We have a new athletic director!
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I understand that the equipment crew who work for the band/promoter need to get their stuff out and on the road. But the folks who handle the arena reconfiguration? How much is the BJC used before noon on any given day? And if it takes four hours, as intimated by Sproul, do do the job, why couldn't the folks who do come in at 7AM? Don't see the rush to prepare a facility that will sit unused for 12 or more hours.
Exactly...most of those people setting up and tearing down are local, and just being overseen by some people working for the band.
Okay, all of that makes sense for a concert. But for an athletic event? Those people would be hired/employed by PSU. Would expect their hours to be scheduled reasonably based on need for the facility.
People tend to look at athletic departments in the same way they do profit-making entities. That's appropriate to a certain extent, but "competitive teams per dollar" isn't one of them, particularly when all of the funds are generated internally and two teams underwrite the administration an remaining teams. The questions should be framed in terms of return on dollars spent. Should money go to hire administrators and pay for golf teams or basketball coaching salaries or football facilities improvements? The former have no hope of ever generating any return. The latter, if managed properly, do.
Never said it was, did I? I just don't get bent out of shape over titles as others on this board seem to.
I mention government bloat and you can't resist going idiot political about heath care. I don't give a crap about your or anybodies political views.Take the political crap elsewhere.
Holy shit Barry. Either take your meds, pour a drink, or put down your drink. Please do the opposite of whatever your doing. There is an ongoing refrain on this board about the number of AADs and Sandy's organizational choices.
While you'll never hear me say educational, healthcare, or govt entities need more bureaucracy, someone would seem to need to be in charge of ticket operations. I doubt this is a new job role and I don't much care what their title is.
Hell, they outsource a shitload of it to Ticketmaster and/or Learfield IMG now (I can't remember exactly who's doing what now.... but PSU ICA is paying one or both of them a lot of money to handle such stuff)…. to the point where having anyone at PSU Admin dedicated to such a "job responsibility" (as opposed to having an existing AD provide supervision) is just ludicrous..... but it is what it is.
PSU ICA: "Making FairGambit Enterprises look better by Comparison"
Something else to contemplate: the position went unfilled for over a year. Did the function self-destruct?
Umm, wtf? You responded to a post about "HC bloat" by saying "govt bloat" is #1. I responded by noting that most HC bloat is due to the govt bloat you brought up. I was supporting your assertion. I know it might be hard for you to follow the logic of 2 replies in a conversation or understand the difference between politics and policy, but let's try to be nicer in life, shall we?
"Simple?" There was nothing simple or clear about you rambling on about putting people on ignore. Seriously, get yourself right Barry.
So an assistant ticket manager was performing double-duty as an interim AAD for about a year. The demands of that AAD job must be simply monstrous.
Not at all, just remarking that one person was doing two jobs for a year, which means that one or both jobs couldn't have been that demanding and/or time consuming which translates into one or both of those jobs likely being unnecessary.
Someone left (Jeff)...the #2 (Bryan) stepped into the role of leading while they searched for someone new to run things. That guy then decided to leave, so they have now hired this new guy to run things.
Only with PSU Athletics would people criticize that chain of events, or think they should just ignore the need to fill the position.
Having a little difficulty following this. In the Ticketing function, the #1 guy leaves, and the #2 guy takes over as the interim. So for one year they are down one body/total comp.
Then the #2 guy leaves and they are down two for two or so months. There is no internal candidate to promote, so they hire one from the outside as the #1. Back to being down one body. Has the #2 slot been filled?
The knee-jerk reaction that an open position is automatically filled is that of a bureaucrat. A manager attempting to optimally allocate financial resources looks at it otherwise, particularly if a slot has been open for a year with no deterioration of function.
Only reason there was no deterioration was because of the job Bryan did and that all the sports like hockey, baseball, etc. tickets were all out before he left. I am pretty sure at least not filling at least one of the top 2 positions would very likely lead to some lapses going forward. I would not say this was knee-jerk move in filling this position.
So it seems that they didn't need two people, just one as good as Bryan was. And I was not intimating that both positions should be left vacant.
