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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2019 16:12:23 GMT -5
Lots of experience in finance not as much in running an athletic department. Is this Nate Pine 2.0? Not really, Nate Pine's background was 1.) fundraising and big capital projects; 2.) marketing, 3.) administration.. E.g., That background gave Pine credibility with donors, who were waiting in the wings.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 14, 2019 16:15:07 GMT -5
Lots of experience in finance not as much in running an athletic department. Is this Nate Pine 2.0? The haters are in conference now. They’ll be back to expand upon your point after their meeting concludes
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Post by thecrossisback on May 14, 2019 16:21:23 GMT -5
Leaving BC on good terms and being very respected by them, might allow him to schedule some more games against them.
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Post by crusader12 on May 14, 2019 16:22:13 GMT -5
Welcome to the Hill ADMB.
While I hope for a long successful career at HC two concerns: 1.) will he use HC as a stepping stone much like FADNP did to further his own interest. 2.) Could be a lack of demonstrated ability to hire the right coaches for a niche D1 school like HC
Hope he proves me wrong on both subjects.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2019 16:23:35 GMT -5
The introduction of ADMB will be videocast tomorrow on the PL network.
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Post by hc87 on May 14, 2019 16:25:48 GMT -5
Blossom seems like a solid choice...like his basketball background. I just think Gordie would have been a better person for the position. Beats the other choice (for me anyway) by a wide margin. Hopefully he brings EJ Perry to Wisstah with him.
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Post by alum on May 14, 2019 16:25:59 GMT -5
Count me as quite impressed.
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Post by joe on May 14, 2019 16:39:15 GMT -5
I’m pleased. Like the BC lineage. Bring a QB with you please.
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Post by alum on May 14, 2019 16:40:20 GMT -5
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Post by HC92 on May 14, 2019 17:19:19 GMT -5
Looks good to me. Welcome, Marcus.
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Post by longsuffering on May 14, 2019 17:27:35 GMT -5
Fabulous choice. I just read the email and my only nit to pick is with the email, not our new AD. It says HC is an Associate member of the AHA and WHEA. Aren't we full members of both of these hockey only leagues? Or perhaps because we only have a women's program in Hockey East we are an Associate member? In any case Mr. Blossom put the effort in to get three relevant degrees for his chosen career and you can't finesse things when you are the business manager. The books have to balance. It's not like being an Associate AD for external relations or something that is less measurable. His basketball experience should be an asset when decisions need to be made in those two programs and BC has strong M&W Hockey programs so I am glad we didn't hire someone from a school without hockey or with low level hockey. I was pro-Gordie and am now pro-Marcus Blossom. I also hope Father B. gets credit for a good decision. He needed a victory. Thanks to him and the committee.
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Post by bigfan on May 14, 2019 17:38:15 GMT -5
I hope that the hire is not only for fund raising but to improve our top sports, football, men & woman basketball, join Hockey East for men and baseball.
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Post by cmo on May 14, 2019 17:42:56 GMT -5
No single individual should bear the burden and pressure to elevate our Athletics program on his/her own. Welcome to Worcester Marcus and I hope for your sake, ours, and the college at large that your tenure here is long and successful. For that to happen, I might only hope that Marcus truly gets ALL the support necessary from all other divisions within the college and especially the other members of PB's Executive Committee. If/when everybody does not share the vision of a true commitment to athletic excellence, then you could have an AD who can walk on water and we will still under perform. In order of priority, I would think Marcus needs to address the following: 1. Hockey East 2. Men's hoop coach 3. Women's hoop coach Let's Win!! 4. Hart Center concession stand
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Post by spenser on May 14, 2019 17:48:55 GMT -5
Now that Blossom has been named, I’m curious to hear more from those who claimed to be ‘in the know’ earlier this week and were suggesting that the hire was unqualified. His resume seems to check a lot of boxes: he has been rising through the athletic administration ranks, presumably has a nice network of contacts within New England particularly, and played D1 basketball. He was also an excellent student and can relate to that balance as required at HC. That’s all very compelling in a candidate. Interesting, his weakness appears to be a lack of exposure to the football side (snicker snicker BC), but hopefully we have addressed that near term need with the Chesney hire. But please, tell me why this guy is unqualified, since you clearly know more than the rest of us. This sounds like an excellent hire. Terrific, relevant background. We should all wish him the best!!
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Post by cruskater31 on May 14, 2019 18:59:44 GMT -5
Love that we hired another person whose background is something other than athletic operations. Maybe our next AD will be the former Assistant Athletic Director for Compliance or some other administrative role.
At least he was from a hockey school. For a basketball player of some prominence, BC sure struggled.
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Post by unhfan on May 14, 2019 19:03:28 GMT -5
Lots of experience in finance not as much in running an athletic department. Is this Nate Pine 2.0? The haters are in conference now. They’ll be back to expand upon your point after their meeting concludes 😂 you guys are cute how excited you are over this AD. I remember the same excitement when a certain MBB coach was hired and now you want to run him out of town. I just can’t believe this board being ok with a ad who worked for the big brother BC. I hope it works out but this board falls in and out of love so quickly it’s like a soap opera.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on May 14, 2019 19:09:56 GMT -5
Because we will most assuredly be hiring a new men's basketball coach (and women's, too, potentially) in the next year or so, I really like how he understands basketball and, presumably, knows what a good coach looks like.
As another poster mentioned, his ascension in college athletics has been mostly around finance. I would have hoped that he had more experience hiring coaches since I think we are going to have to replace several coaches in programs in order to elevate some of our sports teams. Brendan Sullivan seems well equipped for being the bean counter in the athletic department.
Marcus is definitely a better hire than a couple of the other names I heard who were finalists, although I still think there were better options out there that -- for one reason or another -- were not given greater consideration for the role. Kind of amazing some are claiming this to be a grand slam hire -- not exactly seeing that. Although, in typical HC fashion, I thought we would have done worse.
Let's see if given his familiarity with HE given his time at BC and PC, he is able to navigate those waters better than his predecessor.
A few thoughts --
If what to do with the men's basketball coach and how we handle the men's hockey program's league affiliation are important decisions that need to be made, it seems like Blossom is well-positioned given the schools he has been at along the way, along with his experience playing college hoops, to help here.
ADMB was at PC when Berard was there. I wonder what his relationship is like with DB and how that would affect his decision-making when it comes to hiring a new coach.
Will the social media videos and graphics continue to be as strong now as they were under Pine? Probably one of Pine's best attributes as the former AD.
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Post by JRGNYR on May 14, 2019 19:10:09 GMT -5
Don’t know Marcus personally but he’s worked with a lot of really well-respected ADs, including Bob Driscoll at Providence. That bodes well.
I hope he does great things at HC.
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Post by bison137 on May 14, 2019 19:57:06 GMT -5
Congrats on the new hire. With a BC guy running the show, does that mean next year's basketball coach will be Al Skinner? .
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Post by bringbackcaro on May 14, 2019 20:30:20 GMT -5
Will hold out final judgement until actually hearing the guy speak, but certainly a better hire than some other finalists. However, there were also people who wanted the job who would have really been a home run, while this guy seems more like a double.
Quick Pros: -Successful athlete and student at Northeastern -Should hopefully have a good lay of the land in New England from his time at Northeastern, Brown, Providence, and BC -As much as people around here still dislike/are jealous of BC around here, they have had the ball rolling in a positive direction (unlike HC) for the past few years -He's not Nate Pine or Brendan Sullivan -Doesn't look like he has been active on Twitter since 2017, so I am hoping this is an end of the nauseating emoji & thesaurus filled tweets from Pine & Sully
Quick Cons: -His administration experience has been almost exclusively in the bean counting department, and we have not had a good experience with our last two bean counters -- Regan and Sully. -He does not appear to be in a position to drive significant changes to the status quo of the HC athletic department with TPTB
First order of business: end the Carmody dumpster fire. Good luck, Marcus!
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on May 14, 2019 20:53:47 GMT -5
The haters are in conference now. They’ll be back to expand upon your point after their meeting concludes 😂 you guys are cute how excited you are over this AD. I remember the same excitement when a certain MBB coach was hired and now you want to run him out of town. I just can’t believe this board being ok with a ad who worked for the big brother BC. I hope it works out but this board falls in and out of love so quickly it’s like a soap opera. We love that you contribute to our board, but you can back off with the “big brother bc” nonsense.
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Post by unhfan on May 14, 2019 21:30:31 GMT -5
😂 you guys are cute how excited you are over this AD. I remember the same excitement when a certain MBB coach was hired and now you want to run him out of town. I just can’t believe this board being ok with a ad who worked for the big brother BC. I hope it works out but this board falls in and out of love so quickly it’s like a soap opera. We love that you contribute to our board, but you can back off with the “big brother bc” nonsense. With all due respect in 2019 that’s the way it is in athletics.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on May 14, 2019 21:36:39 GMT -5
The search committee was headed by John Mahoney, former chair of the BoT. He is no longer on the BoT, nor is he a a member of the advisory committee to the BoT. ____________________________ I'm curious.
For those who claim to know the identities of the other finalists, could you indicate their background in a general sort of way: i.e., are they at a FBS school, FCS school, Div I without football, Div II, Div III, not presently at a college university? does the school have a small, medium, large enrollment? is it public or private? Not looking for names or the name of the schools, simply a sense of the experience level / bachround of a finalist
I'm curious because no one claiming to have knowledge of the finalists singled out a finalist who looked better than the rest. The finalists were collectively characterized -- and I'm paraphrasing -- as underqualified, less than inspiring, weak resumes, etc.
This leads me to conclude: 1.) either nobody knew Blossom by name or present position;, or 2.) they knew Blossom by name or present position, but didn't do any 'research' on him . or 3.) they did research him, and found his qualifications lacking.
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Post by joshua on May 14, 2019 21:38:32 GMT -5
I like this hire and I think ad blossom needs to def get some new coaches in here that will turn programs around and put them in the right direction and have mens hockey go to hockey east
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Post by gks on May 14, 2019 22:16:39 GMT -5
Best of luck to the new AD. Holy Cross athletics needs a kick in the can...hopefully he can do it.
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