Men’s BB
Women’s BB
Men’s Hockey
Women’s Soccer
Men’s Soccer
Fencing
Are we doing well at some of the other sports....Swimming, women’s golf, softball, track and field, men’s and women’s lacrosse, rowing, men’s and women’s tennis?
Judge the man as a...whole.......men’s and women’s hoops are middling, hockey is the same. It appears that the rest of our major sports teams, aside from football are just average. Not sure how Jack is graded or compensated, but I don’t see a good replacement for McGraw, Brey’s team looks average, as does hockey. Doesn’t seem to warrant the largest salary in the NCAA. What do I know.
There's only one way out...
He's apparently the highest-paid college AD in the USA, so it's not an easy gig to walk away from. It really depends on what he feels he wants to get done before the next one comes on-board.
professors to retire. Businesses rarely have people older than 65 in positions of leadership. As you note, Swarbrick will be 70 in three years and I have a hard time seeing him not still at ND. That is a problem. Same with Jenkins.
The order of change will have to be: Jenkins >> Swarbrick >> Kelly. Jenkins is already 67. Damn - They may all three be around in 5 years.
I personally think he is the bigger problem because I think he is the one selling the narrative that ND can't compete to powers that be.
by hitting his target bogeys -- revenue projections, bond payoffs, program cleanliness, graduation rates etc. This is why he's a VP and got a huge bonus several years ago.
This ain't our forefather's ND and hasn't been since Ted and Ned stepped down.
We'all should make a 2021 resolution to get used to it. It won't change. In fact it cannot.
ND's organizational structures, processes, manning (Admin, BoF, BoT senior academics, and low data alums), and most importantly its financial foundation and revenue streams all project with near absolute certainty that the glidepath (key word here) it's on is permanent.
glidepath to nowhere. The guy didn't lift a finger to help how many of those 300 girls he could have helped. In essence, he effectively codified it.
And still, he's our guy.
It was augured straight down into the earth. Deliberately so.
When politely queried, he took exception with typical counselor client-attorney ya da ya da and that was that. So, it was swept under the carpet and has now dissolved into nothingness. Poof!
If it ever comes to light again, should the NCAA be forced to open up its files under a discovery motion, Savvy, Jenkins and key BoF/T members will be long gone.
The only words I can summon up to describe institutional and individual moral decay that now permeates the upper reaches of 46556 -- repugnant, self serving, total, abject . . .
Sadly, it didn't start then and there, as ND's leadership cadre moral putrefaction began long ago, when Monk let ND's AA student body percentage (a Ned and Ted goal since the 60s) wither from ~6% to under 1% in less than 9 years. No one noticed save for AA students (see LaPhonso Eliis's complaints about ND's atmosphere as the canary in the mineshaft). When queried about this decline at a mid 90s reunion, the old hubba dubba was the reply. It took a letter to the SBT and some well targeted whale lobbying to call this out and get it fixed.
Before this, we saw
-- the wrestling scholarship endowment get pinched by the collars and admin types withering campaign vs the deceased donee's wife to turn it loose so ND didn't have to dig deeply to support Title 9 mandates.
-- the 2007 University CLub demo with Monk's explicit backing -- the lesson here being stay a whale or have you donation razed and trash heaped.
Monk got his in 04 but that's a story for another day.
To continue with the rotting of ND:
-- alums and students being mauled by gameday alcohol police so much so that NDN RH threatened them with a PR and legal campaigns to address the situation; in this instance when warned via RH, they listened and Blue Ribbon commissioned the issue and started shit-canning folks and toning down their dumb-assery. Please note they were protecting ND's revenue stream and not the students and alums. Several private apologies were made to the assaulted.
- Student bucketed to death in a strong TS force winds -- unremarkable. The family should have sued ND's ass off. No one, let me repeat no one suffered any consequences appropriate to their malfeasance and lack of in loco parentis.
- 2012's and 2013's Wins vacated due to institutional failures to maintain student-athlete academic integrity; not only does the HC say he bears no accountability but the ND's president says much same (in a whiny screed that will become along with the punishment his SCARLET LETTER legacy) when the NCAA BOHICA's him and the school.
- ND has nada to say re USAG scandal. Another check in the unremarkable column, but this time Jenkins and his BoF/T cronies own it.
Found in the footnotes of the NCAA decision to argue against the penalty publicly is the most shocking thing I’ve seen from ND in some time.
Both that they thought we were all idiots and they could get away with it, and the fact that they were right about their fans and alumni for the most part.
And that has upset the applecart of what should be right and wrong - at least from a right and wrong standpoint.
Forbidden fruit. What forbidden fruit?
on, The Admin didn't want to be paying off his contract, so they let him stay on ND's gravy train salary until he got a better offer well after Monk was shit-canned. They were in full brand polishing mode by the point in time.
revisit the UA deal.
He usually knows this stuff
Incredible that he's still around.
I'm sure he'll go into his usual media hibernation until we beat Toledo next year to go 2-0, at which point he'll be all too happy to yap about what a great job he's done.
knows exactly what. Not bad work if you can get it.
Jack and his bloated Dept crew have had a huge positive impact on his Dept's revenue stream.
Once again, let us all softly intone "See Ess See equals Cash, Strictly Cash."
and alumni donations? Surely those have been hurt, unless propped-up by our corporate partners.
but his was a bottom line based bogey. Plus the upward overall revenue trend was his friend. BTW there are no down-years penalties.
ND was a chicken that Jack knowingly pflucked.
Dude was and remains way better at bureaucratic horse trading than those insular 46556 types. Rank amateurs.
season kind of blinds one to the darkness down below. What a weak, effete bunch the BOT/BOF must be.
They live banal lives of ease on the surface of ND's largesse which they really had little to nothing to do with its accumulation, while we the unwashed alums and sub-alums live below them, tending our jobs and families, scrimping and saving to send them our kids and treasure as ND's "legacies."
Gag me with a spoon. It's a totally effed up school-alum relationship.
In any event, the BoF is where the power is at; and, the CSC owns it and its non-collared types in toto.
A C4C letter in response would be so last century. Not even whale pressure points exist anymore.
Our sole remaining leverage is to withhold our children and to do so actively and openly over many years until it hurts them and it.
It's that existential IMO.
to make it interesting.