What gets tiresome about these discussions is they always turn into the opposite sides of two extremes.
Nuñez & Jurich aren’t the only capable potential AD’s out there & not wanting one as opposed to other doesn’t mean that you only wanted the one as opposed to the other.
Whether Nunez is a good choice or not remains to be seen, if he’s hired & he fires Manny those of you that are constantly ready to slurp the administration will throw a parade, but the reality is, Manny’s been fired for quite some time, Nunez firing Manny is not a notch on his belt. In fact, the majority of the football decisions have already been made long before he was ever even in consideration.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who the Money Men wanted to be the next HC, any & all support that was levied to Manny by Epstein & the Old Guard was done so as a political move to re-ascertain power, but he was never in the long term plans, there wasn’t a scenario where Manny was going to be kept here if the big money guys are going to going pay whatever to get their guy.
Two things can be true at the same time; Jurich isn’t the only candidate capable of being an AD here & Nunez can also not necessarily be good at his job, whether he is or isn’t, only time will tell but the idea that Nunez is now suddenly a homerun simply because people don’t like that fans don’t like that Jurich wasn’t hired is kinda dumb lol.
Anybody using logic can see that Nunez is being hired because he’s fits with what the new power structure in the BOT wants, he’s connected & he’s one of them. Maybe that’s a great thing, too early to tell, but anybody trying to make Nunez out to be a slam dunk hire is being disingenuous at best.
That doesn’t mean he’s an abject failure either, we don’t know yet, but simple logic tells you the reason why he would get the job & it’s not because of his qualifications. Again, doesn’t mean he’s going to be terrible, maybe he’ll be a great AD, but lets not try pretend like we don’t know why his name is even in consideration lol.
And the narrative the no one knows who AD’s are is true for most of the board, but a simple CIS search will tell you that’s not entirely true, there are some of us who actually do & have posted multiple potential candidates, just because the majority may be lazy & have daily amnesia doesn’t mean everybody fits in that category.