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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 5702818, member: 210"]
an AD has 5 jobs: 1. hire good coaches 2. manage finances - fund raise/manage NIL 3. set up an admin structure to support the student athletes 4. upgrade facilities for said student athletes 5. have a seat at the table when realignment talks happen

When people say "think outside the box" they are focusing only on #5 - realignment. If someone thinks having the right AD is going to make a single iota of difference when it comes to realignment talks I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them. Do we really think someone is going to say "well Syracuse doesn't bring the same tv impact as Maryland, but their AD was a swell guy so we should include them"?

I'll give you two examples of thinking out of the box - Daryl (mr 2 phones) Gross who turned out to be a sleazy sales guy like the dude selling monorails on the Simpsons and the mets hiring Brodie as their GM because they wanted to think outside the box and hire an agent so for the job so they could get better deals with players.

You could argue the Knicks hiring Leon Rose was thinking outside of the box that worked... but for years now under Rose the Knicks have missed out on the super star FAs because of Rose's agent ties and Kentucky ties.

Anyways I could care less who the AD of Syracuse is... if they get 1 through 4 on my list correct. Realignment will happen and the school will either have a seat or not, the university's financial commitment to sport will have way more say than the who the AD is and the chancellor and the board control that.
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