport or category we think it best fits, be it IPF part 2, higher coaches salaries, or buying out the coach. But for some of us, two of those things are necessary at some point but the third one is more of a trivial/personal opinion thing. 1 Quote
gfhockey Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 18 minutes ago, homer said: So he question Kennedy asks is do you go with guy that has experience fundraising or go with the guy that has experience making fairly solid hires. I think you are both right that with our last AD and old athletic dept. structure the money wasn’t there to buy out anyone. I’m not sure that with schools our size a multi year buyout will be there in the future. Should be an interesting rest of the week. Or or you could have both lol chaves to ad Mannausau in current position Quote
gfhockey Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Idc how the new ad is but as much o want jones gone too the new ad is going to do any knee jerk reactions in first year to risky for him to do that. He gives jones and brew one more year to prove them selves Quote
jdub27 Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 One common theme that all three candidates have stated is that firing a coach is not an issue. If you are in constant communication with coaches, both sides know what they need to be doing and where they need to be at. That also means it is a two-way street with the coaches getting the resources they need in order to meet the benchmarks set. None of the candidates are going to have knee-jerk reactions and buying out multi-year contracts because fans want them to. There are going to be up and down years and some of that will be dictated by outside circumstances (injuries, players transferring, etc) and despite people claiming those are excuses or accepting mediocrity, a good athletic director takes them into account when working with coaches and making decisions for the future. 4 Quote
Popular Post The Sicatoka Posted January 10, 2018 Popular Post Posted January 10, 2018 When I'm interviewing someone to run a multi-faceted organization I love to ask, "Have you done 'the manager big four'' in past jobs?" When they ask, "What's that?" I say: set budget made budget hired someone fired someone You're not qualified to run a multi-department organization (especially one with a $25M+ budget) unless you answered "Yes" four times. Can these four finalists do that? 2 3 Quote
Nodak78 Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: When I'm interviewing someone to run a multi-faceted organization I love to ask, "Have you done 'the manager big four'' in past jobs?" When they ask, "What's that?" I say: set budget made budget hired someone fired someone You're not qualified to run a multi-department organization (especially one with a $25M+ budget) unless you answered "Yes" four times. Can these four finalists do that? One for sure. He has a public forum at 4:30 today 1 Quote
gfhockey Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 I don’t think mannsaua has done any of those? Quote
Oxbow6 Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: When I'm interviewing someone to run a multi-faceted organization I love to ask, "Have you done 'the manager big four'' in past jobs?" When they ask, "What's that?" I say: set budget made budget hired someone fired someone You're not qualified to run a multi-department organization (especially one with a $25M+ budget) unless you answered "Yes" four times. Can these four finalists do that? 9 minutes ago, gfhockey said: I don’t think mannsaua has done any of those? ............and Elliot hasn't been in one spot long enough to have done any of those. Quote
Mama Sue Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 14 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said: When I'm interviewing someone to run a multi-faceted organization I love to ask, "Have you done 'the manager big four'' in past jobs?" When they ask, "What's that?" I say: set budget made budget hired someone fired someone You're not qualified to run a multi-department organization (especially one with a $25M+ budget) unless you answered "Yes" four times. Can these four finalists do that? Great post! And watching for that candidate that interviews “too smooth.” Once that was a bad one.... he got the job. I mean absolutely NO ONE talks to the local paper at 9:40 am before it goes to press and then leaves a message on my work answering machine at 5:10 pm about disciplining my child. Did I mention his child was involved, no discipline, and he did not pass the incident off laterally or up the food chain,. My mother said, ”Cream floats.” and he was gone in a year or so. His interview was perfect. So, just another issue when someone looks too good to be true. Interesting week ahead.... Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 1 hour ago, southpaw said: And that's where I think my snarky post should have been more clear. I wasn't characterizing all private funding as spending other people's money, just you saying "we need to buy him out" but not actually contributing to that buyout. I think we all want to prioritize other people's money into the sport or category we think it best fits, be it IPF part 2, higher coaches salaries, or buying out the coach. But for some of us, two of those things are necessary at some point but the third one is more of a trivial/personal opinion thing. Okay, that is fair. 1 Quote
jdub27 Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 21 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said: ............and Elliot hasn't been in one spot long enough to have done any of those. She still isn't my top candidate but she has plenty of experience in the budget portion of her previous jobs along with overseeing quite a few people in her previous jobs. I get (one of) the reasons people don't like her is the amount of jobs she's had. She addressed that by pointing out a handful were term jobs (2 Olympic appointments and some fundraising projects). Frankly, her experience is easily the most impressive of the 3 who have interviewed so far, which by no means makes her the best candidate but is probably the main difference she has. 3 Quote
gfhockey Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 I think the gobc list goes chaves mannasau wmu guy job jumper Quote
nodak651 Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 1 hour ago, gfhockey said: Or or you could have both lol chaves to ad Mannausau in current position This. Or give Mannausau a slight pay raise and get him more involved in other aspects of the athletic department. 2 Quote
UND-FB-FAN Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 Something to consider: Have any of the current candidates had the media of their current university cover the possibility of that candidate leaving? I know Chaves' candidacy has been covered: https://www.google.com/amp/www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/04/eastern-washington-ad-bill-chaves-a-finalist-at-no/%3famp-content=amp This certainly doesn't mean everything, but it may be interpreted as EWU appreciates the work he does and his leaving would be a big deal for that school. I suppose one could also interpret it as Chaves is the only current AD of the bunch. With that said, I think he would be a very good fit for UND athletics, specifically addressing the major national sports (football, basketball) that best fit the vision of President Kennedy. 1 Quote
fightingsioux4life Posted January 10, 2018 Posted January 10, 2018 51 minutes ago, jdub27 said: She still isn't my top candidate but she has plenty of experience in the budget portion of her previous jobs along with overseeing quite a few people in her previous jobs. I get (one of) the reasons people don't like her is the amount of jobs she's had. She addressed that by pointing out a handful were term jobs (2 Olympic appointments and some fundraising projects). Frankly, her experience is easily the most impressive of the 3 who have interviewed so far, which by no means makes her the best candidate but is probably the main difference she has. Some people think the WMU guy has been there too long. Others complain that Elliot hasn't been at one job long enough. Obviously, you can't have it both ways. So do we look for someone in the middle of the spectrum? Quote
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