http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...firms-in-college-coaching-hires/?tid=sm_tw_ps
"A few weeks ago, George Mason Athletic Director Brad Edwards flew to Atlanta, made his way to an office complex in the northern suburbs, and met the men from whom he would choose his new men’s basketball coach.
"A third party, Parker Executive Search, had arranged for Edwards’s hand-picked candidates, about a dozen coaches, to visit the complex: hotels and flights booked, their interviews with Edwards scheduled so that each would come and go without one bumping into the next – speed dating meets air traffic control. The best part was, the whole thing was done in secret. The coaches, many of them under contract elsewhere, could pursue a new job without sounding alarms; Edwards could meet each candidate, in a casual and neutral setting, and make his choice away from prying eyes and without concern he was being played publicly for a raise.
"When Edwards returned to Washington, he knew Bucknell Coach Dave Paulsen was his man, most of the broad strokes – expectations, requests, terms of a five-year contract – already agreed to in Atlanta."
"A few weeks ago, George Mason Athletic Director Brad Edwards flew to Atlanta, made his way to an office complex in the northern suburbs, and met the men from whom he would choose his new men’s basketball coach.
"A third party, Parker Executive Search, had arranged for Edwards’s hand-picked candidates, about a dozen coaches, to visit the complex: hotels and flights booked, their interviews with Edwards scheduled so that each would come and go without one bumping into the next – speed dating meets air traffic control. The best part was, the whole thing was done in secret. The coaches, many of them under contract elsewhere, could pursue a new job without sounding alarms; Edwards could meet each candidate, in a casual and neutral setting, and make his choice away from prying eyes and without concern he was being played publicly for a raise.
"When Edwards returned to Washington, he knew Bucknell Coach Dave Paulsen was his man, most of the broad strokes – expectations, requests, terms of a five-year contract – already agreed to in Atlanta."
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