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Can we get an article on the mismanagement of the Athletic Department. Things to consider

1. As the Athletic Director why was Blake James not part of the Search Committee in 2015?

2. Why did the Search Committee in 2015 consist of members that know nothing about football coaching hires? "Members of the advisory committee include Board of Trustees members Hilarie Bass, David Epstein and Steve Saiontz; Deputy Director of Athletics Jennifer Strawley and former UM standouts Jonathan Vilma and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde."

3. Why do we keep hiring the same company to conduct a search? Does someone on the BOT have a connection to Korn Ferry? They’ve failed us every time and yet we keep hiring them to find us a coach.

4. How does a booster get his son to manage the baseball team?

5. How does Blake’s relationship with Manny impact his ability to do his job? Evidently they hang out outside of Hecht.

6. Which BOT members have the greatest influence on the AD hire? This is tied to question one. Why is Hillary Bass on the search committee when she probably couldn’t tell you what a double reverse in the red zone is.

7. Why did our Athletic Director never broach the indoor practice facility until coach Richt essentially forced the issue?

8. Why did no one in the Athletic Department not know who Coach L was when he called to inquire about the job only to be asked to send his wiki page?

9. Does Blake James have sole authority over the Athletic Department? If not, why is he even employed?

10. How is it acceptable to pay Temple $4 million for a coach that you had employed 24 hours prior. A $4 million buy out for a first year head coach?

11. Rumor has it that the Athletic Department has people logging into this site to change the narrative. Is this true? If it is true, how is this acceptable behavior from an Athletic Department that is tied to an institution of higher education?

12. Why did Blake James indicate there would be a national search for a new head coach to replace mark Richt, only to turn around and seemingly in less than 48 hours hire an unqualified Manny Diaz? Did a national search occur?

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NVA CANE said:
@Stefan Adams

Can we get an article on the mismanagement of the Athletic Department. Things to consider

1. As the Athletic Director why was Blake James not part of the Search Committee in 2015?

2. Why did the Search Committee in 2015 consist of members that know nothing about football coaching hires? "Members of the advisory committee include Board of Trustees members Hilarie Bass, David Epstein and Steve Saiontz; Deputy Director of Athletics Jennifer Strawley and former UM standouts Jonathan Vilma and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde."

3. Why do we keep hiring the same company to conduct a search? Does someone on the BOT have a connection to Korn Ferry? They’ve failed us every time and yet we keep hiring them to find us a coach.

4. How does a booster get his son to manage the baseball team?

5. How does Blake’s relationship with Manny impact his ability to do his job? Evidently they hang out outside of Hecht.

6. Which BOT members have the greatest influence on the AD hire? This is tied to question one. Why is Hillary Bass on the search committee when she probably couldn’t tell you what a double reverse in the red zone is.

7. Why did our Athletic Director never broach the indoor practice facility until coach Richt essentially forced the issue?

8. Why did no one in the Athletic Department not know who Coach L was when he called to inquire about the job only to be asked to send his wiki page?

9. Does Blake James have sole authority over the Athletic Department? If not, why is he even employed?

10. How is it acceptable to pay Temple $4 million for a coach that you had employed 24 hours prior. A $4 million buy out for a first year head coach?

Inquiring minds want to know
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NVA CANE said:
I hope someone writes an article about the Athletic Department. It’s long past time to dig into the decades+ long incompetence and cronyism and nepotism.
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I agree. Send this out to as many CFB writers as you can think of, it needs to be exposed in the worst way. Administration will only act when facing national embarrassment.
 
No real search was done before the Richt and Diaz hires. Both of those “searches” were just the admin chasing after 1 coach.

A real search was done before the Golden hire. The finalists were Golden, Edsall and Marc Trestman.

A real search was sort of done before the Shannon hire, but everybody kept turning Miami down.
 
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akad1984 said:
I agree. Send this out to as many CFB writers as you can think of, it needs to be exposed in the worst way. Administration will only act when facing national embarrassment.
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Steven Godfrey is the first name that comes to mind, pretty sure he’s still a senior reporter for SBnation and has a lot of connects all over CFB - interviews HCs often, wrote that famous piece called Meet the Bagmen a few years back, and put out a whole TV series about the wrongdoings at Ole Miss and MSU recently. Granted he prob has his hands full with other stuff but he’s the perfect guy for hit pieces like that he’s very thorough with his research.

Despite him being kind of a doofus, I would even reach out to Cam Underwood at SOTU and see if him or the other writers on staff will write something on that. Regardless, this admin must be ridiculed as often as possible and the more heat the better.
 
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Jedi Master Cane said:
I'd pay money to watch an interview where someone in the local media grew the balls to ask him some of those questions directly, in person.
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The local media, like this website, are either too ignorant to know or too scared to ask.

With that said, that write up on GT was gangbusters. Maybe they can share with us the tricks the Citadel knew to beat GT.

@DMoney

Waits for answer from you in that other post...
 
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