New Wichita State AD Wishlist

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Characteristics desired from the next AD that our current one is lacking.

[Shock Top]

Gregarious.

Someone that commands the respect and attention in the room.

[abdullah_sharif]

you’ve been spot on cold… here are a few suggestions:

someone who…

commits to true transparency
someone.not afraid to make mistakes, but admits to and corrects them quickly
wants everyone in wichita to know who they are (doesn’t shun spotlight)
is a good fundraiser

we need a jim schaus jr.

or 3g.. i think he’d be a strong candidate should we put aside our biases

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you’ve been spot on cold… here are a few suggestions:

someone who…

commits to true transparency
someone.not afraid to make mistakes, but admits to and corrects them quickly
wants everyone in wichita to know who they are (doesn’t shun spotlight)
is a good fundraiser

we need a jim schaus jr.

or 3g.. i think he’d be a strong candidate should we put aside our biases

Oh my lol. I don't know if 3.5G has the demeanor to be the ambassador of Wichita State athletics. But if he had the right staff, with a really personable assistant, and if he would raise money with the same intensity as he did recruiting... it could be interesting.

I just worry that a hyper-alpha in such a small office would leave no room for other alphas. We need our coaches to be alphas and our athletic directors to be bold, strategic thinkers with ALL the tools in the people skills department.

[Shock Top]

I think 3Gs could work.

He’d damn sure hold coaches accountable and we all know he has the gift of gab.

[Shocktoberfest]

What's Barry Hinson doing?

[abdullah_sharif]

What's Barry Hinson doing?

i like it Shocktoberfest ... "burrah" is a fine ambassador and a better person.

[BostonWu]

Adeft and comfortable with NIL and skillful in bringing back donors.

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What's Barry Hinson doing?

God I loved Barry. But only because of how much he loved us.



Burrah is an analyst at his Alma Mater. We need a guy to lead a team of analysts. BH would fit in GREAT on Shockernet.

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Come home Jim!

In his first year in the role, Schaus spearheaded the creation of a new long-term strategic plan for the league and led the effort to partner with JMI Sports to serve as the SoCon’s official multimedia rights holder.

Schaus also negotiated the SoCon’s entry into the Southeastern Conference’s officiating consortiums for both men’s basketball and football, moves that allow the member conferences to collaborate on all officiating matters related to recruitment, education and training, scheduling and evaluation of officials.

Also aimed at enhancing the league’s men’s basketball success, Schaus implemented a new right-size scheduling model designed to bolster the top teams’ national profiles and put them in position for better seeding and potential at-large bids into the NCAA tournament.

In addition, Schaus shepherded the league through its response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing sport season cancelations and cost-cutting measures.

In year two of Schaus's tenure, the league began its year-long celebration of its 100^th season of competition. It also successfully navigated the COVID pandemic, as every season was completed.

Also in his second year at the helm, Schaus signed historic television contracts with ESPN and CBS Sports, guaranteeing the most linear national coverage the SoCon has ever enjoyed over the next five years. Schaus also successfully negotiated a contract extension to keep the league’s basketball tournaments in Asheville, North Carolina, through 2026.

The league continued to flourish on the national landscape in the second year of the Schaus era, with the SoCon finishing ninth in the RPI and 10th in the NET rankings in men's basketball. The SoCon had a pair of football squads finish in the top 25, marking the 38^th time in 39 years that multiple league schools finished the season nationally ranked.

A point of pride for Schaus and the league continues to be the SoCon Academic Exchange, a cooperative educational program designed to provide collaborative learning activities and opportunities to benefit students, faculty and staff of the member institutions. Plans are in place for the SAE’s inaugural entrepreneurship competition in February 2022, which will join the SoCon Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) and faculty workshops among the SoCon Academic Exchange’s program offerings.

Schaus came to the SoCon after an 11-year run as the director of athletics at Ohio University, where he led the Bobcats to unprecedented levels of success in athletics and academics.

Under Schaus’s leadership, Ohio University’s football program was bowl eligible in all 11 years, the most in the Mid-American Conference, and participated in 10 bowls in that time. The Bobcats’ men’s basketball team made a run to the Sweet Sixteen in 2012 and their women’s basketball program won three MAC East Division titles in his last five seasons. Ohio University’s volleyball team won seven MAC Championships and appeared in five NCAA Regionals during Schaus’s tenure, while the baseball and softball teams earned two MAC titles apiece.

In the classroom, Ohio University boasted an impressive graduation rate of 88 percent, and the athletic department’s federal graduation rate regularly exceeded that of the general student population. Bobcat student-athletes posted a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.1 in all 11 years of Schaus’ tenure.

Prior to his tenure at Ohio University, Schaus served as the athletic director at Wichita State from 1999-2008, where he was named the Division I Central Region AstroTurf AD of the Year in 2007.

[BostonWu]

IIRC JS left to be closer to his ailing father. That was awhile ago. Assuming father is not a factor could we lure him back?

[WstateU]

God I loved Barry. But only because of how much he loved us.



Burrah is an analyst at his Alma Mater. We need a guy to lead a team of analysts. BH would fit in GREAT on Shockernet.

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"I've been tellin' my wife for years, size doesn't matter."

Total deadpan.

***** classic!!!!!

He should have been a Baptist preacher.

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IIRC JS left to be closer to his ailing father. That was awhile ago. Assuming father is not a factor could we lure him back?

It would be worth spending some real coin for. Help him put his retirement in great standing. Come back for 3 years and hire the next Gregg Marshall.

He was making $280k at Ohio in 2019. We might be overpaying Boatsy just a tad.

[asiseeit]

Someone with a clue and proactive rather than clueless with his head you know where