Sid: Lou Nanne would be my candidate for the Gophers athletic director job

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per Sid:

• Lou Nanne of hockey fame now has a steakhouse in Edina named after him, but local restaurant owner Michael McDermott is the big money behind it. Incidentally, Nanne would be my candidate for the Gophers athletic director job, at least for a short period, but he has no interest in the job. He lives for the university and has done so much for it already.

http://www.startribune.com/twins-park-knows-how-to-speak-language-of-baseball/374383071/

Go Gophers!!
 

For those keeping score at home, I think Sid has now endorsed Kill, Goetz, John Anderson, Glen Mason, Bob Stein, Pete Najarian and Lou Nanne for the AD position.

Go Gophers!!
 

Does Lou .... want to do that job? That's a more than full time job thing....

he has no interest in the job


Well there ya go. Let's not just recommend people because of their name... let's recommend people who don't want to do the job... this whole AD thing is all bizzaro land as far as fans and the media goes.
 

Once again my close personal friend has put me in elite company; I'm one of eight people in the state that he has not endorsed for AD.:cool02:
 

Sid thinks the 74-year-old Louie is the spry young candidate with a lot of years ahead of him the U needs.
 


Sid is two decades off memory-wise.
 

I think hiring an 80 year old for the AD job makes perfect sense, although in fairness, Lou is a young whipper snapper compared to Sid. Let's look forward and not dwell on Minnesota has beens for the future of Gopher Athletics.
 

BleedGopher said:
For those keeping score at home, I think Sid has now endorsed Kill, Goetz, John Anderson, Glen Mason, Bob Stein, Pete Najarian and Lou Nanne for the AD position.

Go Gophers!!
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I was wondering who he endorsed. Think you miss anyone else!
 

BleedGopher said:
For those keeping score at home, I think Sid has now endorsed Kill, Goetz, John Anderson, Glen Mason, Bob Stein, Pete Najarian and Lou Nanne for the AD position.

Go Gophers!!
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Say what you want, but that's a damn dream team for the AD spot.

The combined salary would be a difficult hurdle, though.
 





We need someone that has a football background and is a real take-charge type.

Preferably someone we don't have to worry about committing sexual transgressions.

How about Woody Hayes?
 

BleedGopher said:
For those keeping score at home, I think Sid has now endorsed Kill, Goetz, John Anderson, Glen Mason, Bob Stein, Pete Najarian and Lou Nanne for the AD position.

Go Gophers!!
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I think he should include LesBolstad. Like Reusse, he's always been a big supporter of Gopher sports.
 



Regarding the AD search - Dean Johnson from the Board of Regents was on the Sports Huddle on Sunday. He said (unless I misunderstood) that the U of M has the lowest, or one of the lowest AD salaries in the B1G. He said the Indiana AD gets over 2-million, and Ohio State is at 1.6-million. The Gophers are paying their AD something like 450-thousand. In order to get up to the midpoint in the conference, the U would have to bump the AD salary to about 750-thousand.

If they want a big-time candidate, salary could become a real issue.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Regarding the AD search - Dean Johnson from the Board of Regents was on the Sports Huddle on Sunday. He said (unless I misunderstood) that the U of M has the lowest, or one of the lowest AD salaries in the B1G. He said the Indiana AD gets over 2-million, and Ohio State is at 1.6-million. The Gophers are paying their AD something like 450-thousand. In order to get up to the midpoint in the conference, the U would have to bump the AD salary to about 750-thousand.

If they want a big-time candidate, salary could become a real issue.
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Thanks for the info. I didn't know that, but it explains a lot.
 



I love Lou, but he quit the Stars GM job because of his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Don't think that would be a good fit.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Regarding the AD search - Dean Johnson from the Board of Regents was on the Sports Huddle on Sunday. He said (unless I misunderstood) that the U of M has the lowest, or one of the lowest AD salaries in the B1G. He said the Indiana AD gets over 2-million, and Ohio State is at 1.6-million. The Gophers are paying their AD something like 450-thousand. In order to get up to the midpoint in the conference, the U would have to bump the AD salary to about 750-thousand.

If they want a big-time candidate, salary could become a real issue.
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I'm not sure Indiana is getting their money's worth.
 

You know, maybe demented old Sid wouldn't have time to throw out names willy nilly if we weren't sitting here about 8 months later with minimal movement toward actually finding a new AD.

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short ornery norwegian said:
Regarding the AD search - Dean Johnson from the Board of Regents was on the Sports Huddle on Sunday. He said (unless I misunderstood) that the U of M has the lowest, or one of the lowest AD salaries in the B1G. He said the Indiana AD gets over 2-million, and Ohio State is at 1.6-million. The Gophers are paying their AD something like 450-thousand. In order to get up to the midpoint in the conference, the U would have to bump the AD salary to about 750-thousand.

If they want a big-time candidate, salary could become a real issue.
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Is there any sort of performance benchmark to obtain said salaries, or are we just hiring guys off the street (like Pitino) , looking at the median buy out and handing them millions and hoping it works out?

Does the horse, or the cart come first, because Woody has me really confused.
 

BleedGopher said:
For those keeping score at home, I think Sid has now endorsed Kill, Goetz, John Anderson, Glen Mason, Bob Stein, Pete Najarian and Lou Nanne for the AD position.

Go Gophers!!
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Last week on the Sports Show (while sitting next to 74-year old Lou NANNE), Sid endorsed 79-year old Lou HOLTZ.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Regarding the AD search - Dean Johnson from the Board of Regents was on the Sports Huddle on Sunday. He said (unless I misunderstood) that the U of M has the lowest, or one of the lowest AD salaries in the B1G. He said the Indiana AD gets over 2-million, and Ohio State is at 1.6-million. The Gophers are paying their AD something like 450-thousand. In order to get up to the midpoint in the conference, the U would have to bump the AD salary to about 750-thousand.

If they want a big-time candidate, salary could become a real issue.
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Are you sure you heard that correctly? Here is the most updated list I could find: http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/72737/a-look-at-b1g-athletic-directors-salaries. It's from 2013, so it's sure to be outdated, but I very much doubt that Fred Glass has sextupled his salary in the last 3 years.
 

Pompous Elitist said:
Is there any sort of performance benchmark to obtain said salaries, or are we just hiring guys off the street (like Pitino) , looking at the median buy out and handing them millions and hoping it works out?

Does the horse, or the cart come first, because Woody has me really confused.
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That's my frustration with all athletic contracts right now. You pay someone based on potential, rather than actual performance.

I'd like to see the AD get a percentage (1%?) of all donations received. You raise $40 million, you get $400k. You raise $60 million, you get $600k. You raise $1 billion? You get $10 million. Could even be a sliding scale to reward higher donations.

Add to that bonuses based on final B1G standings and national rankings of football, basketball and hockey. Add bonuses for average B1G and national rankings of non-revenue sports plus final placement in the Capital One Cup. And one based on ticket revenue.

Then no one would care if the person gets millions of dollars. They'd clearly be earning it. And if they are the lowest paid AD in the B1G? No one to blame but themselves.

Unfortunately it'll never happen.
 

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