It is crazy that search firms are being used to hire athletic directors. It is absolutely nuts that search firms are being used to hire coaches. But it is outrageously absurd that new Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins used a search firm to hire his coaching staff.
Why are college administrators allowed to waste money on search firms to do the job they are hired to do. And come on, Coach Dawkins, if you don’t know 5 people well enough who you think could be good assistants you have no business being a head coach. It is not like you were hiring someone to coach at NJIT for a cup of coffee. You were hiring a staff for Stanford with an unlimited budget. What’s next? Hire a search firm to decide what type of defense and offense to run.
