by SWPaDem (2024-03-22 12:55:40)
Edited on 2024-03-22 13:00:23
Jack Swarbrick is leaving his job with Notre Dame in fine shape, and with college sports in chaos.
“I feel so bad about how it’s messed up right now,” the Fighting Irish athletic director told Sportico over Zoom this week, in the waning days before he retires after 15 years on the job. “I hope I can find a path that allows me to still play a role.”
Over his tenure, Swarbick developed the reputation as an unconventional thinker, particularly when it came to matters of college athletes earning money. Last October, for example, Swarbrick made headlines following his testimony before a Congressional committee, when he voiced the “fairly radical notion” that it was time for schools to consider engaging in collective bargaining with college athletes. And he had expressed support, years before many of his counterparts, for the idea that college athletes should be able to earn name, image and likeness (NIL) money. Yet Swarbrick’s rhetoric, while notable, didn’t exactly make him a change agent. Nor does he sound so avant-garde in the face of today’s most pressing questions.
After this week, Swarbrick will continue on with the title of athletic director emeritus through the end of June, after which he will base himself out of Indianapolis—close enough to Notre Dame’s campus in South Bend, Ind., but not too close.
“I don’t want to be one of those former coaches or ADs that just hangs around,” he said. “So I’ll try and make myself scarce unless I’m requested.”
world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone.
He’s never gone!
What if you miss?
if you do another turn in the joint?
I mean this is getting to be like that scene in the "Odd Couple" movie with Jack Lemmon and Walter Mattheau.
Felix: "In other words, you're throwing me out."
Oscar: "Not 'in other words!' Those are the PERFECT words!"
Felix: "You mean this minute?"
Oscar: "Yes! This minute! If you could do it sooner, I'd appreciate it!"
His hanging around here after Monday - even for a day - can't be any good for the new regime. Something doesn't smell right about this. (Anybody here from Denmark?) And what is Sportico and why is he even talking to them?
Hit the road, Jack. And don't you come back, no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road, Jack and don't you come back no more!!!
Perhaps sitting on the bench next to Moose Krause?
In other words, being caught on the ND sideline by the television camera no more than 3 times per season.
Or 4 times. Once each in August, September, October, and November. So 4. But that's the absolute max. No more.
That's not including the bowl game appearance.
….you put your mind to at your remarkable career at ND.
He's both congratulating himself for being so magnanimous as to step aside, while also making it clear that the organization can't possibly function without him.
And he has no idea that this is why he stunk at his job.
His mother probably got vaginitis after he was born
She liked him as a friend
and his right tit Under Armour.
thread in the BR:
Also, Jack, go ahead and make yourself scarce immediately. You won't be missed, needed, or your absence mourned.
retiring so the next president could operate without concern about people going to Hesburgh for help?
He wrote a book about it - “Travels with Ted & Ned”
Landscape monitors rarely are.
"a person retired from professional life but permitted to retain as an honorary title the rank of the last office held."
KEEP the CLOCK running!
or participation in decision making. So keep the clock running as an ND employee but it sounds like he wants to meddle with NIL, unionization and realignment issues as the big cheese. Think of a very pungent, foul smelling cheese.
They didn’t give me a parking place.
As a freshman, I still remember the first time I saw Ara's Ford (like the commercials) in his parking spot in front of the ACC. Gave me chills...Rick
“Bo Dead: America Mourns” HOF thread.
Seriously, anyone who has ever been in any leadership position knows full well that when you leave you say goodbye to your successor, wish him or her well, and tell them that they have your phone number and email address if they ever need to talk about anything. And you fully expect you will never hear from them.
Once your term is up your only remaining responsibility is to go…just go.
sticking around to look over the new boss' shoulder.
Now he knows he does not have a business partner
he needs to be able to fix the problem that he helped create, and I am sure that he has some friends and family members whom he could hire to help him do just that.
he needs to create a vacuum and then fill it. As popular war advances, peace is closer.
a la Devine or Faust? That was well before my time on campus, to be clear.
Might have to restart the countdown clock.