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Highsmith to the U?

Rickd said:
Jurich as AD, Highsmith comes on board as Asst AD in charge of Football Recruiting and Player Development, working day to day with the head coach.
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If Jurich is in place ahead of Zo confirmation, then fine. He would need to agree to the condition ahead of time. Not the other way around.
 
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Thommy30w said:
You make a good point. My question is what HC is gonna be ok with that arrangement?
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It's not uncommon to have a sport specific person in some capacity below the AD.
As an example, Thad Matta is the assistant AD over basketball at Indiana. His role is not to tell the head coach what to do despite having been a successful head coach himself. Matta is there to only worry about basketball, whereas the AD has a lot more on his plate. Matta makes sure the basketball program has what it needs, and if it does not, will go to the AD to get the basketball team what it needs.

I'm confident Bama and OSU have someone in a similar role for football. This is all part of the support staff arms race currently occurring in college sports.
 
AtlAtty said:
It's not uncommon to have a sport specific person in some capacity below the AD.
As an example, Thad Matta is the assistant AD over basketball at Indiana. His role is not to tell the head coach what to do despite having been a successful head coach himself. Matta is there to only worry about basketball, whereas the AD has a lot more on his plate. Matta makes sure the basketball program has what it needs, and if it does not, will go to the AD to get the basketball team what it needs.

I'm confident Bama and OSU have someone in a similar role for football. This is all part of the support staff arms race currently occurring in college sports.
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Thank you for informing those who question it
 
Canedude08 said:
For the major revenue sports, I'm willing to bet that the AD has a lot of say so and those Associate ADs are glorified stooges for what the AD and HC want. What business leader turns over control of their most profitable divisions to someone else and and doesn't remain hands on?
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Man you are either the smartest most plugged in guy on this board or you are going to end up looking like the biggest doofus ever.

Time will tell.
 
Footballvillle doesnt randomly throw **** out. Some of you only come here. They have a youtube channel and are credentialed to ask questions at the press conferences. If they be on bull the school can pull that. X and Streeter do Caneville and i trust them more than Rim and Barry who parrot what the school wants. Caneville said Blake was fired weeks ago. Rim when on a rant about people sre nobodies. Monday comes and he is getting credit for breaking the news. Absolute clown.
 
AtlAtty said:
It's not uncommon to have a sport specific person in some capacity below the AD.
As an example, Thad Matta is the assistant AD over basketball at Indiana. His role is not to tell the head coach what to do despite having been a successful head coach himself. Matta is there to only worry about basketball, whereas the AD has a lot more on his plate. Matta makes sure the basketball program has what it needs, and if it does not, will go to the AD to get the basketball team what it needs.

I'm confident Bama and OSU have someone in a similar role for football. This is all part of the support staff arms race currently occurring in college sports.
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Did the Indiana AD bring in Matta or was he in place before the AD? You don't saddle an AD with someone like that. They bring their own people in.
 
TheEye said:
If Jurich is in place ahead of Zo confirmation, then fine. He would need to agree to the condition ahead of time. Not the other way around.
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Of course ... it could very well be one announcement ... Jurich has been hired as the AD and HE has made his first staff hire ... Alonzo Highsmith .. in xyz capacity. Then .. they hire Mario.
 
JD08 said:
Safely?
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1637530586375.webp
 
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I think an AD would like to have Zo. I mean AD's get canned for football sucking, in this scenario the AD has a level of security as he could fire zo to save his job if it ever got bad enough
 
AtlAtty said:
It's not uncommon to have a sport specific person in some capacity below the AD.
As an example, Thad Matta is the assistant AD over basketball at Indiana. His role is not to tell the head coach what to do despite having been a successful head coach himself. Matta is there to only worry about basketball, whereas the AD has a lot more on his plate. Matta makes sure the basketball program has what it needs, and if it does not, will go to the AD to get the basketball team what it needs.

I'm confident Bama and OSU have someone in a similar role for football. This is all part of the support staff arms race currently occurring in college sports.
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Had not contemplated that. So, if HC determines he wants a larger nutrition or S&C staff or equipment or whatever, he sells it to the "football AD" who then does the heavy lifting with the AD and the money people to determine whether it's necessary, how to fund, etc.. Interesting.
 
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Rickd said:
Jurich as AD, Highsmith comes on board as Asst AD in charge of Football Recruiting and Player Development, working day to day with the head coach.
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This is the exact scenario I'm hoping for.

Tom Jurich is the perfect hire but he's no spring chicken. He's a 3 - 5 year hire, tops. Bring him in with someone like an Alonzo Highsmith as an Assistant AD to provide immediate support for football and to train under Jurich for next 3+ years so he'll be better prepared to take the reins when the time comes for Jurich to ride off into the sunset.
 
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