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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 2383667, member: 469"] [URL="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2017/11/16/angry-college-football-fans-coaches-athletic-directors-home-run-hires-rare/872076001/"]Discontented fans take note: Too few home-run hires to replace those fired coaches, ADs[/URL] As the 2017 season winds to a conclusion, college football is facing a potential talent crisis. It hasn’t manifested itself on the field, where the product remains as compelling as ever. But in the coaching ranks and even on the administrative side, where the churn rate in the last few years has far surpassed the number of slam-dunk stars in the business, the college sports industry is preparing for the kind of December that it had never imagined until now. It used to be schools hired athletics directors from the ranks of former football coaches. Now, schools treat them like football coaches, even though most of them are career administrators who spend 99% of their time doing wonky things like budgets, rules compliance and fundraising and very little on football hires. And while it’s easy these days if you have enough money to get rid of a coach or an athletics director, replacing them has become harder than ever. The early word in the industry on Arkansas was that the school may look outside the sphere of college athletics and into the business world for somebody with Arkansas ties who could run the athletics department, a strategy that has been hit-or-miss (mostly miss) when others have tried it. Either way, it’s almost certain that the football coach will be in place before the athletics director, historically a recipe for problems. And at Auburn, there is no obvious candidate to take Jacobs’ place who will wow that fan base, largely because fans largely don’t (and shouldn’t) know the difference between a good athletics director and a bad one. -Dan Wolken, USA Today, [URL='https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2017/11/16/angry-college-football-fans-coaches-athletic-directors-home-run-hires-rare/872076001/'][U]Read More[/U][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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