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Angelos applies for LSU's vacant AD position (update: USU too)

I agree with fauowls44. ADs at less prestigious schools frequently seek to move up the ladder. This is just the way the system works, for better or worse. I think he has done well at FAU, and I would hate to see him go. A lot of good things have happened on his watch. But I understand that he is young and ambitious and would like a bigger opportunity, a bigger budget and a more prestigious school. I wish him the best though, as mentioned, I like him where he is. What I do not like, though, is what this might signal about fund-raising and future activities at FAU. And I do not think Coach Schnellenberger has time to be head coach, director of football operations, chief fund-raiser and AD.
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With all deserved respect to Angelos, he is doing the exact same thing the fund-raiser who was fired (with a half-million dollar severance check) did, and Angelos is doing the same exact thing the former band director did (applying to be band director at Purdue).

It's one thing to aspire to a perceived higher job, but another to be perceived as applying for every open I-A A.D. job out there. This is starting to make FAU look bad.
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walty12 said

If he wants to leave so badly, why not just fire him?

Ha ha ha…

im down…ready for CHANGE.
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Fledgling said

What's interesting about all this is Angelos applies to all these jobs and never gets one.

That says something, don't you think?

Well people on here have said that he's a pretty s***** fundraiser… that could be part of it.
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owlcountry said

Fledgling said

What's interesting about all this is Angelos applies to all these jobs and never gets one.

That says something, don't you think?

Well people on here have said that he's a pretty s***** fundraiser… that could be part of it.

At better, bigger schools… AD's have less to do with fundraising and have Athletic Foundations set up solely to raise funds.

Like things, love people.
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Also, the role of FAU's AD will change over the next few years. Angelos was a builder who got us into the SBC (generally a huge step up from I-AA and the A-Sun). Now it's all about raising funds for the next phase. We basically need to replace all our athletic facilities to move beyond the SBC, and this will require a massive campaign – unprecedented in FAU's history. We are supposedly in the middle of this campaign. Were Angelos to leave now it might damage short-term fundraising for athletics (what little there is…).

There is probably a non-significant amount of risk to staying at FAU as well. Angelos has accomplished amazing things here, but if the stadium doesn't go through it will have been for naught.

Why doesn't an independent Athletics Foundation exist for FAU? Isn't that the role of the Owl Club?

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Why are the media and rumor mill so quiet about what is or is not going on the with stadium project and other fund-raising?

Is no news good news?

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BMarkey said

Why are the media and rumor mill so quiet about what is or is not going on th with stadium project and other fund-raising?

Is no news good news?



either one…but it definitely isnt "in the middle"…

its put up or shut up time right now…folks in the fundraising department have alot to work with…

my hunch is that they will either become heros, or zeroes very quickly…
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BMarkey said

With all deserved respect to Angelos, he is doing the exact same thing the fund-raiser who was fired (with a half-million dollar severance check) did,


Davenport was fired because he needed to go, not because he was job shopping. Davenport was a liability and was not working well with other members of the board and foundation. Much of the credit for donations that year was given to Davenport. A huge hunk of it was one donation from Barry Kaye. Brogan is the one that schmoozed Kaye for that donation. He gave the credit to Davenport to avoid bad publicity. Davenport was ready to play the age/race card.


From the statements I read that were given to state officials, I'm glad he's gone.

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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he's a poor fundraiser, the dept. has a ton of unintentional compliance violations and morale in the dept. sucks…
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