I think your perception is wrong. The rest of the world wondered how CRP was not fired after Sypher. Then wondered who was actually involved when strippers and prostitutes were discovered in an athletic dorm and again why no action against CRP. Most people don’t believe it was simply Pitino going rogue. It’s obvious he had a lot of support besides fans to last as long as he did. That’s not my point of view but it is a frequent one outside of KY.
So in your thinking you say the regular sports fan doesn’t know what conference we are in but yet they know who are AD is? Yeah, I trust anything you say about national perception, right. Who’s the AD at Duke, Alabama, ND?
Not sure I follow your lingo but I don’t think TJ would refer to himself as a “serious player in athletics.” He’s a former Athletic Director and Vice President of Athletics of a major learning institution, a university of higher learning. Maybe people forget that.
Yep, that’s why he’s the James J Corbett Memorial Award Winner... not. What is it you ask? Why it’s the award given by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) for the collegiate administrator who through the years has devoted themselves to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment. Maybe he was going to win next year or the year after.
Yep, great honor 10 years ago. And I wouldn’t exactly say that one award made him a legend. Please let’s move on and give Vince a chance to continue Tom’s greatness.
I agree 100%
Lol - cronyism is a far worse affliction - given that people typically have more friends than they do offspring.
Ghost I do respect your posts although I don’t agree with all of them but you do realize that TJ was also guilty of that by hiring his friend Crapthorpe and also Hermann without doing proper searches.
Sorry to differ.. oops no I don’t. TJ’s hiring of Crapthorpe was graded an “F” at the time by the NCAAP not only because no official search was conducted but also no minorities were given an opportunity.
You can probably find someone else who didn't like the K-rag hire. And there were a hundred others who did, which was about the ratio. Only after he got here was it widely viewed that he was gonna be a bust. Not that that gives Jurich a pass, but hindsight's always 20/20.
Petrino's issues were widely known before his rehire, and he's been a model citizen. It's not the person's history, it's what the the history predicts HERE. Among his many other skills, Jurich was a master at managing that. And he's not responsible for what someone does elsewhere after that person leaves his organization.
You can probably find someone else who didn't like the K-rag hire. And there were a hundred others who did, which was about the ratio. Only after he got here was it widely viewed that he was gonna be a bust. Not that that gives Jurich a pass, but hindsight's always 20/20.
Petrino's issues were widely known before his rehire, and he's been a model citizen. It's not the person's history, it's what the history predicts HERE. Among his many other skills, Jurich was a master at managing that. And he's not responsible for what someone does elsewhere after that person leaves his organization.
Well then if you don’t believe it, I challenge you to find because it was out there.NCAAP!?We've been one of the most NCAAP friendly Universities out there.
Exactly hindsight is 20-20 and it was TJ’s and every other egotist’s belief that every decision they make is the correct one. If Krags had won 5 NCs we would have overlooked the fact that he gave his friend a job, a damn good job but he fell on his face. Because he sucked as a HC is one thing and that’s hindsight, that TJ didn’t follow proper hiring process is part of the evidence you kept asking for. As for being in the rear view mirror, I’d rather have you in my headlights.
Speaking of evidence, I'll have a helping that shows K-rag was a friend of Jurich. And not necessarily a "good friend" as our new Cat name drops on everyone...
That was sort of my point. I agree that there were / are issues with the university that needed to be addressed. grissom and postel have made a pretty public show of decrying their belief that the athletic department was rife with cronyism and, suffered from a lack of transparency.
I think what we can all agree upon is that this is the post that confirmed this is a parody account.
Proves my point about grissom's "do as I say - not as I do" approach even more. Eliminate the cronyism and there is not a scintilla of justification to pay an unqualified person 1.2 million to be an interim AD.
Lol - I'd say history already has a pretty good handle on this president.
I won't argue with your logic however your answer assumes two things.
The analogy was about being “qualified” not voted in. Sorry you missed that. My former boss who was a principal for a consulting firm, thought as long as you had a degree, you could do about anything. His favorite saying was “you got a degree, don’t you” whenever he asked us to do important tasks.
You’re former boss’s thoughts on what it means to be qualified notwithstanding, qualifications - or the lack of - matter and, are a pretty good predictor of success.
