[teejers1]

Muir should be asked to leave now. Stanford needs a visionary in the AD position and one who can garner the respect of the senior management team. The new AD needs to engage the President and Provost (and the conference and the NCAA) as Stanford will be faced with some stark choices in the coming years and whether it wants to compete in football and MBB at the highest level. The new AD also needs to sell the vision to Stanford's stakeholders outside senior management and be able to garner the financial resources necessary, especially if football is not bring in the income necessary.

Good post; however, I don't think the AD position at Stanford is long for this world.  And the "next world" - the one Stanford University will be competing in athletically - will be all about smaller, non-major, non-revenue, boutique-sports.   Fundamentally, I just don't see how Stanford - as an institution - opts to play in the $$-infested landscape that will be pay-to-play athletes on campus in major sports.  And that's coming.  Soon.

I may be Chicken Little, but that doesn't mean the sky isn't falling! 

[teejers1]

Muir should be asked to leave now. Stanford needs a visionary in the AD position and one who can garner the respect of the senior management team. The new AD needs to engage the President and Provost (and the conference and the NCAA) as Stanford will be faced with some stark choices in the coming years and whether it wants to compete in football and MBB at the highest level. The new AD also needs to sell the vision to Stanford's stakeholders outside senior management and be able to garner the financial resources necessary, especially if football is not bring in the income necessary.

Good post; however, I don't think the AD position at Stanford is long for this world.  And the "next world" - the one Stanford University will be competing in athletically - will be all about smaller, non-major, non-revenue, boutique-sports.   Fundamentally, I just don't see how Stanford - as an institution - opts to play in the $$-infested landscape that will be pay-to-play athletes on campus in major sports.  And that's coming.  Soon.

I may be Chicken Little, but that doesn't mean the sky isn't falling!