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The Beaver County Times' Mueller enumerates the challenges awaiting newly named Pittsburgh AD Lyke, which include improving attendance at FB games that don't include Penn State, Notre Dame or West Virginia, boosting enthusiasm to increase donor support and finding a way to enhance the atmosphere at Heinz Field. "She must find a way to make Pitt -- you guessed it -- a football school." And, Mueller, posits, she must do it in an area where the best high school talent typically attends Michigan, Ohio State or Penn State. Simultaneously, Lyke is charged with rejuvenating the MBB program. "If southwestern Pennsylvania is not what it used to be for high school football talent, it is a barren desert when it comes to high school basketball. No program, even a low-major, could sustain itself on local talent gleaned from the Pittsburgh metropolitan area." Citing general expectations in the community that Pitt has the potential to be a more significant player in the ACC, Mueller notes that meeting those expectations, "realistic or not, is the job. Oh, and she has to knock it out of the park with fundraising, something that's always more difficult if the football and basketball teams aren't winning." (link)
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Among the factors that contributed to poor attendance at Connecticut MBB games this year, the Huskies' first losing season since 1986-87 is at the top of the list; however, AD Benedict acknowledges that "we need to do a better job. Scheduling is very difficult. We are playing a national schedule and it's requiring us to travel a lot to get the 'home-and-home' games we want. It's a combination of scheduling, TV and start times, the pricing." UConn MBB averaged 8,732 fans, down about 1,700 from last year's average, and that decline also affected the AAC Tournament at the XL Center in Hartford, where overall attendance was down to 27,000 from 45,000 in 2014. TV may not have done the Huskies any favors either, with 9PM weeknight start times or tipoffs on weekday afternoons around the holidays. Benedict: "As a league, we have to look at that. Playing a very important game for us, a conference game, during the AFC Championship week, we probably had less than half our normal crowd. Did I call up and make sure the conference was aware that this isn't good for UConn, isn't good for league? Sure I did." (link)
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Former Alabama FB student-athlete Carter has filed a lawsuit against Florida Atlantic FB HC Kiffin and the state of Florida claiming that a position on Kiffin's staff was rescinded unjustly. Carter alleges that Kiffin misled him into believing he had a position in order to leverage Carter's relationship with a recruit, who ended up committing to FAU. According to the suit, FAU revoked the offer after charges of crimes surfaced. According to Carter's attorney, one charge stems from a 2010 incident in which Carter was in the same vehicle as drug paraphernalia, while a separate incident resulted in Carter serving unsupervised probation after being charged with driving without a license. The suit also claims that FAU hired "numerous assistant football coaches...despite significant publicized criminal and ethics charges and allegations against them," including DL AC Mathies who in 2014 was charged with a DUI. That charge was later reduced to reckless driving. FAU declined to comment. (link)
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During testimony in the state's case against former Penn State Prez Spanier, former AD Curley and former VP Schultz acknowledge that they should have done more in regards to reporting former FB AC Sandusky. Prosecutors argue that all three failed to act despite knowing police had looked into a 1998 report of Sandusky showering with a young boy. Both Curley and Schultz say they believed such reports to be inappropriate but not necessarily criminal, with Curley adding: "I thought Jerry had boundary issues, judgment issues that needed to be addressed." Schultz also testified that the "original plan" was to contact child welfare services, but that he and Curley became "uncomfortable" with that idea after speaking to former FB HC Paterno. Schultz testified that not reporting the information was a "mistake. ... We should have reported it, like the original plan." (link)
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Media: AdAge's Crupi goes in on the Out of Home (OOH) TV ratings measured by Nielsen for ESPN & why they're important. Last year's Rose Bowl saw 1.15M viewers who took in Iowa-Stanford in bars, restaurants, etc., increasing overall eye balls by 9%. SportsCenter from 7a to 10a & the 6p version saw nice gains, as well. Personally, I continue to believe further OOH measurement (which opens to other networks soon) is a big deal in the sports TV ratings debate. (link); Good read on if password sharing is part of the cord-cutting dynamic or not. Some executive believe so, others says it's inconsequential. (link); You should keep your eye on the developing story of advertisers boycotting Google, which basically owns a digital advertising duopoly along with Facebook, as programmic ads for major brands have continued to show up on extremist & offensive content. It's a major issue. (link); @AdContrarian via Twitter, "Heard on the street: McDonald's USA is about to cancel all its Google/YouTube/DoubleClick advertising. This is starting to look serious." (link); Reuters reporter Baysinger: "This YouTube ad "boycott" is certainly giving TV networks a major selling point to buyers right as upfront season begins." (link)
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Also Noticed: UMass Senior Assoc. AD for Administration & Finance Herlihy is headed to USC Aiken (DII) as AD. The appointment will be Herlihy's fourth DII AD job. (link); CLC inks Richmond as the Spiders become the fifth school in the CAA to partner with CLC (Delaware, Drexel, JMU and William & Mary). (link); UAB launches the "Ever Loyal Society" for donors contributing $25K or more. (link); Instagram is over 1M active advertisers. (link); Outfront has partnered with CBS & Turner to show live scores of the NCAA MBB Tourney on digital boards in NYC, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas & D.C. (link); Stanford economist Noll is not convinced the funding plan to bring the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas will work. As noted, a situation that impacts UNLV. (link); Last weekend's NCAA Wrestling Championships drew 8.6M viewers via ESPN. (link); There are athletes, then there's Vanderbilt's Charley who is the first ever to be invited to participate in both Women's Soccer & Track U-23 National teams.(link)
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Clemson Athletic Director Dan Radakovich shares his view on if an AD hiring a new Head Coach should reach-out directly to the AD of the HC candidate for notification of interest. Angles discussed include the use of search firms or legal representation to handle such communication, at what point in the vetting process the call should take place & if generational trends are changing situational dynamics around this topic. Listen by clicking the link. - link (length - 7:29)
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