New Kansas AD discusses Jayhawks coaching search
It's rare that a first-time AD walks into his new job with such a clear objective: fix the football program. Yes, there is an ongoing NCAA investigation
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New Kansas AD (formerly at NU) discusses Jayhawks football
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Okay...you’re going to have to give us some more here. You can’t drop a bomb like that and run off. What’s the real story on Goff?
Very POOR replacement for Shon Morris and that's all you'll get.
I loved Shon, but Goff was always great. He remembered my name every time I saw him and went out of his way to help always. I thought he was great, but maybe you had some different interactions.
Sure seems that way. Hopefully a new A.D. will be named soon. 🤞
Not fair to compare him to the best. Shon was all about community and spending time, and not just at fund raising events. That said, Travis put on alot of restrictions that helped community like banishing opposing fan gear and flags from our parking lots, and put on penalties for those who sold more than 30% of their tickets. Those items didn't raise funds but did help community imo.
This was so far off-base that I had to make my annual crawl out of my hole to log in and say something.
Travis was, and is, top-notch. Who said that? Jim Phillips told me in 2019 in his office that TG was more than ready to be an AD (and the implication was that people had come asking) but was, to that point, hesitant to leave. That was back in 2019. Obviously, if your alma mater comes calling, it's time to take that call.
I don't know you but I know the type of leader Jim is - and the talent he recruited. There have been more than a handful of people working in the Athletic Department under him that have gone on to higher positions at big-time schools in the last few years and a lot in the last few months... just as Jim planned and prepped for them to do. Travis is more than up to the job, more than deserving, and will do well at KU (as he did here at NU).
I don't know much about Travis Goff, but it feels like he is too separated from the critical transition periods in Northwestern's football history over the past few decades for him to be referenced as having experience to guiding a major college football program out of dark age or depression.
I'm not on the AD selection committee, but I don't know that he wasn't in the discussion. But HIS dream job is at his alma mater.
