BC somehow managed to have its AD resign months after Blue Skies announced he would be moving on, and they've already hired his replacement. This is a good example of how things operate in a real world environment, not like the "What's the big hurry?" mentality that otherwise pervades academia.
On one of these "slow news Fridays", I'm sure the UNH "panel" will trickle out a press release announcing their new AD. The longer the "search" (lol) goes on, the more likely it is that outside candidates are falling by the wayside - probably snapped up by faster-moving, more serious suitors - leaving the sloppy seconds hanging in there for the UNH job as a consolation prize.
And my sources may well end up being correct on everything but the timing ... certainly hoping that's not the case, but the idea that this search is going on, what, three months now? Not encouraging, but I'm sure the recruiting firm is having a blast with their expense accounts, at the U's expense ...
It’s really an exercise in futility to respond to a post as ignorant as this, but I will do so simply to communicate the realities to the REST of the folks on this board….
First of all, the comparison to BC is just mind-numbingly dumb. BC has had THREE AD’s resign in the last FIVE years, all seemingly in search of a next career step. Bates left to found a college sports exec search firm (apropos here), Jarmond was a highly sought-after up-and-comer who left for UCLA, and Kraft went in search of fame and fortune at Penn State. With the position unfilled, BC stepped on the gas to hire James, a former Maine AD most recently fired from Miami for not getting the FB program turned around. Seems like a good guy, and I think at least some at BC like his balanced priorities - I’ll let the BC folks speak for that.
To compare that to a situation where the announcement was made early to enable a well-thought-out, extensive search and recruitment process is just ridiculous. Think what you’d like to about Marty, but the fact that he’s had this semester to focus on driving some efforts which have a very long tail is a good thing; efforts that if they come to fruition will mean very good things for the program we love. He’s hardly counting down days right now. This has enabled the President, the search committee, the exec recruiting firm, etc., bear down nationally to identify dozens of candidates, and go through a multi-step whittling-down process that is in its short strokes as we speak. This is all being done while several other arguably larger fish are needing frying at both the UNH and system level, that require a ton of time and attention as well.
The absurd comment you make about the exec search firm running up a tab just shows your ignorance of how the process has worked - not even worth addressing.
You have no sources, Chuck, and if you did, they would be miserably off the mark that you might consider seeking out new ones. You claim they told you two specific things….
- Announcement coming in Mid-April (woefully wrong)
- A certain someone as the shoo-in (there’s no amount of money I wouldn’t pony up in a bet with you on this stupidity - call it 10,000-1 odds)
Finally, putting panel and search in quotations, and using lol…. I mean, you can’t be taken seriously. I imagine the vast majority on this board don’t.
Unseeded TX is here, has beaten OK, but it would be an epic upset. Nobody has beaten OK twice, TX has the pitching to do it once, maybe, but twice is a huge ask.