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The basketball programs are a combined 20-2. What is the bad news?Bad news for Archie but this is the wrong board for that. Haha.
your thoughts
I know lots on here love to bash Glass, but I think he's done a good job on the whole. He has not presided over a return to basketball prominence, but virtually every sport at Indiana is in better shape than it was when he arrived, coaches across the board are a substantial upgrade since he arrived, he's leveraged B1G money to improve facilities across the board, the department is in good financial shape, and he appears to have avoided major scandal in the department.
I'm not familiar with any potential internal candidates, but I'd like to see IU hire an out of the box thinker and someone with proven success at the AD level. I hope the search firm/someone on the search committee looks into Danny White at UCF. He's a Notre Dame grad with some familiarity with the Indiana context, and he has been a really incredible success as AD at Buffalo and UCF. He's a basketball guy who knows the importance of football. Interestingly, his dad is AD at Duke, one brother is AD at FAU, his other brother is the head bball coach at Florida, and his sister is assistant AD at SMU - I bet Holidays are fun.
Purdue fan .. thought it was big news for you and didn’t see it posted here..
Major ramifications for bucket game going forward
Honest question: Why Pat Kraft?
Sure he's an IU grad, and that's great, but I honestly have no clue what he has done at Temple. That's not a knock, I'm just curious what others have seen in him outside of going to school at IU.
How so?
Honest question: Why Pat Kraft?
Sure he's an IU grad, and that's great, but I honestly have no clue what he has done at Temple. That's not a knock, I'm just curious what others have seen in him outside of going to school at IU.
Honest question: Why Pat Kraft?
Sure he's an IU grad, and that's great, but I honestly have no clue what he has done at Temple. That's not a knock, I'm just curious what others have seen in him outside of going to school at IU.
Uh your new AD could do a lot better could do a lot worse.
Example.. would have been great if Burke moved on before he hired Darrell freaking Hazell
I guess you and I have different versions of "major ramifications"
For the future. Not the present. Figure it out.The basketball programs are a combined 20-2. What is the bad news?
Whether you get way better or way worse will greatly affect all of your games. No?
Purdue fan .. thought it was big news for you and didn’t see it posted here..
Major ramifications for bucket game going forward
Fred did a lot of good things for IU athletics, which are obvious if you’ve been on campus since he’s taken over the AD role. The biggest question mark he leaves going into retirement is whether his hire for the biggest sport is the long term answer. Only time will tell. Having said all that, I predict either Pat Kraft or Chris Reynolds will get the job.your thoughts
Fred did a lot of good things for IU athletics, which are obvious if you’ve been on campus since he’s taken over the AD role. The biggest question mark he leaves going into retirement is whether his hire for the biggest sport is the long term answer. Only time will tell. Having said all that, I predict either Pat Kraft or Chris Reynolds will get the job.
There are individual items that I don't think Glass did well- selling the Penn State home game for instance and the fact that our football game day operations still suck- but I've never understood the knock on him for the Crean extension. It was a pretty normal market based contract. It's taken on a mythical status that seems to me to be more rooted in dislike of Crean than any mistake that Glass made and I doubt very many people that bring it up could even say what they details were and why it was such a mistake.Solid tenure, in my opinion. I'd give him a B+. The Crean extension was a mistake and (I recognize I'm probably in the minority here) I wasn't a big CKW fan, but it's hard to argue with much else.
The announcement I read said he retires at the end of the academic year, not this calendar year.your thoughts
I believe Notre Dame's AD (Swarbrick) had no AD experience as well. Hired from the same law firm Glass came from.No matter what you think of Glass, he is one of the few people you have ever seen hired as AD of a major College Athletic Program without previous experience in College Athletic Administration. I can't think of anyone currently at a major college program who was hired with a different background. He and Morgan Burke may be the last of that breed.
I'm often wrong, and I may be wrong here, but I generally don't offer an opinion without having some basis for it.I've never understood the knock on him for the Crean extension. It was a pretty normal market based contract. It's taken on a mythical status that seems to me to be more rooted in dislike of Crean than any mistake that Glass made and I doubt very many people that bring it up could even say what they details were and why it was such a mistake.
Dan Dakich is pushing Chris Reynolds.
I'm often wrong, and I may be wrong here, but I generally don't offer an opinion without having some basis for it.
First, just to be clear, I think Glass has done a good job at IU and I don't dislike Crean. The timing of the Crean extension has always struck me as peculiar and ill-advised. Why cut a new deal if you don't have to? Didn't Crean still have several years remaining on his existing contract at the time of the extension that was inked in November 2012? And was there any danger of him leaving immediately prior to the start of a new season? Clearly, no. It almost seemed driven by emotion, as IU was basking in the glow of a #1 preseason ranking. The announcement, just before the season opener, certainly made for good theater, though.
You are right. I forgot about him. My point is those guys are rare, and with the prevalence of Search Committees and Hiring of Search Firms to cover everybody's ass with respect to the Hire, I don't know that we will see someone hired from a private sector occupation with no Athletic Administration experience hired as an Athletic Director again.I believe Notre Dame's AD (Swarbrick) had no AD experience as well. Hired from the same law firm Glass came from.
Here's Temple's version of his thumbnail resume':
https://owlsports.com/staff-directory/dr-patrick-kraft/474
Seems like a perfect fit here to me...