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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 281531, member: 780"] As someone with a background in corporate strategy and who has worked extensively with strategy consultants, here's what I get from this: 1. When asked the tough questions by some of the college presidents about his plan for the future and on getting more money out of the networks, Marinatto's answer was inadequate. As of right now the Big East doesn't have a plan that the presidents think will work. 2. The new guy, Bailey, has executive experience, but no experience doing what needs to be done. That's why BCG is involved. He will inevitably clash with or become frustrated in dealing with all the college presidents for whom he works. But that will take a while. That stint he just did with a head-hunting firm tells me that he didn't have a lot of good alternatives. 3. Here's the most important point. The Big East is hiring BCG because there in no strategy. That's what BCG is coming in to do. BCG will pull in a bunch of Ivy League MBAs to study the data, formulate a strategy and then try to sell the strategy to the university presidents. The strategy will be a thing of beauty ... Powerpoint slides galore featuring every new business buzzword known to man. A compelling case that Bailey will try and push through the group of presidents. There's only one problem ... the strategy won't work. It'll be long on theory and short on "how to actually do it". Because that's what Ivy League MBA's know ... the theory piece. BCG will cash its big check and be gone. Bailey will be left trying to tell the networks that the SMU vs. UConn game is a can't miss opportunity for them. In the decades I did this stuff, I learned a few things including: 1. If you need consultants to create your strategy, you are in serious trouble. They'll never really understand the nuances that will make the difference between success and failure 2. Consultant's will tell you what you want to hear and what will sell internally. They borrow your watch and tell you what time it is and then bill you an insane amount. If I were the Big East, I'd hire John Swofford. And forget the consultants. [/QUOTE]

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