CC: Hiring a Coaching Search Agency
Kansas hires Chuck Neinas to aid in its coaching search
Link above got me thinking about the M search: is there any info about getting a head-hunter to provide a short list and vet candidates? I'm not sure if M used an agency in the past for RR or Hoke, but AFAIK they have not. Given the apparent success this firm has had- why not?
November 5th, 2014 at 9:22 PM ^
Give me $100k and I'll tell you who to hire...
November 5th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
I'll do it for $10.
November 5th, 2014 at 10:30 PM ^
I WILL pay Michigan 1k and ill tell who to hire.... Jim Harbaugh
November 5th, 2014 at 11:21 PM ^
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http://www.MuttleyFootballGroup.com/trial?key=mgoblog12345
November 6th, 2014 at 12:45 AM ^
seriously just laughed out loud, needed that
November 5th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
I'll do it for $99,999
November 5th, 2014 at 10:21 PM ^
I've got 99 problems but a Hoke aint one
November 5th, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
A Hoke most definitely is one if you are a Michigan fan
November 5th, 2014 at 9:46 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 7:58 AM ^
Can you clap?
November 5th, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
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November 5th, 2014 at 9:54 PM ^
remember, O-State wanted a coach to be a lifer there; it was assumed by everyone down in Oklahoma that Les was just biding his time until Lloyd retired and he would become the next Michigan HC. he was asked point blank by their defacto AD, T. Boone Pickens, O-State's version of DB, if he would commit to stay. Les did not. TBP encouraged him to start looking for a new job, since they had already had the same talk with Gundy who was a former QB at O-State. Gundy isn't leaving O-State unless they fire him. he will retire from that job.
at the time of the move to LSU, everyone, ncluding Les, thought that Les was going to be our next HC adfter Lloyd, and of course, the rest is history.
November 6th, 2014 at 12:06 AM ^
"Gundy isn't leaving O-State unless they fire him. He will retire from that job." A lot of people who follow OSU (ntosu) football closely don't agree. There's quite a few who think he'll be gone within the next few years. This year, he's a bit screwed (if he wants to jump ship), because the team seems to have regressed as the season has gone on. He's not quite as hot a commodity as he was a few years ago. In fact the offense has only scored two TDs in the past 14 quarters of play. Much of that has to do with a young and inexperienced O-line.
November 5th, 2014 at 9:34 PM ^
November 5th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^
And, you know, a coaching vacancy...
November 5th, 2014 at 9:36 PM ^
Search firms are a scam.
November 5th, 2014 at 10:41 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 11:03 AM ^
A search firm can gauge a potential candidate's interest in a school without verifying the shool is interested in the candidate. This prevents the coach from stringing along the school with the vacancy to extort a raise from his current job. It also keeps the whole process much more discreet. Bill Martin would have done well to hire a firm the day Lloyd indicated he was leaving (or the day Lloyd was indicated to he was leaving).
All that said, flight tracker won't do us much good if a search firm was hired.
November 5th, 2014 at 9:39 PM ^
So we're not getting Harbaugh?!?
November 5th, 2014 at 9:39 PM ^
Michigan is a much more attrractive destination to coach football than Kansas. My guess is that we will most likely use a panel of former coaches and/or players to assist the new AD.
November 5th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
November 5th, 2014 at 10:00 PM ^
Michigan should and will hire an agency to discretely approach candidates. Every large company does this, even with strong internal hires.
The problem is that if an official UM rep contacts anybody then it'll be all over the internet, while if a search rep, who has a handshake agreement with Michigan contacts somebody, it's less likely to be known.
November 6th, 2014 at 6:07 AM ^
Every large company does this, even with strong internal hires.
Sounds like something Dave Brandon would say.
November 5th, 2014 at 9:47 PM ^
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November 5th, 2014 at 9:53 PM ^
November 5th, 2014 at 9:48 PM ^
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November 5th, 2014 at 10:57 PM ^
Mid level school sure, traditional powers not needed.
November 6th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
November 5th, 2014 at 10:12 PM ^
michigan already has a coaching search agency. Its called the AD.
November 5th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
Wonder of this is the same search firm they used to find Charlie Weis?
No doubt that search firm also had a schematic advantage over every other search firm in America.
November 6th, 2014 at 12:55 AM ^
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November 6th, 2014 at 8:45 AM ^
I'm guessing this search firm helped a lot more teams than indicated by the coaches listed in the article, and some of them were likely abysmal failures.
November 6th, 2014 at 8:45 AM ^
I'm guessing this search firm helped a lot more teams than indicated by the coaches listed in the article, and some of them were likely abysmal failures.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^
We could always pull a Rutgers and hire an expensive firm only to ignore all of their advice and give the job to Julie Hermann.
November 6th, 2014 at 10:58 AM ^
"Hi Jim, it's Jiim Hackett."
"Who?"
"Jim Hackett, from Michigan. I'm the interim AD now. I have a whole lot of money to spend on a new coach, and I'm hoping you're interested."
"Is it still cold in Michigan in the winters? I mean, has global warming changed anything yet?"
"Haha, no Jim, but that's a good one. No, it's still cold here in the winter."
"Do you think that you could get a giant dome erected over Ann Arbor to keep it warm in the winter, like California?"
"Heheheh. No, Coach, I don't think so but..."
"I'm sorry, you have the wrong number."
November 6th, 2014 at 1:31 PM ^
Don't need no stinking search firm. Fire Hoke hire Harbaugh. Simple.
November 6th, 2014 at 1:32 PM ^
November 6th, 2014 at 4:47 PM ^
Seconded. We need to hire a sure thing rather than take a gamble on having to do yet another coaching search five seasons from now
November 6th, 2014 at 1:38 PM ^
Anyone connected to Michigan athletics already has a fairly good idea of who the potential candidate pool should be for both the AD and the football coach positions. As others have mentioned above, the main reason you hire one of these firms (whether for the AD search or coaching search) is to keep your fingerprints off the whole thing, at least until the point when you've zeroed in on your top candidate, know there is mutual interest, and can start direct talks/negotiations. It gives both parties (Michigan and potential coaches/ADs) plausible deniability -- statements like "No, I haven't been contacted by Michigan" or "No, we haven't contacted Coach X" become true, at least in a lawyerly-literal sense, when you use a third-party intermediary like this.
Someone above said a high-profile school like Michigan shouldn't need this; actually, our high profile is all the more reason a headhunter/search firm is a good idea. Among other things, I'd guess it can help prevent coaches (and their agents) who aren't really interested in the Michigan job from leaking to the media, "Hey, Michigan approached us about their job!" just to wring a fat new contract/extension out of their current employer.
November 6th, 2014 at 4:54 PM ^
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