Panel selects 5 Finalists for NDSU President

[El_Chapo]

Remind me again, what year did you graduate?

right b4 2000

[PickedBess]

Chapo looks like y'all are gunna get


The Weenie

It's gunna be great.��

[NDSU_grad]

I feel like he'd have dual loyalty. In athletics, he wouldn't be willing to have NDSU go it alone if needed to move forward.

No offense but that’s not how grown-ups function in the professional world. A position of this magnitude is about leadership, how you build and support teams, development, and a vision that you hold about whatever your industry you’re in.
If you convey that vision and have the leadership skills to execute it you’re the guy. His experience at UND can only be looked at as a plus in this instance. Particularly since his time there was perceived so positively.

[PickedBess]

They say history repeats itself

Bob Entizon

[PickedBess]

I remember hearing these same things, seeing all the hand wringing, etc when Joe Chapman retired. Things turned out alright then and I think we'll be alright this time as well. I doubt any president wants to be remembered as the person who killed off Bison football. Just don't hire the asshole connected to und. I still remember Bob Entzion.

I forgot you posted that

[ByeSonBusiness]

I feel like he'd have dual loyalty. In athletics, he wouldn't be willing to have NDSU go it alone if needed to move forward.

This seems like a conspiracy theory.

[southcliffbison]

They say history repeats itself

Bob Entizon

.....only if you don't learn from it.....

[Professorbum]

This seems like a conspiracy theory.

I'm not talking conspiracy. There's no plot afoot. Just human nature. There's going to be a lot of pressure from the BoHE to be a "team" player. It will take some leadership to draw the lines for the board as to what is a legitimate team player expectation and what isn't. If you already have a significant fondness for our chief rival in the state, then you will more easily succumb to placating the board and that other institution.

[Hansel]

Anyone else thinking it will be Holz-Clause?

[bisonaudit]

I'm not talking conspiracy. There's no plot afoot. Just human nature. There's going to be a lot of pressure from the BoHE to be a "team" player. It will take some leadership to draw the lines for the board as to what is a legitimate team player expectation and what isn't. If you already have a significant fondness for our chief rival in the state, then you will more easily succumb to placating the board and that other institution.

Or, the fact that he has no animosity toward the school up north gives his position currency with people who may otherwise have their Kelly green and pink blinders on when it comes to certain issues.