It's worth mentioning that the business of athletics is starting to divest itself from direct university management more and more. As evidenced by the growth of IMG, learfield and JMI. It's a safe bet that employees of those cos are here on the site, not being paranoid, just saying don't assume everyone is a sincere fan. Too much money to be made!
There are generally two types of ADs, univ administrators and business people. They are either one or the other Not to single him out, but Ian was the only person that wanted the AD job when it was offered to him. He was the definition f university administrator, It's a better job now, we have a lot of ranked teams and our grad rates are excellent, but that was the past and the future is very much wide open.
The model d college football has a lot of problems, this episode is proof that paying millions to mercenary coaches and hoping to win has a lot of downside. I hope they hire Napier, save some money, and spend the money on the program and assistants,
there has gotta be a way to do this.. just can't think of a lot of Coaches that can meet these kind of expectations,
