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Actually, when you have an opening, you try to get the best candidate possible. I wouldn't read anything into or even waste the time to speculate. One could just as easily speculate that Luongo isnt seeing much progress in conference talks, and wants to go somewhere that he knows he'll be in 2 or 3 years and is seeking other spots, Kleinendorst, after moving out of Bingo sees an opportunity to have team to coach for the next year or two and have an up close look at a lot of college players while he waits for the next call from the AHL. That scenario is every bit as plausible as any of the others presented, and likely about as accurate. Nothing more that speculation from an outside source with no inside info. The only one on this board who will come remotely close will be Geof.
It's an odd situation for sure. But better to take time and get it right, than to go about it in a rushed fashion and come up with incorrect or incomplete info. Hope all works out for UAH.
In general, you should either do what your supervisor desires or leave. A couple of exceptions to this include cases where dramatic changes in your organization are occurring and where your administration has sent mixed messages regarding who your supervisor really is. Needless to say, Luongo's situation with Brophy was difficult at best, placing with the president in a difficult situation where he's pretty much obliged to trust Brohpy first. It looks like the new coach will have the president's trust and has the insight and maturity needed to help the president decide if any further action is needed (hint).
Please elaborate. I had no idea that they even vaguely knew each other before the president arrived. Brophy is an Alabama boy who appears to have arrived through the "good ole boy concept" when Portera was beginning to kill the program. The following is from AL.com ( http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/03/uah_names_3_ad_finalists.html ) when Brophy was interviewing. "Brophy, in his fifth year as athletics director at West Alabama, is a former baseball player at UAB and coached on the collegiate level as an assistant at Samford and Montevallo and was head coach at Wallace Community College in Selma. He returned to his alma mater as assistant athletic director of external affairs in 2005" While it appears that Brophy has never worked outside of Alabama, it appears that Altenkirch ( http://www.uah.edu/president/biography ) is a newcomer to the state. Plus, it doesn't appear that they have ever even worked in the same stratum.