[washingtonismoney]

http://blog.sfgate.com/stanfordsports/20...-stanford/

Don't want to exaggerate the point too much, but hiring Kevin Anderson of Maryland would be a disastrously terrible hire. He's well-known to be a joke in the Beltway neck of the woods. I would rather hire Kevin Anderson, current football player, than Kevin Anderson, Maryland AD.

EDIT: for example, the article claims Anderson didn't realize the state of Maryland's finances. That's one thing, but Anderson's financial management has not exactly been stellar. The team recently spent, like, millions of bucks experimenting with the color of the field turf, trying out black turf and gray turf.

Anderson has a terrible rep with Maryland fans in general. It'd be a terrible hire.

[washingtonismoney]

http://blog.sfgate.com/stanfordsports/20...-stanford/

Don't want to exaggerate the point too much, but hiring Kevin Anderson of Maryland would be a disastrously terrible hire. He's well-known to be a joke in the Beltway neck of the woods. I would rather hire Kevin Anderson, current football player, than Kevin Anderson, Maryland AD.

EDIT: for example, the article claims Anderson didn't realize the state of Maryland's finances. That's one thing, but Anderson's financial management has not exactly been stellar. The team recently spent, like, millions of bucks experimenting with the color of the field turf, trying out black turf and gray turf.

Anderson has a terrible rep with Maryland fans in general. It'd be a terrible hire.

[yvonne]

looks like our No 1 choice said no.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...facilities

[yvonne]

looks like our No 1 choice said no.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...facilities

[yvonne]

Anderson has a terrible rep with Maryland fans in general. It'd be a terrible hire.

There's a Fire Kevin Anderson Facebook page. It has 221 members.

Hiring Anderson would be like hiring Walt Harris, but on an athletics department-wide scale.

[yvonne]

Anderson has a terrible rep with Maryland fans in general. It'd be a terrible hire.

There's a Fire Kevin Anderson Facebook page. It has 221 members.

Hiring Anderson would be like hiring Walt Harris, but on an athletics department-wide scale.

[washingtonismoney]

looks like our No 1 choice said no.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...facilities

Well, that's his agent's side of the story. And it's a good story if you gets you a raise in pay and a bigger budget.

[washingtonismoney]

looks like our No 1 choice said no.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-...facilities

Well, that's his agent's side of the story. And it's a good story if you gets you a raise in pay and a bigger budget.

[doublespiral]

If he had any say in the football team's Jekyll & Hyde uniforms last year, that would be another strike against him.

[doublespiral]

If he had any say in the football team's Jekyll & Hyde uniforms last year, that would be another strike against him.

[76lsjumb]

From the blog post:

Anderson, 57, was the first African American to become AD at Maryland. He is currently the first vice president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and will move up to president of that organization next year.

Wait a minute..."National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics"?  That would be "NACDA," right?  Hhhmmm...NACDA?  Where have I heard of NACDA?  Oh, that's right...

I don't know anything about the guy, but the instant analysis here doesn't sound promising.  If that analysis is accurate, though, it looks like that organization might finally have come up with a way to keep us from winning the Director's Cup...

[76lsjumb]

From the blog post:

Anderson, 57, was the first African American to become AD at Maryland. He is currently the first vice president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and will move up to president of that organization next year.

Wait a minute..."National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics"?  That would be "NACDA," right?  Hhhmmm...NACDA?  Where have I heard of NACDA?  Oh, that's right...

I don't know anything about the guy, but the instant analysis here doesn't sound promising.  If that analysis is accurate, though, it looks like that organization might finally have come up with a way to keep us from winning the Director's Cup...

[71Bear]

Anderson is a loser.  He made a coaching move at MD that would have made Ted Leland blush (and considering the Buddy and Walt fiasco's, that would have taken some doing).

By firing the Fridge and hiring a nobody from UConn, he set the MD program back years.

Rule 1 when you fire someone - always have a replacement lined up who is better.  Anderson didn't and the Maryland program is suffering as a result...

Having said that, I have not been following LSJU's search for a new AD.  Therefore, I don't have a clue whether Anderson is a serious candidate (and I can't believe the Cardinal would be that stupid). 

[71Bear]

Anderson is a loser.  He made a coaching move at MD that would have made Ted Leland blush (and considering the Buddy and Walt fiasco's, that would have taken some doing).

By firing the Fridge and hiring a nobody from UConn, he set the MD program back years.

Rule 1 when you fire someone - always have a replacement lined up who is better.  Anderson didn't and the Maryland program is suffering as a result...

Having said that, I have not been following LSJU's search for a new AD.  Therefore, I don't have a clue whether Anderson is a serious candidate (and I can't believe the Cardinal would be that stupid). 

[washingtonismoney]

Anderson super-botched the Fridge firing. Yeah, Fridge was mediocre--but he'd just given the school a 9-4 season IIRC. Well, Anderson botched the hiring process twice:

1) He didn't hire the coach-in-waiting, James Franklin, who had an excellent first season (and recruiting season) for Vanderbilt, and gives off some Harbaughian vibes.

2) He almost hired Mike Leach and screwed up.

3) Leaving him with Randy Edsall, whose biography and tribulations at Maryland have Idiotfacian undertones. Mediocre champ of a small-time Big East conference? CHECK. Blown out in big bowl directly preceding move? CHECK. Immediate player dissension and chaos? Well...he accelerated the Idiotface there, but CHECK.

(Still, as far as I know, he hasn't uttered a line as legendary as Idiotface's "No guns in the locker room.")

[washingtonismoney]

Anderson super-botched the Fridge firing. Yeah, Fridge was mediocre--but he'd just given the school a 9-4 season IIRC. Well, Anderson botched the hiring process twice:

1) He didn't hire the coach-in-waiting, James Franklin, who had an excellent first season (and recruiting season) for Vanderbilt, and gives off some Harbaughian vibes.

2) He almost hired Mike Leach and screwed up.

3) Leaving him with Randy Edsall, whose biography and tribulations at Maryland have Idiotfacian undertones. Mediocre champ of a small-time Big East conference? CHECK. Blown out in big bowl directly preceding move? CHECK. Immediate player dissension and chaos? Well...he accelerated the Idiotface there, but CHECK.

(Still, as far as I know, he hasn't uttered a line as legendary as Idiotface's "No guns in the locker room.")