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NEW STORY: Will college athletic departments continue farming it out in a pandemic? Our deep dive into the $$ of college sports consulting, based on hundreds of contracts we FOIA'd and interviews with top officials and consultants. #NCAA #longform https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
Before cutting sports this May, @ECUAthletics paid consultant Dave Hart, the former AD at Tennessee, $31,250/mo over 21 months. Hart's contract was extended twice, including after he installed his former @Vol_Sports deputy as ECU's AD. https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
. @GoCards AD Vince Tyra goes on-the-record discussing the school's much-critiqued hiring of Chuck Smrt and the millions of dollars #UL has spent on NCAA scandal-related third parties: "The legal bills don't come close to what you risk in terms of donations and ticket revenue."
We have lots on @ParkerSearch, including a 2018 letter between firm and @GoDucks AD Rob Mullens, in which the Parker agreed to take 1/2 its fee for the botched hiring of Willie Taggert, who bailed midway thru 1st season at Oregon. @uomatters @kennyjacoby
https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
Helen Grant, college sports' go-to consultant for gender equity issues, says her business is booming amidst pandemic-related sports cuts. She also details how Title IX compliance "becomes a little game you have to play after a while" for schools. #NCAA
https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
. @Vol_Football went into the backyard of an SEC Rival to hire, for $24,000, a mercurial @universityofga natural resources professor (?!) to consult with @CoachJPruitt on UT's recruiting practices. @GoVols247 @btoppmeyer
. @umterps paid “renowned mental conditioning expert” @TrevorMoawad $40K to help head coach Mike Locksley “with messaging in order for players to maintain a positive culture, as well as perspective and motivation.” @Jeff_Ermann @patrick_hruby @EmilyGiam https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
Remember fired NCAA official Julie Roe Lach from the botched Nevin Shapiro investigation at Miami? @HorizonLeague commish says he wanted her so badly as deputy, he let her maintain a full-time consulting practice while earning $200K in her conference job. https://theintercollegiate.com/covid-and-the-college-sports-consultant/
