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Who Wants To Be Athletic Director?

I’m hearing the search firm USC hired to find a new athletic director has been rebuffed by more than a few top-profile candidates, including Alabama A.D. Greg Bryne, who was previously at Arizona, and Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte.

The search firm will present candidates who are interested — like Washington State athletic director Pat Chun.

One source at Bovard (the USC administation building) tells me if president Carol Folt really wants a big name (Bryne, Del Conte) she will contact them herself and make a pitch to hire them. So no one can be officially eliminated until Folt decides who she wants.

23 thoughts on “Who Wants To Be Athletic Director?”

  2. I do I do. I can be Athletic Director for 400K a year and keep the bribes. I know when and how to say the wrong thing and I will conduct excellent coaching searches. Here’s what I’ll do. I’ll gather the best and brightest sports writers and we’ll discuss who is the best and then I’ll hire Urban Myer. The school can then fire me and I’ll keep the bribe money and retire like other ADs

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  3. I dont expect Folt to get too involved. Athletics isnt her thing. Similar to coaching USC should be able to het an experienced proven AD not a former Trojan athlete

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  4. Carol Folt is a plodder and does not have the charisma or talent to hire an effective new A.D. Just look at the guy she replaced Lynn Swann with – Dave Roberts. Underachiever, crappy law school, sat by for 6 years while assistant to Max Nikias. This is a sign of poor judgment. Just read her story in the Trojan magazine. Nothing spectacular about this woman, So so academic background. Flunky out of Ohio State. Waited restaurants in Santa Barbara while she got her shit together in local Santa Barbara City College. UC Santa Barbara and U.C. Davis schooling in mediocre subjects. Relied on hubby to get her a job at Dartmouth. Won’t be around too long. Won’t be able to deal with pushy Board of Trustee members who recognize there is nothing special about this woman living in a rented house in Santa Monica that USC is paying $35,000.00 a month for.

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    1. Actually that bio makes her sound wonderfully normal —especially the part about waiting tables in Santa Barbara. I’ll take her to one of those entitled brats outta Harvard anytime……
      …On the other hand, “searches” are things you undertake when you don’t know who’d be the best choice for an opening. If Urban Meyer is available let’s cut the shit and hire him NOW…….

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      2. gt —Now I remember! [Hope she can get us a football coach faster than she got me my French Dip & Bloody Mary]…..

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    2. Is it possible that Ms. Folt was the best-qualified candidate out those expressing interest in the position of Clown U campus President?

      Winston Churchill, in 1941, was considered by Parliament, by his own party, and much of Great Britain to be a has-been, loose political cannon and utter government cabinet failure. But on May 10, 1941, Geo. VI tasked WC (the second choice) to form a wartime government.

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      1. Can’t believe it! That must be the 1000th time I’ve heard somebody compare Carol to Churchill.
        #CarolLikesAStiffShotOfScotch&AStrongCigarWhenInPrivate

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  5. I agree with MG. I’ve been around the track of life enough times to know that people don’t fall into top academic positions at places like Dartmouth, or into the top leadership position at prominent research universities such as UNC and USC without having substance. Lela’s give Pres. Folt some room and a little time to get her “sea legs” and do her thing.

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    1. Time for the Woflman to take her by her dainty hand and show her ‘The Way’……
      #[…TheWayToBreakEveryEggShellInHerPath….
      #[…AndThenGoOffPath&BreakTheRest]….
      #Carol’FolkHero’

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      1. I was researching Pat Chun, and that may be a great hire if you want Urban Meyer as our new coach. Chun spent 15-years at Ohio State Athletic Department and Meyer worked for him a year and praised him when WSU hired him as their AD. Chun being SC’s AD makes it easier for Meyer to take the SC job.

        On another note, Chun was the AD that convinced Lame Kiffin to come to small school FAU. He parlayed that into the WSU job.

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  7. Where would you rather live, Alabama, or a nice costal community in Southern California? A good athletic director can just hand the keys to a great coach “Urban Myer “ etc etc . Then go fund raise, while the football team generates Millions, and Millions of dollars.

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  8. You’re a typical Attorney MG, spinning the rational into the irrational for lucre.

    Perhaps you should read the post I was responding to. I know MG, taking a rational approach means low billable hours.

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    1. Dear Owns –Can’t respond right this moment —- busy screwing elderly neighbors out of deed to their home…. get back soon…

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