AD Search

[Tony4BG]

With early signing day in December would hope BG has new AD soon so he/she can make decision on Loeffler

[Tricky_Falcon]

AD announcement tomorrow at 10:30 am according to Blade and BCSN.

[mbenecke]

AD announcement tomorrow at 10:30 am according to Blade and BCSN.

This morning at 10:30, there will be a press conference with President Rogers and the new athletic director from the Stroh Center. I would imagine there will be a link to watch live somewhere.

[jpfalcon09]

Nice birthday present for me.

Kudos to the university and CSA on basically zero leaks during this process. Professionally done.

[Tricky_Falcon]

I do find it odd that there's nothing mentioned about the introduction on the BG website or social media.

[Schadenfreude]

I do find it odd that there's nothing mentioned about the introduction on the BG website or social media.

They clearly decided to give this first to media, which is understandable.

I would think a video feed will be soon be made available. Perhaps social media will announce that at 9 or 10. I guess we'll see.

[mbenecke]

I do find it odd that there's nothing mentioned about the introduction on the BG website or social media.

They clearly decided to give this first to media, which is understandable.

I would think a video feed will be soon be made available. Perhaps social media will announce that at 9 or 10. I guess we'll see.

Yeah, the press release you can see floating around on social media was sent to the media to let them know they should gather for the press conference this morning. I also would imagine there will be some link to the presser that surfaces at some point.

[Flipper]

Yay!!

We are no longer adrift in a sea of Elsasser

[mbenecke]

Yay!!

We are no longer adrift in a sea of Elsasser

Unless they decided to hire internally and he's the man for the job.

[jpfalcon09]

Yay!!

We are no longer adrift in a sea of Elsasser

Unless they decided to hire internally and he's the man for the job.

Would be on brand for BGSU to hire a search firm and waste resources only to promote from within.

[Flipper]

Yay!!

We are no longer adrift in a sea of Elsasser

Unless they decided to hire internally and he's the man for the job.

Dear God.....noooooooo....

[factman]

Here’s hoping the NEW AD cleans house of the dead weight in the department. Most have been hired by three horrible AD s, and some have just been here too long. Some qualify in BOTH categories!

[mbenecke]

It's Derek van der Merwe, from Arizona.

https://twitter.com/DBriggsBlade/status ... sB_XLik5Mg

https://arizonawildcats.com/staff-direc ... merwe/1413

[BGSU33]

It's Derek van der Merwe, from Arizona.

https://twitter.com/DBriggsBlade/status ... sB_XLik5Mg

https://arizonawildcats.com/staff-direc ... merwe/1413

He was a member of the CMU “Fat Punter” team…I already don’t like him! Just kidding, I wish him nothing but the best and hope he can do great things here!

[mbenecke]

From a quick skim of his bio at Arizona, it seems like he is a really good fundraiser, and he has like 25 years of experience in athletic administration at Central Michigan, Austin Peay, and then Arizona.

Played football at CMU from 1991-1995, and then worked there until 2013, so he definitely (or at least should) understands the MAC.

Also, the fact that he was born and raised in South Africa is really interesting.