MGB: UNT athletic director search update

[Brett Vito]

MGB: Acting AD Hank Dickenson talked to search firm on Monday

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/06/unt-athletic-director-search-update-dickenson-interviews-with-firm.html/

[rws69]

Looking forward to hearing about meeting with fans net week. 

[FirefightnRick]

Told ya.

 

BTW...maybe it's just me but my definition of a "long time" booster are those folks who were keeping us afloat in the 60's, 70's and the extremely lean 1-AA years of the 80's..and the bust-ass types trying to get us back to 1A folks of the early 90's.  

 

 

Rick

[Silent Eagle]

I hoe the meeting with dickenson was simply to provide perspective and not interview him as a candidate. 

[Wag Tag]

5 hours ago, Brett Vito said:

MGB: Acting AD Hank Dickenson talked to search firm on Monday

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2016/06/unt-athletic-director-search-update-dickenson-interviews-with-firm.html/

I like that they meet with letterman! 

[UNT90]

I wonder how many lettermen showed up for the meeting. 

Lets hope and pray this was just a cursory interview. No one involved in this mess should have any serious consideration for AD.

Want to see 150,000 people roll their eyes? Appoint Dickenson AD. 

[Travis]

I want to see strategies yet done by our AD, I don't think we will get that in-house.

[NorthTexan95]

"Assistant AD at an under-achieving D1 athletic department with an emphasis on low attendance, poor coaching hires, historically bad team performances, and little growth in donor giving."

Yeah, that's not the resume of someone who should get this job.  

[drex]

This could get farcical.

[Tyler Maryak]

10 hours ago, Brett Vito said:

Acting AD Hank Dickenson talked to search firm on Monday

[VideoEagle]

I wouldn't panic over Hank getting an interview. I've experienced search firms interviewing internal candidates even when the Board of Directors have already quietly told the firm that no internal candidates will be accepted. It keeps things running smoothly until the successful candidate is announced. 

[forevereagle]

I would bet on due diligence here. Talking to an internal candidate can give you perspective on the program and its needs for discussions with other candidates. It also makes other internal people feel warm and fuzzy that the guy they know is "in the running" even if he has no shot to land the job.

[VideoEagle]

Just got off the phone with a friend who does C level searches. She interviews internal candidates even when she was told only external candidates would be hired. 1. builds support in the organization for whomever is eventually hired based on a feeling of fairness, 2. sometimes identifies candidates the Board had not considered before and 3. lowers the likelihood of problems being caused by internal people feeling slighted. 

I also asked if that assures the unsuccessful internal candidate would be fired by eventual hire. She said statistically, no that wasn't the case. That depended on two things. First, the confidence level of the successful candidate. If they are secure in their own job, they usually want senior people with institutional memory around them. If they aren't confident, successful people, they tend to fire anyone who can do their job. And that, statistically, makes them more likely to fail in the long run. 

The second factor is the willingness of the unsuccessful candidate to accept the new leadership. But that's more on the unsuccessful candidate than the new incoming leader.