A few bits from the linked article:
"Hermann becomes one of a relatively few women leading major sports programs and also assumes the helm without experience as an athletic director. "
[So, no experience and has to manage a major transition and crack the old boys network of B1G ADs]
"...arrives at Rutgers while the athletic department is still dealing with the fallout of the Rice situation. Her task is not only managing the move to the Big Ten, but also repairing the image of the university’s athletic department and winning back supporters angered by the basketball scandal. "
[just to add to the challenge a little more]
"Hermann, flanked by the Rutgers president Robert W. Barchi and members of the committee that selected her, said team practices would be an “open book.”
“We will no longer have any practice anywhere, anytime that anybody couldn’t walk into and be pleased about what is going on in that environment,”
[I wonder if she vetted this with the football coach? To make extra money, maybe they could have vendors working the sections of opposing team scouts in attendance]
"Hermann has never been directly responsible for a football program, the lifeblood of an athletic department. “I manage coaches for a living, whether it is the rowing coach or the football coach,” she said. "
[yep, no difference there]
