I think most posting here are aware of my position. A majority of us have worked some type of corporate position or some type of public deal, in the form of municipality, local (state), or fed related gov't agencies. We've come to know and understand what personal and team accountability, systematic measurements in the forms of measurable metrics, and corporate "right" is. In looking several of the current SWAC institutions over, I've leveled that quite a few individuals, in decision making authority as it relates to athletics, are, for lack of a better word, ill-equipped and quite inept in fully yielding only a professional segment of numerous possible attributes their position requires. Also, there seems to be a "good old boy" political climate, ironically of the "black" kind, that exists on SWAC campuses which yields the results of hook-ups or hiring practices where a non-qualified individual is simply placed in a position about the university w/out the required knowledge and skills to carry out what the position requires in the form of a job description. :smh: What’s even more perplexing is the severe lack of desire for improvement by attending consorts, internships for learning, knowledge-txfer related camps/classes @ larger more successful universities.
Prime example for us @ PV (validate the record-I’m off the cuff w/ this one)… hiring a FOOTBALL coach to be the WOMENS BASKETBALL coach where over a 20+ year period, the coach has an atrocious overall winning percentage of 13-14% (if memory serves correct – help me PVers who are in the know from 1982(?)-2003(?)). Granted, in his defense, I think PV offered only 7-8 full-rides where some of those were broken up into partials, if memory serves correct. But still, I hope the former football coach has now learned the ins and outs of basketball and can txfer that knowledge to young ladies if called upon to serve in that position again. :emlaugh:
