Tiley is head and shoulders above any of the others listed.
An educated speculation:
Tiley 2/1
Whitman 3/1
Frazier 15/1
George 50/1
The Field 100/1
The financial recovery the Australian Open has managed to pull off during the past decade has been nothing short of extraordinary.
The Australian Financial Review reported that TA is on track to reach annual revenue of A$300 million (Dh780.6m) in the current fiscal year,
Read this on Tiley if you're not convinced: Australian Open miracle is story of both sporting and financial success
That's $200MM+ USD.
We're lucky Tiley is even interested.
Shannon Ryan @sryantribune 10m10 minutes ago
#Illini concluded AD interviews in Indy today. Committee met w/ candidates 90 minutes, chancellor for 30-45 min. That's pretty quick.
Well 7 candidates is too much for in depth interviews, need to cut that down to 2-4 candidates and make the final selection after that. At least that would be my plan, but I also would've done this a month or so ago.
Sounds to me more like the people powering the decision already know the three guys who are in actual consideration and these interviews are merely due diligence.
An educated speculation:
Tiley 2/1
Whitman 3/1
Frazier 15/1
George 50/1
The Field 100/1
An educated speculation:
Tiley 2/1
Whitman 3/1
Frazier 15/1
George 50/1
The Field 100/1
The Illini are still pitching the job to Colorado athletic director Rick George, who played football at Illinois until 1982 and has previously publicly stated that he planned to remain at Colorado. The Illini also targeted Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips, who declined, a source said.
Illinois interim chancellor Barbara Wilson and the school’s search committee met Tuesday and will meet again Wednesday, the source said, with Northern Illinois athletic director Sean Frazier, Washington University (St. Louis) athletic director Josh Whitman, Eastern Illinois athletic director Tom Michael, Central Michigan athletic director Dave Heeke, Florida Atlantic athletic director Patrick Chun, Maryland deputy athletic director Kelly Mehrtens and CEO of Tennis Australia Craig Tiley, who was a former tennis coach at Illinois.
Well 7 candidates is too much for in depth interviews, need to cut that down to 2-4 candidates and make the final selection after that. At least that would be my plan, but I also would've done this a month or so ago.
Here's the thing. Tiley flew all the way from Australia. If he doesn't end up being the guy when he's clearly interested, that's going to be a really tough pill to swollow.
Agreed, they could have done a teleconference with him while he was in Australia if they werent that interested in him. I think he has to be the odds on favorite if money weren't an object.
Here's the thing. Tiley flew all the way from Australia. If he doesn't end up being the guy when he's clearly interested, that's going to be a really tough pill to swollow.
Money shouldn't be an object. Tiley will make the University millions more than they would pay him, and he'd bring in a lot more money than any of the guys other than Rick George.
I know some of us have been disappointed in the length of time it's taken to get this done. BUT... If Tiley expressed an interest in the AD position when it became open, then the timing here makes perfect sense. George wanting the job would have sped the process up considerably. George opting out basically left the position open for Tiley if he wanted it. Unfortunately we had to wait for Tiley to be available to be included in the process. The right thing to do was give Tiley the time he needed to see the Australian Open through to its conclusion. And here we are!