My3Cats wrote:Blangiardi and Amemiya would be great as AD, but the big question is, would they be willing to take probable huge pay cuts from their current jobs to take this job and become someone else's puppet on a string?
I hear that Blangiardi would take it in a heartbeat...
It's going to be hard to get him to leave, but $$$$$ talks? Maybe.
What money?
That's for the leaders to decide. This post is about a good AD. Looking at what he has done in University of Arizona, I would go after him.
It doesn't matter what he has done for Arizona... I think Ben Jay had similar vision. It's all about how to overcome the obstacle that has been blocking all the previous AD. And I'm talking about the UH Leadership and State politics.
was at the baseball fundraiser sunday and my friend said BJ spoke on stage. what is his capacity? why even show face if you're not here for long? she wasn't very happy about it and I probably would've had to bite my tongue if I heard him too.
chawan_cut wrote:was at the baseball fundraiser sunday and my friend said BJ spoke on stage. what is his capacity? why even show face if you're not here for long? she wasn't very happy about it and I probably would've had to bite my tongue if I heard him too.
He still is the "AD" technically until June or whenever UH hires his replacement. Basically Jay is in a figurehead position. He is the public face of the UH athletic department but he has no real power as far as I know.
So sad there are still people who think JJ will be coach again here some day. I hope it doesn't happen. He bailed on us only 7 years ago and he does the same to SMU...do we really want that coaching/teaching our kids? I don't, and I hope the fathers of this generation won't allow it happen!
hawaiian wrote:So sad there are still people who think JJ will be coach again here some day. I hope it doesn't happen. He bailed on us only 7 years ago and he does the same to SMU...do we really want that coaching/teaching our kids? I don't, and I hope the fathers of this generation won't allow it happen!
If you spent any amount of time with JJ and talk to former players and staff of his you would know he's a good man beyond football. Sure he can come off as arrogant, hard-headed and standoffish, but not everyone is perfect. If you still got a grudge with him 7 years after he left Hawaii, then I think you got abandonment issues.
Oh yes.....those search committees are the same "study groups" that the state and city spend money on......lame 
