Stadium grades for ADs on past hires. Manuel tanks 7th in B1G

Submitted by jimmyshi03 on June 30th, 2020 at 2:16 PM

https://watchstadium.com/ranking-the-big-ten-ads-with-jeff-goodman-and-brett-mcmurphy-06-16-2020/

Jeff Goodman and Brett McMurphy ranked all ADs on their past hires in the big money sports, football and men’s basketball. 
 

Gene Smith and Barry Alvarez topped the conference. Warde Manuel places seventh, and gets a C- for his football hires, Turner Gil and Jeff Quinn at Buffalo, and Bob Diaco at UConn.

while obviously dealing with a wider and deeper candidate pool should Michigan make a change, maybe slow your roll based on past performance.

 

jimmyshi03

June 30th, 2020 at 4:39 PM ^

Best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. 
 

Now, maybe he has learned from these previous decisions, and, as I stated, he’ll have a much better candidate pool here than he had at either Buffalo or at UConn. And maybe he learned more through the hires he’s made here already. But, if Jim Harbaugh is replaced, as many on this board seem to want, that next hire will be the most important hire for the program since Bo. We have to hope he’s learned those lessons well.

4roses

June 30th, 2020 at 3:10 PM ^

I guess maybe we can give them a pass given the current state of sports and the need to write about something, but good lord do I hate these types of "analysis".    

Wolverine Devotee

June 30th, 2020 at 3:36 PM ^

Mel Pearson- Frozen Four in year 1 just a year removed from a shitshow season

Hannah Nielsen- turned fledgling W Lax program that had yet to have a winning season into top-10 team 

Kevin Conry- Digging M Lax out of disaster start to its program, has gotten Michigan’s first wins against OSU (last meeting) and PSU

M Tennis coach Adam Steinberg left for Arizona State bur Warde convinces him otherwise and he has resurrected Michigan Tennis. Wolverines were #3 before the rest of 2019-20 season was cancelled.

Jennifer Klein- Turned W Soccer program around in just 2 years. Back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a handful of years, beat PSU at PSU which was once impossible and is 4-0 against OSU and MSU

DIDN’T Fire M Soccer coach Chaka Daley when fans and former players were clamoring for it. Chaka proves Warde right by winning the first B1G Championship in M Soccer history, NCAA team every year since and have owned MSU lately. 

Zach Barlow- M Golf has been a wreck for many years. He didn’t even get to finish his first year. He gets at least 6 years imo as he is working against decades of history of institutional neglect. No B1G title since 1952. 

Every hire he has made has either been great or we don’t have enough data yet to assess.