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[QUOTE="richmondcuse03, post: 819315, member: 984"]
That was the first warning sign to me. Gross' gf/fiance at the time had no qualifications to be head of marketing yet he gave her that job and she failed miserably.  Gross views himself as a marketing genius (his exact words) so he felt he could put her in that role because he was going to handle it all anyway, she was more to execute. She's since been shuttled around to some other position in the AD -- still not sure what her qualifications are besides being his wife.

Moves like that, compounded with his arrogant demeanor/management style, ran a lot of people in the AD off to other schools in his first year in the job.  As others have noted, he also spent frivolously on all the olympic sports (hiring Luke Jensen for an absurd amount for women's tennis for one, Gait as woman's lax coach, overpaid for all the Orange in NY advertising, etc.). I was told he did all that in the beginning because he envisioned being at the school for just a few years and then parlaying it into a better job.

I also have no confidence that he'll be able to fundraise for the IPF -- he's done a terrible job at fundraising the time he's there (the only reason the Melo Center was built was JB/Juli, not Gross...they outraised him by a ridiculous margin).  Despite all the changes he's made (many of which were obviously needed after Jake's tenure), I'm still not impressed by the job he's done -- it's easy to just throw money around to fix problems.  We're not the type of school that can afford to run the AD that way, despite the basketball cash cow that we have.

Glad that he's finally having someone provide oversight to his work -- it seemed like nancy just let him do his job and nobody was monitoring things over there.
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