BleedGopher
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per Pat:
The idea that an administrator with a modest résumé and hired by a disgraced athletic director could be considered a serious candidate to become the leader of the University of Minnesota’s athletic department is preposterous on its face.
Just because that previously low-profile administrator happens to be a woman could cause the university’s cowering president, Eric Kaler, to do exactly that, and to give the athletic director’s job to Beth Goetz, the interim since Norwood Teague resigned on Aug. 7.
There is nothing in Goetz’s background to suggest her application for a job as daunting as being fully in charge of Gophers athletics would get a second look, if she had not been conveniently on hand when Teague’s indiscretions were revealed.
And when forced into public view in her three months on the job, Goetz has captured the moments as a deer does headlights.
There is a movement afoot behind the scenes by some of those boosters to get the athletic director’s job for Jerry Kill. That might be the only possible hire more preposterous than keeping Goetz.
First of all, every English teacher in the state would be in a panic, over what “I Ain’t Done Anything Else” Jerry might say next.
Also, Kill’s health can’t handle the high-stress position of coaching a Big Ten football team, but he’s going to be just fine running a gigantic athletic program with dozens of teams and coaches all making demands for a degree of fairness?
All Kill has done in five years at Minnesota is insist on more for himself, his assistants and his football team, and now he’s supposed to be an equitable administrator to a full-service athletic program?
http://www.startribune.com/scratch-two-off-gophers-athletic-director-search-list/340555911/
Go Gophers!!
The idea that an administrator with a modest résumé and hired by a disgraced athletic director could be considered a serious candidate to become the leader of the University of Minnesota’s athletic department is preposterous on its face.
Just because that previously low-profile administrator happens to be a woman could cause the university’s cowering president, Eric Kaler, to do exactly that, and to give the athletic director’s job to Beth Goetz, the interim since Norwood Teague resigned on Aug. 7.
There is nothing in Goetz’s background to suggest her application for a job as daunting as being fully in charge of Gophers athletics would get a second look, if she had not been conveniently on hand when Teague’s indiscretions were revealed.
And when forced into public view in her three months on the job, Goetz has captured the moments as a deer does headlights.
There is a movement afoot behind the scenes by some of those boosters to get the athletic director’s job for Jerry Kill. That might be the only possible hire more preposterous than keeping Goetz.
First of all, every English teacher in the state would be in a panic, over what “I Ain’t Done Anything Else” Jerry might say next.
Also, Kill’s health can’t handle the high-stress position of coaching a Big Ten football team, but he’s going to be just fine running a gigantic athletic program with dozens of teams and coaches all making demands for a degree of fairness?
All Kill has done in five years at Minnesota is insist on more for himself, his assistants and his football team, and now he’s supposed to be an equitable administrator to a full-service athletic program?
http://www.startribune.com/scratch-two-off-gophers-athletic-director-search-list/340555911/
Go Gophers!!
