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Dan Radakovich is excited about the challenge of leading Miami's athletic department

Athletic director Dan Radakovich met with the Miami media on Thursday afternoon and he is ready to get to work.
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-Radakovich on why he wanted to take on the challenge of being the athletic director at the University of Miami: “There is a University of Miami diploma sitting over my desk right now and that is special. I really enjoyed the interaction with the folks and there is a want and need for them to provide for the football team, especially after the hiring of coach Cristobal and really coalesce around making sure that program is the best that it can be. It is going to take time and resources, but I think the university is ready to do that.”

- Radakovich on what he communicated that he needs from the UM leadership moving forward: “I just need to know that I can go to the administration with needs for resources that are going to be explained and understandable in a ROI perspective—if we do this, this is what we thing are going to be some of the results that come from that—and not all the ROIs are dollars and cents. It can be an upgraded experience or a better recruiting opportunity to bring talented student athletes to the campus…I am pretty sure I am never going to get [everything I want] but lets prioritize them and see what we can get done moving forward. I can’t tell you what they are today because I haven’t stepped foot on campus since a basketball game six years ago, but I do know that there are things we need to do to prop up all of our programs to give a better experience to our student athletes.”

- Radakovich says he does believe that Miami’s commitment to giving the athletic department resources in the future will last for the long term: “You always have to take people at their word. Especially people that are so passionate that talk about what they want to do with the program. I did look at the financials of the whole place and they are strong. I feel good about that and I feel good about the want and desire of the upper administration to take this third vertical of the institution—teaching and research, health services, and athletics being the third vertical. That is important when you put it on the same shelf as those two incredible parts of the institution. Our charge is to make sure they understand what the needed and necessary resources are and give them a profitable situation, not only from a dollars and cents standpoint, but also from a reputation way for the institution as well.”

- Radakovich had a brief conversation with Mario Cristobal via zoom on Wednesday: “I love his enthusiasm and you can see how he wants to pull everything together and that is great, but then you also have to look at his results at both FIU and Oregon. Those results were very good. I talked to coach Saban about him and Nick was very forthright and gave a positive recommendation by saying nobody will outwork Mario Cristobal. That just won’t happen. He is going to pull together his staff and how he changes the culture. You know it when you see it and when you walk into a building…You create a great culture by caring for your student athletes.”

- Radakovich on if he feels like there is a need for Miami to have their own football stadium: “Hard Rock Stadium is just fabulous, but it is a little far away from campus. If you have something that is close by, it benefits the entire campus community that is almost immeasurable. If that is something that can happen, we are going to pursue it to its logical conclusion.”
- Radakovich on the UM baseball program: “The baseball program is legendary…Baseball is important at the University of Miami. I have known Gino’s father, Paul, for my gosh nearly 40 years and consider him an incredible friend. My current baseball coach, Monte Lee, thinks the world of Gino and how he is working with the program, so I will take some time and get to know Gino and see what he needs to be successful.”

- Radakovich says he knows basketball coach Jim Larranga “just a little bit” and says he has built a solid program with the men’s basketball team. He looks forward to sitting down with Larranaga and women’s coach Katie Meier to learn about their vision for their programs. “Where do they need to go and how can we as administrators assist them there?,” Radakovich said.

- Radakovich made it clear it is important for Miami’s baseball and basketball programs to be successful: “It is important to have success because that success will breed success in other programs as well.”

- Radakovich on how Miami’s success is also a key for the ACC to be successful as a whole: “I do want to say that the Atlantic Coast Conference is a better conference when the University of Miami is in a better place. That is something that is important for everybody within the league. It is my charge to go in there and look and assess and put everything in there and put everything together and get our coaches and students the best chance to be successful.”

- With that being said, Radakovich did make it clear there is a sense that the ACC needs to find a way to maneuver in the future to get more out of their existing TV contract in order to compete with conferences like the SEC: “I have a great respect for [ACC Commissioner] Jim Phillips and I have known him for a number of years….Jim Phillips has a difficult job with running the ACC. There are some contracts in place that were very good and valuable at the time, but the market has changed, so how do we position our league to give the right type of resources to the members? We have had a lot of conversations about that and it doesn’t happen over night…How college athletics looks five or eight years from now might be very different than how it looks today. I can’t tell you how it is going to look, but there are so many variables out there that we need to move forward with and how we can work through them. It is a multi-million question and I know Jim Phillips is working with his staff on it every day and it is topic one when the athletic directors in the ACC get together.”

- Radakovich on his success with fundraising and building facilities at Clemson: “A lot of the things like building buildings and raising money comes from a great organization. I have been in a great position to lead that. We have great alignment within our programs and specifically in football with coach Swinney and our president and board. We have all been in lock step with moving that program forward.”

- Radakovich admits he is excited about the new challenge that leading Miami presents: “You get invigorated when you get new challenges and after nine years at a place and even though it has been going tremendously, when this opportunity came up, it really did offer the chance to really take everything I have been able to be a part of and understand and take it to the University of Miami and pull it back together to where it needs to be.”
 
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Baba Yaga said:
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Dan Radakovich is excited about the challenge of leading Miami's athletic department

Athletic director Dan Radakovich met with the Miami media on Thursday afternoon and he is ready to get to work.
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-Radakovich on why he wanted to take on the challenge of being the athletic director at the University of Miami: “There is a University of Miami diploma sitting over my desk right now and that is special. I really enjoyed the interaction with the folks and there is a want and need for them to provide for the football team, especially after the hiring of coach Cristobal and really coalesce around making sure that program is the best that it can be. It is going to take time and resources, but I think the university is ready to do that.”

- Radakovich on what he communicated that he needs from the UM leadership moving forward: “I just need to know that I can go to the administration with needs for resources that are going to be explained and understandable in a ROI perspective—if we do this, this is what we thing are going to be some of the results that come from that—and not all the ROIs are dollars and cents. It can be an upgraded experience or a better recruiting opportunity to bring talented student athletes to the campus…I am pretty sure I am never going to get [everything I want] but lets prioritize them and see what we can get done moving forward. I can’t tell you what they are today because I haven’t stepped foot on campus since a basketball game six years ago, but I do know that there are things we need to do to prop up all of our programs to give a better experience to our student athletes.”

- Radakovich says he does believe that Miami’s commitment to giving the athletic department resources in the future will last for the long term: “You always have to take people at their word. Especially people that are so passionate that talk about what they want to do with the program. I did look at the financials of the whole place and they are strong. I feel good about that and I feel good about the want and desire of the upper administration to take this third vertical of the institution—teaching and research, health services, and athletics being the third vertical. That is important when you put it on the same shelf as those two incredible parts of the institution. Our charge is to make sure they understand what the needed and necessary resources are and give them a profitable situation, not only from a dollars and cents standpoint, but also from a reputation way for the institution as well.”

- Radakovich had a brief conversation with Mario Cristobal via zoom on Wednesday: “I love his enthusiasm and you can see how he wants to pull everything together and that is great, but then you also have to look at his results at both FIU and Oregon. Those results were very good. I talked to coach Saban about him and Nick was very forthright and gave a positive recommendation by saying nobody will outwork Mario Cristobal. That just won’t happen. He is going to pull together his staff and how he changes the culture. You know it when you see it and when you walk into a building…You create a great culture by caring for your student athletes.”

- Radakovich on if he feels like there is a need for Miami to have their own football stadium: “Hard Rock Stadium is just fabulous, but it is a little far away from campus. If you have something that is close by, it benefits the entire campus community that is almost immeasurable. If that is something that can happen, we are going to pursue it to its logical conclusion.”
- Radakovich on the UM baseball program: “The baseball program is legendary…Baseball is important at the University of Miami. I have known Gino’s father, Paul, for my gosh nearly 40 years and consider him an incredible friend. My current baseball coach, Monte Lee, thinks the world of Gino and how he is working with the program, so I will take some time and get to know Gino and see what he needs to be successful.”

- Radakovich says he knows basketball coach Jim Larranga “just a little bit” and says he has built a solid program with the men’s basketball team. He looks forward to sitting down with Larranaga and women’s coach Katie Meier to learn about their vision for their programs. “Where do they need to go and how can we as administrators assist them there?,” Radakovich said.

- Radakovich made it clear it is important for Miami’s baseball and basketball programs to be successful: “It is important to have success because that success will breed success in other programs as well.”

- Radakovich on how Miami’s success is also a key for the ACC to be successful as a whole: “I do want to say that the Atlantic Coast Conference is a better conference when the University of Miami is in a better place. That is something that is important for everybody within the league. It is my charge to go in there and look and assess and put everything in there and put everything together and get our coaches and students the best chance to be successful.”

- With that being said, Radakovich did make it clear there is a sense that the ACC needs to find a way to maneuver in the future to get more out of their existing TV contract in order to compete with conferences like the SEC: “I have a great respect for [ACC Commissioner] Jim Phillips and I have known him for a number of years….Jim Phillips has a difficult job with running the ACC. There are some contracts in place that were very good and valuable at the time, but the market has changed, so how do we position our league to give the right type of resources to the members? We have had a lot of conversations about that and it doesn’t happen over night…How college athletics looks five or eight years from now might be very different than how it looks today. I can’t tell you how it is going to look, but there are so many variables out there that we need to move forward with and how we can work through them. It is a multi-million question and I know Jim Phillips is working with his staff on it every day and it is topic one when the athletic directors in the ACC get together.”

- Radakovich on his success with fundraising and building facilities at Clemson: “A lot of the things like building buildings and raising money comes from a great organization. I have been in a great position to lead that. We have great alignment within our programs and specifically in football with coach Swinney and our president and board. We have all been in lock step with moving that program forward.”

- Radakovich admits he is excited about the new challenge that leading Miami presents: “You get invigorated when you get new challenges and after nine years at a place and even though it has been going tremendously, when this opportunity came up, it really did offer the chance to really take everything I have been able to be a part of and understand and take it to the University of Miami and pull it back together to where it needs to be.”
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The difference a few weeks make. Incredible what we had leading us before vs now. It’s actually hard for me to wrap my head around it fully.
 
Baba Yaga said:
247sports.com

Dan Radakovich is excited about the challenge of leading Miami's athletic department

Athletic director Dan Radakovich met with the Miami media on Thursday afternoon and he is ready to get to work.
247sports.com 247sports.com


-Radakovich on why he wanted to take on the challenge of being the athletic director at the University of Miami: “There is a University of Miami diploma sitting over my desk right now and that is special. I really enjoyed the interaction with the folks and there is a want and need for them to provide for the football team, especially after the hiring of coach Cristobal and really coalesce around making sure that program is the best that it can be. It is going to take time and resources, but I think the university is ready to do that.”

- Radakovich on what he communicated that he needs from the UM leadership moving forward: “I just need to know that I can go to the administration with needs for resources that are going to be explained and understandable in a ROI perspective—if we do this, this is what we thing are going to be some of the results that come from that—and not all the ROIs are dollars and cents. It can be an upgraded experience or a better recruiting opportunity to bring talented student athletes to the campus…I am pretty sure I am never going to get [everything I want] but lets prioritize them and see what we can get done moving forward. I can’t tell you what they are today because I haven’t stepped foot on campus since a basketball game six years ago, but I do know that there are things we need to do to prop up all of our programs to give a better experience to our student athletes.”

- Radakovich says he does believe that Miami’s commitment to giving the athletic department resources in the future will last for the long term: “You always have to take people at their word. Especially people that are so passionate that talk about what they want to do with the program. I did look at the financials of the whole place and they are strong. I feel good about that and I feel good about the want and desire of the upper administration to take this third vertical of the institution—teaching and research, health services, and athletics being the third vertical. That is important when you put it on the same shelf as those two incredible parts of the institution. Our charge is to make sure they understand what the needed and necessary resources are and give them a profitable situation, not only from a dollars and cents standpoint, but also from a reputation way for the institution as well.”

- Radakovich had a brief conversation with Mario Cristobal via zoom on Wednesday: “I love his enthusiasm and you can see how he wants to pull everything together and that is great, but then you also have to look at his results at both FIU and Oregon. Those results were very good. I talked to coach Saban about him and Nick was very forthright and gave a positive recommendation by saying nobody will outwork Mario Cristobal. That just won’t happen. He is going to pull together his staff and how he changes the culture. You know it when you see it and when you walk into a building…You create a great culture by caring for your student athletes.”

- Radakovich on if he feels like there is a need for Miami to have their own football stadium: “Hard Rock Stadium is just fabulous, but it is a little far away from campus. If you have something that is close by, it benefits the entire campus community that is almost immeasurable. If that is something that can happen, we are going to pursue it to its logical conclusion.”
- Radakovich on the UM baseball program: “The baseball program is legendary…Baseball is important at the University of Miami. I have known Gino’s father, Paul, for my gosh nearly 40 years and consider him an incredible friend. My current baseball coach, Monte Lee, thinks the world of Gino and how he is working with the program, so I will take some time and get to know Gino and see what he needs to be successful.”

- Radakovich says he knows basketball coach Jim Larranga “just a little bit” and says he has built a solid program with the men’s basketball team. He looks forward to sitting down with Larranaga and women’s coach Katie Meier to learn about their vision for their programs. “Where do they need to go and how can we as administrators assist them there?,” Radakovich said.

- Radakovich made it clear it is important for Miami’s baseball and basketball programs to be successful: “It is important to have success because that success will breed success in other programs as well.”

- Radakovich on how Miami’s success is also a key for the ACC to be successful as a whole: “I do want to say that the Atlantic Coast Conference is a better conference when the University of Miami is in a better place. That is something that is important for everybody within the league. It is my charge to go in there and look and assess and put everything in there and put everything together and get our coaches and students the best chance to be successful.”

- With that being said, Radakovich did make it clear there is a sense that the ACC needs to find a way to maneuver in the future to get more out of their existing TV contract in order to compete with conferences like the SEC: “I have a great respect for [ACC Commissioner] Jim Phillips and I have known him for a number of years….Jim Phillips has a difficult job with running the ACC. There are some contracts in place that were very good and valuable at the time, but the market has changed, so how do we position our league to give the right type of resources to the members? We have had a lot of conversations about that and it doesn’t happen over night…How college athletics looks five or eight years from now might be very different than how it looks today. I can’t tell you how it is going to look, but there are so many variables out there that we need to move forward with and how we can work through them. It is a multi-million question and I know Jim Phillips is working with his staff on it every day and it is topic one when the athletic directors in the ACC get together.”

- Radakovich on his success with fundraising and building facilities at Clemson: “A lot of the things like building buildings and raising money comes from a great organization. I have been in a great position to lead that. We have great alignment within our programs and specifically in football with coach Swinney and our president and board. We have all been in lock step with moving that program forward.”

- Radakovich admits he is excited about the new challenge that leading Miami presents: “You get invigorated when you get new challenges and after nine years at a place and even though it has been going tremendously, when this opportunity came up, it really did offer the chance to really take everything I have been able to be a part of and understand and take it to the University of Miami and pull it back together to where it needs to be.”
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Leader with a plan. Hitting all the right notes in his initial messaging. Curious to see how baseball situation plays out.

In Raahd The Impaler we trust, until we don't.
 
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"I did look at the financials of the whole place and they are strong. I feel good about that and I feel good about the want and desire of the upper administration to take this third vertical of the institution—teaching and research, health services, and athletics being the third vertical. That is important when you put it on the same shelf as those two incredible parts of the institution."

That quote right there is telling and probably the biggest selling point for Rad..and why Rad was given the VP title and put on Frenk's senior leadership team. Basically they're going to commit the resources and attention to making athletics just as important as any other department at the school.
 
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Baba Yaga said:
He just double-tapped most of what he said in the interview yesterday, I posted that above. Said he hasn't physically met Mario yet but they spoke via Zoom, will pursue an on-campus/closer stadium solution to its logical conclusion. Nothing Earth-shattering.
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Thank you very much!
 
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