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Highsmith to the U?

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AtlAtty said:
If Zo is being brought in for a football-only role, and someone like Jurich is being brought in for AD, you should assume that the prospective AD has already signed off on Zo's role.
Jurich is not under contract. Miami can speak to him on or off the record anytime and without any buffers.
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See the scenario I posited in post #98
 
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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Why do you keep cutting and pasting the same post? What's your game? Why don't you just stop worrying about it?
 
407cane said:
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
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No AD could ever fire Zo, Zo is a beloved former Cane from Columbus, the BOT ain’t moving him at all once he gets hired...

If anything, the AD would be on the chopping block long before Zo ever would.

In Miami, the former players run the program, what they say goes.
 
Salt said:
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.
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Its not about being plugged in, it's about using common sense. If I'm an AD, I'm not going to tolerate someone running the football program as their own private fiefdom, knowing that football drives the bus. I don't think Zo would tolerate being the administrator, where he serves at the pleasure of the HC and AD.
 
All big boy schools have a guys like this
Empirical Cane said:
Ties or not, those two paired statements are idiotic.
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look man..all the big boy schools have guys like this. And Alonzo is not a guy who brings nothing to the table. He’s been all over the country observing the best schools. He knows what championship football should look like and how it the front offices operate like
 
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Canedude08 said:
Its not about being plugged in, it's about using common sense. If I'm an AD, I'm not going to tolerate someone running the football program as their own private fiefdom, knowing that football drives the bus. I don't think Zo would tolerate being the administrator, where he serves at the pleasure of the HC and AD.
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Who says that’s Alonzos role?
 
Canedude08 said:
Its not about being plugged in, it's about using common sense. If I'm an AD, I'm not going to tolerate someone running the football program as their own private fiefdom, knowing that football drives the bus. I don't think Zo would tolerate being the administrator, where he serves at the pleasure of the HC and AD.
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So does have to be that black and white for you? Two experienced professionals that have respect for what each of the other brings to the table can make it work.
 
I'm on board with Zo if Jurich is on board with Zo.

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Problem2 said:


Literally their next tweet

This guy is full of ****
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Highsmith might not be getting hired as ad.

He comes from the nfl where different positions have different roles and responsibilities.

What if Highsmith has advocated to restructure the athletic department more like an nfl team?

I don’t believe he was hiring and firing coaches before in the NFL. He may not want the responsibilities of an ad or to necessarily run the football team.

Let’s say the traditional ad still does his job, but the football department is expanded in scope and support. You can have Alonzo fully supporting and evolving the football operation while not undercutting the authority of the ad. He has to answer to somebody. Why not a competent ad?

Remember, there has been a ton of complaints about how poorly our operation has been run and we have left a ton of meat on the bone. Alonzo could be opening up support and infrastructure for the team that the ad who is responsible for ALL the teams doesn’t have the time.

Instead of Jen Strawley handling these issues you have Alonzo Highsmith at a higher salary. He may be smart enough to know being an ad is not his strong suit experience wise. He focuses on football brings football ideas from professional franchises.

Structured right, this could be groundbreaking and the type of innovation we need to help our operation in comparison to bigger schools.
 
jjm305 said:
Its not like we have a gun Jurich's head. We can't saddle him with anyone he doesn't want. Because he can always just say no to the offer
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Thats not the point but it is about the process of doing things. If Jurich or whoever really wanted somebody in that role let it be their idea and then let them pick someone. You're hiring someone who has overseen successful sports programs. Allow him to rip it down to the studs and build it back. Don't offer him something he may not even want but is willing to accept. It is backwards Miami style ****.
 
Liberty City El said:
No AD could ever fire Zo, Zo is a beloved former Cane from Columbus, the BOT ain’t moving him at all once he gets hired...

If anything, the AD would be on the chopping block long before Zo ever would.

In Miami, the former players run the program, what they say goes.
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I agree to your point but that's not how miami runs the program, at least not for the last 20 years
 
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Salt said:
So does have to be that black and white for you? Two experienced professionals that have respect for what each of the other brings to the table can make it work.
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There has to be a head. You can't have someone running something and their nominal boss having less power than they do.

Now, could I see Zo being the Asst AD with a tacit agreement that Jurich grooms him to be the AD down the line? Yes and that would be a solid arrangement. However, Zo may not want to wait his turn and may want to be THE MAN. There is also the power dynamic of Zo being a former player and probably untouchable if hired. What happens if Jurich and Zo disagree on the direction of the program? Who wins that battle? Jurich is an outsider..
 
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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But in the Matta arrangement isnt that more to make up for Woodson's lack of experience in coaching college basketball? Your description does not sound like what people are proposing for Highsmith.
 
Gi0logy said:
He would then need to report into the HC to help execute on the HC vision and basically fill the director of player personnel role.

Chain of command is important here. If he reports to AD then no HC is going to want to come in and be told how to run their team.
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You're exactly right.

Not one of the 32 coaches in the NFL wants the job b/c there is a structure in place with a GM who executes on the football side of things and a President who handles business matters. Coaches are going to be turning down the job left and right b/c they are only getting paid $6-8M a year and are saddled with the burden of reporting to a GM-like position whose sole purpose is to give that coach the players, facilities, and resources to win.

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