Search Committee Announced

[prinmemo]

I asked the same question this weekend. Ironically, I liked that she's apparently reliant on some dudes in her circle of friends who are shrewd businessmen. At least she seems to know she doesn't know much and will cede to those who might be more helpful. That's more than is said about some of the others.

All hearsay from mutual acquaintances, though.

I used to work with Hilarie. She is a very sharp woman that doesn't put up with BS. I think she is a good pick for the committee.

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

I don't know... Good facilitator?

 

[Ibis Wingz]

I used to work with Hilarie. She is a very sharp woman that doesn't put up with BS. I think she is a good pick for the committee.

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

I don't know... Good facilitator?

Its always important to have a facilitator on a search committee.

 

[whoopingcane]

I don't even know Hilarie Bass and already I can't stand her. Elitist ***** that obviously muscled her way onto the committee to make sure her family name can't get tarnished.

Dammit to ****.

 

[Ray Ciss]

Search Firm = Cover my *** when the new guy sucks. James is mostly concerned with saving his own skin, what a chump.

 

[The Franchise]

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

I don't know... Good facilitator?

Its always important to have a facilitator on a search committee.

I prefer a good imberbolator who knows how to framinate the frapulation.

 

[LuCane]

I asked the same question this weekend. Ironically, I liked that she's apparently reliant on some dudes in her circle of friends who are shrewd businessmen. At least she seems to know she doesn't know much and will cede to those who might be more helpful. That's more than is said about some of the others.

All hearsay from mutual acquaintances, though.

I used to work with Hilarie. She is a very sharp woman that doesn't put up with BS. I think she is a good pick for the committee.

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

 

[The Franchise]

I used to work with Hilarie. She is a very sharp woman that doesn't put up with BS. I think she is a good pick for the committee.

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

 

[HurricaneVision]

As someone who does make hiring decisions on all sorts of roles I can't imagine a competent individual making a hiring of this stature WITHOUT collecting all necessary information on a candidate.

Rarely does a company hire a CEO/CFO/SVP from a person who "applies" for the position. These positions are almost exclusively found from a search firm through various connections. When a hire of that stature is coming up the search firm utilizes all of their connections within the industry to identify individuals who have the credentials to fill the role and then use their sources to vet the candidate before even bringing them to the BoT.

These individuals will already know the preferences of the candidates, monetary demands, culture fit, future vision, as well as information such as leadership style and if they are actually the individuals responsible for whatever previous success enjoyed.

The whole point of networking in your career is to make these contacts that will think of you when a position comes open at their firm etc. Why not tap into the largest database for your industry that you can? It'd be akin to a middle manager not reaching out to a peer manager when an internal candidate applies for your position. You'd be missing out on all kinds of relevant information that can be masked in an interview setting.

Miami has handled this well thus far. Hire the best search firm to handle the back channel process. Appoint a search committee with varied and intelligent viewpoints. Put information out that you intend to pay quite well for your role. Make your largest donors feel as though they are a big part of the process.

Now they just need to make the right decision and not be fooled by anecdotal variables that are meaningful to the long-term health of the program.

 

[LuCane]

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

What? She's pretty obviously on that committee for the first part (underlined).

 

[Ibis Wingz]

She's very smart. So is Steve Hawking. I don't want him picking my football coach either.

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

She's a smart lawyer. If UM was searching for a lawyer, I would place value on her input. She knows less about football than the Ticket Schlocker. As such, her input is as valuable as Stevie Wonder's on paintings.

 

[The Franchise]

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

What? She's pretty obviously on that committee for the first part (underlined).

I stand corrected. I was focusing on the second part.

 

[HurricaneVision]

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

What? She's pretty obviously on that committee for the first part (underlined).

I stand corrected. I was focusing on the second part.

Yeah, it's smart to have a woman or two on any committee these days.

 

[LuCane]

She will defer to experts, I am sure. Smart people tend to know their limitations.

Why would you have someone on a football coach search committee who doesn't know about football and has to defer to someone else? What's the point? If you feel like you need a committee to find a football coach, why not just have a search committee comprised of a few people who know football and what it takes to be successful here?

To me, the entire committee looks like a "CYA" collection of community representation. Ideally, the search is led by a sharp AD who scours every possible alternative/angle, listens to a handful of experts, and then makes a shrewd decision.

Hilarie Bass meets none of those criteria.

She's a smart lawyer. If UM was searching for a lawyer, I would place value on her input. She knows less about football than the Ticket Schlocker. As such, her input is as valuable as Stevie Wonder's on paintings.

I think both of you are either misunderstanding my comments or just having your own conversation. I'm not suggesting she's going to add valuable input on who is selected. In fact, as I noted above, I was told she's likely to defer. She's there to represent a portion of the stakeholders in the University's community through this "CYA" committee. I'm not saying that's the right move. Like I mentioned, this should be led, with support, by an ideal person in Blake's position.

*Edit: was writing this post already and didn't see that Franchise had, in fact, misread my post.

 

[whoopingcane]

She is going to muck it up. Mark it down.

 

[Klamalama]

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Their justification for their services from their website...
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Korn Ferry is an executive search firm. They might be the firm that Flake uses personally, or is used by members of the BOT in their businesses. They don't appear on this list of sports agencies:

Agencies By Alphabetical Order | Sports Agent Blog

So, is the BOT serious, or is it amateur hour? Korn isn't even a sports agency; I believe they'll simply compile a list of names. You know them already. Then the secret AD, you know him too, will make the pick.

Bottom line? Shhh...

Butch Hiring Day is 10 away.

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