He came from Colorado St? We took Hathaway from Colorado St. So Jurich is even connected to Jeff Hathaway, another AD that screwed us.
I seem to have a different opinion of Jurich. I'm opposed to and not condoning any illegal activities, but the Adidas deal and the Yum Center financing are brilliant, as was all his work to get his school into the ACC. He was doing his job for the University. Now if it turns out there were kickbacks or something to decision makers, to city officials or to ACC representatives, my opinion changes 180 degrees, but I didn't read any of that.
Academically, the school mismanaged the funds. Their academics should have benefited greatly from all of this, doesn't appear that was the case.
City officials gave up too much, but the city benefited greatly with development around the University's success. There is some trade-off.
The ACC may have sold it's soul, can't blame Jurich for that, he took advantage of that.
If he's connected to illegal activity, he'll get his day in court and we'll see the FBI's case. The FBI may have substantive evidence ESPN doesn't have at this point in time.
Jurich is not backing down, he's not hiding, he believes what he's saying about his accomplishments.
The illegal activity he's responsible for is not his work on the Yum Center, or the ACC or even the signed deal with Adidas (unless kickbacks were involved in any of those), he's responsible for the recruiting scandals that happened under his watch. For that alone he should be fired.
As for his compensation, it reminds me of "not one dime". The man brought in so much revenue, he deserves to be paid and the school benefited to the tune of hundreds of millions. They just evidently mismanaged the funds.
