Hermann, a former volleyball coach at Tennessee and administrator at Louisville, seemed like a good hire at Rutgers. As yet, though, no proof of skullduggery - just bad judgment." "One might wonder whether there is a buddy system operating in how schools pick the search firms and whether scarce dollars are being needlessly expended to pick the obvious candidate. "A problem that surfaces in the context of Rutgers and Emmert is, 'How competent are these firms?'" Arthur Miller, chairman of the NYU Sports & Society Program, told USA TODAY Sports. Baker, who parted ways with Parker to start his own search firm, called it a black eye for the search profession. With the school reeling from a player-abuse scandal involving the men's basketball coach, Parker failed to uncover a similar incident in the background search of Julie Hermann, the newly hired athletics director. In recent weeks, Parker's thoroughness has been questioned in its work with Rutgers. I don't think I have an example where it's been quite as tall as that."Įmmert, the NCAA and Parker declined to discuss their relationship. I have had a number of universities come to me regularly, once or twice a year, to do search work for them. The NCAA's relationship with Parker "looks a little incestuous, doesn't it?" said Jerry Baker, a search consultant and former partner of Parker's who says he remains on good terms with Parker. In all, Parker has assisted in filling 12 executive positions with the NCAA in recent years, according to its website.įollow every game: Live NCAA College Football Scores The association hired Emmert, who then turned to Parker again to help conduct searches for several vacancies on his new staff. Two years later, the NCAA paid Parker to find a new president. From there, Emmert's relationship with Parker blossomed. "I concluded the best person suited for this job is the one who had it right now," Emmert said then.ĭespite hiring the guy in the office down the hall, the university paid Parker Executive Search $75,000 for conducting a national search. The search took nine months, finally ending when Emmert decided to hire the man who was on the job as interim athletics director: longtime friend Scott Woodward. To help find his replacement, Emmert hired a search firm run by Dan Parker, an Atlanta consultant who had assisted him in hiring Turner in 2004. His athletics director, Todd Turner, had just quit. In December 2007, University of Washington President Mark Emmert had a problem on his hands. The firm%27s success and power has grown to the point that many in college sports fear speaking out against it.The Parker firm has friends in high places%2C especially at NCAA headquarters%2C where it has done numerous searches.Parker Executive Search has taken some heat after the controversial hiring of Rutgers Athletic Director Julie Hermann.
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