Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
Could not agree more. I love this university but it stinks from the top down right now. How this university can have a power vacuum at the top since August with no end in sight is ridiculous and embarrassing to the Illini Nation. We need leadership to right the ship on the university now. Then after you get that settled, you can turn your attention to athletics. As to the purported candidates who will get interviews and someone's comment that they are not a 4 or 5 star, I hate to say it but the lack of leadership in our university makes our university right now not a 4 or 5 star university or at least a place worthy of a 4 or 5 star athletic director. The fact that we hired a search committee and these are the names we have is another appalling waste of time and money for an administration seeking to cover their rear ends when they didn't know what to do. Don't get me wrong I hope we find a diamond in the rough but you have a better chance of hitting a home run with a top tier candidate who has had experience as an AD at a major university than hoping we get a winner from guys running departments at NIU, EIU, etc. Reminds me of the Bears always hiring as a head coach and hoping they will "grow" into the job. Or a certain "Large Midwestern University" hiring coaches for its "big time revenue producing sports" from the MAC. The University of Illinois need leadership to come in and right the ship and it has to be now or the university we all love, will continue its descent as an institution and as an athletic program.
How do we really know what names are being considered though? If we are throwing out names, it is message board talk. I don't believe anyone from the search committee is posting here.
Regarding getting hired without knowing your boss thing, I've done it and as long as I did my job effectively, it never was an issue. If the new AD gets the FB (and potentially BB) hire/s right, no President in their right mind would replace him/her. And if they did, their reputation would be in tact.