Brad Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,330 Content Count: 97,047 Reputation: 10,834 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted June 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, Skingraft said: yet I'll be bringing millions into the university for the next 26 years based upon our existing and new patents... Glad too be back 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Matrix Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 604 Content Count: 16,446 Reputation: 2,917 Days Won: 43 Joined: 01/04/2003 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Without reading through all the BS, I give my thanks to Harlan. Wish him well on his future at Utah. He left USF better than when he found it. Now the next AD that comes in has a chance to take USF to even higher heights. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_Bullnard_Shaw Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 55 Content Count: 6,740 Reputation: 1,743 Days Won: 17 Joined: 11/04/2012 Share Posted June 3, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said: The only thing I really care about with a new AD is this....CAN YOU RAISE $...everything else is secondary. Can you make a call and get an appointment with someone to discuss the possibility of making a donation to USF athletics? Do you have the name recognition to do this? Do you have the knowledge to know when to ask or when to continue the relationship and ask later? Hire Derrick Brooks. Yup, DB to make it rain and get his face all over the media and a real AD behind him. It's like how I wanted Taggart, great CEO coach with charisma and recruiting chops but wanted better gameday people to run the game. Edited June 3, 2018 by George_Bullnard_Shaw GD it's typo day for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George_Bullnard_Shaw Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 55 Content Count: 6,740 Reputation: 1,743 Days Won: 17 Joined: 11/04/2012 Share Posted June 3, 2018 2 hours ago, NAS Gone to Paradise said: In what ways? Ha,ha, ha...my only suggestion was in response to a question he asked me. He was very receptive towards it and said that he was planning on doing that and expanded on it. We chatted a number of times after that. In my observations in the HWC, the longer he was on the job, the more aloof he became towards others in the club. Personally, I didn’t give a flip, as I wasn’t looking to becoming buddies with him. I think Boubon Bull’s post is spot on. This sounds to me like he got tired of the job and it reflected in his relationships with people. He probably had emotionally checked out a while ago thus the aloofness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,330 Content Count: 97,047 Reputation: 10,834 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted June 3, 2018 6 minutes ago, George_Bullnard_Shaw said: Yup, DB to make it rain and get his face all over the media and a real AD behind him. It's like how I wanted Taggart, great CEO coach with charisma and recruiting chops but wanted better gameday people to run the game. I think the CEO is Rob Higgins and DB is his 1st Assistant to the AD. Just as LRS served to AD Paul Griffin. Problem is - if DB is not head dog (and maybe even if he is) is he more likely to go to FSU when Cash Taggart calls? It's all speculation, but does DB really want the AD hassle? Higgins is a USF guy...I like that. So are the internal candidates like Clements and Eriksen. If we can get the best group in there, find a way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,330 Content Count: 97,047 Reputation: 10,834 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 hour ago, NewEnglandBull said: The only thing I really care about with a new AD is this....CAN YOU RAISE $...everything else is secondary. I disagree with this. We need an AD that can position us for a conference move, although raising $ is part of that. One thing LRS brought was the ability to raise funds as well as be heard in his role as Associate Athletic Director and Athletic Director. We need someone that can advance the program. A negotiator, salesman, promoter, relationship builder. The AD can hire a great fundraising staff, people that are specialists at it. The next AD will likely be around for the next shuffle. Need to be holding some cards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewEnglandBull Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,518 Content Count: 42,125 Reputation: 8,834 Days Won: 344 Joined: 11/29/2009 Share Posted June 3, 2018 4 minutes ago, Brad said: I disagree with this. We need an AD that can position us for a conference move, although raising $ is part of that. One thing LRS brought was the ability to raise funds as well as be heard in his role as Associate Athletic Director and Athletic Director. We need someone that can advance the program. A negotiator, salesman, promoter, relationship builder. The AD can hire a great fundraising staff, people that are specialists at it. The next AD will likely be around for the next shuffle. Need to be holding some cards. Don’t see how you can decouple fundraising and being heard/conf positioning. Money makes the world go round and if we don’t have the infrastructure needs taken care of we will get left behind...again. I think DB can do both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTrue Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 152 Content Count: 19,395 Reputation: 6,097 Days Won: 233 Joined: 01/13/2011 Share Posted June 3, 2018 1 minute ago, NewEnglandBull said: Don’t see how you can decouple fundraising and being heard/conf positioning. Money makes the world go round and if we don’t have the infrastructure needs taken care of we will get left behind...again. I think DB can do both. We didn't get left behind last time because of lack of infrastructure, so I don't see how it could happen "again." And DB might be able to do the job, but there's no evidence to support it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Glaser Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 360 Content Count: 4,162 Reputation: 2,563 Days Won: 56 Joined: 02/01/2005 Share Posted June 3, 2018 (edited) 3 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said: The only thing I really care about with a new AD is this....CAN YOU RAISE $...everything else is secondary. Can you make a call and get an appointment with someone to discuss the possibility of making a donation to USF athletics? Do you have the name recognition to do this? Do you have the knowledge to know when to ask or when to continue the relationship and ask later? Hire Derrick Brooks. The A.D. has to be able to do more in order to run an athletic department properly. We all loved Lee Roy, but he made one hire during his tenure - Robert McCullum. I can't forgive him for that one. Edited June 3, 2018 by Dave_Glaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanbull93 Posted June 3, 2018 Group: Member Topic Count: 3 Content Count: 213 Reputation: 47 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/03/2014 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Put me on Team Higgins...we need qualified individual that has a passion for USF and unfortunately that is a short list. Hopefully he wants the gig. Don’t want to see us hire another “guy” that is looking for his next job as soon as he gets his office set up here like Harlan did. Fundraising is critical and #55 would sure help in that arena....but there is so much more to the job than that and DB just does not have that administrative backgrond. Lee Roy did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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