A New Job Goal

A couple weeks ago I said that I wanted my next job to be as a casting director for Dancing With The Stars because I imagine you get paid a lot of money to sit back while let D-Level stars come to you and beg to put them on your show. However, after reading this article, I have decided instead I want my next job to work as a consultant for a search firm. For those of you who may not feel like clicking through the article, I'll sum it up: Oregon has never been particularly good at basketball, they are about to open a big, new basketball gym and their major boosters, like Phil Knight, want to see some progress on the court. Not wanting to cut off that sweet Nike funding, Oregon is willing to throw a ton of money at this problem and hired a search firm to put together a list of the best possible coaching candidates. After an exhaustive search, the firm came back and told them to throw all the money the can muster at Michigan State's Tom Izzo and make him the highest paid coach in college basketball. Allegedly, other candidates they think Oregon should go after include North Carolina's Roy Williams. Obviously, the search team put a lot of thought into this.

This is the equivalent of a talent agency for a movie studio telling studio executives they should offer every role to Johnny Depp and if he turns them down to try and go after Brad Pitt. Basically, it is the laziest strategy possible. Now, sure, when you have a ton of money to spend you could go after the biggest name. But, I don't need to pay a search firm to tell me that. Also, if you follow college basketball for fifteen minutes then you know Izzo is not leaving Michigan State. He's a Michigan native and was a loyal State assistant for twelve years before getting the head coaching gig. In other words, he's joined at the hip with that university. He turned down offers from a couple NBA teams to stay in East Lansing, so to think he would leave to build a team up in Oregon is pretty ludicrous. For the kind of money that this search team was paid I would have wanted a list of the next up-and-coming assistants or at least a head man at a small school they could woo away with the promise of an increased athletic budget. What they got instead was a fantasy-draft-like list of college basketball coaches. But, on the bright side, I'm sure Izzo can use this to get a raise at Michigan State, so at least someone besides the search firm will make some money in this deal.

-Tonight is the first night of Passover, so Chag kashruth pesach if you are celebrating. Go easy on the manischewitz.

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