I have provided my email address for the proper staff or search party to contact me. Based on Jill Geer's press release today, this guy is perfect. If ever there was a candidate so suited for this and has a lifetime of history in our sport. You did everything but call him by name.
Who the F are you talking about? Why so cryptic?
Mmmm, I'm guessing that if he said his name on here every 14 year old dumbass would rip 'em apart with lies and slander. Too many at at USATF HQ who want the job too and would never pass the name on. Maybe the right one will email direct. I would be cryptic, too.
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Mmmm, I'm guessing that if he said his name on here every 14 year old dumbass would rip 'em apart with lies and slander. Too many at at USATF HQ who want the job too and would never pass the name on. Maybe the right one will email direct. I would be cryptic, too.
You fail at being cryptic since you can't figure out how to use a different email address for two different names...
I HOPE that the search is being written for Bill Schmidt and they're going to make the right choice this time (he was passed over in favor of Doug Logan the last time):
His career positions include: Director of Sports at the 1982 World's Fair Knoxville, TN 1982, Director of Development, Stokely Van Camp, Indianapolis, IN 1983, Vice President of Sports at the Los Angeles Olympics, Los Angeles, CA 1984, Vice President of Worldwide Sports Marketing at Gatorade, Chicago, IL 1984-1999, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Oakley Inc., Foothills Ranch, CA 1999 and presently President, Pegasus Sports Marketing, Knoxville, TN. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Exercise, Sport and Leisure Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schmidt
He also has bronze medal from the 1972 Olympics.
Nice try Becca, but I was speaking with the OP after the their post. We were discussing the candidate and, by the way, he is one you would greatly favor.
I was merely trying to bolster the OP's comments. He asked me to include the email for him I did. Being an old fart and a novice with this computer thing, I did. So, I'll try again with a cut and paste.
Please USATF contact
for a very qualified name for the CEO position. The sport needs someone like him.
The job description shows how inept the board is. Read the backgrounds of the borad members on the USATF website. How in the hell did we get that bunch of lightweights and unqualified tadpoles.
In a real sports non-profit Schmidt would be suitable as the Chief of Operations.
The CEO should not be involved in daily details. The CEO should work with New York media moguls for TV deals, mayors and governors for venues and facilities, billion dollar corps for sponsorships, and work with the IOC, IAAF, NCAA.
I think you have to blow the WHOLE thing up and start over from scratch. If you don't, the next CEO is hand-cuffed by people who shouldn't be involved with USATF at all! It's unfortunate that they couldn't hire an external company to make the CEO hire and then give him 1 year to wipe the staff and get his own people...kind of like a real business does when company's are failing.
The chimps on the board have the power at USATF and not the CEO. The CEO title does not fit as it does in other companies.