Rutgers set to shake up recruiting staff with expected hiring of business mogul

[BleedGopher]

per NJ.com:

Rutgers coach Kyle Flood is on the verge of shaking up his recruiting operations staff with the expected hiring of a business consultant who is a financial supporter of the football program, three people with knowledge of the decision told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday.

Jeff Towers, who, according to his LinkedIn profile, is an "executive with 30 years of experience leading robust marketing, communications and fundraising programs in some of the largest nonprofit organizations in America,'' is expected to be appointed as the Rutgers football recruiting coordinator, the three people told NJ Advance Media on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about athletic department personnel.

Towers doesn't appear to have any football experience but, according to LinkedIn, he is said to have managed "his own consulting agency assisting nonprofit organizations in strategic planning, board development, marketing, communications and fundraising.'' The profile says he is principal of a New York nonprofit firm called Jeffrey Towers & Associates, which doesn't have a known website, and lists his previous employers as the American Red Cross, UNICEF and Public Interest Data, Inc.

http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/i..._up_recruiting_staff_with_e.html#incart_river

Go Gophers!!

 

[Too Long in the Wasteland]

Seeing as it's NJ, I wonder if the list of "non-profits" includes the mob. After all, they don't pay taxes.

 

[cncmin]

...and the world of bigtime collegiate sports becomes that much shadier.

 

[Dr.Don]

...and the world of bigtime collegiate sports becomes that much shadier.

It's Joisey. What would one expect?

 

[watertown 1987 guy n]

If a secretary job is all it takes to secure further big donation to the athletic department, why not?

 

[corcoran1]

Good luck with this, sounds like BREWII. No talent evaluation skills but great BSer.

 

[BleedGopher]

Fox Sports: Why Rutgers' reported 'business mogul' should spur a new era

The position Flood is filling is, at most schools, a low-level administrative role. One of the assistant coaches still holds the recruiting coordinator title, but behind the scenes, a support staffer with a title like player personnel director actually does most of the coordinating. Given that recruiting is the lifeblood of a football team, you would think the role would carry more gravitas.

I believe major college football programs, like pro sports teams, should employ both a head coach AND a general manager.

No one would dispute that the sport is a vastly different enterprise than it was even 20 years ago, yet the coaching career path and division of labor remains largely unchanged. With few exceptions, coaches get their start as graduate assistants or in quality control roles, assisting and learning under the "real" coaches until landing a position coach job of their own. Put in your dues long enough and you become a coordinator, which serves as the final springboard to becoming head coach.

Yet the skills required of a successful head coach bear minimal resemblance to those of a coordinator. If all it took was watching film and devising a game plan, then Will Muschamp might still be the head coach at Florida rather than a spectacular flameout. The renowned coordinator proved ill equipped to oversee every aspect of a $64 million operation with a state full of demanding stakeholders.

http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...ights-business-mogul-kyle-flood-nfl-gm-021215

Go Gophers!!

 

[Hates Monikers]

He sounds like more of a long-time marketing professional than "business mogul." And maybe not a very good one if he doesn't bother to create a website to market himself.

A number of friends of mine could put that on our LinkedIn profiles with only a little embellishment. And we're no moguls.