channel while allowing the relatives of multi-million dollar salaried decision makers to work for companies with financial stakes as large as NBC and UA with out batting an eyelash apparently is disgusting.
...on this.
it is not hard to use LinkedIn and a little thought to see more examples of ND leader's kids leveraging their parents' roles at ND - or should I say, more correctly, ND leaders seemingly using their influence and quid pro quo ability with the ND brand to assist their kids.
It is an old story in the world - who you know - but these days social media allows for an enterprising person to identify some of these relationships and at least ask some tough questions of those who are in position to exploit their roles.
It may well be there is no speific quid pro quo. There are certainly some appearances of it with Jack - and a couple others.
Meritocracy is critical to achieve for everyone, especially with divirse candidates. But dammit, let's not start until after my kids have had their chance to use my connections.
That or maybe the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for interests of kids. These are high achieving people. I’m no fortunate son but this is pretty tame and not a good look for the board.
If these kids are as talented as their old man -- cough, cough -- they should have no trouble landing on their feet and even thriving a thousand places other than Notre Dame's business "partners."
It's not this board that's looking horrible here.
What's this world coming to, if a father can't help his kids?
CBS, not NBC. CAA, not Wasserman.
And somewhere else, not Notre Dame.
from his connections. It's an even bigger concern that he may not be acting in the best interest of Notre Dame when he chooses to work with companies that employ his kids.
Is a deal with Under Armour the best deal for ND, or the best deal for his son? Is a deal with Peacock the best deal for ND (and its students, alums and fans), or the best deal for his daughter?
You had employees of the university in position to influence outcomes (in that case if kids get in) willing to take bribes in exchange.
Here you could have him selecting (or maintaining) ND vendors and partners based on the child's employment. There is the initial job and then promotions as the relationship builds and the profits grow. He's a smart lawyer - this is far more difficult to prove. The best you can probably do is connect the dots and say this creates a bad appearance. And he can say appearances don't matter - everyone is getting their situation (partnerships, kid's jobs) through pure merit. Some companies would not allow this. ND obviously does. Jenkins knows - he officiated her wedding.
P.S. His son-in-law, her husband, appears to have also benefited. But his appear to be more of benefiting from Jack's connections rather than leveraging specific ND vendors.
This is getting hilarious.....Wasserman (aka TeamWass) where someone named Connor Swarbrick works since 2011. Nothing like having family members cover all sides of a transaction. The big winner is Team Swarbrick.
gone unnoticed by the NCAA, ACC, or whatever other entities he has undoubtedly aspired to head but has come up short on.
But they obviously don't care. If only the NCAA or ACC didn't care enough to take him off our hands.
Cal Swarbrick
Global Brand Marketing, Team Sports at Under Armour
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"Begrudgingly, Cal had to miss the first 3 days of Senior year College Spring Break to go interview at Under Armour in Baltimore."
Must have been a challenging interview.
(Edited)
It never occurred to me that people would gush about living together before marriage, or admit to asking one's intended mother-in-law whether to propose. Good grief, people, take advantage of the ability to tell a flattering version of your own story. Perhaps a lack of self-awareness runs in the family.
No one needs their wedding website critiqued. I didn't realize his position was already known by many on the board. And when I googled to see where the Swarbrick children worked, I found his wedding site first, typed it up and then backfilled with the LinkedIn. I could have just used that.
Who, after seven years of experience, lists Microsoft Word as second most relevant qualification?
This screams sinecure and conflict of interest.
qualification.
When I was a kid, jumping off of rounded driveway curbs was 50% of your bike ride.
Continual scheduling soup can games with the MAC, will result in all those games being televised by Peacock. All of the spinning that Swarbrick has made about being on Peacock is good, is bullshit.
Heck, Goldman Sachs restricts their traders to a maximum of one meal a month with their clients, to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest. How much are those jobs worth for JS's children (a lot more than one meal a month). This goes way beyond an appearance of a conflict of interest - it is a flagrant conflict of interest. There is a trend here with his son being an executive with Under Armour. How are those Under Armour stock options going for ND's portfolio negotiated by JS - how much are those positions worth for JS's children?
This is real conflict of interest and unbelievable that Fr. Jenkins allows this to happen with JS - he has a fiduciary responsibility to correct this situation. The Board of Trustees needs to step in if Fr. Jenkins refuses to correct this.
also have a tie (a good number of former IMG employees left IMG/Endeavor when Allied was founded, it looks like)
Being AD at ND is truly a family affair for $awbucks. Between naked conflicts of interest, his tenure w/ USA Gymnastics, and his stint as a part-time weather forecaster, he has compiled a fascinating record. Not every ND AD has seen the FB program have a preventable death at practice and a season's worth of victories forfeited during his tenure.
benefiting in someway. Nah, nothing dirty or inappropriate in either of these deals.
Didn’t realize it was recently transferred to Notre Dame
Duke, named after their Law School grad
Disgusting.
ALMOST.
This screams conflict of interest. She has a right to work their , but it looks bad. Maybe that is why our contract is so undervalued.
NotreDameTrump twitter account was on this in 2017...
other networks (like Fox) to televise ND f-ball games - and I bet it's costing us millions
most recent contract extension with NBC. Was she already with NBC/Universal at that time?
allegedly
allegedly
This makes complete sense now all around.
P.S. Apologies if not his daughter.
We need to get a Savvy relative hired at Comcast so Murcer68 can access the ACC Network.
See linked article. Married at Sacred Heart Basilica by the Rev. John Jenkins. Man, it's good to be born rich.
“Creative Partnerships” indeed.
It takes some pretty creative work to tank a clothing company...
99.9% of every Linked In account I see has the persons full name.
Good job, you are fooling everyone sweetie.
It is, at best, condescending and unnecessary.
The "partnership" and nepotism on display here is wrong and should be called out. But your parting swipe stinks of sexism.
You apparently don’t get the reference.
I don't think 512 committed a felony. But I also don't think it had anything to do with Holly Rowe. Just an unnecessary pejorative that didn't need to be added to a good point already made. Were I a woman, I don't think I'd be amused.
I mean, it made me think of that video, which doesn't use the same pejorative and doesn't have anything to do with Swarbrick, his daughter, NBC, or nepotism. It's just a solid example of sexism.
But maybe there is some really fitting, hilarious, non-sexist reference there. If so, you're right; I don't get it, which is part of the reason I said "consider."
Sweetheart