Josh Whitman Named 14th Illinois Athletics Director

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Dan

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Proud to be coming home! #Illini
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CoalCity said:
My God! That chart looks like they threw darts at a Buzzword Bingo board and made up catchphrases by inserting the latest and hottest Action Verbs.

The University paid $140K for that? I'd have done it for half that! LOL...

:chief: :D
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Buzzword Bingo, I believe in years past, we were a little more crude calling it BS Bingo.
 
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AutoPoster 3000 said:
Frazier has kind of an odd history recently. He was one of two finalists for the Rutgers job in 2013 (while still the Associate AD at Wisconsin) but had a strange interview during which he was grilled relentlessly on LGBT issues, which the university later apologized to him for. He was tagged as Syracuse's fan favorite home-run candidate last year but then denied having interest in that job. Sometime later, he ended up on a widely-reported list of four finalists for the Pitt job but then he claimed he wasn't interested in Pitt and didn't know how his name made it on to that list. Then he interviewed with us but just a few days after made an offhand remark during NIU's signing day presser that he wasn't interested in the Illinois job. Now he's being mentioned for the Minnesota job. Good luck with that, Gophers.

It's hard to read the meaning in all that but to me, he comes off as a careerist who's just plotting his next move on the way to bigger things. That kind of attitude isn't necessarily a deal-breaker for a head coach, but I want more commitment than that from an athletic director. So, in summary, I think we dodged a bullet with that one.
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All you're doing is describing what someone says when they are on the ladder looking to move up but already has a job. He's a public figure; what do you expect him to do, write a press release saying he interviewed but didn't get the job every time he misses? Interviewing and not getting or not taking is part of the process of moving up in a career.
 
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Cubby Blue said:
or he knew he wasn't getting it so he went into full PR mode....:thumb:

Always looks better if you were the one that broke up....

Shannon Ryan's article did not say he said no to Illini. (and those of you who know me know I am not a big fan of hers) Here is what it actually says.

"Northern Illinois AD Sean Frazier declined to move forward in the process after an initial interview, sources said".

I think the Score just took that to an extreme and said he told us NO.
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Sure sounds like a NO to me:D
 
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Wayne County, IL
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I wasn't going to drink the cool-aide, even though his letter to I Fund Donors was inspiring, until I came to the part where he said his wife's name was Hope. Its got to be a sign. I'll take a double.
 
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ritster

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Just read his letter. Sign me up. I'm ready to run through a brick wall again for my Illini.