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Terrible hire, but not surprised as college athletics continues to move in the wrong direction.
Curious why you think he is a terrible hire...
Seems hard to know if this is a good or bad hire. But I think the days of the ideal skill set for a candidate being a well regarded AD from another P5 conference are probably over. A sports business/media executive like this guy seems like a logical place to look.
 
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Here's my rant.

We have now casually gone from something called student athletes (where many schools cheated the rules against paying them) into openly paying athletes to enroll and represent "our" schools in one or more sports. A few may actually be students trying to get a higher education than the relatively poor one many of our secondary schools are providing, but that's not why most are enrolled I would guess.

Then we expand beyond any distance that could reasonably be said to represent normal rivalries or schools at which relatively the same kinds of kids would attend.

Meanwhile we get a check from those who want to sell soap and find that people will watch our teams play while they sell the soap two or three dozen times during the game, putting the action on the field into secondary importance.

Then we open it to gambling on a larger than life scale, and only those who have never studied history fail to see the problem with that.

Now we put one of "them" in charge.

Maybe many or even most of those on the board have no problem with any of that, but it's a long ways from college athletics. It's TV entertainment designed to sell soap and to keep those gambling dollars rolling in.

For me, it would be more honest to eliminate the enrollment requirement and have various schools become minor league affilates of the completely professional leagues. I'd watch that. Since I don't gamble I wouldn't worry about fixers either. The universities would still get a big check to spend more money on professors who don't teach students anymore. Win win.

Then maybe some schools could start up their own college athletic teams made up of students and play near by teams home and home on a Saturday afternoon on a field somewhere on campus. I'd watch that too but for a different reason.

Right now it's all bread and circusses as the Romans said.
 
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Here's my rant.

We have now casually gone from something called student athletes (where many schools cheated the rules against paying them) into openly paying athletes to enroll and represent "our" schools in one or more sports. A few may actually be students trying to get a higher education than the relatively poor one many of our secondary schools are providing, but that's not why most are enrolled I would guess.

Then we expand beyond any distance that could reasonably be said to represent normal rivalries or schools at which relatively the same kinds of kids would attend.

Meanwhile we get a check from those who want to sell soap and find that people will watch our teams play while they sell the soap two or three dozen times during the game, putting the action on the field into secondary importance.

Then we open it to gambling on a larger than life scale, and only those who have never studied history fail to see the problem with that.

Now we put one of "them" in charge.

Maybe many or even most of those on the board have no problem with any of that, but it's a long ways from college athletics. It's TV entertainment designed to sell soap and to keep those gambling dollars rolling in.

For me, it would be more honest to eliminate the enrollment requirement and have various schools become minor league affilates of the completely professional leagues. I'd watch that. Since I don't gamble I wouldn't worry about fixers either. The universities would still get a big check to spend more money on professors who don't teach students anymore. Win win.

Then maybe some schools could start up their own college athletic teams made up of students and play near by teams home and home on a Saturday afternoon on a field somewhere on campus. I'd watch that too but for a different reason.

Right now it's all bread and circusses as the Romans said.
I hate the commercials and the crass consumerism we are subjected to every Saturday as well but in the end sports is entertainment and the bills have to be paid. I'm thankful for the expanded tv deals because I haven't lived in Nebraska for over 30 years and instead of catching one or two games a year that might be on ESPN or ABC, I get to watch them play every Saturday. If I have to sit through soap ads for that privilege then so be it (or I can flip channels to another game and come back when the soap ad is over). The alternative is pay per view and I can't see myself paying $40-50 per game for 12-14 games a year.

As for the rest of the post you just sound like an angry man yelling at the sun for being yellow. All that other stuff is here to stay and if you hate it that bad, then quit watching.
 
It is a media heavy hire of someone who really has no experience leading university athletics. I am a no one but his resume would not have made the first cut.
Is university athletics much different than a professional sports league at this point? Being COO of MLB is at least partially relevant. Throw in the fact he is a lawyer, and couple that with the fact he isn't Kevin Warren and it's a lateral move at worst with a higher ceiling :)
 



Who really cares.... Kevin was a moron and all the schools in the conference got more rich.... Nebraska is fortunate to be in the conference. If someone on this board really knows if this is a good or bad hire.... WOW! You are delusional as ever!
 
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