(02-09-2018 08:40 PM)Dasville Wrote:  

(02-09-2018 12:47 PM)Lenvillecards Wrote:  UofL Interim AD Tyra announces some AD restructuring at a news conference on Thursday, before the GT basketball game at the Yum. He also updated the PJCS expansion & stated that the actual seating expansion is actually closer to 6000 instead of the 10000 reported earlier. 5,171 chair-back seats, that includes 1,492 seats in the lower deck, 272 Loge seats, 357 at Club level and 446 at the Mezzanine level, plus 2,564 in the upper deck and 40 ADA and companion seats throughout the expansion.

Also as part of the restructuring, he cut his own salary by $350,000 & fired 3 people from within the AD which included Tom Jurich son Mark. Those being let go included senior associate athletic director Mark Jurich and associate athletic directors Julianne Waldron and Kim Maffett. The salaries of Jurich ($154,260), Waldron ($151,368) and Maffett ($180,200) total $485,828.

UofL men's soccer coach Ken Lolla has been signed to a 5 year extension with enhancements. Also signing extensions are volleyball coach Dani Busboom Kelly and women’s soccer coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.courier.../321430002

http://www.wdrb.com/story/37463984/crawf...conference

Tyra also said that he would be comfortable in hiring the next basketball coach, interim or not.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.courier.../321702002


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Fair summation. Wish VT would have acknowledged how much Mark and the others secured for the University. Everybody hates the top producers!
I agree UofL is a top ACC program no matter the qualifications or experience of the AD so the self compensation pay cut is a nice gesture if it wasn't built in from the beginning. Whether it's VT or somebody else (I personally hope we hire a female permanent AD) proof in the pudding is retaining a high level coach when suitors come a calling. Especially if they are bonafide!


Seating capacity "reveal" was just a knock on reputation. TJ was an"exaggerator" right?
Very fair and while VT has been involved in UofL decision making for a long time I think he is doing an admirable job given the task he was charged with.
Jmo.

Without knowing the specifics for his decision as to who to let go & without knowing the credentials of everyone within the AD, I do find it odd that the two highest ranked women in the AD & Mark were the ones selected. Waldron & Maffett were up for the interim AD title, or at least should have been. From what I hear, Mark was going to resign at the end of the school year anyway so why the rush there? Generally I think VT is doing a good job but I think you're right that the proof will be in the pudding. I do think this announcement tells us about the level of a DC Bobby was able to go after with the cuts to the AD budget.


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