Misery Loves Company: 2010 Version Georgia

[real turf fan]

The article's by Finebaum, but there is some stuff in it:
First a look at what bringing a new AD into a system does to the then-current Football Coaches longevity.
However, anyone who thinks a new boss will be good for Richt has not been paying close attention to recent SEC history


Richt has another friend in high places in President Michael Adams. However, Adams' credibility is just behind BP on the non-existent meter.

It was Adams who staked his own reputation on the hiring of Evans after the despicable and indefensible manner in which he fired Vince Dooley. Adams has been the Teflon president for most of his tenure. However, it's quickly coming apart and one of the biggest bloviators in academia -- and that's saying something -- is slouching towards trouble.

Recently, Adams made a feverish run at the NCAA presidency (he was close to former chief Myles Brand, who died of cancer). He may have even pulled it off until an eviscerating article came out in the Boston Globe that shredded his chances.



Nothing like uncertainties to screw up planning.

[real turf fan]

The firm was Deloitte & Touche, whose fraud and forensics unit submitted a finding in October 2003 that was, at the least, eye-opening, and, at worst, suggestive of a troubling pattern of arbitrary behavior on the part of President Adams that caused him to be labeled by many people in the school community an “Imperial CEO.’’ But the Board of Regents, greatly influenced by Michael Adams, denounced the report as “deeply flawed,’’ and directed its ire at Deloitte & Touche, rather than at Michael Adams.

Financial impropriety was front and center. Deloitte & Touche found that Mr. Adams had been quite cavalier with the use of both university and foundation funds. His abuses ranged from chartering an airplane to get himself and friends to and from one of George W. Bush’s inaugurations, and included, but were not limited to, various uses of foundation credit cards, and assorted examples of billing the university to fund his lavish lifestyle.




But if the NCAA people want to investigate Adams for themselves, all they need do is pick up a book written by the late Rich Whitt titled, “Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia.’’ (NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Ala.) It’s all there, in exquisite detail.

“If one-tenth of what’s in that book is true,’’ said an industry insider who is trying to spread the anti-Adams gospel, “the man must be stopped. You read that book and you say, ‘You’re [bleeping] me.’ ’’

Both Miller and Ponsoldt are mystified that the NCAA would even consider Adams as a candidate for its most important job.

“The charges against him all come back to integrity,’’ said Miller.

C’mon, NCAA. Wake up. You can do better than Michael Adams.


Interesting distraction good for a bit of attention, but not a lot.



http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2010/03/28/ncaa_should_use_a_presidential_veto_here/