You’re not alone. An AD in this era is a new job with some holdover responsibilities. Very few know much about it because NIL and corporate branding sales are new job requirements.
If you are at UT or A&M, money is there for the asking. Almost everyone else has to hustle for dollars. I’d rather hire for fundraising first, then backfill with competent administrators for the everyday functioning of the athletics department.
However, I get your choice to hire a salesforce. These choices are what Renu and TF will be wrestling with. Glad it’s not up to me.
Except for JJ, everyone else in the last few posts is exactly the same type of AD we just fired. We will be in the same place a few years from now, which is almost DFL.
Success in college sports is now about NIL and corporate sponsorships. It is no longer about facilities or training table or tutoring. Those things being good enough is a given.
Players need to get paid, and we need to find that money in places we haven’t tapped out.
It is silly for anyone to believe UH is close to maxed out in terms of revenue. There is plenty of oil in this town and surrounding areas. We just got to explore, drill, and churn! Pezman was more like the middle manager facilities guy who thought he did great reducing costs and operating within the budget. We need a person with a CEO mentality.
Indeed. Gotta get outside the circle of the aging donor base and court corporate money. Provide real value for the NIL dollars, which are really advertising dollars. That’s it. That’s what will work.
Maybe she can say that the Justice Department is coming after her and will give her the electric chair. All donated money goes to UH. Half to athletics.
You must be joking…I know Dr. Khator made repeated trips to Austin and countless phone calls and meetings to secure support for Proposition 5, the Texas University Fund, a $3.9B endowment split among certain state schools. UH will get approximately $50M, the first year, and additional funding in future years.
After decades of being ignored by the legislature by multiple UH Presidents, Dr. Khator is the one who got it done. That is my definition of “insanely well”.
I did non-profit fundraising for a while after I retired. There is one question that must be answered before the $$s roll, how does this benefit XYZ corporation? Why do you think Memorial-Herman wanted their name on the Football ops building? It wasn’t for grins. Someone sold them that it will increase the credibility of their health care. Some smart person needs to figure out how to package support of UH athletics as good for YZD corporation. I don’t get the feeling that UH has played this game well in the past. Frankly, the NIL makes this a really hard sell, unless you’re selling a national power like basketball. Nobody likes being associated with losers (hint, hint…baseball).
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I don’t think that question was about Dr. Khator at all.
