Next Cornell basketball coach

[phillysportsfan]

Cornell put the job posting up, anyone here qualified?

Job Description
Head Coach, Men's Basketball-12409

Description
 

Cornell University is accepting applications for the position of the Robert J. Gallagher '44 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. Responsibilities include the organizing and administering of all phases of a NCAA Division I (Ivy League) program including: recruiting student-athletes; training and preparing athletes for competition; monitoring and supporting the academic success of student-athletes; hiring an assistant coaching staff, supervising and evaluating basketball staff; managing budgets; public relations, fundraising and promotional activities and performing other duties as assigned.

Note: All applicants must apply via Cornell's on-line process in order to be considered.

Qualifications
 

Bachelor's degree required with 5 plus years of experience or equivalent. The successful candidate must have demonstrated knowledge of NCAA rules; high ethical standards; commitment to academic success; excellent organizational and administrative skills; successful coaching experience with a preference for head coaching experience; success in recruiting student-athletes to a basketball program committed to academic and athletic excellence. Visa sponsorship for this position is not available.

**Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until a successful candidate is chosen.**

Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, is an inclusive, dynamic, and innovative Ivy League university and New York's land-grant institution. Its staff, faculty, and students impart an uncommon sense of larger purpose and contribute creative ideas and best practices to further the university's mission of teaching, research, and outreach.


Cornell University is an equal opportunity, affirmative action educator and employer.

Job
-Coaches
Primary Location
-Ithaca
Organization
-Intercollegiate Athletics Adm.
Schedule
-Full-time
Job Type
-Standard
Overtime Status
-Exempt
Contact Name
-José A Delgado
Number of Openings
-1

University Job Title
-Head Coach
Level
-G
Sector*
-Endowed

[upperdeck]

cornell had issues with bigger things than money in keeping the coach here.. and I dont think the million number is  close to correct either..  why give skinner over 2 million a yr and then give the replacement so little?

CC was offering over 2 million  last week have to think BC is in the same range.. perhaps incentive driven with 1 million base?

[Jim Hyla]

cornell had issues with bigger things than money in keeping the coach here.. and I dont think the million number is  close to correct either..  why give skinner over 2 million a yr and then give the replacement so little?

CC was offering over 2 million  last week have to think BC is in the same range.. perhaps incentive driven with 1 million base?

Meaning?

[ugarte]

cornell had issues with bigger things than money in keeping the coach here.. and I dont think the million number is  close to correct either..  why give skinner over 2 million a yr and then give the replacement so little?

Skinner had been the head coach at BC for 13 years, with 9 years at URI before that. When recruiting a guy making ~250K you don't have to offer him the starting salary of the long-time coach he is replacing. I'm sure if they wanted to hire Larry Brown they'd expect to pay more but one of the advantages of hiring and up-and-comer is that the starting salary is going to be lower.

[Swampy]

http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/professional/fred-hill-to-be-fired-by-rutgers-mike-rice-favorite-to-lead-basketball-program

And Rutgers might finally fire Fred Hill after he cursed at the Pitt baseball team during a Rutgers game as his dad is the baseball coach. I wonder if Donahue would have rather gone there as it is much closer to Philly but he would have had to do a lot more work to build Rutgers, although they would have been more patient than BC will be

Listen, have you tried to book a flight from Pittsburgh to anywhere and compared it to booking a flight from Boston? To go to Philly, you can also drive the PA Turnpike for what Google says is a 5-hr trip (10 for both ways), or you can take the Acela from Boston in slightly less time and have a few drinks while reviewing videos of potential recruits on your MacBook Air. At close to $1M per year, the cost of a ticket is not an issue.

On the other hand, there's no question that if Cornell were in the Greater Philly area the fences for this home run would have been a good 100 ft further out. Besides, what's a basketball coach doing using a baseball metaphor? Shouldn't the BC job have been a buzzer beater, a slam dunk, or something like that?

Oh, and a word to anyone from the Sun who might be reading this. For next year's April Fool issue, how about either Cornell leaving the Ivy League to join the Bit Ten or the Ivies going big time with scholarships and "flexible" academic standards. (Maybe even joining the Big East football schools to form a new league. '"I learned Cornell does have a football team." said one Big East coach, "Whodathunkit."')  You can quote Andy Noel as saying he started pushing for this after Donahue left, and he was tired of being beaten by the likes of Kentucky and Syracuse. Just think of the difference even one scholarship player might have made in either the lacrosse NC game or against Kansas in the last minute. Now that we're going big time, we can look forward to kicking some Big Ten butt. It will be like the thirties all over again. Remember, you read it here first.

What are you talking about?, there is no opening at Pitt, there might be an opening at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ, central NJ which is probably an hour, hour and half drive.

And are you just joking, how is there an opening at Temple??? Temple is not going to get rid of Dunphy for awhile

My bad. I didn't click the link and read the article you recommended. Instead, I saw "Pitt" in the first sentence and "there" in the second. So I put 2 + 2 together and made 3. ::bang::

[David Harding]

http://thequad.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/how-cornell-got-so-good/

Interesting two possible head coaching candidates, Fortier and Metz were the major keys to recruiting our current senior class.




One of the final contributions Paul Fortier made as a volunteer assistant coach at Cornell before leaving for Seattle was passing on a recruiting tip about the son of an N.B.A. coach who was looking at Ivy League colleges.

Fortier got the tip from Tom Newell, the son of the former Cal coach Pete Newell, and a friend of Randy Wittman.

 But when Fortier brought Cornell's coach, Steve Donahue, to see Ryan Wittman play, Donahue did not see a critical building block in his program. He saw rejection.

 "We're not going to be able to get him," Fortier recalled Donahue telling him.

 Fortier left for Washington, his alma mater, a few weeks later. But he told Izzi Metz, then a Cornell assistant, "Izzi, keep recruiting him."

 Metz is now the coach at Hobart College, just down the New York State Thruway from here. He had a hand in recruiting a good chunk of the six players who have been with this senior class all four years. (Two players, Jeff Foote and Andre Wilkins, were later added by transfer.)

 Metz helped recruit Jon Jaques and Geoff Reeves, and helped close the deal on Wittman. He said there were two common denominators in Cornell's senior class.

The Ithaca Journal reports that Izzi Metz is out of the race.

Izzi Metz won't be Cornell's next men's basketball coach.

Metz withdrew from consideration after deciding he was happy as the head coach at Division III Hobart, Cornell assistant coach Woody Kampmann said Thursday.

Kampmann was an assistant to Metz at Hobart for the 2006-07 season, before joining Steve Donahue's staff. Kampmann and Metz remain close friends.

Donahue was introduced as Boston College's head coach on Wednesday, ending his 10-year tenure with the Big Red.

In an interview with The Journal on Tuesday, Donahue offered a vote of support for two of his former assistants -- Metz and current University of Washington assistant Paul Fortier.

"I hope they are guys that will get great consideration," Donahue said. "I think both of those guys would be tremendous."

Attempts to reach Metz were not successful.

Cornell director of athletics Andy Noel said Tuesday he hoped to make a decision quickly, though not at the expense of a thorough search. It is Noel's second major job search this school year. He hired Kent Austin to replace Jim Knowles as football coach on Jan. 27.

[phillysportsfan]

I am glad Metz is out of the search, he was here for a few years and then went to D3 Hobart, his alma mater. I know a lot of Patriot/Ivy league coaches come from D3 schools but it seems a little odd for a guy to be a D1 assistant and then to drop down to a D3 head coach job instead of hanging around D1 as an assistant.

I hope they hire Fortier, he was here for 2 years, is currently the top assistant at University of Washington, and played pro ball in Europe for awhile. Fortier had interviewed for the Brown job so it is not a stretch to think he would leave his alma mater for a head coaching job.

[phillysportsfan]

http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20100408/SPORTS03/4080442/1128/Sports/Metz+won+t+follow+Donahue+at+Cornell

Donahue is supporting Metz or Fortier to get the job so with Metz out of the picture, I guess Fortier is probably the leading candidate

[Al DeFlorio]

A bit of perspective from perhaps an unlikely locality: http://blog.al.com/ray-melick/2010/04/a_scientist_worth_more_than_a.html

[billhoward]

Imagine if the president of a public university had to be the most highly compensated person and got bumped up if somebody else made more. "Mister President, the new football coach says $3.5 million or he's staying put at his old job." "Well, all right. No sacrifice is too great for our loyal alumni and students."

[billhoward]

Imagine if it was student fees, not corporate sponsorships or alumni donations or your endowment, that paid for the coach. At Duke, each of the 6600 students would have a line item on their tuition-room-board-activities-fee statement: "Coach K, 2010-2011 - $600"

[Weder]

A bit of perspective from perhaps an unlikely locality: http://blog.al.com/ray-melick/2010/04/a_scientist_worth_more_than_a.html

This got me wondering who makes the most at Cornell. According to the university's 2007 IRS filing, the top five salaries go to med school professors and range from $1.8 million to $3.3 million.

[nyc94]

A bit of perspective from perhaps an unlikely locality: http://blog.al.com/ray-melick/2010/04/a_scientist_worth_more_than_a.html

This got me wondering who makes the most at Cornell. According to the university's 2007 IRS filing, the top five salaries go to med school professors and range from $1.8 million to $3.3 million.

From New York Times, 2/22/2009

Generally, fertility doctors are among the highest paid.

At Cornell, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks of the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility received $3,149,376, and at New York University, Dr. James A. Grifo, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, was paid $2,393,646. Both substantially out-earned their presidents.

And from the Brown Daily Herald, 3/11/2009

the center at Cornell performs over 2,500 in-vitro fertilization procedures every year. According to the center, one in-vitro procedure costs around $8,900.

[Jim Hyla]

A bit of perspective from perhaps an unlikely locality: http://blog.al.com/ray-melick/2010/04/a_scientist_worth_more_than_a.html

And if you want to read more, from InsideHigherEd.

[phillysportsfan]

And another one of our assistants, Woody Kampmann, joins BC as Dir of Basketball Ops, leaving us with Kevin App who has been here one year. Apparently someone interview here today and Fortier still seems to be the favorite