[lex24]

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! 

Maybe.  But I expect some work around. The name and likeness issue is easily avoided. Don’t market individuals. That avoids the University having to pay. The athletes themselves will be able to cash in through social media etc. It will be interesting to see how universities work around the issue on things like promoting players for awards, billboards (Stanford of course always puts their top players on the billboard. I expect that to change) radio ads etc. They are going to have to become a generic, I think. They no longer will promote individual players in selling tickets etc.

If it becomes an employee issue, college sports as we know them are gone.  So there is going to have to be some negotiation to work out a viable solution. Interesting to see if Congress gets involved.

[lex24]

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! 

Maybe.  But I expect some work around. The name and likeness issue is easily avoided. Don’t market individuals. That avoids the University having to pay. The athletes themselves will be able to cash in through social media etc. It will be interesting to see how universities work around the issue on things like promoting players for awards, billboards (Stanford of course always puts their top players on the billboard. I expect that to change) radio ads etc. They are going to have to become a generic, I think. They no longer will promote individual players in selling tickets etc.

If it becomes an employee issue, college sports as we know them are gone.  So there is going to have to be some negotiation to work out a viable solution. Interesting to see if Congress gets involved.