Best and worst A.D.'s

[NT80]

Sloan as one of the best?  I've your comparing golf scores, maybe.

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Sloan is the one who first drew up the plans to expand Fouts and move us to 1-A. Without him we'd be playing teams like....Florida International, Florida Atlantic, ULM, etc.

Edited October 14, 2005 by NT80

[greenjoe]

Didn't NT have an AD named White ? I think he was the guy that was on the job for 30 days or so.

[imasoldier]

Craig Helwig's job at UT now

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RV hasn't even traveled to all the road games with the team this year and wasn't at the troy game either ..... true mean green supporter....

[NT80]

RV hasn't even traveled to all the road games with the team this year and wasn't at the troy game either ..... true mean green supporter....

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RV was at the Troy game, I saw him up in the suite with Fry. Perhaps you're thinking of the MTSU away game. It was posted he stayed in Denton to prepare for an NCAA briefing that weekend. Get your rumor-facts straight!

[greenjoe]

It's good to see that Craig Helwig's mom still reads the board.

[Cerebus]

....that and the coaching staff's inability to adequately plan for that eventual occasion.

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Right. Why haven't all our coaches recruited pro level players at every position every year? I demand answers.

[SilverEagle]

Right.  Why haven't all our coaches recruited pro level players at every position every year?  I demand answers.

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pro level? Desperados? whatever you say.

I would settle for another player at the level of Sky Pruitt.....or even someone like....Rahagene Cherry (6'2" X 310)

[adman]

RV hasn't even traveled to all the road games with the team this year and wasn't at the troy game either ..... true mean green supporter....

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That may be because he is an Athletic Director not a Football Director. Believe it or not other sports, women's soccer for example, take place at the same time of the year as football games. AD's might need to show up for one or two of those other sports from time to time.

[ADLER]

I can go back 4

Rick V

Craig Helwig

Steve Sloan

Corky Nelson

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Wrong you are.

WORST EVER

How could anyone ever forget the greatness that was Richard McDuffie? We canned Corky, then passed over a very interested Joe Green because of this outstandingly committed individual. McDuffie took the job, but never really even moved into his office. There was just too much golf and social life around D/FW for him to be expected to actually work. After several months, people finally wised up to the fact that the guy was getting paid but wasn't doing shinola. He soon announced that he was resigning to take a position as the director of the American Paint Horse Association.

He still lists North Texas on his web page even though he never did a damn thing there.

McDuffie at Eastern Illinois

[GreenBat]

Wrong you are.

WORST EVER

How could anyone ever forget the greatness that was Richard McDuffie? We canned Corky, then passed over a very interested Joe Green because of this outstandingly committed individual. McDuffie took the job, but never really even moved into his office. There was just too much golf and social life around D/FW for him to be expected to actually work. After several months, people finally wised up to the fact that the guy was getting paid but wasn't doing shinola. He soon announced that he was resigning to take a position as the director of the American Paint Horse Association.

He still lists North Texas on his web page even though he never did a damn thing there.

McDuffie at Eastern Illinois

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Adler

I worked at the Athletic Department when Sloan took over for Corky. Dennis Parker replaced Corky as head coach a couple of days after Christmas and a few weeks later Sloan took over.

McDuffie was the AD before Corky.

[NT80]

Didn't NT have an AD named White ?  I think he was the guy that was on the job for 30 days or so.

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Jim White

[PlummMeanGreen]

Jim White

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In the White bio we now have new meaning to the term "brief stint."

Word got back to some alums that he thought he had bitten off more than he could chew as AD at UNT. Also heard there may have been some health issues (depression?) but don't quote me on that. Good to see that he is doing well now.

BEAT THE HELL OUTTA' THAT FLA. AIRPORT ! (Hey! We could have a school in the SBC that had the name "textile" in it so things can always be worse).

[ADLER]

I think this thread clearly illustrates the lack of effort in identifying and hiring capable people that were interested in running the athletic department during the Hurley administration.

What will happen in the years after Pohl leaves?

[LoveMG]

How close were we to losing RV last year?

Published on December 15, 2004.

NMSU Boss Says Boston a Scapegoat

McKinley Boston has found an occupational second chance and an unreserved ally at New Mexico State in his hiring as the school's athletic director.

Boston was introduced Tuesday in Las Cruces as the athletic director. NMSU President Michael Martin chose him over Rick Villarreal, the AD at North Texas.

Martin worked with Boston when both were vice presidents at the University of Minnesota. Four years ago, Boston lost his job (Albuquerque Journal (NM), 774 words. )

And:

Friday, February 27, 2004

By Al Myatt

ECU Beat Writer for The News & Observer

Winnowing of AD candidates commences

©2004 Bonesville.net

The search committee for East Carolina’s new athletics director meets this morning and Saturday at a location near the Raleigh-Durham Airport.

The committee, chaired by Stephen Showfety, is scheduled to go into closed session for interviews with candidates. The present intent of the search committee is to narrow the field of prospective ADs to a group of finalists, who will be evaluated by the new chancellor once that position is filled.

Known internal candidates include interim AD Nick Floyd and Dennis Young, executive director of the Pirate Club. Floyd has handled the position with an apparent degree of competence in the six months since Mike Hamrick left to become AD at Nevada-Las Vegas. Floyd also is connected with television and bowl interests from his time in the Conference USA office.

Young, ECU class of 1969, has successfully directed the athletics fund-raising arm at his alma mater since September of 1991. The Pirate Club recently announced new annual goals of $3.7 million in unrestricted gifts and 9,000 members.

Other possible candidates to be interviewed outside the ECU community, according to sources, include former Indiana athletics director Clarence Doninger, Maryland assistant AD Joe Hull, South Carolina Gamecock Club director Jeff Barber, Oklahoma assistant AD Rick Hart, Wichita State AD Jim Schaus and Eastern Illinois AD Rick McDuffie.

Names of possible candidates that surfaced early who had indicated interest in the ECU AD position are retired Air Force AD, Col. Randall W. Spetman, and North Texas AD Rick Villareal.

Edited October 15, 2005 by LoveMG