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Call it surprising, unconventional or just plain strange.
Carolina, known for familiarity in its athletic program, has thrown a giant curveball at alumni, students, fans and, especially, coaches and athletes.
Must be the best-kept secret that Steve Newmark is the athletic director in waiting after he spends a year as an executive associate to AD Bubba Cunningham, who will work for chancellor Lee Roberts from revenue sharing that began Tuesday to developing a long-range plan of 20-30 years? Newmark is reportedly here to sell stuff, which he did for NASCAR for 15 years.
Has anyone around UNC ever heard of him? Did anyone know he was on an “advisory committee” in hiring Bill Belichick? And while he’s from Chapel Hill, he has zero association with UNC other than being a “passionate fan” while attending William & Mary and Virginia law school.
He will take over the 300-plus employee athletic department, with 28 sports, hundreds of assistants and support staff and nearly a thousand athletes. He has never worked on a college campus, only as an agent for athletes and a lawyer for conferences 20 years ago.
And, again, how did this happen without a peep in the media, especially you, social media, that is supposed to know everything?
Who does he know here besides Cunningham, who said he met Newmark through NASCAR. “I look forward to working with Bubba and the entire Tar Heel Nation,” Newmark said. Nation? Let’s start with a few athletes.
Who made this decision? Who did he know? What was the process of hiring him (apparently no formal search or search committee).
Newmark will assist in hiring the successor to uber-successful Rams Club executive director John Montgomery, who will tell you how hard it was for him to come here with almost no connections.
Who makes the major changes of say head coaches during Bubba’s lame-duck period? Not Cunningham, who had to deal with Roy Williams and the Board of Trustees in the hiring of Hubert and Belichick.
We deserve to know the answers to these questions and dozens more.
I’ll be back with some next time.
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Art Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers “Game Changers,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Dean’s List.” He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His “Sports Notebook” commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his “Art’s Angle” opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.Chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our newsletter.
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