Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Needed: a good administrator

When we think of a college coach, an administrator is not what we think of. But, in fact, the head coach is the CEO of that program. It is his job to make sure things happen. And some of those things are not glamorous, but are nonetheless very necessary to the success of the program. 

Walker's record so far in Little Rock is not one to cause me to think that he is a good administrator. Just the opposite. If I were his boss and were making entries on his employee record, I might put: "No sense of urgency. Let's things slide. Needs to prioritize." Still, the head coach is not doing it by himself; he has a full staff to whom he can delegate. But it still comes back on him to make sure that everything gets done, even if he delegates to someone else the job of making sure that he does everything he is supposed to be doing. Someone on this staff is going to have to do the unglamorous part. It would be a shame for this coach to fail simply because he just lollygaggled his way through the season.

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