Quote Originally Posted by NWADAWG View Post
I hope and assume he is doing a lot in the background as well as the interviews he's done. Seems super impressive. I will confess my lack of knowledge of his history other than some locations he's been. Does anyone that knows him better have any insight on his experience and how he operates with hires? Just curious what the process might look like if Lemonis continues on same path. Either way, my first impression of him is he will do a good job with it.
I mean he's never been in the big chair before. His experience at both OU and UNC was more on the fundraising side of things and the day to day business of an athletic dept. A bunch of big picture stuff. He's been under two great ADs in Joe Castiglione and Bubba Cunnigham who are some of the most well respected ADs in all of college athletics. It's hard to say what he's seeing with Lemonis. I doubt his feet have been in the same place long enough to really sit down and evaluate the program. That's probably not a popular answer, but this isn't John Cohen. He's not going to have the baseball knowledge of John Cohen or know the history like Stricklin. He's going to be a little bit more like Greg Byrne in the sense that he's a pair of fresh eyes on the product. I don't think he's Byrne because you could tell immediately that Byrne came in and was going to remake the athletic dept in his image. I don't think Selmon will go that route. Luckily for him, he doesn't have 30 years of catching up to do like Byrne did. He just needs to bring us into this decade with some stuff on the marketing side that Cohen just didn't have a clue on.