Per Chris Baysden and the TBJ:
The search committee assigned to help identify North Carolina State University’s next athletics director submitted several names for consideration to Chancellor Randy Woodson on Monday.
Committee Chairman Smedes York says that between five and 10 names have been submitted, but he wouldn’t say exactly how many or identify any names on the list. The move was an about-face from the committee’s previously stated intentions of supplying three names to the chancellor for consideration as a replacement for Lee Fowler, who will step down at the end of the month.
Earlier today on 620TheBuzz, Mark Thomas specifically gave the number of candidates as six in his report, though I’m not sure where he got that number from.
Interesting that the committee brought a larger-than-expected number to Woodson. I’m not quite sure what that means.
The optimist in me thinks that means the search firm identified SO MANY great candidates that whittling the list down to just three would be impossible. I think that’s entirely possible.
The pessimist in me thinks the committee didn’t quite know what to prioritize in their candidates, and felt like giving Woodson more choices rather than fewer would prevent accidentally tossing out a candidate that Woodson might prefer.
It’s probably true what committee chair Smedes York said: They wanted to give the chancellor more latitude in his decision making process. Given that they just met the man a few months ago, there’s still a great deal of getting-to-know-you time that needs to be traversed.
But I have to think that Woodson is a bit disappointed that they were given a direct mandate (to find the three best, beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt, candidates) and either ignored it or failed at it. Chancellor Randy seems like a VERY results-oriented guy, and when the committee failed to produce the results he looked for, I have to believe he lost just a little faith in their abilities to handle the task at hand.
Certainly he’s not upset. He’ll say the right things and mean them.
But just as when you ask your kids to clean their rooms and they only clean it half-way, or miss some obvious toys lying about, you praise them for their effort but realize they’re not capable to do the job up to your satisfaction just yet. It just means they left a little bit more work for you the parent, just as Woodson now needs to conduct twice as many interviews as he anticipated.
I’m perhaps reading too much in and looking for a reason to be concerned (I’m a lifelong State fan, after all). I’m certain all six (or so) candidates are highly qualified for the position and Woodson will find the man that best suits him and the university.
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