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BOT / Highsmith for AD

hoops156 said:
dont want highsmith near the program as an AD. we need to poach the UCF AD. if you guys are done waiting for the dude to learn on the job, then get someone w experience. get the UCF guy in here and let him do what he did for UCF
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Finally! Some sanity! Danny White would transform this school.
 
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Highsmith would be such a blessing. Amazing Scout. Would be fantastic with personnel and knows his coaches as well.

Let’s not pretend we are a football school. Hires need to be made for football 1st and then figure out everything else from there.

I’m sure that someone like Zo being a scout and well respected would defer to other experts when needed.
 
OrangeBowlMagic said:
Just remember, when you post on this board, you’re debating with people who think it’s the job of the athletic director to scout personnel.
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It’s not the AD responsibility. but it’s only an asset. Someone the coach could use as a resource but also he would know if the coach has a lot or a little to work it. And gauge player development. Our current AD is clueless.
 
PSU Cane said:
After reading this thread, i have to wonder if most even know what an AD does.

It's so much more than football and different from an NFL front office in so many ways.
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Yep lol like he is covering baseball tennis etc and every sport um has he would be in charge of
 
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bacane said:
Yeah, let's bring in Highsmith as AD. Then, we hire Chud as head coach, Dorsey to run the offense, Dan Morgan the defense, Reed secondary and special teams, Moss wide receivers.

Sorry, if look around, ex-players and coaches aren't ADs today. ADs are typically pencil-neck business guys. Few of them ever played the game.
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At least we would suck without having an FSU alum as a head coach
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
Only Miami fans would cry incessantly about hiring a coach with no experience only to clamor for an AD with none because he was here when the football team was good 30 years ago. Never change, fellas.
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Your mistake is that you're forming a false equivalency between the importance of HC experience & AD experience. They are not even remotely the same. You do realize that before Paul Dee became AD he was also relatively inexperienced right? Also..USC hired Lynn Swann as AD with no experience as well, so there is precedent for this. You know what's more important than experience? Competence.
 
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craval85 said:
Your mistake is that you're forming a false equivalency between the importance of HC coaching experience & AD experience. They are not even remotely the same. You do realize that before Paul Dee became AD he was also relatively inexperienced right? Also..USC hired Lynn Swann as AD with no experience as well, so there is precedent for this. You know what's more important than experience? Competence.
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Exactly. He can learn about women tennis on the job. Who gives a fvck.
 
If any of you know the very basic concepts of supply and demand, this is only the first steps of college athletics. This is why any and every resource gets invested into college football. When this engine is humming everyone, the school, the community, the janitors, the men’s chess team, benefits

Why an AD in the P5 does not make any and every decision around the football team is beyond me, ESPECIALLY, considering the added benefit of the ACC tv network now

We have, and continue to suck, in spite of the ACC


Hence why garbage teams beat us
 
PSU Cane said:
After reading this thread, i have to wonder if most even know what an AD does.

It's so much more than football and different from an NFL front office in so many ways.
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Doesn’t have to be. Athletic departments can be structured in different ways. You are making an incorrect assumption. Some AD’s have different responsibilities than others. Do you want to have a good football program?
 
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aleahy said:
Doesn’t have to be. Athletic departments can be structured in different ways. You are making an incorrect assumption. Some AD’s have different responsibilities than others. Do you want to have a good football program?
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It's impossible to run a competent athletics program without AD experience, bro!

Womens tennis will suffer!
 
Cane6 said:
on The Canesport call in podcast a caller indicated that Alonzo Highsmith had expressed interest in miami’s AD position if it became available.

He also discussed how there seems to be disagreement within the BOT on the direction of the program, with two members pushing hard to get Cristobal, and fairly upset that a legitimate search wasn’t performed by Blake.

He also detailed Blake James’ ascension into the AD role. He certainly doesn’t seem qualified now, or when he was initially hired.

Just passing along the info.

At the end of the day, what I take is that the only hope for real change is for Manny to continue crapping the bed and we lose out. That’s my opinion
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Get the FOH you Manny slurped troll POS
9oh4Cane said:
It's impossible to run a competent athletics program without AD experience, bro!

Womens tennis will suffer!
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For the record, I’m willing to suffer through the sweat and the tears, fluids and tribulations with the tennis team
 
craval85 said:
Your mistake is that you're forming a false equivalency between the importance of HC experience & AD experience. They are not even remotely the same. You do realize that before Paul Dee became AD he was also relatively inexperienced right? Also..USC hired Lynn Swann as AD with no experience as well, so there is precedent for this. You know what's more important than experience? Competence.
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Lynn Swann is completely clueless and totally incompetent. Solid example, though.
 
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