[Spiny_Norman]

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 necesssary.

McKenwood, my thinking is much the same as yours. I don't know the inside details of the 11 sports fiasco. But Muir has to take responsibility for it as well as for Varsity Blues and the systemic financial shortfall. It's an axiom in the business world that the leader who got you into a hole cannot get you out. Stanford needs a new leader in Athletics.

Someone like Martin Jarmond at UCLA. It's too early to assess his real impact but to me he is majoring on the majors - football, MBB and alumni/donor relations. He's also injected a ton of energy into a department that had become rather stale. Sound familiar? Here is a recent LA Times article on Jarmond.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/stor...cla-year-1

[Spiny_Norman]

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 necesssary.

McKenwood, my thinking is much the same as yours. I don't know the inside details of the 11 sports fiasco. But Muir has to take responsibility for it as well as for Varsity Blues and the systemic financial shortfall. It's an axiom in the business world that the leader who got you into a hole cannot get you out. Stanford needs a new leader in Athletics.

Someone like Martin Jarmond at UCLA. It's too early to assess his real impact but to me he is majoring on the majors - football, MBB and alumni/donor relations. He's also injected a ton of energy into a department that had become rather stale. Sound familiar? Here is a recent LA Times article on Jarmond.

https://www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/stor...cla-year-1