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*Update Eddie Nunez Emerges as Strong Candidate for Miami AD Job

NGL ... on its face this is at best an underwhelming hire as AD. Cant spin it any other way given the financial commitments and new vision purportedly at play.

However, with a football savvy Assistant AD overseeing the sport, I am willing to give him a chance.

Now, bring me Mario or Lane.
 
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DMoney said:
What part of Spain do the names James, Eichorst and Hocutt come from?

Nobody here knows anything about any of these guys. It's just emotional whining.
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Don't conflate guys overplaying the Cuban/Hispanic card as a critique or even an insult with blanket "emotional whining".

There are plentyyyy of us that just want a strong resume in that job and couldn't care less where they're from or the lineage of their surname.

Then there are also those that are shortsighted and are fine with a weak candidate or a puppet because they view it as more control for the Columbus Crew.

Mario isn't Sabag here YET. ADs do matter and they certainly matter if you care about other sports at all and don't see the need to sacrifice leadership there even though we all obviously love football exponentially more.
 
jps2344 said:
First off, if you’ve sent me a direct message and I haven’t replied I apologize. It’s important to understand a few things regarding the situation we’re in. First and foremost is this is JF’s decision. I’m no fan of many members of the board of trustees and would love to blame them if this goes wrong. However, doing so would not be true to the situation especially since numerous influential members have made their support of him very clear. 90% of what has been put out so far is either short of information or completely incorrect. Barry J stating these guys, and oh by the way some other he just doesn’t conveniently name, shows the guesswork that’s at play. The names I’ve stated have been contacted and spoken to, period.

I’d love to say I know who the AD will be. I have a gut based on what I know but nothing more at this point. JF is playing this very close to the vest, in part because of the BJ situation being put out there a couple months ago. Right now I regret that decision a bit as I believe more valid and detailed information would be accessible at this point. I am willing to say the timeline looks like tomorrow/Thursday based on some schedule shuffling that’s been going on today which is out of the norm.

I can say there’s two competing thoughts at play here for those that count. The first is bringing in an alpha AD. The second, because this decision is largely but not exclusively football driven (contrary to the buffoons at the Herald), is to have someone who is willing to have pieces around him who have the clout to provide advice. Not sham made up positions advice but actual clout within the various entities in the department. I’d say we are 25% on the first and 75% on the second.

Regardless, I will reiterate that Manny is done just like I said a couple months back when the agreement with BJ for a mutual parting of the ways was happening. The difference is Manny HAS NOT been told such yet. For those worries about the recruiting pics and trail just take a look at how Kelly was with a recruit, on ND’s dime and time, when the news leaked in him. It’s inconsequential and part of the game.

And last but not least. Up until two weeks ago I was not bullish on Mario coming here. To say that has changed is a massive understatement. There have been significant talks between some of those that matter and represent the school. I’m not a betting man but will put out there that I’d be floored if it didn’t happen. The only hang up would be money but as I said before that is NOT an issue contrary to the same old bs that gets kicked around. JF understands what the market is and is not wanting to repeat this process again. Call me nuts, and all will not be happy, but we will be light years ahead of where we were here in about a week.
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Thank you for this update, I see some important likes echo your sentiment ;)

Let’s just hope we can seal the deal.
 
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nunez´s resume is pretty darn good.
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For 14 years, starting in 2003, Nuñez served in a variety of high-level administrative capacities at LSU, one of the nation’s top athletic departments. He also has served as the department’s liaison with LSU Sports Properties, the Tiger Athletic Foundation and University Licensing and Brand Management.

While he held seven positions and titles at LSU, the department continually flourished. Under his guidance, LSU experienced of $400 million in facility renovations and construction, and Nuñez led the renegotiations of a 10-year multi-media rights agreement with Outfront Media Sports.

Additionally, he oversaw the planning and management of the LSU Athletics Strategic Plan, Marketing and Promotions, Athletic Communications, Social and Digital Media, Creative Services, Video/Network Broadcast Services and all capital projects.

While he has made his mark collegiately at LSU, Nuñez began his career as a collegiate administrator at Vanderbilt University, where he was the Director of Game and Event Management. Additionally, he assisted in construction and planning of numerous facility upgrades.
 
I'm not advocating either way but it's just funny that this guy was a stone-faced killer as a Deputy AD at LSU and if we were hiring that candidate, people would be doing backflips.

The discontent is because he decided to go cut his teeth at one of the 10 worst athletic programs in America, won the award for the best AD in the conference this past year, and wouldn't even be over football in this scenario.
 
TimeBum said:
Starting to look like
AD- Gino
AAD- Nunez Alvarez
Dir of Football Ops - Highsmith

Thats a C+
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Núñez isn´t coming here to take a demotion from an AD position to an AAD position

remember the "ú" in Núñez has a diacritic (an accent mark for the troglodytes).
 
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Tad Footeball said:
Don't conflate guys overplaying the Cuban/Hispanic card as a critique or even an insult with blanket "emotional whining".

There are plentyyyy of us that just want a strong resume in that job and couldn't care less where they're from or the lineage of their surname.

Then there are also those that are shortsighted and are fine with a weak candidate or a puppet because they view it as more control for the Columbus Crew.

Mario isn't Sabag here YET. ADs do matter and they certainly matter if you care about other sports at all and don't see the need to sacrifice leadership there even though we all obviously love football exponentially more.
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What is your methodology for evaluating an AD candidate behind a computer?

You don't know anything. Neither do I. It's throwing darts. At least with a coach, we can watch the product. None of us have heard of any of these guys until this week. We aren't in the room and we aren't asking the questions.

As for the "Columbus Crew," the irony is that they are the guys doing everything that message board posters want. They pushed Jurich, they pushed to fire Blake and they are pushing to fire Manny. The three guys most responsible for the Manny hire (who is half-white, doesn't speak Spanish and went to Miami Country Day) were Blake James, David Epstein and Mark Richt.

It's a dumb angle.
 
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streetja said:
So best case scenario Miami's dream is to:

-- Land an AD that's OK having to run things by Zo for football or not be involved in football at all
-- Zo who's here in a super creative, super cool, super only found at one university in the country, GM role for a CFB team
-- Mario as HC, who will be earning 5x as much as Zo, who then needs to collaborate with Zo on how to run the CFB team even though he's done so on his own for the last 5 years.

Do I have this right?

Great job Miami. Way to show the rest of the country that you really do need Miami guys running things down here, because no one else in their right minds would ever agree to such a stupid thing. (y)(y)(y)
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Miami wouldn't be the only school that has a "guy" that oversees or is responsible for football.
 
Ispyin said:
Of course staffers advocating for manny….they don’t want to get fired for sucking like they do.

not exactly news Barry.
bring back @Cribby
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Which is why you need to make these moves quickly. You don’t want this kind of public lobbying going on. It undermines the process.
 
DMoney said:
What is your methodology for evaluating an AD candidate behind a computer?

You don't know anything. Neither do I. It's throwing darts. At least with a coach, we can watch the product. None of us have heard of any of these guys until this week. We aren't in the room and we aren't asking the questions.

As for the "Columbus Crew," the irony is that they are the guys doing everything that message board posters want. They pushed Jurich, they pushed to fire Blake and they are pushing to fire Manny. The three guys most responsible for the Manny hire (who is half-white, doesn't speak Spanish and went to Miami Country Day) were Blake James, David Epstein and Mark Richt.

It's a dumb angle.
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Two people I detest. And one guy who is a great guy but maybe wasn’t thinking clearly long term
 
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