Total horse bleep. Lady lost her job after 19 years. Worked her way up through multiple levels only to be dumped so a 19-year old with athletic potential gets rich. Totally f-ed up world.
I'm sorry but respectfully, I think you have this backwards.
A 17-year veteran of the IU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Mattie White is the Deputy Director of Athletics and Senior Woman Administrator.
As a former Assistant and Associate Director at IU, that’s not true in most departments (and many of these positions don’t pay enough).
Perhaps not so much in the academic departments, and like I said I was not judging these specific folks. Certainly the university administration in general has fat that could be trimmed.
BS. How bout this, if you run with bare minimum labor there is more $ available to pay the folks you have employed vs. running fat. Entrepreneurs know this fact, crystal clear.
Like sports if we are being honest.
True!! But that's a whole 'nuther god-awful rip-off our country's state universities impose.
I got a buddy who owns a bar. Each year, when the students go home, I come in and serve. It's akin to a vacation for me...away from the cares of corporate life (or consulting life) which ever is the case at the time. I've waited on athletic department employees...I'm pleased to hear they're not well compensated as they are terrible (I mean horrible) tippers...maybe next year I'll just serve for free.
As a former server while in college, one of the assistant coaches on Sampson’s staff was a consistently bad tipper. But not as bad as the post- church crowd on Sundays.
The positions not being paid enough can blame it on the department having to many employees. I've seen it dozens of times. The more people you have working for you the more you can demand for yourself. Breeds low performance, poor results and failure.
The collection plate drained their pockets of spare change. God Almighty on High trumps local restaurant waiter...excuse me, server. Before I retired it went from being called a "waiting room" to a "reception area". Those practice management seminar speakers had to come up with something for us to take back to the office as a "pearl."
Not Dakich (and I don’t think he was ever with them) but definitely at least one of the other three.
Does TROLL have one or two Ls? I get so confused on this forum.
I had a different take. My thought was “wow! Here are 25 people whose job in an athletic department whose job did not need to even exist”.
Slave owners were probably equally as bummed out in 1865. Imagine having a family business that for generations, you did not have to pay the people who did the manual labor.
It's 25 if the other 12 weren't brand new positions (doubtful that more than 1-2 might have been brand new). There were 12 other offices/positions where people are likely having to cover for while they fill that position.
I worked at IU for 10 years. A lot of times certain positions were “use it or lose it” type spots. I can tell you in a lot of departments not to many were overworked. That’s one of the reasons I left. It was a boring ass job and not enough to do. Same job I do in the private side is much more intense. My health suffered working at IU. Just being honest.
And I can tell you that working in athletics and working on campus are two entirely different jobs in terms of the demands and schedules.
That’s what I’m getting at but the whole place is full of nepotism and the buddy buddy system. I know…it’s like that everywhere. It’s not an attack it’s just what I observed. Hell they had a guy looking at efficiency of grants and funds. I asked him how that was going and he winked. Just from his demeanor and the stories he would tell told me all I needed to know. Great guy.
Cry me a freaking river. Players have always gotten paid. Free education, free meals, free lodging, spending money. I wish I'd have been a slave like that. Idiotic take bro.
