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For those of you who have faith in professional search firms help, think twice! The University should ask for a refund.
As I have previously mentioned, we should not be afraid to look for internal candidates. We have good internal people under our very noses. We have stability in spite of Norwood Teague's fiasco.
Search firm that found Norwood Teague also tied to embattled UMD athletics director
Nick Halter
Staff reporter
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
August 12, 2015
The executive search firm that brought Norwood Teague to the University of Minnesota has a history of facilitating hires that became controversial, including one a few hours north at University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).
Both the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and UMD (each part of the state's public University of Minnesota system) hired Atlanta-based Parker Executive Search to find athletic directors.
It's easy to see why they chose Parker, as the firm has been profiled by ESPN as one of the most influential search firms in college athletics and has had Indiana, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Oregon and Northwestern as clients.
Parker's searches in Minnesota resulted in the 2012 hiring of Teague, who resigned last week while facing reports of sexually harassing employees. It also brought Athletics Director Josh Berlo to UMD, where he is facing criticism for firing five-time national champion women's hockey coach Shannon Miller.
One Gophers booster told the Pioneer Press he won't give any more money to the university if it uses any search firm again.
How much blame should the search firm get for Teague's hiring? That's a question likely to come up when the University of Minnesota Twin Cities conducts an outside investigation into the case.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities gave Parker a $125,800 contract in February 2012 that stipulated the firm would examine finalists' backgrounds, including interviews with references who were both on and off of the list supplied by candidates.
At the time Teague was hired, he was facing a gender-discrimination complaint from the women's basketball coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. Minnesota spokesman Evan Lapiska said the university was not aware of the complaint.
The complaint was settled for $125,000, but not until Teague was already in Minnesota.
Parker could not be reached for information about its search process and whether it found anything questionable in Teague's past. Subsequent allegations of sexual harassment made by Star Tribune reporter Amelia Rayno have some wondering if Teague's behavior dates back to his VCU days.
The firm also has been questioned about work it did that led to the hires of basketball coaches Kelvin Sampson at Indiana and Billy Gillispie at Kentucky, among others.
Sampson was hired in 2006, two months before he was hit with penalties for recruiting violations while at Oklahoma.
Gillespie was arrested for driving under the influence twice before he was hired by Kentucky in 2007. He was fired two years later.
As I have previously mentioned, we should not be afraid to look for internal candidates. We have good internal people under our very noses. We have stability in spite of Norwood Teague's fiasco.
Search firm that found Norwood Teague also tied to embattled UMD athletics director
Nick Halter
Staff reporter
Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
August 12, 2015
The executive search firm that brought Norwood Teague to the University of Minnesota has a history of facilitating hires that became controversial, including one a few hours north at University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD).
Both the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and UMD (each part of the state's public University of Minnesota system) hired Atlanta-based Parker Executive Search to find athletic directors.
It's easy to see why they chose Parker, as the firm has been profiled by ESPN as one of the most influential search firms in college athletics and has had Indiana, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Oregon and Northwestern as clients.
Parker's searches in Minnesota resulted in the 2012 hiring of Teague, who resigned last week while facing reports of sexually harassing employees. It also brought Athletics Director Josh Berlo to UMD, where he is facing criticism for firing five-time national champion women's hockey coach Shannon Miller.
One Gophers booster told the Pioneer Press he won't give any more money to the university if it uses any search firm again.
How much blame should the search firm get for Teague's hiring? That's a question likely to come up when the University of Minnesota Twin Cities conducts an outside investigation into the case.
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities gave Parker a $125,800 contract in February 2012 that stipulated the firm would examine finalists' backgrounds, including interviews with references who were both on and off of the list supplied by candidates.
At the time Teague was hired, he was facing a gender-discrimination complaint from the women's basketball coach at Virginia Commonwealth University. Minnesota spokesman Evan Lapiska said the university was not aware of the complaint.
The complaint was settled for $125,000, but not until Teague was already in Minnesota.
Parker could not be reached for information about its search process and whether it found anything questionable in Teague's past. Subsequent allegations of sexual harassment made by Star Tribune reporter Amelia Rayno have some wondering if Teague's behavior dates back to his VCU days.
The firm also has been questioned about work it did that led to the hires of basketball coaches Kelvin Sampson at Indiana and Billy Gillispie at Kentucky, among others.
Sampson was hired in 2006, two months before he was hit with penalties for recruiting violations while at Oklahoma.
Gillespie was arrested for driving under the influence twice before he was hired by Kentucky in 2007. He was fired two years later.
