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Whoa: Tom Sakal disgusted by issues at U, "no way in hell" he'll leave athletics $
per WCCO:
Tom Sakal, the captain of Minnesota’s last Big Ten champion football team in 1967, told WCCO he has received “half a dozen” calls from the University in the last two months asking for money but has lost confidence in his alma mater’s ability to use it wisely.
“When I look at the people on that committee, an aerospace engineer, a professor of horticulture, what the hell do they know about selecting an athletic director?” Sakal said. “You can quote me on that. It’s a laughingstock.”
Sakal said he was planning to leave “a six-figure sum of money” for the athletic department from his estate, but has grown so frustrated with Kaler that he removed the gift from his will. The handling of the athletic director search was the last straw, he said.
“I’m extremely disgusted, it’s one failure after another,” he said. “There is no way in hell I’m going to leave them one penny.”
and in the article as well, McKinley Boston weighs in on the AD search:
The unusually large size of the committee is a chief concern, due to the belief that it increases the likelihood that candidates’ names could leak, which could be an obstacle to a deep candidate pool if it discourages potential candidates at other schools from entering the process over fear their current school could find out they’re job hunting. By comparison, fellow Big Ten schools Michigan and Illinois both had eight people on their recent athletic director search committees. Purdue, in its current search, has seven people on its search committee.
“Obviously, the more people, the more chance of leaks being made,” said McKinley Boston, Minnesota’s athletic director from 1991-95 and a member of the Gophers’ 1967 Big Ten championship football team. “A sitting AD is going to be concerned because of the confidentiality piece of it. Some people just don’t want to take that risk. Donors question if you have one foot out the door.”
Minnesota required the 16 members of its search committee to sign a nondisclosure agreement, but that doesn’t mean everybody always adheres to that, said Boston, who was the athletic director at New Mexico State for 10 years until retiring last year.
“Somebody’s going to tell somebody who’s going to tell somebody,” Boston said. “That’s just the nature of the beast. Usually on a committee of 16, somebody’s going to share what’s going on.”
Boston’s sentiments echo a common concern among multiple prominent donors, influential alumni and current athletic department personnel. WCCO spoke to more than a dozen people for this story, several of whom requested anonymity due to their role in Gophers athletics.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/...aise-concerns-about-athletic-director-search/
Go Gophers!!
per WCCO:
Tom Sakal, the captain of Minnesota’s last Big Ten champion football team in 1967, told WCCO he has received “half a dozen” calls from the University in the last two months asking for money but has lost confidence in his alma mater’s ability to use it wisely.
“When I look at the people on that committee, an aerospace engineer, a professor of horticulture, what the hell do they know about selecting an athletic director?” Sakal said. “You can quote me on that. It’s a laughingstock.”
Sakal said he was planning to leave “a six-figure sum of money” for the athletic department from his estate, but has grown so frustrated with Kaler that he removed the gift from his will. The handling of the athletic director search was the last straw, he said.
“I’m extremely disgusted, it’s one failure after another,” he said. “There is no way in hell I’m going to leave them one penny.”
and in the article as well, McKinley Boston weighs in on the AD search:
The unusually large size of the committee is a chief concern, due to the belief that it increases the likelihood that candidates’ names could leak, which could be an obstacle to a deep candidate pool if it discourages potential candidates at other schools from entering the process over fear their current school could find out they’re job hunting. By comparison, fellow Big Ten schools Michigan and Illinois both had eight people on their recent athletic director search committees. Purdue, in its current search, has seven people on its search committee.
“Obviously, the more people, the more chance of leaks being made,” said McKinley Boston, Minnesota’s athletic director from 1991-95 and a member of the Gophers’ 1967 Big Ten championship football team. “A sitting AD is going to be concerned because of the confidentiality piece of it. Some people just don’t want to take that risk. Donors question if you have one foot out the door.”
Minnesota required the 16 members of its search committee to sign a nondisclosure agreement, but that doesn’t mean everybody always adheres to that, said Boston, who was the athletic director at New Mexico State for 10 years until retiring last year.
“Somebody’s going to tell somebody who’s going to tell somebody,” Boston said. “That’s just the nature of the beast. Usually on a committee of 16, somebody’s going to share what’s going on.”
Boston’s sentiments echo a common concern among multiple prominent donors, influential alumni and current athletic department personnel. WCCO spoke to more than a dozen people for this story, several of whom requested anonymity due to their role in Gophers athletics.
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/...aise-concerns-about-athletic-director-search/
Go Gophers!!
