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Andrew said:
I won't touch on any one candidate in this post but I think you have to remember what Miami is trying to do with the program. According to multiple reports the school is going to invest more into the program and build up that infrastructure. I think you have to assume this means both physical infrastructure and personnel infrastructure. If Miami is attempting to rebuild its athletic program then it should hire someone that has experience doing exactly that. So which candidates have experience going in and building an athletic program and who are we considering?
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Here’s my issue. Look at any program of relevance and the credentials of hired athletic directors. Are they hiring from a G5 resume? Or are they hiring from a Power 5 resume?

We have been burned by going cheap on hires by poaching coaches from Temple before. Al Golden was supposed to be someone who built a program from nothing. The reality was the standards were low and the conference switch dropped the competition.
I don’t want someone whose claim to fame was that he put a baseball diamond on a vacant lot and created something from nothing. I want someone who took a low level P5 school and put multiple sports on the National Radar.
 
Andrew said:
It isn't about any one candidate. Look if you want to build a restaurant then you hire a firm that specializes in that. If you want to build a distribution center then you hire a firm that specializes in that. The hire should have experience addressing the need. I'd say that if the hire doesn't have that experience then we are not serious about addressing the current need.
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It has been rumored or maybe flat out described by someone with knowledge of the search, that this move is solely revolving football at UM. Did I misunderstand that? In which case you find someone who can make a straight line in the vision between President-AD-Head Football coach to building sustainable championship caliber football. Correct?
 
When we talk about AD career paths, it is true that top level AD positions don't open very frequently. Is it necessary for a P5 "coach" to go to a Group of 5 school to get experience. Ala Manny to Temple. I HAVE NO HORSE IN THE AD RACE
Jurich was at Northern Arizona before Colorado State then to Louisville. PS He was a placekicker with one game with the Saints.
 
Andrew said:
Someone that has vision on how we compete with other institutions. The A.D. will need the chops to sell the the need to donors and coordinate a multi year rebuild. It just isn't about building a new locker room, it's about the experience we offer players and how do we get ahead of schools and not stay behind them.
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Agreed but I think one of the (potentially THE) most important things a new AD has to be adept and innovative at will be all things NIL related.

I'm more prone to give Manny credit for it than Blake but we've done a decent job with off-season stuff like that in relation to football as the landscape changed super rapidly. So that was the initial response and now we need a guy with the vision to at least try to remotely keep up as other big boy schools try to separate themselves with the NIL money and even the transfer portal.
 
we need an AD who wants to go get money for the athletic department and build it up where BJ had no interest even though he was mr magic fundraiser. With that in mind even a pretty middling candidate with a decent vision and some passion could do wonders here. Especially if you couple it with a like minded coaching staff
 
This is why the AD hire is 100x more important than the coaching hire. The Hecht is plagued and unrecoverable. We need a new leader to come in and completely wipe the slate clean and bring in a disciplined, talented work force that would be hired anywhere in the country, not just here because of some inane local tie.

Honestly, if the timeline ends up being we find the perfect candidate but it takes another month and we have to keep Manny for next year, I would snatch that offer in a heartbeat.
 
I think one positive Nunez could potentially bring is his LSU experience. If I'm interviewing him I'd want to see from him in some sort of roadmap. I'm asking Eddie...Where are we now? Where do we want to be? And how do we get there? Typical consulting bs.

And you probably hope he comes up with some sort of 3 step process he'll be able to follow in building our programs:
  • Lean on Experience: You hope the 14 years spent at LSU has given him the roadmap in building a strong athletic department and he can effectively show this.
  • Focus on Process: You hope he was able to go to UNM and implement some of these processes albeit with limited resources. What did you get right? What did you get wrong? How would you change that moving forward?
  • And Execute: You hope he's been able to perfect his craft to ultimately execute on a grand vision that combines strong process with unlimited resources.
 
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streetja said:
This is why the AD hire is 100x more important than the coaching hire. The Hecht is plagued and unrecoverable. We need a new leader to come in and completely wipe the slate clean and bring in a disciplined, talented work force that would be hired anywhere in the country, not just here because of some inane local tie.

Honestly, if the timeline ends up being we find the perfect candidate but it takes another month and we have to keep Manny for next year, I would snatch that offer in a heartbeat.
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Whoa man - let's not get crazy here. I know you may have had an out of body experience making that statement, it's OK, we're all here for you.
 
Andrew said:
I won't touch on any one candidate in this post but I think you have to remember what Miami is trying to do with the program. According to multiple reports the school is going to invest more into the program and build up that infrastructure. I think you have to assume this means both physical infrastructure and personnel infrastructure. If Miami is attempting to rebuild its athletic program then it should hire someone that has experience doing exactly that. So which candidates have experience going in and building an athletic program and who are we considering?
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I 100% don’t believe that these investments will be that significant, or noticeable. Hope I’m wrong but with the same idiots running the show, all we’ll have is a more expensive circus
 
ghost2 said:
Not to be glib but this post is about Miami. Whether it's Nunez or Zo or Jurich or He-Who-Has-Yet-To-Be-Named.
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Wish I was home... I really wanna add a Harry Potter - He who shall remain nameless gif...
 
stormbrewing said:
It has been rumored or maybe flat out described by someone with knowledge of the search, that this move is solely revolving football at UM. Did I misunderstand that? In which case you find someone who can make a straight line in the vision between President-AD-Head Football coach to building sustainable championship caliber football. Correct?
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Football maybe be the focus by systems need to be in place to support that. Forward vision and not just copying what another school does 5 years after the fact. Someone with vision not only has a long term vision and plan to pay for it but they also understand how to setup a system that can be dynamic and make fast changes. Look at UGA, they put $200M into fund and found ways to spend that money.

The view that potential recruits and coaching candidates has on an university often isn't about one program. Great coaches and players will be attracted to a school that they see investing in the athlete and the experience. How are we going to hire a great football coach if we have an A.D. that has failed to lead the charge in building facilities and other programs that clearly aren't being invested in. Would you think an employer was serious if half their family worked for the corporation and they weren't making capital investments? What about if they hired a CEO from a much smaller company? I wouldn't invest in that.
 
We all are aware (most of us anyway) that The University of Miami is different than just about any other university in the country. The new AD needs to understand that uniqueness and be able to envision what needs to be done to improve the entire athletic department given the challenges of a relatively small private university in the city of Miami, FL.

There are several visionary type AD’s out there but only one that I know of currently unemployed. Would any of the currently employed visionary AD’s be willing to leave their current position and come to Miami?

I hope we don’t settle here. This is a unique opportunity that doesn’t come around very often.
 
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Andrew said:
I won't touch on any one candidate in this post but I think you have to remember what Miami is trying to do with the program. According to multiple reports the school is going to invest more into the program and build up that infrastructure. I think you have to assume this means both physical infrastructure and personnel infrastructure. If Miami is attempting to rebuild its athletic program then it should hire someone that has experience doing exactly that. So which candidates have experience going in and building an athletic program and who are we considering?
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Biggest issue is the shifting conference landscape in the coming 5 years... we have not done ACC any favors with our performance..

We need someone with experience and the toughness to negotiate our position into a strong super conference....

...else we end up in some version of the Big 12.... our leverage is quickly diminishing. We could end being SMU of the southeast.
 
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Gi0logy said:
I think one positive Nunez could potentially bring is his LSU experience. If I'm interviewing him I'd want to see from him in some sort of roadmap. I'm asking Eddie...Where are we now? Where do we want to be? And how do we get there? Typical consulting bs.

And you probably hope he comes up with some sort of 3 step process he'll be able to follow in building our programs:
  • Lean on Experience: You hope the 14 years spent at LSU has given him the roadmap in building a strong athletic department and he can effectively show this.
  • Focus on Process: You hope he was able to go to UNM and implement some of these processes albeit with limited resources. What did you get right? What did you get wrong? How would you change that moving forward?
  • And Execute: You hope he's been able to perfect his craft to ultimately execute on a grand vision that combines strong process with unlimited resources.
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It is all binders and pillars if he cannot back it up with past performance..
 
RVACane said:
This is a really thoughtful post. I think we need to look at the candidates we hear about though with this perspective.

The only one is Jurich that I’m aware of and apparently that’s not in the cards. He built up facilities, re-built football and re-built basketball at Louisville.
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We need to look at the candidate that is HIRED through this lens. Forget the candidates we hear about. Don't believe a word of any of that. If this is done right (a huge assumption given our history, I know), there will be very little word leaked about the hire before it is official.
 
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