November 3: Athletic Director Dick Baddour
- Past 6 months
- Describes it as “dramatic”
- ACC expansion
- Wants UNC to hold onto the concept of a broad-based program of 28 sports
- Will bring in additional resources to help improve our sports
- NCAA investigation
- Feels that we’ll be better as a result
- 4 principles
- UNC takes priority
- Fair as possible to the people involved
- Thorough investigation
- Be better
- 5 year financial plan
- Student fee was important in maintenance of our programs
- Blue Zone
- Enables an atmosphere where our student athletes can have the best experience
- Income for scholarship program
- Student athlete services in one place
- Enables an atmosphere where our student athletes can have the best experience
- New AD
- Athletic Directors
- Bob Fetzer
- Chuck Arrison
- Homer Rice
- Bill Colby
- John Swafford
- Dick Baddour
- Bubba Cunningham
- Athletic Directors
- ACC expansion
- Describes it as “dramatic”
- Why did he feel they choose Bubba Cunnigham?
- Baddour helped with a timetable for the new athletic director
- Focused on having someone with some experience
- Is there any one year or event that stands out to you?
- Toughest year was when football and basketball weren’t doing well
- His most exciting year was when he came up with the Carolina Leadership Academy
- Thought about the way the military looked at leadership
- Leaders are made not born
- His background was student affairs so this was great for him in that aspect
- Thought about the way the military looked at leadership
- Do you think they’ll hire a larger scale coach or scale it back because of the NCAA investigation?
- What kind of advisory role will you play in the next few months?
- Wants to physically separate himself from the program
- His office will be at Finley Golf Course
- Wants to get heavily involved in the Leadership Academy
- He feels he’ll be more helpful working with assistant coaches
- Getting ready for higher positions beyond actual coaching
- Wants to physically separate himself from the program
- How does turning an assistant coach into an interim head coach happen?
- Most of the relationships formed are between assistant coaches and players
- When you have a big group like football, continuity matters
- To bring in somebody new with a different philosophy [in such a short amount of time] wouldn’t work
- Importance of work experience and internships
- Most people don’t have a lot of time to develop a person
- Who has the initiative
- If they have experience, it’s better
- Who has the initiative
- Hiring is a lot about what that organization’s direct experience is with you
- Have to get your Master’s degree
- Most people don’t have a lot of time to develop a person
- What does the Carolina way mean to you?
- One word answer: How
- How you do things
- The process by which you get to the end result and how you treat people
- Ex: Winning a championship, changing the culture
- One word answer: How
- What do you think is the greatest challenge to the 28 sports?
- Financial
- What do we not have that UF, Texas, Alabama have that we don’t?
- 100,000 seat football stadium
- Instead, we add a Blue Zone to counter the lack of seats
- What do we not have that UF, Texas, Alabama have that we don’t?
- Would paying the football and basketball player, who seem to be exploited, change the 28 sport system?
- Yes.
- Atlantic Monthly article
- When you lose continuity in a program, you have problems
November 16: Eric Douglass of AES Consultant, LLC
- How did he get into the business
- Find what you love
- Moved to LA after trying to play tennis in Europe
- Began teaching tennis
- Taught the president of the Recording Academy
- Was asked to monetize the seats in the balcony at the Grammy’s
- Thought about creating contests to allow radio stations that would pay for the seats
- Opportunities will present themselves, but it’s what you do with it
- Find an existing relationship
- He formed a small agency and began gaining money from sponsorships
- Began to form relationships with NFL, etc.
- Put a time limit/restraint on what you do
- (you need to pay the bills)
- Get an advanced degree
- It will make you stand out
- You can learn through the process
- The business is about leveraging relationships
- Most of his work is done behind the scenes dealing with agents, etc.
- At a point, it becomes about giving back
- Financial