(10-21-2020 08:36 AM)mrjoolius Wrote:  The coming years are going to be a real challenge for any AD that comes in. While a love and understanding of W&M is a great asset, I'd opt for someone with real experience, someone with established people skills, and someone with an understanding of financing and fund raising at the mid major level. We are far too vulnerable at this point and can't afford a popularity hire. We can't have another miss.

I definitely agree with you but from the outside looking in I don't know why someone with that skillset would take the job. It's unfair but not inaccurate to describe WM as "a school without a national profile in the middle of a budget crisis whose fanbase just ran off their previous AD." I don't know who would step in to that situation unless they had a lot of WM love.