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No it doesn't. If RU's initial search would have been for a traditional AD candidate, Zinn's name would have been on the search firm list. Hermann's wasn't and was pulled through the process by someone at RU with a huge DEI agenda.
Lol not at all. Gender has nothing to do with it. Being a career administrator, no NJ ties, and the #2 elsewhere is the issue. If Sean Frazier was the hire (#2 at Wisconsin for a while before his current gig), I’d feel the same way. We were a step away from a home run hire with lafemina and now we get a career administrator. I was hoping for the innovative hire and we’re going the other way. Meh.
Saw elsewhere that RU dodged a bullet with Lafemina passing. Why do you consider him a home run hire? He never led a D1 Athletics Department.
Weak sauce. Not surprising for a loser like you.
lol I think those are your opinions at the bottom of the tank. Is there anyone who is more boneheaded and clueless in the Rutgers fan base than you? Literally can’t see facts right in front of your face. Putting me on ignore will give you more time to spend on the pat Hobbs fanclub. Best of luck with that venture.
If you are going to try to be cute or funny, which you are neither, at least be correct, which you have not been in anything you have said.
Hobbs shift - I don’t really care what others have said about lafemina. In my opinion he was the right person for the job. Just like you thought pat Hobbs was a great AD.
If you listen to what Aaron says above in the video, it makes a lot of sense.
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Also makes me wonder if this is why we couldn't close the deal with the NHL exec. Maybe Tate shut that down to bring in someone he knew and allowed the candidate to withdraw.
I’m suggesting that perhaps the “slowness” of the search in the first place (before any of that other speculation) had to do with an inability to reach an agreement on acceptable buy out terms. Rutgers needs stability. Securing a home run hire who was free to get up and move on in a year or two without risk of impactful financial ramifications wasn’t going to work for us.perhaps it is because his company, Arctos, acquired another NFL team and the money from that, combined with the slowness of the search just told him to stay where he was.
Arctos acquires second NFL team stake with LA Chargers - SportsPro
The San Francisco 49ers’ deal to sell a 6% stake at a record US$8.6bn valuation was also approved by NFL owners.
Zinn's resume reads well. She was heavily involved in the LSU NIL stuff, which puts her light years ahead of Hobbs who fought it from day one. She was involved with fundraising. She was in charge of compliance, which likely means, she knows not to get into bed with any of the coaching staff
Yeah that’s a good point. I wasn’t even thinking at it from the angle of Lafemina himself potentially having doubts about his own qualification to take this on successfully. Maybe it sounded like an exciting, interesting opportunity in the beginning but when they started getting down to term negotiations it really hit home that he was going to have to commit to this all in on a long term basis which also meant passing up large sums of money in the private sector.If you listen to what Aaron says above in the video, it makes a lot of sense.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I never saw why some were so over the moon about LaFemina- he had a solid resume in sports and entertainment generally, but ZERO experience in college athletics. ZERO. 20 years at MSG Sports, 8 years at NFL, 1 year at Redskins, 5 years at LA Super Bowl Host Committee. Would that translate into building NIL relationships with corporate sponsors and big donors? Would he be able to run a P5 athletics department with zero experience in both of the those areas? Those are fair questions. And by turning the role down, perhaps he realized the same thing himself, and/or perhaps there were other issues in the negotiations that caused him to feel like he was not "all in," and if that was the case, that is not the person for the job. It was a good thing he pulled out. None of this is to besmirch his resume, which is quite impressive in the professional sports and entertainment industry.
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Experience: Arctos · Location: United States · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View BRIAN LAFEMINA’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
As Aaron says in the video link above, RU will finally have alignment from the top down. And we finally have someone with substantial NIL experience at a major player in college athletics. She has the perfect resume to fill the big gap and blind spot the previous AD had- some sort of disdain or lack of comfort with NIL. Schiano often speaks about how important alignment is in an organization, and we finally have it from the President to the AD to the head football coach.
Could the hire go South? Sure. Any hire can do that.
Have to say, back in the old days where women execs tried to be like men... not good experiences. But as more and more of them rose through the ranks it seemed they became comfortable being themselves and they made fine execs... probably as a gender have a better batting average than their male counterparts... at least in work conditions.
Gonna give a pass to all "meh" hire comments. We all saw the alum who'd have been a great hire and a new direction for AD's as a whole. I don't know why that deal did not get done.. whether he withdrew or was told he should withdraw because we were going another way.. but I think many of us wanted that hire badly so anything else is second best.Kind of "Meh" and what you would expect from Rutgers! Not the cutting edge attempt and would be a so-so hire. Tate is fitting right in.
That doesn’t mean it was actually the best choice for Rutgers. As I said before, let’s give her a chance. This is what Tate wants. Greg seems on board. I fully expect that one of the first things she’ll do is help Pike get his GM. He’ll be happy. Alignment. Not easily attained at Rutgers. But that’s where we are trending. That’s good news.
