Could They Have Picked A Worse Candidate?

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New Northern Iowa AD Troy Dannen Some of you were following this story.I like to make fun of people working in college athletics, because I think it is such a silly profession to work in on many levels. One level of siliness is the process by which ADs are selected and the disasters that selection committees can be. This school had the choice of five different candidates. UAM was one of them. If you take time to google the candidates, you will see that the resume of Troy Dannen is the least impressive and the one candidate least qualified for the job. I guess if you want an AD on the cheap, he is the guy ($155,000 per year).The most qualified candidate by far was a woman named Barbara Walker from Wake Forest. In her interview, she talked a lot about winning and having successful programs. She also works for a guy named Ron Wellman (Ohio native) who just won the Street & Smith AD of the year award. I want an AD committed to winning and not making everyone feel good. UNI probably couldn't afford someone of her quality. She can do better than $155,000 per year if she waits a little while longer. UAM focused on student athletes enjoying playing sports or something like that...the answers published in the paper were not impressive, but UAM is still 100 times more qualified than the guy who got the job. My advice to UAM on his next interview would be to focus on what he is going to do to make each program a winner and stay away from the nonsense that you want to be at that job for the rest of your career as no sane person believes nonsense like that. If you sound desperate, people will think you are desperate. NOBODY at UAM's age wants to live in Iowa for the rest of their life. Anyone who has ever been to Iowa knows what I am talking about. With the exception of some on this board, I don't know many people who would be fooled by that answer.Dannen is going to focus on gender equity. Say goodbye to any hope of winning programs UNI. The focus should be on building winning programs. College athletics just got more silly. I have no idea why I enjoy it so much, but I do.