Katz on Buzz re BE Commish

[CaribouJim]

Who is doing the search, some executive headhunter firm?

[TheSultan]

Who is doing the search, some executive headhunter firm?

Yeah I think so...but a search firm cannot ultimately hire someone.

[TedBaxter]

Georgetown and Marquette are doing separate searches.

[CaribouJim]

Yeah I think so...but a search firm cannot ultimately hire someone.

So do we assume that the search firm hasn't served up anyone worth interviewing yet or they have and no has passed mustard? When they do serve someone up is it an interview by committee by all the AD's and/or presidients? Just curious on how it all works.

[Goose85]

I liked Barry Alvarez's comment aftet Beilema left when asked if he was going to call a search firm. He said no, search firms normally call him.

[TheSultan]

So do we assume that the search firm hasn't served up anyone worth interviewing yet or they have and no has passed mustard? When they do serve someone up is it an interview by committee by all the AD's and/or presidients? Just curious on how it all works.

Search firms usually identify and recruit candidates, help narrow down the pool, etc. Ultimately decisions need to be made by the hiring authority - which is likely some sort of committee of the presidents. I have no idea where they are in the process of this hire.

[TheSultan]

I liked Barry Alvarez's comment aftet Beilema left when asked if he was going to call a search firm. He said no, search firms normally call him.

Yeah but in this case, this was the right thing to do. Especially when you have 10 presidents to satisfy who likely don't have the background in athletics to carry out a competent search.

As a former football coach, who really only had to satisfy himself, Barry didn't need that.

[Mucrisco]

Will ESPN report any good news about the Big East ever? When does the Fox1 Channel start, so they can start fighting back?

[ge1974]

Fox 1 Sports debuts August 17th.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story...network-030513

[CaribouJim]

Fox 1 Sports debuts August 17th.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story...network-030513

No explicit mention of the Big East or did I miss something????

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