The first rule of Parker Executive Search is that you don’t talk about Parker Executive Search. Northern Illinois Athletic Director Jim Phillips quickly rattled off his reasons for hiring PES to assist in his search. “Five things that to me were really important in this search that Dan Parker and his team were able to […]
Chuck Neinas
Murphy: “The consultant did the work”
Love it. Read into it what you will…but Murphy’s comments are pretty spot on. This is from ACC Sports Journal’s website: “(The NCSU football search) was done professionally, and it was done quietly. The consultant did the work, Lee (Fowler) kept it quiet, and no one was tracking my airplane on the internet. … I […]
Neinas in the News
A fantastic piece on Chuck Neinas and the general concept of hiring ‘search firms’ in college athletics from USA Today. The president of Neinas Sports Services in Boulder, Colo., has handled six coaching searches this season alone. He’s leading the hunt to fill vacancies at Alabama and Louisiana Tech. He recently has completed four coaching […]
Chip Alexander On The Coaching Search
RALEIGH – It began, Lee Fowler said, with a cell-phone call from Chuck Neinas a week ago today and then quickly escalated.Fowler, N.C. State’s athletics director, was looking to hire a football coach and was in Nashville, Tenn., interviewing Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow. Nienas, paid $35,000 to be NCSU’s headhunter, had some news […]
No Contract For Neinas? Say It Ain’t So, “Coach”
I may be overreacting, but a comment reported in today’s News & Observer causes some real concern about the coaching search. NC State Athletic Director Lee Fowler, who stumblebummed through the Sidney Lowe hiring some months back, told the newspaper that, “[h]e has talked with Chuck Neinas, a Colorado-based headhunter who helped North Carolina hire […]
