[Goose]

In the end, the buck, for both good and bad, should stop on his desk, and in my accounting his hiring has, on the whole, been fine, but he has failed at the financial (AD budget deficits), compliance (varsity blues and NCAA sanctions), and stakeholder management (cut sports) aspects of his job. 


BC

I agree that Muir has failed in the areas you mention. Along the lines of "We don't know what went on behind the scenes" some of these failures may not have been his alone. I am all for replacing him with a "better" candidate, but identifying and hiring such a person is also not an exact science. The "Compared to who?" is important in saying Muir must go. I hope they can find such a person, but until they do, Muir will be with us going forward. I suspect they may be looking. If you don't like Stanford's situation, look at what is happening at the University of Arizona. There but for fortune...

[Goose]

In the end, the buck, for both good and bad, should stop on his desk, and in my accounting his hiring has, on the whole, been fine, but he has failed at the financial (AD budget deficits), compliance (varsity blues and NCAA sanctions), and stakeholder management (cut sports) aspects of his job. 


BC

I agree that Muir has failed in the areas you mention. Along the lines of "We don't know what went on behind the scenes" some of these failures may not have been his alone. I am all for replacing him with a "better" candidate, but identifying and hiring such a person is also not an exact science. The "Compared to who?" is important in saying Muir must go. I hope they can find such a person, but until they do, Muir will be with us going forward. I suspect they may be looking. If you don't like Stanford's situation, look at what is happening at the University of Arizona. There but for fortune...