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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5354798, member: 173"]
It’ll be interesting to see how that “GM” role evolves over time for schools.  With all the changes in recruiting and NIL, I think that position is here to stay.  And I don’t think the responsibilities are such that a new coach is going to have a lot of leverage to bring in “his guy”.

Here’s the list of responsibilities on the Syracuse site for Kline: “The primary responsibilities include scouting and recruiting, former student-athlete engagement, Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) opportunities, transfer portal management, and institutional fundraising in collaboration with University Advancement.”. A new coach would have to have a hell of an argument for why his guy would be better at finding NIL opportunities, or fundraising, or working with former players to justify a change.  The only possibly legitimate reason would be that this is the role basically doing in-season scouting (and cough, cough…. recruiting…)…but a new coach in this particular case would need to have an amazing argument why a guy who scouted in the NBA isn’t a fit.

My expectation is there isn’t going to be high turnover in the “GM” role in college athletics in general - it looks like a stepping stone job on the way to being an AD.  In our case right now, the idea that a new coach is going to be able to install “his guy” is very improbable.
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