How about a Discussion on who would be a good replacement for Maturi

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Personally, I think this would be a great place to bring Glen Mason in and I wish this would have happened before the hiring of a new coach.
 

Glen Mason did not work hard at recruiting. Does he really want to oversee 25 DI sports? The budgets for all of them, scheduling, hiring and firing? No way.

I think it is much more difficut to comment or speculate on AD hires. Their performance is not in the public eye as much as the football coach. Most of us on here could name all of the head coaches in the BCS conferences, but would be lucky to get 10 AD's.
 

I don't think it would happen, but Tony Dungy would be a good fit for the position. I'm sure Bob Stein wants the job. Marc Trestman would be our coach if stein was AD.
 

Not interested, I cannot wait until we have a new coach and hopefully put any and all Mason discussion to bed.
 

EE_Gopher said:
Personally, I think this would be a great place to bring Glen Mason in and I wish this would have happened before the hiring of a new coach.
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Just what part of Glen's unwillingness to sell the football program or interact with local coaches and fans makes you think he'd do a good job as an AD? It's not like an AD is responsible for selling all the programs, or fundraising, or any number of PR things...
 



We need someone with the passion of Tim Brewster.

The Stony Brook AD worked well with President Elect Kaler and built a quickly improving and growing football program from rubble. They even started a marching band.
 

I would be fine with the Stony Brook guy.

Phil Esten from the current staff would be good since I know. He did studies and work at Ohio State.
 

Good discussion. I don't think the AD has to sell the football program to the fans. The guys he really needs to sell it to our the Board of Regent folks who even with a new stadium, don't see the football program as all that important. Glen knows the road blocks he personally ran into as well. The new football coach is the one who will sell the program to the fans and the recruits and I would have had more confidence in him picking that guy than Maturi.
 



EE_Gopher said:
Good discussion. I don't think the AD has to sell the football program to the fans. The guys he really needs to sell it to our the Board of Regent folks who even with a new stadium, don't see the football program as all that important. Glen knows the road blocks he personally ran into as well. The new football coach is the one who will sell the program to the fans and the recruits and I would have had more confidence in him picking that guy than Maturi.
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But its not just about the football program. The AD has to be able to sell people on giving to a new BB practice facility. And then there is the new baseball stadium. He has to make sure the non-revenues get handled competently so they can minimize their drain on the overall budget. He is the primary fundraiser for all dept initiatives. The next guy will have to hire a hockey coach. And so on. I'm not seeing how Glen is the right guy for any of that.
 

EE_Gopher said:
Good discussion. I don't think the AD has to sell the football program to the fans. The guys he really needs to sell it to our the Board of Regent folks who even with a new stadium, don't see the football program as all that important. Glen knows the road blocks he personally ran into as well. The new football coach is the one who will sell the program to the fans and the recruits and I would have had more confidence in him picking that guy than Maturi.
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So the AD needs to be a salesman? Maybe we should bring in Brewster. :)
 


Bob Stein. U letterman, attorney, pres. of the Timber W's.
Smart guy, etc., etc.
 



Why would we know who would do well?

Most fans don't have an incling of 10% of the actual duties and responsibilities involved with being an Athletic Director, including myself.
 


TMac said:
Bob Stein. U letterman, attorney, pres. of the Timber W's.
Smart guy, etc., etc.
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Bob Stein didn't exactly run the Timberwolves like a finely-tuned machine. He had a few hiccups there before being let go. And, let's face it, he was a big part of the "save Gopher football" organization that rubbed a lot of people wrong. Many of those people will have input on whom the next AD will be.

Phil Esten is a good candidate in 2020. He's not experienced enough yet.

I would be tempted to make a run at Iowa's current AD Gary Barta (he's a Twin Cities native), current New Mexico AD Paul Krebs (Big Ten roots), current Fresno State AD Thomas Boeh (strong Big Ten ties), Kentucky's Deputy AD Mark Coyle (was at MN before, Tubby likes him), and some others. There will be willing candidates out there when the time comes.

Say what you want about Joel Maturi, but he will leave the athletic department in better shape when he leaves than what it was when he arrived. When he took the job, there weren't a lot of people who thought it was a good job. Now, it is a good job and there will be good candidates.
 

tjgopher said:
I would be tempted to make a run at Iowa's current AD Gary Barta (he's a Twin Cities native), current New Mexico AD Paul Krebs (Big Ten roots), current Fresno State AD Thomas Boeh (strong Big Ten ties), Kentucky's Deputy AD Mark Coyle (was at MN before, Tubby likes him), and some others. There will be willing candidates out there when the time comes.
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Did he hire Mike Locksley? Cause that should be a Brewster level disqualifying hire. Guy can't win AND he assaults his assistants and gets hit with sexual discrimination lawsuits.
 


There might be jokes in it, but it's not a joke thread. It's fairly well understood that Maturi will stay on until the next President has a chance to hire the next AD. We don't know the timeline on this, of course, but I would guess the next AD would start by summer 2012, at the end of the next school year. It could be sooner if Kaler wants to bring over Fiore.
 

Bob Stein.

Bob would make the necessary D1 cuts for the NON-Rev sports needed. Lets face the facts folks, cutting sports is difficult. Cuts are required to 1) balance the budget, 2) direct funding focused on sports that produce revenue to fund the department, and 3) to Synch up with Minnesota priorities.

Quite honestly, most Minnesotans don't give a rats ass about team rowing, Golf, baseball, etc. This is a public tax payor funded University. Cuts and tough decisions need to be made while balancing title 9 requirements. Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, OSU have all had to make some difficult and wise decisions regarding Athletic programs. Bob Stein would be the right person to make those necessary decisions.
 

Bowlsby currently at Stanford. He hired Jim Harbaugh from lowly football pgm University of San Diego.
He was at Iowa for a few years and hired Kirk Ferentz much to the chagrin of the Hawkeye nation at the time. He graduated from Moorhead St.

Bob Nielsen at UMD is both football coach and athletic director. Their hockey program has improved along with football.

Otherwise get a football background person with Business experience.
 


Fiore is the only no brainer here. Hope he is a fast learner. There will be a huge learning curve for anyone. Huge job.
 

Uffda said:
Bowlsby currently at Stanford. He hired Jim Harbaugh from lowly football pgm University of San Diego.
He was at Iowa for a few years and hired Kirk Ferentz much to the chagrin of the Hawkeye nation at the time. He graduated from Moorhead St.

Bob Nielsen at UMD is both football coach and athletic director. Their hockey program has improved along with football.

Otherwise get a football background person with Business experience.
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No thanks on BB. Other than hiring Ferentz, his Iowa record is nothing to brag about. He oversaw the Steve Alford hiring. When hoops star Pierre Pierce assualted a girl twice over time, Bob gave him a slap on the wrist and a second chance, then a red-shirt year as "punishment" the second time. 15% of the Hawks 2002 Orange Bowl team was arrested at some point in their Hawkeye career prior to the Orange Bowl, most received punishment that would Barry Alvarez blush. "Make his sit out the 3rd series of the 3rd quarter of a game we're up 21, that'll teach 'em". No thanks on this guy.
 

I don't think 90% of the people on this board (including me) follow the AD's at other schools enough to give an informed opinion on this. But much like hiring a football/basketball coach I would prefer someone who has succeeded at a smaller school or ideally at another BCS school. Maturi fit this discription when he was hired from Miami-OH and he has done certain things well. But when it comes to the big, important stuff he does nothing but dither and is not up to the task. I hope/pray his replacement is better.

The last thing we need is to bring in someone who's never been an AD before, but thinks he knows everything like Bob Stein. The fact that he would be hiring Trestman right now should disqualify him. Frankly, his qualifications are a lot like Trestman's. If he wasn't 'one of us' he wouldn't even be considered and he wouldn't even cross the mind of any other school's President.
 

howeda7 said:
The last thing we need is to bring in someone who's never been an AD before, but thinks he knows everything like Bob Stein. The fact that he would be hiring Trestman right now should disqualify him. Frankly, his qualifications are a lot like Trestman's. If he wasn't 'one of us' he wouldn't even be considered and he wouldn't even cross the mind of any other school's President.
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BINGO! +1
 

howeda7 said:
I don't think 90% of the people on this board (including me) follow the AD's at other schools enough to give an informed opinion on this. But much like hiring a football/basketball coach I would prefer someone who has succeeded at a smaller school or ideally at another BCS school. Maturi fit this discription when he was hired from Miami-OH and he has done certain things well. But when it comes to the big, important stuff he does nothing but dither and is not up to the task. I hope/pray his replacement is better.

The last thing we need is to bring in someone who's never been an AD before, but thinks he knows everything like Bob Stein. The fact that he would be hiring Trestman right now should disqualify him. Frankly, his qualifications are a lot like Trestman's. If he wasn't 'one of us' he wouldn't even be considered and he wouldn't even cross the mind of any other school's President.
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90% sounds low..
 

Gophfan22 said:
Lou Nanne
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Nanne would be the ideal guy. Absolute best schmoozer around and knowledgable about how to make things happen. He won't do it, but it would be great. Tubby would have a practice facility under way in months.
 

joel is a nice guy but over matched, has zero imagination and afraid to take any risk, even if it is legal , calculated, and good for Athletics.
 

Nanne will be 70 next year, but if 70 is the new 50, he'd be great. Problem is, I think he makes about twenty hundred gazillion dollars per year doing what he's doing now.

Seeing that Stein is a football guy, I don't know how he'd be the right guy to cut non-revenue sports. It would look like a hatchet job.
 

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