New AD announced
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I dont think specifically tkm would be a typical unlv move... but the idea of someone with no experience and who is way underqualified... for sure.
On The Pressbox this morning,, graney (everyone loves him i know) mentioned knuth from Unr. I wouldn't be upset about that to be honest. He brought in Norvell (who im still not sold on, but has done well enough there), and musselman and Alford. Regardless of what you think about hiring a rival AD, it would be far from a bad hire, especially based on UNLV's track record
Give me an AD that will get us in a super conference. That and bring back Hey Reb!
100%
I'll be fine if we lose HeyReb forever if it means some kind of relevance on the national scene and in a conference that means being you have to be 12-0 to be in the conversation.
We (Rebel fans) often discuss UNLV job like it requires or should expect a local or familiar name from the university level to run the athletic department. I'd argue that we want someone who has nothing to do with it. Someone who has strong ties to and with other conferences. Obviously it puts them at risk of leaving, but its almost almost certainly the only way to progress at place like UNLV.
Being ingrained with the school means you are unlikely to have strong ties to help us out of the dumpster.
I would love to see LK as the guy but id worry he wouldn't be able to pull the trigger on KK if KK is bad. Also, if K State job opens and Lon has had any good experience here, he's a shoo in for them. He says he won't take the UNLV AD gig anyway.
Wonder where the next person comes from...
You know it's actually possible TKM is named the interim AD for a few months. I hope Whitfield wouldn't go that way but looking at who's left in the Athletic Department I'm not sure who he'll give the temporarily title. We should find out something very soon.
"In an open letter to the UNLV community, school president Keith E. Whitfield said that an interim plan for athletic leadership would be announced in the coming days. The school is planning on conducting a national search to find Reed-Francois’ replacement."
"In an open letter to the UNLV community, school president Keith E. Whitfield said that an interim plan for athletic leadership would be announced in the coming days. The school is planning on conducting a national search to find Reed-Francois’ replacement."
Is this national search as good as the basketball coaching search? If so we’re in trouble!
Most often a National search conducted by a professional firm is used to give an administration someone to blame if the search is lengthy or doesn't supply to desired quality of candidate.
IMO, our president must have had a file on current AD's that are desirable. There also will be dozens of AD's and assistants who would like the job and are in the process of contacting the President.
A search company is only needed to provide cover.
If you have ever worked with a search team for an executive hire, you know that they do not pick the executive. Their job is to find out everything possible about tge candidates.
You know that cute stuff they put on applications asking for recommendations? Useless. They may or may not be accurate, but almost certainly slanted in your favor. Why else would you list them.
Media, agents, even coworkers may or may not be accurate depictors.
What a search team does is what the name implies. It searches. It finds out tge truth, good or bad. 5hey can find information on the intent and needs of candidates. Whatever the hiring unit desires. They then report, the hirers react, perhaps ask for more info.
At that point, negotiations can begin. In this case, UNLV and it's attorneys will work with the candidate leaders, usually 3 to 5, and their attorneys. Then, a hire can be chosen.
This is not hiring a clerk. It is an executive position, involving millions of dollars, and complicated agreements.
Can mistakes be made? Duh! You are usually hiring a person for a position they have not held. Either by duties or level. Their success may also depend on other factors like budget, support, etc.
Whatever, a search committee is an information gatherer, not a decision maker.
You know that cute stuff they put on applications asking for recommendations? Useless. They may or may not be accurate, but almost certainly slanted in your favor. Why else would you list them.
Media, agents, even coworkers may or may not be accurate depictors.
What a search team does is what the name implies. It searches. It finds out tge truth, good or bad. 5hey can find information on the intent and needs of candidates. Whatever the hiring unit desires. They then report, the hirers react, perhaps ask for more info.
At that point, negotiations can begin. In this case, UNLV and it's attorneys will work with the candidate leaders, usually 3 to 5, and their attorneys. Then, a hire can be chosen.
This is not hiring a clerk. It is an executive position, involving millions of dollars, and complicated agreements.
Can mistakes be made? Duh! You are usually hiring a person for a position they have not held. Either by duties or level. Their success may also depend on other factors like budget, support, etc.
Whatever, a search committee is an information gatherer, not a decision maker.
Worst case they get thrown on the slag heap of UNLV AD's past and fade into history like so many before. Or they kick ass, change UNLV culture, and drag the school, kicking and screaming, into a super-conference, earning themselves a 'uge payday and immortality. Place your bets! Place your bets!
So the Interim AD has been in place the entire time the athletic department has headed straight downward?
I don't know.
If you mean successful, current AD's from P5 and G5 schools I agree. Why come here?
But I believe there will be dozens of AD's from FCS schools who would jump at a chance to come to UNLV. We are so far down it is a huge opportunity.
If you go to a successful program all you can do is maintain it and you run a huge risk it will go downhill. But when you go to a dumpster fire if you just make it a little better you'll appear to be Sir Galahad. And even if it isn't better you double your pay and live in a great city until you are canned and you go back down.
The problem will be picking the one who actually can stretch him or herself and get the job done here. That's where I have no faith in current UNLV leadership.
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