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If we Clean House, Look No Further Than NIU for New A.D.!

Knight Shift said:
I can't imagine anyone in their right mind who would want to work in the Athletics Department at Rutgers until the mindset of some changes.

Read all about it:
http://espn.go.com/new-york/college...rutgers-emails-critical-julie-hermann-process

http://nypost.com/2013/06/02/rutger...-of-ad-candidate-though-hermann-let-off-hook/

According to a source, Longhofer asked Hermann one question: Was she aware of The NCAA’s guide — to assist administrators, coaches and students to develop a more inclusive environment for LGBT-Q students — that was released in March?

Hermann said she was familiar with the guide. Longhofer did not follow up with any additional questions, said the source.

Frazier was asked virtually the same question, said the source. Frazier also answered he was aware of the guide.

The source said Longhofer then subjected Frazier to a barrage of additional questions so hostile in nature, other committee members felt it was beyond the pale. The source said the line of questioning and Frazier’s answers reached the point of being “argumentative.”

According to several media reports, Hermann was the clear favorite of Kate Sweeney, the co-chair of the Rutgers executive search committee. A source said Sweeney did not bully other members of the committee but made her choice clear.
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All of these committee's and large panels and people doing background checks, and they still got it wrong.

When decisions are made not to get the best candidate, but get the candidate who checks most boxes, you have a problem. Rutgers epitomizes all that is wrong with this philosophy, and gets results befitting such skewed philosophy.

If only Sean Frazier were a lesbian woman, he would have gotten the role.
 
Serious question.....what big time football coach would want to report to Herman?

She might know what she is doing, but what high ego guy would want to report into her and the accompanying Sweeney garbage?

And by the way, and I'm in no way defending Flood, but some people are killing Flood for not being honest in his responses regarding his knowledge of coach-professor contact, but if we recall at JHs initial press conference that she also flat out lied. That's fact.

I know she got ambushed by our very supporting local media (who the heck would bring up stuff from 10+ years ago after she's been working without issue at Louisville????), but that's a separate story....
 
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SleepingGiantIsAwake said:
Serious question.....what big time football coach would want to report to Herman?

She might know what she is doing, but what high ego guy would want to report into her and the accompanying Sweeney garbage?

And by the way, and I'm in no way defending Flood, but some people are killing Flood for not being honest in his responses regarding his knowledge of coach-professor contact, but if we recall at JHs initial press conference that she also flat out lied. That's fact.

I know she got ambushed by our very supporting local media (who the heck would bring up stuff from 10+ years ago after she's been working without issue at Louisville), but that's a separate story....
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Money talks...
 
RU5781 said:
I know this is going to sound sexist, but IDGAF...
Can we leave the women out of major sports decisions next time?
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Along with the Longehofer guy who is more interested in LBGQHFTW agendas. His grilling of Frazier has no place in sport.
 
Ole Cabbagehead said:
Its more frightening how much people hate Julie for no reason other than her sexual orientation.
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As reiterated in the above threads, I think many people hate how she was selected, led by Sweeney and her agenda. JHs missteps along the way and her now being totally micromanaged by Barchi to the point she is not trusted to talk to the press (an important part of the job!), doesn't help her now.
 
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BuggsyRU said:
The only reason Frazier wasn't hired at Rutge 9he wanted it really bad) was because we let a lesbian(Sweeney) dictate to us who we could hire, and she in turn forced Hermann down our throats when Frazier was far far more qualified for the job than Hermann.

Now look where NIU is under Frazier, and where we are under Hermann.

I would love to right this wrong.
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not that there anything wrong with lesbians, but
 
RU5781 said:
The only thing Sweeney is good for...

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Sammich Maker? LOL.
 
ru5781--watch out you are about to be attacked--and by the way many of us have heard she lacked administrative skills especially when she first came on board--and that was from those that disliked pernetti
 
I don't think anyone hates her at all. I like her and am pulling for her but that doesn't hide the fact that she was picked based on a non-sports related agenda. She's done... OK - but these last couple of football problems haven't looked good for her. For example, how is there no compliance training in the athletic department? Floods says he was never trained. That's on her. Hell I have hours of compliance training every year at work but a department that reports to the NCAA of all places doesn't?
 
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NIU is a much different situation then Rutgers. In Illinois the papers are looking for controversy at Illinois or maybe Illinois St first. They are like a Rowan is to Rutgers.

Remember the Kean NCAA infractions a while back? While NJ.com covered them, it was not under a microscope the way Rutgers is. NIU is probably covered by the Chicago media the way Kean is covered.

NIU has no issues that I am aware of but if they did it would not be as big of a press event compared to them happening at Illinois.
 
It's been rumore Louisville can lose their AD to Texas. Julie will be the top candidate to replace him. I'd like Western Kentuckys Todd Stewart to replace her.
 
Bottom line is Julie had the resume to be hired...kate sweeney or not

Ru5781 and his Schiano/mcconnell ticket reeks of agenda so no surprise you want Juliecout

Fact is a few of the people in this thread were still defending Flood even though he created the shitshow here but lets deflect to the AD would didnt hire him
 
bac2therac said:
Bottom line is Julie had the resume to be hired...kate sweeney or not

Ru5781 and his Schiano/mcconnell ticket reeks of agenda so no surprise you want Juliecout

Fact is a few of the people in this thread were still defending Flood even though he created the shitshow here but lets deflect to the AD would didnt hire him
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Agenda? What power do you think I have? Do you think I'm going to organize a revolt and storm the Hale Center? Good God.
 
bac2therac said:
Bottom line is Julie had the resume to be hired...kate sweeney or not


Fact is a few of the people in this thread were still defending Flood even though he created the shitshow here but lets deflect to the AD would didnt hire him
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Agree on first point, but process was still flawed because the candidates did not get equal treatment.

On point 2, two wrongs don't make a right. As RUScrew85 pointed out, Flood admitted he did not complete compliance training (did not check that myself). The most important coach in the Department did not complete compliance training? That is on Flood, but also on Julie, and a pretty big issue when there are compliance issues.
 
I've said before I don't care about the media stuff because I find pretty much all of it overblown hype. JH does make media gaffes but none of them are all that important to me and I've rebutted those issues before whether it was the "abuse," wedding video, SL comments, Disney comments all overblown hype. These are all sideshows how many ADs can you name of the top of your head or know which AD is where without looking. For most it would likely a handful at best. How about USC and what Haden did actually going down on the field to challenge a ref? That's not embarrassing or Sarkisian the coach he hired being publicly intoxicated at a booster meeting. They got talked about and are forgotten and to me that kind of stuff is more embarrassing than minutiae brought up from 16+ years ago.

I care about the meat and potatoes. Hire good coaches and raise money. Just about everything else is secondary to me. She could hide under a rock for the rest of her time here and I don't care. I've said as much. Who cares. I've said that should be the template for any future AD here too. The media gives you no reprieve, they are looking to pick apart anything you say and tear you down as seen by our last 2 ADs. Interact with them as necessary and give them nothing more. You get nothing by appeasing them or trying to be buddy buddy, they will tear you down the first chance they get. Controlling everything through press releases and RU media platforms is perfectly fine to me.

Having said that as I've said before the compliance thing I would ding JH for a bit. I tend to think it fell by the wayside considering the mess she walked into and how much needed to get done and what might have taken priority, still though it's something she's got to deal with. I'd like to know what kind of compliance we had before JH. We had a compliance officer at the Senior AD level but that position has been open since TP. Even if we did have that Senior AD compliance officer, I'd like to know was Schiano attending meetings and is there documentation and how about Flood as well before JH got here. I couldn't tell you it wasn't lax before too. It may have been lax before but JH has to fix it. Unfortunately it probably got neglected and took less priority versus other things.
 
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Ill also agree about the compliance but I don't have information to make a judgment...didnt somene last week list that we did have compliance officers
 
bac2therac said:
Bottom line is Julie had the resume to be hired...kate sweeney or not

Ru5781 and his Schiano/mcconnell ticket reeks of agenda so no surprise you want Juliecout

Fact is a few of the people in this thread were still defending Flood even though he created the shitshow here but lets deflect to the AD would didnt hire him
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Go look up the definition of "cognitive dissonance".

Then come back and explain how it could be that Julie is so perfect, yet our head football coach - four years after he was hired - is a "shit show".

Seems to me that a wonderful, awesome, Wizard of Oz Athletic Director like Julie would have recognized all the deficiencies that you, a mere minion, can readily point out and fired the guy, right?

Right?
 
BuggsyRU said:
I don't really think Hermann is in too much danger of being replaced, but IF she does get booted, then we need to focus all our attention on the guy I believe we should have hired in the first place....Wisconsin's Deputy Athletic Director, Sean Frazier. I knew this guy would be a star, and he is doing everything right. A commitment to both athletic and academic excellence...something you would expect from someone who cut his teeth at Wisconsin.

What has he done since taking the head Athletic Director job at Northern Illinois University in 2013?

NIU (2013 -- Present)

In 2014-15, nine NIU teams finished in the top half of the Mid-American Conference, an increase of five teams from the previous year.

The Huskie football team won its third MAC title in the last four years while continuing a run that has made NIU one of the winningest teams in the nation.

NIU also topped all MAC schools with a Graduation Success Rate (GSR) of 89 percent for all student-athletes in 2014, a mark that is seven points better than the national average. A school record 81 Huskie student-athletes were named Academic All-MAC last year, 31 received the MAC's Distinguished Scholar-Award and three earned Academic All-America honors. The cumulative GPA of Huskie student-athletes improved to 3.19 overall.

During his tenure at NIU, Frazier completed the installation of a new football turf field; on-campus indoor tennis practice courts; new and improved men's & women's soccer locker rooms; and unveiled a new basketball court and design. In May, he introduced a new departmental Strategic Plan, which detailed the mission, vision, core values and critical issues for the next three years.

Frazier brought four new head coaches to NIU in 2014-15 to lead the Huskie women's tennis, baseball, women's cross country and women's basketball programs. Frazier also has made football scheduling a top priority, signing home-and-home football agreements with San Diego State, BYU, Utah, Maryland, Tulsa, Vanderbilt, Boston College and South Florida.
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Let's take a looksie here:

1) football was well on its way to becoming a power house; GREAT job with scheduling, however!

2) fundraising at RU had gone UP since Julie arrived

3) academics are NOT an issue here



4) teams winning in his 1st 2 years, come on, the coaches and recruits were already in place

5) He hired new coaches? Wow, shocker! We any of them the ones that won titles? Let's see:

Women's Tennis - finished 2-6 in conference, did not win tournament.
Women's Hoopos 8-10 in conference, did not win tournament.
Women's CC - looks like they were awful, did not win tournament
Baseball - 10-17, didn't win tournament

re: points 4/5 - he had nothing to do with teams winning tournaments nor did his "hires" do anything spectacular in Year 1. Now, that may change, no doubt, but putting up accolades as such, at this point, and crediting him, is a tad absurd IMHO (and I LOVED this guy as a candidate at the time, don't forget....).
 
RU4Real said:
Go look up the definition of "cognitive dissonance".

Then come back and explain how it could be that Julie is so perfect, yet our head football coach - four years after he was hired - is a "shit show".

Seems to me that a wonderful, awesome, Wizard of Oz Athletic Director like Julie would have recognized all the deficiencies that you, a mere minion, can readily point out and fired the guy, right?

Right?
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Weren't you ALL about Julie not even a year ago? Am I confusing you with another "RU4Rreal"? Help me out here if things have changed I understand, no problem, just trying to "jog the memory."
 
AreYouNUTS said:
Let's take a looksie here:

1) football was well on its way to becoming a power house; GREAT job with scheduling, however!

2) fundraising at RU had gone UP since Julie arrived

3) academics are NOT an issue here



4) teams winning in his 1st 2 years, come on, the coaches and recruits were already in place

5) He hired new coaches? Wow, shocker! We any of them the ones that won titles? Let's see:

Women's Tennis - finished 2-6 in conference, did not win tournament.
Women's Hoopos 8-10 in conference, did not win tournament.
Women's CC - looks like they were awful, did not win tournament
Baseball - 10-17, didn't win tournament

re: points 4/5 - he had nothing to do with teams winning tournaments nor did his "hires" do anything spectacular in Year 1. Now, that may change, no doubt, but putting up accolades as such, at this point, and crediting him, is a tad absurd IMHO (and I LOVED this guy as a candidate at the time, don't forget....).
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Wait, you're saying that he doesn't get credit for the sports teams that won, since the players were already in place, but he does get blame for the sports teams that lost, even though the players were already in place?

Do you realize how dumb that is? Of course none of the new teams are successful yet. If they were, the previous coach wouldn't have been fired.

Also, he has added new facilities ALREADY, while not a single shovel has hit the ground under our current A.D.
 
BuggsyRU said:
Wait, you're saying that he doesn't get credit for the sports teams that won, since the players were already in place, but he does get blame for the sports teams that lost, even though the players were already in place?

Do you realize how dumb that is? Of course none of the new teams are successful yet. If they were, the previous coach wouldn't have been fired.

Also, he has added new facilities ALREADY, while not a single shovel has hit the ground under our current A.D.
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We have nice architectural drawings though lol
 
RU4Real said:
Go look up the definition of "cognitive dissonance".

Then come back and explain how it could be that Julie is so perfect, yet our head football coach - four years after he was hired - is a "shit show".

Seems to me that a wonderful, awesome, Wizard of Oz Athletic Director like Julie would have recognized all the deficiencies that you, a mere minion, can readily point out and fired the guy, right?

Right?
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aw boo hoo your guy Flood FAILED after you supported him and instead of owning up to it you move on to Julie because she may be consipiring to get him out...not to mention your constant flip flop on both of them...which is it?
 
bac2therac said:
aw boo hoo your guy Flood FAILED after you supported him and instead of owning up to it you move on to Julie because she may be consipiring to get him out...not to mention your constant flip flop on both of them...which is it?
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They both (Flood and Hermann) need to go, because they have both lied, both embarrassed our university, and both of them hired even though they shouldn't have been.

What real coach would want a joke like Hermann as their boss?

Let's start at the top and right the wrong.
 
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BuggsyRU said:
Wait, you're saying that he doesn't get credit for the sports teams that won, since the players were already in place, but he does get blame for the sports teams that lost, even though the players were already in place?
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I said no such thing. All I said was "he hired new coaches? Wow, shocker!" and would not expect new hires to have won titles. Please read through my post again it makes complete sense.

BTW - I'm not knocking the guy, however, it's way, way, way too soon to say "this guy is a miracle worker," too, by giving his credit for a) his predecessor's work and b) hiring new people. Again, he was my #1 CHOICE, at the time, for our AD, so relax a little Buggsy.
 
AreYouNUTS said:
I said no such thing. All I said was "he hired new coaches? Wow, shocker!" and would not expect new hires to have won titles. Please read through my post again it makes complete sense.

BTW - I'm not knocking the guy, however, it's way, way, way too soon to say "this guy is a miracle worker," too, by giving his credit for a) his predecessor's work and b) hiring new people. Again, he was my #1 CHOICE, at the time, for our AD, so relax a little Buggsy.
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OK, fair enough Nuts. But I also never said "he was a miracle worker" (or at least I don't think I did, and don't want to go look it up.
 
bac2therac said:
aw boo hoo your guy Flood FAILED after you supported him and instead of owning up to it you move on to Julie because she may be consipiring to get him out...not to mention your constant flip flop on both of them...which is it?
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You're such a dumbass.

My support of Kyle Flood the last two years has been primarily circumstantial - it's predicated on the understanding that Julie and her boss don't have the wherewithal to get rid of him. 22 months ago I went DIRECTLY to the AAD for AD with 100k in donor money and was told to "hold that thought."

So I did.

It's now two years later. Kyle isn't getting it done. My confidence in his integrity has been eroded by recent events. So where does that leave us? None of these things are an indictment against me, just like none of them make you less of a dumbass.

Julie needs to do her f*cking job. I like her as a person, she's always welcome at my tailgate, but right here and right now, this is on her. Period end.
 
AreYouNUTS said:
Money is in, plans have been approved, just going out to final bid process for the baseball/softball indoor practice facility.
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I know. I was talking more about the RAC and basketball practice upgrades, etc.

I know the baseball facility is close to shovel ready. but you have to admit, that the fact that a brand new AD coupled with B10 entrance supports the point I'm making the "Where do you want us to be" thread. There are serious impediments to us being a top sports program that people want to ignore.
 
ruhudsonfan said:
I know. I was talking more about the RAC and basketball practice upgrades, etc.

I know the baseball facility is close to shovel ready. but you have to admit, that the fact that a brand new AD coupled with B10 entrance supports the point I'm making the "Where do you want us to be" thread. There are serious impediments to us being a top sports program that people want to ignore.
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Gotcha!

If we were on the Maryland "payment plan" I think things would be different sooner, rather than later, alas, c'est la vie.
 
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Actually I agree with you...its an important time for Julie to deliver along with Brown. She is going to own this hire. Not sure what people want her to say in the media right now
 
I don't want her to say anything in the media.

But she needs to accomplish several things in the next 5 months in order to not be a total failure in my eyes.

1. Fire Flood for cause with a SEVERE reduction of his annual salary as the settlement figure. I'm talking like less than 50%.

2. Cultivate donors to put a pay package of AT LEAST $2MM per year for the next HC. If she can get him for less, fine. But a reasonable amount of money needs to be in her quiver when she goes hunting.

3. Create a way to give the new HC a budget he can work with to get P5 quality coordinators in here. Same with position coaches.

4. Lead the search for a new coach that is not only QUALIFIED, but will instill confidence in the fan base.

5. Continue raising money for the capital projects for the Olympic/non-revenue sports and obviously basketball.

If she fails in any of those, her job security should be in jeopardy.

Between now and then, I don't care if she makes a single public comment.
 
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More than fair and reasonable. I have no problem with holding Julie to standards. ..part of my fervant defense of her is some of our fans falling back on Polti talking points to criticize her
 
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