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05_never_again said:
Isn't common practice for a high-level, revenue-generating athletics program. No way.
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If someone wants you bad enough they will agree to it. I know of 3 couples in athletics where I work currently. My wife and I have used spousal hiring twice. I have worked in the ACC and Big12. It happens.
 
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C/O said:
If someone wants you bad enough they will agree to it. I know of 3 couples in athletics where I work. My wife and I have used spousal hiring twice.
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I understand, but this isn't for a professor job or a coach on the track team or something. Kellie is an alum and was being plucked away from Missouri St. I'm sure she would have taken this job without offering a job on staff to her husband.
 
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05_never_again said:
I understand, but this isn't for a professor job or a coach on the track team or something. Kellie is an alum and was being plucked away from Missouri St. I'm sure she would have taken this job without offering a job on staff to her husband.
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Maybe so, but if you can get your spouse a high profile and high paying job wouldn’t you try? Family over school colors.
 
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C/O said:
Maybe so, but if you can get your spouse a high profile and high paying job wouldn’t you try?
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Sure, of course. I don't blame Kellie for asking and receiving the offer. I'm saying it is kind of crazy for our AD to accommodate that in a high expectation, high level, revenue-generating sport, especially when he didn't even recruit. Basketball has a relatively small coaching staff - doesn't everyone on it need to recruit to some degree?
 
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05_never_again said:
They bring in $0 in revenue?

They might not be profit-generating, but they are absolutely revenue-generating.
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Interesting. So everything related to all universities is revenue generating. What was your original point in rebuttal to CO then? Because spousal hiring is very common.
 
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TBrown said:
Interesting. So everything related to all universities is revenue generating. What was your original point in rebuttal to CO then? Because spousal hiring is very common.
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You know what I mean. All sports generate revenue when you take that phrase 100% literally. Many of them generate revenue in an amount equivalent to a rounding error though. LV basketball, last I checked, wasn't one of them.

The LV brand is also a "front porch" thing where even if the dollars generated aren't substantial, the brand is widely recognized and there is a lot of hard-to-quantify value associated with having them in the spotlight again.

My point was I understand the spouse accommodation in academia or for, say, the swimming team. It's harder to understand in one of your bigger brands where the consequences of not having a good staff in place are bigger.
 
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