One other thing. No one knows sh** about her and yet the typical BS that Pitt blew it. She may well be the best hire in years. Lets see what she does before rendering some uninformed opinion of her being a bad hire.
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I thought you just said fifteen minutes ago in this thread she accomplished a lot and checked all the boxes. Now, nobody knows anything. Which is it? Or are you just having a hard time defending the hire?
Any hire should be based on merit and accomplishments so lets hope this one is!
My wife is an accomplished small business owner and cant stand diversity initiatives for woman, race, or any other reason. In her mind it compromises the selection and the accomplishments of those same people
She made it on her own as a woman, competes and beats men and women everyday in her business!
It's true that PITT hasn't done well with "white guys" but all that shows is how incompetent PITT is as a university attempting to run an athletic program!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other universities have done just fine hiring " white guys" or any other person who's able to be exceptional at the job they're hired into!
I don't know this new AD nor have a read a sentence about her accomplishments except for whats in this thread.
If this hire based on the fact that she's a woman and not on her abilities this will be another "train wreck" and maybe the last " train wreck" for PITT athletics!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My "gut" feel as a business person is that this might not be the right hire for this time in the history of PITT athletics ( Eastern Michigan etc. ) but we'll see!
It won't take long to figure this one out!
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If only she had the red meat of a curly font logo to throw out to the wolves.
People panning this right off the bat are as clueless as those who were calling Barnes' hire a home run. We'll find out in due course. Until then, it makes no sense for fans to place artificial obstacles in her path before she even sets foot in Oakland.
Oh look. The very people I was talking about.
Lady hasn't had the job for 4 hours and she already sucks according to a lot of the dummies on here.
Lady hasn't had the job for 4 hours and she already sucks according to a lot of the dummies on here.
The funniest thing is that she was at EMU for a whole 3 years, and she is being blamed for their lack of football success over the past century, and the state of the athletic budget, which has probably been this way for oh, about 100 years too.
"HailToPitt725, post: 1846016, member: 38562"]I probably sound a bit contradicting.
No kidding!
Yes, football and basketball drives the revenue train, but at the same time there's glaring facility needs that need to be fixed such as the T&F and tennis facility (or should I say a lack of one.)
No one disagrees with that goal so how having to put Tennis & Track and Field that makes no money is going to reach your goal helping Pitt Football & Basketball to win and make more money to build help those facilities when FB & BB need to rebuild FIRST????
I would just like to see progress in all sports, which they now have the ability to thanks to the ACC money.
Well, hiring this Blowfart Bio of AD that worked at at Non-Urban Campus at EMU is not looking like she can handle it. this is a terrible Bio and a sign she is all about herself. In her Bio....it is all about her Vision and no credit to EMU President nor Coaches that won and every top Athletic director that is built a Successful Football Programs always syas it Start having the right Chancellor & President that has that VISION First and Foremost and then finds the Right People that make it happen, this is another Pederson, selfish, and slow minded looking to upgrade herself and she left EMU is just a few years.
You bring up a good point though about how these sports are built off of football and basketball. This is probably why I wasn't chosen for the AD position
I just feel Narduzzi needs all the money can get to rebuild the Football Program like Clemson did and we make about the same. However, Pitt must put more omeny into staffing and recruiting and coaches salaries for FB until it is a solid Top 25 Program.
Bama, USC, ND, OU, TEXAS, MICHIGAN, OSU, WVU, VT, OSU, built great Olympic Sports but only after making sure Football & Basketball stayed competitive. Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Temple are far smaller Urban Schools and just coming into rebuilding FB & BB with B-10, SEC, and P-12 Money.
But who knows she may turn it all around and as I have said for a long time, Up To Pitt To make Pitt is It and looks like another mistake just like Barnes...
No kidding!
Yes, football and basketball drives the revenue train, but at the same time there's glaring facility needs that need to be fixed such as the T&F and tennis facility (or should I say a lack of one.)
No one disagrees with that goal so how having to put Tennis & Track and Field that makes no money is going to reach your goal helping Pitt Football & Basketball to win and make more money to build help those facilities when FB & BB need to rebuild FIRST????
I would just like to see progress in all sports, which they now have the ability to thanks to the ACC money.
Well, hiring this Blowfart Bio of AD that worked at at Non-Urban Campus at EMU is not looking like she can handle it. this is a terrible Bio and a sign she is all about herself. In her Bio....it is all about her Vision and no credit to EMU President nor Coaches that won and every top Athletic director that is built a Successful Football Programs always syas it Start having the right Chancellor & President that has that VISION First and Foremost and then finds the Right People that make it happen, this is another Pederson, selfish, and slow minded looking to upgrade herself and she left EMU is just a few years.
You bring up a good point though about how these sports are built off of football and basketball. This is probably why I wasn't chosen for the AD position
I just feel Narduzzi needs all the money can get to rebuild the Football Program like Clemson did and we make about the same. However, Pitt must put more omeny into staffing and recruiting and coaches salaries for FB until it is a solid Top 25 Program.
Bama, USC, ND, OU, TEXAS, MICHIGAN, OSU, WVU, VT, OSU, built great Olympic Sports but only after making sure Football & Basketball stayed competitive. Stanford, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Temple are far smaller Urban Schools and just coming into rebuilding FB & BB with B-10, SEC, and P-12 Money.
But who knows she may turn it all around and as I have said for a long time, Up To Pitt To make Pitt is It and looks like another mistake just like Barnes...
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Yes he was but he was only one member of the committee and I'm pretty sure he wasn't the final decision maker
I am certainly honest to my daughter.
Other than that, don't you see that others have presented facts with their arguments?
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"Champions Built Here" doesn't win games?
Maybe we all need to say that over and over in our heads until it starts working.
Analysis Last Segment From Above:
Heather IS A OK!
But Needs to Be Prepared!
Why Some Reconsideration's By All, Just Being Fair!
Revisions Accepted & Will be Corrected!
A truly living document, EMU coaches and staff literally walk past the Blue Print’s key concepts each day at work, as they were incorporated into the EMU Convocation Center’s graphic re-design in 2015.
(But No Longer Applies to her whatsoever did not see it through like Pederson left Pitt right when he was most needed on ACC Expansion, Pitt Fans don't want another Steve Or Scott??)
An ardent proponent of growing the profession, Lyke is a sought after national speaker, presenter and leader in the business of college athletics. In 2014, she became the first woman ever to chair the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Committee, and led the Mid-American Conference as chair of their Cost of Attendance Task Force. She is an active member of the NACWAA Board of Directors, Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan Board of Directors and the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau Sports Commission.
(All good things but can she Rebuild Pitt Athletics or just give Speeches??)
Lyke came to EMU after working for 15 years at The Ohio State University where she was a member of the athletic department’s executive team and responsible for the assessment, design and development of the department’s strategic plan.
(Ohio State Football needed No Strategic Plan Jim Tressel & Urban Meyers did that and so she pushed papers.)
She directly oversaw 10 of OSU’s 36 athletic programs and managed/supervised 31 full-time coaches and staff. She also had oversight over all facets of the athletic councils involving budget oversight, revenue generation and facilities as well as the golf course operations. Additionally, she supervised the sport performance division of the department, which includes the strength and conditioning coaches, athletic training staff and sports medicine staff. In 2013, she developed the first ever student-athlete internship program within the Department of Athletics, ‘Bucks Go Pro.’
(Administrative Assistant But Gone By 2013 After Ohio State's Self Imposed No Bowl Game? Be prepared for some questions on what happen back then, and how it helped you learn.)
Her previous roles at OSU included associate athletic director for sport administration (2002-12) and associate athletic director for sport administration, compliance and camp operations (1998-02).
2002-12 The Ohio State University Associate AD/Sport Administration,
1998-02 The Ohio State University Associate AD/ Sport Administration, Compliance and Camp Operations
(Woe, so Heather Lyke's was right there when Ohio State Tatoo For Cash Scandal broke out and Jim Tressel had to resign and cited by the NCAA? Heather left in 2013 for EMU right after Urban Meyer's was hired in 2012? This needs a required Due Diligence Check remember how Pitt hired Haywood and had to pay him off after firing him. It goes with the territory.In addition, this was when NCAA Sanction Penn State 2012 Athletic Integrity Reform happen. It was discovered a few Big Ten Schools did not have all Athletic integrity Officers and had to make sure the Clery Acts and Title IX Compliance's had to be updated at many Big Ten Schools too. I know because some Penn State Lawyers cited them. This better had a big background check. I am by no means she did anything wrong just warning the Media is going to be asking such questions so be prepared.
LINK:
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2011/05/jim_tressel_leaves_ohio_state.html
Consultants suggest OSU hire ethics czar: College Notebook:
LINK:
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2012/02/consultants_suggest_osu_hire_e.html
Prior to Ohio State, Lyke was at the University of Cincinnati for two years, serving as the assistant athletic director for compliance as well as the senior woman administrator.
1996-98 University of Cincinnati Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance/SWA
(Woe again, this is during the Bob Huggins Years at UCincy and NCAA Violations and Compliance issues taking place at the same time? There is no way one worked in Athletics at UCincy 2 years and not hear about what and why Huggins was being investigated by the NCAA. The Media will want to know her thoughts on the investigation too before she left?) again no recriminations just do some preparation unlike Barnes was caught without answers!
Huggins, Cincinnati Charged With Major Rules Violations
May 09, 1998|By Stephen Nidetz.
LINK:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...nal-control-major-rules-violations-john-loyer
(This must have been vetted but Pitt is known of hiring Executive Search Firm Consultants that did not do a proper background Search. Heather was at UCincy and Ohio State working in Compliance Office and maybe it is that experience Pitt need to continue on Compliance's. Heather Resume has the same years when trouble happen at UCincy and Ohio State and the Media will asking questions. Just like did with Barnes connections to his old Boss Consulting Firm and hired Stallings his Old Boss Client. Heather having a Law Degree is big plus as in today's Compliance Challenges as well as working at places that did had some trouble and knows how to enforce such compliance's. Again, Heather should be able to handle it, in my opinion. Just want Pitt looking good as possible.
Lyke began her athletics administrative career at the NCAA national office as an intern in the enforcement and student-athlete reinstatement department. She also has worked for the Big Ten Network as a color analyst for softball games for five years.
I like this very good because this shows Heather had a big interests in Athletics right doing Law School and chose to work at the NCAA as an Intern. These are good backgrounds to have both in knowing how the NCAA Works and how Big Ten Network Works when she was an Analysts. Clearly, Heather is way better than Pederson and Barnes in smarts and jobs. Just working at Ohio State while being a Michigan Alumnus had to have some rubbing and banter fun too.
Lyke grew up in Canton, Ohio, and attended the University of Michigan on a softball scholarship. While at U-M, she was a four-year letter winner as a first baseman, two-time team captain, Big Ten champion and Academic All-Big Ten honoree. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Education from University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1995. Lyke and her husband, David Catalano, have three children, Elle, Sophie and Eli.
Heather is also from the same area and knows our region and how Pitt is up against OSU, MSU, Michigan and Penn State. She also knows what it is like trying to improve Athletic Programs from bottom to up, while being in a top one at Michigan, and working at two others at in UCincy and Ohio State all 3 Great Basketball Programs. She also knows how to keep Pitt out of problems she saw had to hear about at UCincy & OSU and that should be put on the Resume as Assets versus repeated weasel words that her look smaller like inspire, comprehensive, highest, first, and other adjectives when her own credentials speak for herself and can be said better.
I changed my mind, Heather is good selection especially of Pitt has plans to build new facilities in and around campus as we all know are needed but not much space.
Welcome to Pitt Heather!
Heather IS A OK!
But Needs to Be Prepared!
Why Some Reconsideration's By All, Just Being Fair!
Revisions Accepted & Will be Corrected!
A truly living document, EMU coaches and staff literally walk past the Blue Print’s key concepts each day at work, as they were incorporated into the EMU Convocation Center’s graphic re-design in 2015.
(But No Longer Applies to her whatsoever did not see it through like Pederson left Pitt right when he was most needed on ACC Expansion, Pitt Fans don't want another Steve Or Scott??)
An ardent proponent of growing the profession, Lyke is a sought after national speaker, presenter and leader in the business of college athletics. In 2014, she became the first woman ever to chair the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Committee, and led the Mid-American Conference as chair of their Cost of Attendance Task Force. She is an active member of the NACWAA Board of Directors, Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan Board of Directors and the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Convention and Visitors Bureau Sports Commission.
(All good things but can she Rebuild Pitt Athletics or just give Speeches??)
Lyke came to EMU after working for 15 years at The Ohio State University where she was a member of the athletic department’s executive team and responsible for the assessment, design and development of the department’s strategic plan.
(Ohio State Football needed No Strategic Plan Jim Tressel & Urban Meyers did that and so she pushed papers.)
She directly oversaw 10 of OSU’s 36 athletic programs and managed/supervised 31 full-time coaches and staff. She also had oversight over all facets of the athletic councils involving budget oversight, revenue generation and facilities as well as the golf course operations. Additionally, she supervised the sport performance division of the department, which includes the strength and conditioning coaches, athletic training staff and sports medicine staff. In 2013, she developed the first ever student-athlete internship program within the Department of Athletics, ‘Bucks Go Pro.’
(Administrative Assistant But Gone By 2013 After Ohio State's Self Imposed No Bowl Game? Be prepared for some questions on what happen back then, and how it helped you learn.)
Her previous roles at OSU included associate athletic director for sport administration (2002-12) and associate athletic director for sport administration, compliance and camp operations (1998-02).
2002-12 The Ohio State University Associate AD/Sport Administration,
1998-02 The Ohio State University Associate AD/ Sport Administration, Compliance and Camp Operations
(Woe, so Heather Lyke's was right there when Ohio State Tatoo For Cash Scandal broke out and Jim Tressel had to resign and cited by the NCAA? Heather left in 2013 for EMU right after Urban Meyer's was hired in 2012? This needs a required Due Diligence Check remember how Pitt hired Haywood and had to pay him off after firing him. It goes with the territory.In addition, this was when NCAA Sanction Penn State 2012 Athletic Integrity Reform happen. It was discovered a few Big Ten Schools did not have all Athletic integrity Officers and had to make sure the Clery Acts and Title IX Compliance's had to be updated at many Big Ten Schools too. I know because some Penn State Lawyers cited them. This better had a big background check. I am by no means she did anything wrong just warning the Media is going to be asking such questions so be prepared.
LINK:
http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2011/05/jim_tressel_leaves_ohio_state.html
Consultants suggest OSU hire ethics czar: College Notebook:
LINK:
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2012/02/consultants_suggest_osu_hire_e.html
Prior to Ohio State, Lyke was at the University of Cincinnati for two years, serving as the assistant athletic director for compliance as well as the senior woman administrator.
1996-98 University of Cincinnati Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance/SWA
(Woe again, this is during the Bob Huggins Years at UCincy and NCAA Violations and Compliance issues taking place at the same time? There is no way one worked in Athletics at UCincy 2 years and not hear about what and why Huggins was being investigated by the NCAA. The Media will want to know her thoughts on the investigation too before she left?) again no recriminations just do some preparation unlike Barnes was caught without answers!
Huggins, Cincinnati Charged With Major Rules Violations
May 09, 1998|By Stephen Nidetz.
LINK:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...nal-control-major-rules-violations-john-loyer
(This must have been vetted but Pitt is known of hiring Executive Search Firm Consultants that did not do a proper background Search. Heather was at UCincy and Ohio State working in Compliance Office and maybe it is that experience Pitt need to continue on Compliance's. Heather Resume has the same years when trouble happen at UCincy and Ohio State and the Media will asking questions. Just like did with Barnes connections to his old Boss Consulting Firm and hired Stallings his Old Boss Client. Heather having a Law Degree is big plus as in today's Compliance Challenges as well as working at places that did had some trouble and knows how to enforce such compliance's. Again, Heather should be able to handle it, in my opinion. Just want Pitt looking good as possible.
Lyke began her athletics administrative career at the NCAA national office as an intern in the enforcement and student-athlete reinstatement department. She also has worked for the Big Ten Network as a color analyst for softball games for five years.
I like this very good because this shows Heather had a big interests in Athletics right doing Law School and chose to work at the NCAA as an Intern. These are good backgrounds to have both in knowing how the NCAA Works and how Big Ten Network Works when she was an Analysts. Clearly, Heather is way better than Pederson and Barnes in smarts and jobs. Just working at Ohio State while being a Michigan Alumnus had to have some rubbing and banter fun too.
Lyke grew up in Canton, Ohio, and attended the University of Michigan on a softball scholarship. While at U-M, she was a four-year letter winner as a first baseman, two-time team captain, Big Ten champion and Academic All-Big Ten honoree. She earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Education from University of Michigan and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Akron School of Law. She was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1995. Lyke and her husband, David Catalano, have three children, Elle, Sophie and Eli.
Heather is also from the same area and knows our region and how Pitt is up against OSU, MSU, Michigan and Penn State. She also knows what it is like trying to improve Athletic Programs from bottom to up, while being in a top one at Michigan, and working at two others at in UCincy and Ohio State all 3 Great Basketball Programs. She also knows how to keep Pitt out of problems she saw had to hear about at UCincy & OSU and that should be put on the Resume as Assets versus repeated weasel words that her look smaller like inspire, comprehensive, highest, first, and other adjectives when her own credentials speak for herself and can be said better.
I changed my mind, Heather is good selection especially of Pitt has plans to build new facilities in and around campus as we all know are needed but not much space.
Welcome to Pitt Heather!
Upon reflection, and to be fair, the problems has been with Alumni Posters and Fans rightly upset with Pitt Hires that have often been embarrassments, and not so unhappy with some of them, but how Pitt messed up many of the Hires and making Pitt look stupid. Heather may not be a FB-BB AD, but she is qualified. How Pitt wants to handle its future is what we all doubt more than Heather as i see it now.
All good points and well thought out and cannot disagree, but that has been Pitt Problem since 1990s after Bozo Bozik was fired, Oval James overrated, even Pederson's Poison & Barnes Old Boss Consultants have let Pitt down and tougher to raise money......at Least Heather is better qualified and has a Law Degree but we shall see?
Is there any chance they hired her to basically just do what she knows how to do well and other than that just stay out of the way? Basically be the anti-Peterson who wouldn't give wanny chump change to spend on assistants and such. If narduzzi has full control of the football program and she'll sign off on the program spending whatever it needs to, I think we could definitely make this work.
All they talk about is GPAs and graduation rates and BS like that! I want to win at sports, I don't even care if the players can read! SO at least drop out of the ACC and join the Ivy if you're not planning to really compete.
EMU went 7-6, 4-4, in MAC, before that 1-11, 2-10, 2-10? Calling that Champions and then leaving is not winning over and over, just one year?????....And Heather's Bio is an attempt of over compensation she need not make, her Credentials are good on their own.
I would think that Narduzzi gave his approval. After all, he is on the committee. Gallagher would not hire someone that would be unfavorable to Narduzzi or the football program.
Two things. She has a very good track record, thus she has shown to be very capable based on the success at EMU. Secondly, correct no one knows sh** about whether she will be a positive AD at Pitt. That remains to be seen. At the very least with hold the anti Pitt blew it diatribe until she has been at Pitt for awhile. I hated the Chryst hire after watching him come in with no fire and sense of urgency. But understood the hiring was in fact to clean up dodge from Wanny and Fraudy time here. She certainly doesn't have the personal baggage that Barnes came with. The fact Pitt wouldn't give Tressel the time of day is a win.Yep, hire a 65 year old fart who should have been drummed out of college coaching after the Mickey Monus nonsense at YSU.
Well said, her first test was being hired, her second will be the Press Conference and the PPG loves to bring on great questions upon Pitt Chosen Few that Flew too.....Time will tell?
It is promising EMU had it most success on the football field in the last 30 years under her watch, and this is with a group actively trying to undermine her efforts. Look at Rutgers to see how effective that block of professors can be.
Wow, such negativism. I'll bet this just endears the new AD to the fanbase. Anyone that is confident of her future performance, positive or negative, is not being credible. Her background is sufficient at different levels of schools, but we don't know how this will translate to Pitt, and its specific characteristics. She did improve the fundraising in a very difficult situation, and did emphasize and promote the football program. EMich even made a bowl this year, after being a doormat for quite some time. She was hired by the same AD that hired Narduzzi, and some of the committee members were football people. I will not be like some who, without knowing any background, automatically did not like the hire after they saw 'Heather' as the name, or Eastern Michigan as the previous job. I will give her the benefit of the doubt to start and hope she brings additional life to the athletic program.
All I ever hope is that the person hired is well qualified. Funding raising is certainly important and the person asking hopefully is well-qualified with a proven track record and understands the dynamics of a major P5 conference. Man or woman shouldn't be the only factor.
Obviously, have no choice but to give her a chance, but waaaayyyy to many corny slogans, etc. I agree with Captain, when I see soooo many slogans and fluff words it makes you worried. Hello, left lane gas down or whatever that shitty slogan was.
She has done some decent things but it is at EMU, which definitely isn't an easy place to do decent things at. However, with that said, when they go low level MAC school for a hire it worries me that it is the same old at Pitt.
With that said, I can see some potential with her, and it is not like the Stallings hire, a well known mediocre commodity. AT least she is an unknown commodity at this point.
What makes me really frustrated is even though I knew there was no way Jim Tressel would have been hired by Pitt, when someone of his stature is interested in the job, you at least have him be part of the final list of candidates. They were all underwhelming, and you had someone who could have made the nation take notice that Pitt was going to be serious about Athletics for once.
Ohh well, we have no choice but to support her, and like I said above, I can see a some positives about her, just waaaaayyy to many fluff, puff and 8th grade slogans going on in her bio.
She has done some decent things but it is at EMU, which definitely isn't an easy place to do decent things at. However, with that said, when they go low level MAC school for a hire it worries me that it is the same old at Pitt.
With that said, I can see some potential with her, and it is not like the Stallings hire, a well known mediocre commodity. AT least she is an unknown commodity at this point.
What makes me really frustrated is even though I knew there was no way Jim Tressel would have been hired by Pitt, when someone of his stature is interested in the job, you at least have him be part of the final list of candidates. They were all underwhelming, and you had someone who could have made the nation take notice that Pitt was going to be serious about Athletics for once.
Ohh well, we have no choice but to support her, and like I said above, I can see a some positives about her, just waaaaayyy to many fluff, puff and 8th grade slogans going on in her bio.
Has there ever been a successful female AD any where? Aside from the lady up at UPS, the only other female AD at a power 5 school I can think of is Yow at Maryland and NC St. and she's been a disaster.
EMU finished 2016 (26) spots higher than Pitt in the Learfield Director's cup standings. She was an Associate AD at Ohio State for 15 years. Pretty strong background it would seem.
If she gets rid of Stallings within the first couple years then I'll consider this a home run hire.
People know hardly anything about her and they're already up in arms.
The funny part is 80% of the opposition to her on this thread is for the simple fact that she doesn't have a penis.
People know hardly anything about her and they're already up in arms.
The funny part is 80% of the opposition to her on this thread is for the simple fact that she doesn't have a penis.
The role of an AD is to:
Fund raise
Represent the school well
Help in coaching hires
Schedule games
Budget coordinator
I have no idea how our new AD will fare in these but I do trust our committee in making the right decision!
Hail to PITT
Fund raise
Represent the school well
Help in coaching hires
Schedule games
Budget coordinator
I have no idea how our new AD will fare in these but I do trust our committee in making the right decision!
Hail to PITT
At this time in its athletic history PITT needs a really good AD.
The worst part of this is if all of the final candidates were Diversity candidates that means the target hire was a Diversity hire!
Do some of you know how many really good people that kind of search excludes?????? That's the problem with targeted Diversity hires its impossible to get the best person or even a really good one due to the limited search field!
Calculate the universe of minority and or women hires for an AD spot compared to a larger scope search looking for the best AD candidate not a Diversity candidate. The difference is HUGE!
Do the Math/ do some what if's. Based on the excluded candidates the chances / probability of PITT hiring the best AD candidate are limited.
Just looking at experience she doesn't have bigtime AD experience at a school that has had or wants Top 20 football and basketball programs! In fact she worked for a school that discussed dropping football.
And she will have to rub elbows with the bigtime experienced Duke, UNC, LU. UVA Southern AD's who will dominate business.
My wife and I who are both experienced business people. We discussed this at length ( half a bottle of Peach Schnapps) and concluded ( gut feel) the chances of this plan being successful are less than 50%. We even ran it by a few neighbors at a basketball watching get together and they gave us the look down eyes knowing PITTs athletic department struggles.
At this time PITT doesn't need a 50/50 shot at success they need an AD who has an 80/20 chance of being successful!
After all the football coaches, SP, Barnes, Stallings, and now this we're really disappointed in the stewardship of athletics at PITT.
We have kids who graduated from the U, we give money to the general and athletic funds, travel over 600rt miles to home games, buy three sets of Fball tickets ( two we give away to people who cant afford tics), share basketball tickets with others and we're really freaken Miffed with this one!
We decided a phone call is in order to discuss the future of our tickets, donations, personal money and time spent supporting PITT athletics.
The key question is: Are you people serious about PITT athletics or not!!!
If not just let us know! Or maybe this is our answer! If we get the answer that we think we'll get maybe we ask to give up the tickets and we'll see how this works out????????????????????????? It won't!
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I remember when Pitt lost John Majors to Tennessee after winning the MNC. They went out and hired a guy who had only been a HC for 1 year and finished with a record of 3-9 at Washington State. His name was Jackie Sherrill.
This may be your dumbest comment ever, and that's really saying something.
Pitt Law 04 may be happy if she schedules all Mac schools for Pitt's ooc games.
Aha! Here we are. If you don't like the hire, then you're a sexist!
Can't defend the hire? Name call and accuse someone of being a bigot!
None of the criticisms of this hire in this thread related to the fact that she's a woman.
They deal with the fact that she's not a qualified and inspiring choice.
Either deal with the FACTS regarding her past performance and lack of qualifications that have been noted or be quiet. Because anyone with critical thinking skills can see that name calling is nothing more than a cheap way to try and shut down debate.
Yup. You definitely went to law school with that word-twisting. Nowhere in what I said did I say THAT. All I'm saying is that some people aren't gonna' like her regardless of performance because she's a she. Kind of like certain morons hate Tomlin because he's one of "those people." Don't act like they're not out there.
I think you're the one trying to do the word twisting. Your comments speaks for themselves.
Either address the criticisms that have been made about her prior performance or say nothing.
Calling people Archie Bunkers just shows you have no argument to make in her favor.
Just from reading her history, she has worked in one of the largest athletic departments in the nation, improved one of the smallest, and also knows football drives the bus and will raise all ships if successful.
Time will tell if she is a successful hire. But from what I can see, she is qualified IMO.
Time will tell if she is a successful hire. But from what I can see, she is qualified IMO.
On paper, Jeff Long was a home run hire and we see how that turned out. The anonymous loons here have no clue if this is good or not.
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