I suggest you utilize the search button and find the numerous articles and interviews, including a video of her describing what she does out of her own mouth; know it all.
Oh my lord, so you take every resume at face value? Give it a rest.
You "utilized the search button" and you "watched a video of Jenn Strawley" (I'll hold off on commenting on that little nugget). As a result of a UM employee giving comments about her own job, you have suddenly concluded that she has impact.
Meanwhile, I don't claim to be a "know it all". But I know people who work at UM, and some who work for the Athletic Department. I am not espousing my own particular opinion, but what I have gathered from those who work directly within the Athletic Department or directly within UM.
And, as Consigliere correctly points out, the entire Athletic Department needs an *****. But that doesn't mean that Jenn Strawley is anywhere near the level of blame that Blake is.
Which is part of the problem. Nobody on this board says anything bad about Brooke Wilson. Because "she's hot". But lots of people target Jenn Strawley because she has more power and "she's not hot". Meanwhile, almost nobody has any idea of whether either one is doing a good job or a bad job.
Where Jenn Strawley fails is that she is not a strong counter-balance to Blake and she has not carved out any area of specialty where she does an excellent job (outside of general administrative excellence).
Jenn Strawley has not taken the lead in pushing for the ACC Network, fund-raising/building any new facilities at UM, working with adidas towards innovative new uniforms or merchandise, scheduling any solid home-and-homes, or identifying any great head coaching candidates.
Most importantly, when you look at her resume, she has not worked in any P5 athletic department. She went to Penn. She worked for the NCAA. She worked at Columbia, then she went back to the NCAA before coming to UM.
Furthermore, she has worked in Enforcement Services (NCAA), Membership Services (NCAA), and Student-Athlete Reinstatement (NCAA). She was a liasion to the NCAA Olympic Sports Committee (i.e, NOT football) and the "working group to review trends in initial eligibility". At Columbia, she handled gender equity and diversity initiatives (though I'm sure that you'll really pump up her oversight of football...AT COLUMBIA). In her SECOND stint with the NCAA, she worked on "academic governance" and "academic policy" while being involved in a "variety of other internal operations".
At UM (and I'll copy and paste so that I don't have to retype everything):
Strawley has served on various committees within the NCAA and the ACC. She currently serves on the ACC Television Committee, the ACC Women’s Basketball foresight committee, the ACC Equity Committee, the ACC Infractions and Sportsmanship Review Committee, the ACC Football Schedulers Group, and the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Oversight Committee. She also serves on the board of directors for Women’s Leaders in College Sports and the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
So, at MOST, she's on the ACC Television Committee ("hey, let's schedule more Thursday night games") and the ACC Football Schedulers Group ("hey, let's schedule more Thursday night games"). She has not been a visionary or a leader on either of these groups. The rest of her ACC/NCAA work at UM has been related to women's sports.
While I could "utilize a search button" to find some self-serving video, I choose to analyze the resume of her entire career, as well as to speak with people who work at UM who can vouch for what she does or does not do. And the reality is that she is a very competent ADMINISTRATOR (but NOT a LEADER), she handles the logistics of athlete admissions, and academics, and initial counters, and Title IX compliance. She sets up meetings, she creates agendas, she communicates.
But some misguided souls on this board would have us believe that THIS PERSON, Jenn Strawley, is some sort of puppet master orchestrating all of our athletic failures. When I am accurately pointing out that she doesn't have nearly the power that some of you fantasize about.
I am in favor of replacing nearly the entire Athletic Department. But let's not mistake "hire better people" for "Jenn Strawley is to blame". She shouldn't have the #2 job and she really isn't doing the #2 job, but that is because of Blake. We already saw Blake weasel out of hiring a highly qualified Football Chief of Staff (Alonzo Highsmith) only to hire a beloved (but first-time administrator) Ed Reed, for whom we had to be assured that he would probably report for work on most days.
So if there is any doubt that Blake prefers to surround himself with administrative weakness, I think we have plenty of evidence.
Though I acknowledge that YOU have a video that you found by utilizing your search button.