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Post by upsetcoach on May 30, 2022 7:10:11 GMT -5
I think that in order for the athletic department to hire staff, the applicant must not only be a graduate of UD, they must also be a rabid fan of the University. Look at our current staff. I can't name a single one and say they are in it for the University. They all have their degrees from other schools, allegiances elsewhere. It's a job, and they go home. UD is a stepping stone. We need Titan Red blood in every employee and we need to pay them well to stay. Offer more sports related degrees as a pipeline.
Bottom line, Need staff that is going to go balls the wall to make sure this thing of ours is prime time.
New staff please...Starting with Vowels.
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Post by Rogobob77 on May 30, 2022 7:58:14 GMT -5
There are advantages and disadvantages of hiring people who are graduates of the University. No way do you want to make that a requirement, there is not a single school in the country that operates in such a way and for many good reasons. Employing that philosophy, Dick Vitale and Perry Watson would have never been part of Titan history.
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Post by ptctitan on May 30, 2022 8:50:11 GMT -5
I think that in order for the athletic department to hire staff, the applicant must not only be a graduate of UD, they must also be a rabid fan of the University. Look at our current staff. I can't name a single one and say they are in it for the University. They all have their degrees from other schools, allegiances elsewhere. It's a job, and they go home. UD is a stepping stone. We need Titan Red blood in every employee and we need to pay them well to stay. Offer more sports related degrees as a pipeline. Bottom line, Need staff that is going to go balls the wall to make sure this thing of ours is prime time. New staff please...Starting with Vowels. I agree with your one-sentence bottom line. I don't agree with your premise that having a degree from our school makes the employee more motivated to produce winning teams. Two of the 4 Associate AD's have degrees from our university. Yet, the major hiring and compliance screw-ups and scandals that have plagued us since 2015 occurred in the sports they supervise or in the department areas they manage. Their degrees from our school did not translate into better outcomes for women's basketball and the men's basketball APR issue. Currently, we have a total of 4 people on the staff who are assigned to ticket sales, marketing and promotions. The two ticket sales people report directly to one of the Associate AD's with degrees from our school. Under that Associate AD's watch, average game attendance has dropped 30% since 2016 which also coincides with the adoption of the university's new branding policy. Currently, we have a two-man marketing and promotions team on which one guy also doubles as the interim men's golf coach. When Dr. Garibaldi announced he was retiring, there was a huge exodus of personnel from the Athletic Department last July-October. Some of these vacant positions have been filled.
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Post by dennycrane on May 30, 2022 9:07:28 GMT -5
Sorry to say, Coach, but you're about a decade late. That Woman destroyed the Athletic Department between '08 - '12 and it's not been rebuilt. I also agree with your one sentence bottom line.
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Post by titantarheel on May 31, 2022 8:39:11 GMT -5
While I like the idea of people being passionate about UD, I think the condition of employment is they are passionate about success. I would take a team of folks with zero ties to state who just wanted to come in and make it happen.
Secondly, I think the University desperately needs (has needed) some fresh perspective and thinking. So many levels of the school have been in stasis for so long and clearly we see what has happened with athletics at this point. The status quo floundering is even worse when this message board (usually via Rogo's contributions) fills up with good ideas as it relates to getting butts in seats and marketing ideas for the program. About once a year he posts a long list of great ideas, and we can look and note that none of them have been acted on resulting in attendance being a few hundred per game nowadays.
Now that the heavy lift of the past 5-10 years is over with big strides and progress in... - stabilized/growing enrollment - $100 M capital/endowment campaign completed - strategic tuition roll back in place - Live6/neighborhood related efforts
...it sure would be great if prioritization of Athletics and housing was on the docket starting July 1. How likely or possible is this? I just don't know given the new Pres coming in, a hopefully lameduck AD around, and the overall status-quo aspect of the university.
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Post by joseph75 on Jun 20, 2022 9:45:36 GMT -5
The University's fiscal year begins July 1. With no retirement announcement regarding our lame(duck) AD the moross continues. IMO
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Post by ptctitan on Jun 20, 2022 10:30:46 GMT -5
The University's fiscal year begins July 1. With no retirement announcement regarding our lame(duck) AD the moross continues. IMO Does this mean the Athletic Department has moved from McNichols and Fairfield on the west side of Detroit to near St. John's Hospital on the east side?
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Post by upbasketballfan on Jun 20, 2022 10:40:03 GMT -5
The University's fiscal year begins July 1. With no retirement announcement regarding our lame(duck) AD the moross continues. IMO I have been critical of Vowels for a long time until I found out the decisions were finished and finalized by Garibaldi. So now that we have a Lame Duck President maybe we will finally have a real AD who makes decisions and runs his dept. correctly or if he can’t we broom him. Really looking forward to some accountability, it’s been awhile.
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