When the time comes for us to find a new AD ...

[Bull Matrix]

Seemed to be a great employee for USF at the time before he life for the Canes. Wonder if his goal is to become an AD one day. He seemed like he had his act together while at USF.  Just throwing another name out there. So there are both Rob Higgins and Chris Freet. 

[CousinRicky]

Tony Dungy for AD.

Look at what LeeRoy Selmon & his name did for us.

JMHO

Ty

 

Tony Dungy may have hired the same guy Woolard did for football since he had some involvement in the process. So I'm sure that would have made Taggart a great hire for USF if Dungy had hired him instead of Woolard.

[Bull Matrix]

 

Tony Dungy for AD.

Look at what LeeRoy Selmon & his name did for us.

JMHO

Ty

 

Tony Dungy may have hired the same guy Woolard did for football since he had some involvement in the process. So I'm sure that would have made Taggart a great hire for USF if Dungy had hired him instead of Woolard.

 

 

 

I agree. But we can all forget about Dungy wanting to be an AD. Same with Leavitt. Those two will never want to an AD. 

[smazza]

spare us---no FORMER tampa bAY BUC PLAYERS

 

the longer we keep woolard the longer usf will be terrible

[GaUSFBull]

the time was in the past.

 

No question about that. 

[GaUSFBull]

 

We need to find another Tom Jurich.  

 

Considering how Louisville's athletic programs have done in recent memory, just reading the comments in this article about Charlie Strong's move to Texas - I want Tom Jurich, or a clone, to be USF's AD whenever we need to look for one.  

 

 

You do realize that the Louisville program has had a much larger budget than USF, right?  They have way more athletics donors and ESPN helped push them over the edge.  Tom Jurich isn't a magician, he did a solid job with way more resources than USF has.  

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/sports/at-louisville-an-athletic-boom-made-for-and-by-tv.html?_r=0

 

Get ESPN to shower millions on USF like they did UL, and we'd be where they are.  If you read this article, you'll understand that there was never any way USF was going to the P5 before Louisville made it.

 

Who cares about budget?  That's not what this is about.  Pretty sure Tom Jurich has been there a while, before they became ESPN's golden team.  He's just made overall solid moves (Kragthorpe notwithstanding) and seems to have a good relationship with the fan base.  Can't really say that about USF.

 

All I'm saying is that it's critical we find a solid AD when the time comes.  Someone out in Jurich's mold. 

[gobulls83]

There is no formula for always making good hires. Consider Florida: Two of their past three football head coaching hires have been Ron Zook, who was an unequivocal failure, and Will Muschamp, who, while it's too early to call him a total failure, has certainly produced one mediocre and one really, really terrible season in his three years in charge. And this is with Jeremy Foley, who may be one of the few athletic directors in the country with a reputation even better than that of Jurich. Foley did not hire Spurrier, so he's 1-for-3 in the football coach hiring lottery - but boy did he hit the jackpot with the one good hire.

 

Skip Holtz seemed to many like a good hire at the time, and it flopped horribly. It happens, even to the best. One major difference is, both Louisville and Florida are in much better positions to recover from that flop than USF is. This is because they have MUCH larger budgets - to say the budgets don't make a difference is absurd. And Louisville and Florida both certainly draw better-qualified candidates for their coaching vacancies than USF does, and they still made these bad hires. It happens.

 

Note that I'm making no excuse for the contract extension given to Holtz though. That is inexcusable. That contract extension alone should have cost Woolard his job. I'm just saying, no AD has the golden touch and always hires guys who go on to win tons of titles and stuff.

Edited January 6, 2014 by gobulls83

[Apis Bull]

All of you on Jurich's jock make me laugh.  While I think he is a good AD, Louisville basketball has been good for a long time.  In football, he did hire Kragthorpe before Strong. It also doesn't hurt that Louisville has a lot more money than we do.

[SANJAY]

Actually the administration at Cincy is the one knocking it out of the park on football hires:

Mark Dantonio - not great records at UC but laid groundwork for turning that program around; left for Michigan state

Brian Kelly- 2 conference titles and 3 ten win seasons; left for notre dame

Butch jones - 2 co-conference championships and a ten win season; left for Tennessee

Tommy tuberville- 9-4 his first year; he's tommy t, he'll leave eventually

[gobulls83]

Agreed that Cincinnati has made good hires - but that's as much luck as it is sound management. Any college football head coach hiring is approximately a coin flip - some are more likely to succeed than others, but you can't really believe that Cincinnati is more likely to make a sound hire than any other school. It's a small sample size. It's possible to make the best hire available to you at the time and just not have it work out.

 

But in terms of athletics budget, Cincinnati were certainly the overachievers of the former Big East. They were the only football school in the conference to spend less per year than USF. At least, in the last few years of the league that was the case.

Edited January 6, 2014 by gobulls83