Let the speculation begin…who are the top prospects to fill the role of AD?….Go!

[Plum Street]

If he does a decent job for six months, elevate Pisarri (take the interim off the title) and move Tucker into his old role.

No. We are a BIG Ten athletic program . We are done shopping at the Dollar Tree

 

[ashokan]

Seems like Sarah B is the obvious choice. Experience at Missouri, RU, and Texas. Here is her impressive Bio from Texas:

In her role, Baumgartner provides supervision of head coaches, directors of operations and program administrators for all 20 sports. She is the liaison to all areas within the athletics department that interact and support sports programs and is responsible for monitoring student-athlete recruitment, experience, academic progress and welfare. She also is responsible for assisting each sports program with development and monitoring of budgets and approval of expenses.

In addition, she oversees equipment operations and serves as liaison to Nike. She is a member of the Vice President/Athletics Director's senior management team and assists with the department-wide strategic planning efforts.

Baumgartner previously served five years as deputy director of athletics at Rutgers University (2016-21), providing oversight of all revenue-generating and external departments while also working with Rutgers’ sports health, student-athlete services and human resources. She was involved in budgeting, capital projects/master planning, contract negotiations, donor solicitation strategy and stewardship. Baumgartner helped RU secure a landmark $10.5m naming rights partnership with SHI for the Rutgers football stadium.

She began her time at Rutgers in 2013 as senior associate athletics director/chief development officer, spearheading the department's development arm (R Fund) and launching the "R Big Ten Build" campaign, which raised more than $115m. She also was responsible for raising funds for several major capital improvements. The contributions to the campaign included the four largest gifts in Rutgers Athletics history, combining to exceed $26m, and was buoyed by the largest gift in program history – a $15m donation pledged by Gary and Barbara Rodkin to fund the Academic Success Center on RU’s Busch Campus. Other funded projects were the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center, home for RU men’s and women’s basketball, gymnastics and wrestling programs, the Marco Battaglia Practice Complex, the Fred Hill Baseball/Softball Training Complex, the Harriett and Bob Druskin Strength and Conditioning Center, the Ron and Joanna Garutti Strength and Conditioning Center and The Brown Family Football Locker Room.

Prior to Rutgers, Baumgartner spent seven years with Missouri Athletics as associate athletics director for development and men’s basketball sport administrator. The Tigers enjoyed unparalleled success during her tenure, both athletically and in donor growth.

At Missouri, Baumgartner supervised a 15-member staff that raised $84m toward Mizzou's “Going for Gold” campaign. The athletics annual fund (Tiger Scholarship Fund) increased donor membership by 60 percent and grew annual fund gifts by 40 percent during that time. She successfully developed and executed the fundraising plan to capitalize on Missouri's transition from the Big 12 Conference to the SEC, which saw record highs for donor membership and dollars raised at Mizzou.

Baumgartner is a member of the Women Leaders in College Sports board of directors and assists the WLCS Foundation Fund Committee to develop more resources.

She served as president of the National Association of Athletics Development Directors (NAADD) in 2019-20. NAADD is an organization that enhances the athletics development and fundraising profession by providing educational, ethical and networking support.

Additionally, she was a member of the NCAA Division I Women's Softball Committee from 2016-19.

A native of Wheaton, Ill., and a four-year letterwinner in softball at The University of Illinois, Baumgartner was an All-Big Ten Tournament and a Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree. In 2004, she received a bachelor’s in business administration before earning her master's degree in sports administration from Illinois in 2005.

Need football person which means no women.
Debbie Yow and Julie Herman were worst ADs in memory.
Women tend to be compilers for grades and honors and little program feather caps.
They dont do football well - like most men but the best football ADs are men.
There are no women dictators

 

[MADHAT1]

Terry Mohajir UCF's AD might deserve a looksee along with having Sara a top candidate

Need football person which means no women.
Debbie Yow and Julie Herman were worst ADs in memory.
Women tend to be compilers for grades and honors and little program feather caps.
They dont do football well - like most men but the best football ADs are men.
There are no women dictators

Hate to praise anything Penn State but their AD ( Sandy Barbour ) did a good ob while California's AD and PSU doesn't seem to be having a time of the month moments with her their AD.

Jennifer Cohen USC's AD seems to be doing pretty good there ( her first year at USC) , after doing a great job as Washington's AD

Females heading College Athletic Departments are not found very often and when thinking about female ADs we tend to remember the bad ones , overlooking the ones that do a good job.
Maybe that is because in 2023 the percentage of females holding College AD positions was only 15%
and the bad ones might stand out because of the low number of Women ADs .

 

[letitrip2]

Terry Mohajir UCF's AD might deserve a looksee along with having Sara a top candidate

Hate to praise anything Penn State but their AD ( Sandy Barbour ) did a good ob while California's AD and PSU doesn't seem to be having a time of the month moments with her their AD.

Jennifer Cohen USC's AD seems to be doing pretty good there ( her first year at USC) , after doing a great job as Washington's AD

Females heading College Athletic Departments are not found very often and when thinking about female ADs we tend to remember the bad ones , overlooking the ones that do a good job.
Maybe that is because in 2023 the percentage of females holding College AD positions was only 15%
and the bad ones might stand out because of the low number of Women ADs .

Pick the best candidate - nothing else matters - at least it shouldn't.

 

[RRRRUUUU]

first choice for AD: Tim Pernetti
2nd choice: Jon Newman.

Rutgers person who knows the landscape is of the utmost importance.

 

[Roy_Faulker]

Whoever comes in will have big shoes to Phil regardless.

They need to continue investing in football and basketball, but the Olympic sports also need attention.

Contrary to what some may feel here the men’s Lacrosse program is treading, water and soccer as well.

 

[Plum Street]

Need football person which means no women.
Debbie Yow and Julie Herman were worst ADs in memory.
Women tend to be compilers for grades and honors and little program feather caps.
They dont do football well - like most men but the best football ADs are men.
There are no women dictators

I am guessing you’re joking and this is sarcasm

 

[Mr_Twister]

^^^ THIS*1000 ^^^

If this is not Mr. Magoo thinking, we are doomed. We need to hire folks with a real big-time athletics resumes, like the big boys do. Drop the provincial thinking, or we’ll always be the same old Rutgers.

 

[newell138]

Are you high?

I was at the time of the post, yes

 

[ashokan]

Terry Mohajir UCF's AD might deserve a looksee along with having Sara a top candidate

Hate to praise anything Penn State but their AD ( Sandy Barbour ) did a good ob while California's AD and PSU doesn't seem to be having a time of the month moments with her their AD.

Jennifer Cohen USC's AD seems to be doing pretty good there ( her first year at USC) , after doing a great job as Washington's AD

Females heading College Athletic Departments are not found very often and when thinking about female ADs we tend to remember the bad ones , overlooking the ones that do a good job.
Maybe that is because in 2023 the percentage of females holding College AD positions was only 15%
and the bad ones might stand out because of the low number of Women ADs .

Some universities have deep-rooted programs that drive themselves. Beth Mowins could probably run PSU. RU isn't a Kenworth truck football wise. Football is on the edge too often, and if the team went Ivy League more than a few people would be thrilled. Imagine PSU going Ivy - people would be getting punched.

Football can't be "one of the kids in a family of teams." Football pays the bills and stirs the drink as Reggie Jackson once said (about himself). Its the engine pulling the train and not one of the cars. It also takes dynamic people and Schiano is one, but if he expired or something who would be the diesel? Some good ADs are very good at being stout while also staying out of the way until needed.

Currently, girl bosses are failing all over the place. Kathleen Kennedy killed Lucasfilm and Star Wars. Dana Walden is killing Disney films with her "diversity" mandates (the new Snow White is a disaster that had Gal Gadot bailing out on promos). Victoria Alonso helped kill MCU and got fired.

The new "narrative" is that a lot of women were hired as things were going off the rails and that's why they've been failing - they were "set-up to fail" they say. This is pretty stupid because people get the top jobs to solve problems in complex times. The "glass cliff" is the new sob story

Some women like AMD's Lisa Su do well because she lets the engineers set the tone and not the marketers (Intel's mistake). A Lisa Su type could run some top programs . At RU it could be easy to roll-off the log for too many reasons to list here.

Army had 15 consecutive losing seasons because it hired a "builder" AD who wanted construction projects. Then he got Army into CUSA which was all wrong and he wanted pro offense and not an option. There were many failed efforts to get things fixed. Only a ND football AD, and Monken a former Navy coach who wasn't intimidated by the brass (every coach after Sutton had a hard time feeling at ease at West Point).

Boo Corrigan and Monken went to the brass and TOLD THEM what they needed to do. These were guys who knew the game, recruiting, scheduling , marketing, training etc and drove the program with brass along for the ride. RU needs that kind of savvy and knowledge and experience. A lot of people these days are really not that good at stuff despite their glowing CVs and awards.

RU isn't SUNY Albany - it needs top football people who know everything football already. Basketball, volleyball, track and all that are nice but even Hobbs struggled for a while to get to the front on football. Julie's hiring was a circus as some wanted her just because she was a lesbian. Then Tenn. volleyball players went after her for abuses. I could see RU sinking into the same pit - just stick to football experience as a aiming point.

The invisible danger of the 'glass cliff'

In difficult times, people are more likely to appoint women and people of colour to be leaders. But this puts crisis leaders in a very precarious position.

www.bbc.com

Women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies don’t last as long as men

Their tenure is shorter by a long shot.

fortune.com

E-mails reveal discord within Rutgers over hiring of AD Julie Hermann

The controversy over the appointment of Julie Hermann as Rutgers athletic director continued today as e-mails emerged showing infighting within the university over whether the new hire was properly vetted.

www.nj.com

 

[rubaseball78]

Some universities have deep-rooted programs that drive themselves. Beth Mowins could probably run PSU. RU isn't a Kenworth truck football wise. Football is on the edge too often, and if the team went Ivy League more than a few people would be thrilled. Imagine PSU going Ivy - people would be getting punched.

Football can't be "one of the kids in a family of teams." Football pays the bills and stirs the drink as Reggie Jackson once said (about himself). Its the engine pulling the train and not one of the cars. It also takes dynamic people and Schiano is one, but if he expired or something who would be the diesel? Some good ADs are very good at being stout while also staying out of the way until needed.

Currently, girl bosses are failing all over the place. Kathleen Kennedy killed Lucasfilm and Star Wars. Dana Walden is killing Disney films with her "diversity" mandates (the new Snow White is a disaster that had Gal Gadot bailing out on promos). Victoria Alonso helped kill MCU and got fired.

The new "narrative" is that a lot of women were hired as things were going off the rails and that's why they've been failing - they were "set-up to fail" they say. This is pretty stupid because people get the top jobs to solve problems in complex times. The "glass cliff" is the new sob story

Some women like AMD's Lisa Su do well because she lets the engineers set the tone and not the marketers (Intel's mistake). A Lisa Su type could run some top programs . At RU it could be easy to roll-off the log for too many reasons to list here.

Army had 15 consecutive losing seasons because it hired a "builder" AD who wanted construction projects. Then he got Army into CUSA which was all wrong and he wanted pro offense and not an option. There were many failed efforts to get things fixed. Only a ND football AD, and Monken a former Navy coach who wasn't intimidated by the brass (every coach after Sutton had a hard time feeling at ease at West Point).

Boo Corrigan and Monken went to the brass and TOLD THEM what they needed to do. These were guys who knew the game, recruiting, scheduling , marketing, training etc and drove the program with brass along for the ride. RU needs that kind of savvy and knowledge and experience. A lot of people these days are really not that good at stuff despite their glowing CVs and awards.

RU isn't SUNY Albany - it needs top football people who know everything football already. Basketball, volleyball, track and all that are nice but even Hobbs struggled for a while to get to the front on football. Julie's hiring was a circus as some wanted her just because she was a lesbian. Then Tenn. volleyball players went after her for abuses. I could see RU sinking into the same pit - just stick to football experience as a aiming point.

The invisible danger of the 'glass cliff'

In difficult times, people are more likely to appoint women and people of colour to be leaders. But this puts crisis leaders in a very precarious position.

www.bbc.com

Women CEOs at Fortune 500 companies don’t last as long as men

Their tenure is shorter by a long shot.

fortune.com

E-mails reveal discord within Rutgers over hiring of AD Julie Hermann

The controversy over the appointment of Julie Hermann as Rutgers athletic director continued today as e-mails emerged showing infighting within the university over whether the new hire was properly vetted.

www.nj.com

I’m guessing you keep your wife barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen?

 

[ashokan]

I’m guessing you keep your wife barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen?

I was too sensible to get married - its a sunset and not a sunrise
But barefoot and pregnant women can know football if from the right state.
I watch them noodle catfish in Alabama,
Not that I would marry one (the woman that is)