New Athletic Director

[tornado]

The job of Athletic Director is posted

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/6887845/director-of-athletics

Resumes are to be submitted, then those resumes will be uploaded to a website that can be accessed by all the committee members and Board of Trustee members for review.
A final decision will be made after March 4, 2015.

http://www.parkersearch.com/current-opportunities/bradley-university/director-athletics

[tornado]

Selling points that make the AD job at Bradley way better than at many schools
and which make it a very desirable position that should draw a lot of interest...

-Great tradition
-Great fan base
-Top notch facilities
-Incredible local basketball environment, local interest, IHSA Finals, March Madness
-Proximity (from St. Louis to Chicago) to tremendous recruiting base
-And Bradley has demonstrated the willingness to do what it takes & spend what is required to win
-The going salary is way, way bloated above what any AD at just about any comparable school makes
(current AD salary cited at $290K - ISU pays their AD $200K, SIU was paying their guy only $176K)

[Fyrebyrd]

Selling points that make the AD job at Bradley way better than at many schools
and which make it a very desirable position that should draw a lot of interest...

-Great tradition
-Great fan base
-Top notch facilities
-Incredible local basketball environment, local interest, IHSA Finals, March Madness
-Proximity (from St. Louis to Chicago) to tremendous recruiting base
-And Bradley has demonstrated the willingness to do what it takes & spend what is required to win
-The going salary is way, way bloated above what any AD at just about any comparable school makes
(current AD salary cited at $290K - ISU pays their AD $200K, SIU was paying their guy only $176K)

Great fanbase? I'd go with Fair-weather fan base with below average student interest.

[tornado]

I will rebut that - for over 30 years, the BU home attendance ranked inside the TOP 40 to 50 among all DI schools & considerably better than a lot of the BCS programs.
Sure it is down now - but due to unique problems which would have devastated the fan base no matter where you'd look.
To cite anything regarding BU's fan base right now in the midst of all this turmoil & 5-year bottoming-out - is a little like measuring the temperature at the south pole then concluding earth is too cold of a planet for life to survive.

Even with the dropoff due to lousy play lately, BU still has about 5500 season ticket fan base - which is only 20% or so down from what it was in 2007

how many schools could go thru such a downturn and lose only 20% of their season ticket sales?
When this happened to SIU, their season ticket base & total attendance dropped by 60% almost overnite.

[Old Coach]

I will rebut that - for over 30 years, the BU home attendance ranked inside the TOP 40 to 50 among all DI schools & considerably better than a lot of the BCS programs.
Sure it is down now - but due to unique problems which would have devastated the fan base no matter where you'd look.
To cite anything regarding BU's fan base right now in the midst of all this turmoil & 5-year bottoming-out - is a little like measuring the temperature at the south pole then concluding earth is too cold of a planet for life to survive.

Even with the dropoff due to lousy play lately, BU still has about 5500 season ticket fan base - which is only 20% or so down from what it was in 2007

how many schools could go thru such a downturn and lose only 20% of their season ticket sales?
When this happened to SIU, their season ticket base & total attendance dropped by 60% almost overnite.

I agree with you here, tornado. Even in the worst times (today), Bradley has season ticket numbers that would be the envy of more than 1/2 (if not 2/3) of all D-I teams.

[Da Coach]

The job of Athletic Director is posted

http://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/6887845/director-of-athletics

This step is just a formality to comply with the EEOC hiring laws. I still think the initial choice of the Board is a good bet to get the job.

[wily coyote]

This step is just a formality to comply with the EEOC hiring laws. I still think the initial choice of the Board is a good bet to get the job.

It appears you have a good idea who the new AD will be. If it's who I think it will be ,we are both going to be happy. I'm not as positive as you are that it's a done deal though.

[Da Coach]

It is not a done deal, and not a certainty. But I think it will get done.