McGlade to be named A-10 commissioner

[Mr. Neutral]

But were any of those guys available, or, more importantly, interested? We're not going to get a Jim Delaney, so we should at least give her a chance.

If it turns out that she's not as good a commissioner as we think the A10 needs/deserves, THEN you can think about moving her out.

[muskieman]

I hope that in the last picture that the one person I trust had a big influence in the hire. I know how he feels about the bottom dwellers and have spoken to him a number of times about the problems of the A-10 schools that don't care or don't have the money.

I guess we will never know how many people they actually interviewed. I do hope this lady is the best of the best because she has a lot of work ahead. I have no preconceived ideas about her and I am willing to give her time to do her thing but just hope she is not brought in to be a phone operator because we have had that before.

[Wisexuowl]

My belief was we needed a Marketing/PR person.
She is a womans basketball person, and obviously she sold the ACC womans game well, but selling ACC womans baskteball was rather easy I would say with the swing the ACC Mens program has with TV moguls.
I see nothing her her background that tells me she can sell mens basketball .. but you know, I think that the A-10 membership ... sans Xavier and Dayton ... care a helluva lot more about all the other sports ... and I don't think that is true other conferences ... Big Ten (Football), SEC (Football), ACC (Basketball), Big East (Basketball), Big 12 (Football) and so on.
I hope she is top notch, does a great job, and we all will heap praise soon.
But I really don't want to see any "tweaking" and have it sold as upgrades.

[Wisexuowl]

BTW, MM .. what, if he wasn't confidential, did Father Graham have to say about the "bottom dwellers?"