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Listen to Prime Minister Netanyahu with Congress or speak at sorority event. Good to know what President of the Senate sees as more important.

By Colin Rajala

Trove: Continuing on the topic of fundraising, donor fatigue remains an issue for higher education institutions – how do you view Seton Hall’s NIL and fundraising efforts currently? How is the school looking to combat any semblance of donor fatigue that it is experiencing?

Felt: No doubt about it, it's a concern. It's something we're incredibly cognizant of in how we go about raising money, not only on the NIL side, but the Pirate Blue side so on and so forth. We’ve been incredibly fortunate to have some tremendous alumni support, donor support.

I said it earlier, education is so critical. Educating the donors on the importance of NIL or any need is critical. I've been involved with fundraising for our athletic department and university for over 20 years, so I've been fortunate to have built some strong relationships where I am able to have candid conversations with folks. A lot of direct conversations explaining why we need to have support for a specific project or at the same time I am able to get a sense if we are possibly asking too often or too much of a person.

The last thing I want a donor to say is “please stop asking me.” We have to be dialed in on those who have been generous to us, and a lot of times we have conversations with donors and say, “can we ask for your help in a way that doesn't involve a donation?" How can you help us get to other contacts? How can you help us make connections?” Maybe it's corporate, maybe it's private, whatever it might be, but any leads or connections to cultivate tomorrow's donor, tomorrow's supporter is just as important. We’re looking to grow so we're not just going to the same person or the same four or five people all the time. “We can't keep going to this person, we're going to wear that person out.” We have to be concerned about that. Then there are some people that are just energized by giving and supporting us and have been incredibly loyal and generous and it can feel at times that their support is endless. God Bless those people and we are of course always mindful of what they do for us.

As we talk more about increasing support. I didn't mention when we were just talking about it, but I think one of the biggest things is us telling our story and building our brand and how do we strategize with that? I think that plays a big role in engagement with donors and supporters.

I know that might not make a ton of sense to some people, but that's a really big part of it. I think right now we have a men's basketball coach who will roll up his sleeves and will work harder than anybody else in this country and he has built a reputation that has been showcased on the largest stage in college basketball. He's going to put together a team that is going to mirror that mindset and people know what you are getting from a Shaheen Holloway team. Our fanbase gets behind that, that's who we are. We are Seton Hall. We are that lunch pail mentality, whatever you want to call it, but that's who we are. So that's part of our brand and that's part of our story. We must build off that type of passion and sell that mentality as it relates to tickets and fundraising and engaging with new supporters. I'm not saying it means somebody wants to give a million dollars every year, but it's something that's a big part of the puzzle and I think the more we do that, the better we do that, we will not only be less concerned with donor fatigue, but also build the supporter base. You’re starting to see donor fatigue stories with NIL like, “I don't want to give any more because team hasn’t performed or whatever.” Nobody wants those kinds of problems. We're cognizant of it and were combatting it by keeping people engaged and making sure our brand and our story are being told properly.

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Former Seton Hall president says his wife was sexually harassed, but detailed report disputes claim​

• Published: Jul. 11, 2024, 2:47 p.m.

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• Ted Sherman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

An independent investigation into stunning claims by former Seton Hall University president Joseph Nyre that his wife had been sexually harassed by the chairman of the school’s Board of Regents, concluded there was no evidence to substantiate the accusations, according to a report by an outside law firm retained by the school.

That report added that it was “highly unlikely that the events occurred” as had been alleged by Nyre, who also charged in a lawsuit earlier this year that he had been the victim of retaliation, misconduct and “gaslighting” by the university in what turned into a bitter feud with former Board of Regents chairman Kevin Marino. The fight ultimately led to a separation agreement and Nyre’s departure from the private Catholic university in South Orange.

Nyre’s attorney, R. Armen McOmber of McOmber McOmber & Luber, called the investigation report “an obvious sham” that “contains misrepresentations and completely inaccurate findings, and failed to even interview the right witnesses.”

Nyre’s abrupt exit came just eight months after a university inquiry into “irregular financial transactions” at the law school in Newark involving what officials said was a small number of “trusted, long-time employees” who had been found to have cheated Seton Hall Law School out of more than $975,000.

There had been much speculation as to whether the law school matter had played a role in Nyre’s decision to step down, but he claimed at the time that the conclusion of a campus-wide strategic planning initiative was an “appropriate time” for the university to consider new leadership and he announced plans to take a sabbatical. He had been New Jersey’s highest-paid college president in 2020, with a total compensation package of $1.27 million, according to data compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

But in a lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Essex County in February, Nyre claimed he was felt forced to leave over concerns regarding the handling of the scandal at the law school, as well as what he claimed was “serious misconduct” by Marino, who was not named as a defendant in the lawsuit and is no longer on the governing board.

Among his demands were reinstatement, back pay and benefits.

Nyre claimed that Marino — a high-profile criminal defense lawyer — had interfered with the law school investigation. He also alleged that Marino repeatedly pressured him to admit students to graduate programs within Seton Hall’s School of Health and Medical Sciences, and to admit underqualified students into the law school.

The complaint also alleged that the attorney subjected Nyre’s wife, Kelli, to several acts of sexual harassment — including touching her back, kissing her on the neck and placing his hands on her shoulders.

The court filing alleged sexual harassment by Marino at two university events, including a Board of Regents annual dinner in June 2021, when Kelli Nyre claimed Marino allegedly “placed his hand on her back preventing [her] from moving, moved [her] hair away from her neck with his other hand, kissed [her] on the neck, and whispered into her ear, ‘you know I love you.’”

The second cited a Board of Regents Christmas reception on December 6, 2022, when Kelli Nyre in court papers said that Marino allegedly “placed his hands on her shoulders and commented in a lascivious tone, ‘Look at [Kelli Nyre] rocking the Loubees,’ in apparent reference to her Christian Louboutin shoes.”

The university retained Perry Law of New York to investigate the sexual harassment claims in the wake of a filing by the Nyres with the state Office of Equal Employment Opportunity regarding those allegations.

In a report by the firm that became public on Thursday after attorneys for Marino filed an amicus brief to get the entire lawsuit tossed out of court, investigators found “no evidence to support that Mr. Marino sexually harassed Mrs. Nyre, or that the university intentionally ignored or diminished any such allegations made by the Nyres.”

The report did not address the allegations of gaslighting or retaliation.

Despite the Nyres’ account, the Perry report said not a single witness corroborated the alleged instances of harassment.

“Mr. Marino vehemently denies these claims and has provided evidence of a friendly relationship between himself and both Dr. and Mrs. Nyre, even after the dates of the Nyres’ allegations that further tend to rebut these claims,” the report stated. “Furthermore, Mrs. Nyre has repeatedly refused to cooperate with the university’s attempts to investigate these claims.”

The Perry investigation was conducted by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former assistant Manhattan District Attorney who had served as deputy chief of the office’s sex crimes unit.

The report noted that approximately six weeks after the alleged kissing incident the Nyres and their children voluntarily went to Mr. Marino’s vacation home in Martha’s Vineyard and the two families spent the day together.

“The families swam, ate, and drank together and Mr. Marino recalled that he and Mrs. Nyre had a long conversation about a book they both were reading, and that she did not express or show any discomfort in his presence,” the report noted.

Investigators said they spoke with the majority of those seated with the Nyres and the Marinos at the first event, and several priests who attended the event, given Mrs. Nyre’s recollection that a priest was standing beside her when the alleged harassment occurred.

“None of those individuals witnessed any harassing, inappropriate or even unusual contact between Mr. Marino and Mrs. Nyre. Everyone we spoke to unequivocally denied seeing Mr. Marino touch Mrs. Nyre’s hair or kiss her neck, or hearing him say, ‘You know I love you.’”

In fact, the Perry Law investigation cited a sworn certification alleging that Nyre pushed another woman “to make a false harassment allegation against Mr. Marino,” who later made it clear that “that she did not feel Mr. Marino sexually harassed her in any way.”

McOmber said Seton Hall had publicly and unambiguously declared the claims to be “frivolous” and “completely without merit,” months before finalizing the investigation report.

“The conclusions of the investigation, which began the same day that the Nyres filed their complaint, were a foregone conclusion and were predetermined before the investigation even began,” he said. “The investigation report falsely represents the Nyres refused to participate in the alleged investigation despite the university’s repeated attempts to contact them. In reality, investigators were urged by the Nyres’ counsel to interview them regarding Mrs. Nyre’s complaints of sexual harassment throughout December 2023. The university refused and only commenced its investigation after the legal complaint had been filed and after the university had already declared what the findings would be.”

More than ever, said McOmber, “my clients look forward to their day in court.”

University spokeswoman Laurie A. Pine said the investigation “was scrupulously conducted by a respected third-party.”

“We are satisfied with the diligence of the investigation and its conclusions,” said Pine. “Seton Hall University has an unwavering commitment to fostering a safe, supportive, and inclusive living and learning environment for all members of our campus community.”

Marino’s attorney, Christopher Porrino of Lowenstein Sandler, said they were not surprised by the report’s findings.

We are also deeply troubled by the suggestion that Dr. Nyre encouraged at least one other woman to make a false harassment claim against Mr. Marino,” he said. “Suffice to say, we will take the steps necessary to hold the Nyres personally accountable for their actions.

Seton Hall, which is home to more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, has denied the allegations in the Nyre complaint and is separately seeking its dismissal.

Part 2 in our interview with SHU's AD Bryan Felt.

By Colin Rajala

Trove: I appreciate you mentioning the brand and story aspect of it all because I think showcasing our competitive advantages of being 100% dedicated to winning and doing more with less resonates. Now when I interviewed Mike McBride shortly after he joined Seton Hall, he mentioned the first steps in NIL processes would be to engage donors and fans to get the ball rolling before getting some corporations to come on board to help support. Now that NIL is a couple of years old at this point, what is the long-term plan for gathering support from corporations, particularly ones in the state like Johnson and Johnson and Prudential?

Felt: We actively cultivate corporate partners. The athletic department has a partnership with LEARFIELD/IMG, which is one of the leading sports multimedia rights firms in the country. The department is very close to actually extending that contract, which I'm excited about because they've been tremendous for us. On the NIL side of things, we're working with a lot of current partners that are engaged with our athletic department to do some things. This year you will be seeing some enhancements in that area with several of our partners as they kind of dip their toe into the NIL pool if you will. We’re trying to enhance our involvement as much as we can, and then utilize that to go after new partnerships.

Mike's been great on that. He’s has had some great conversations with some local corporations in the state of New Jersey. I think with some corporations the NIL ideas may be a little foreign, while with others we've seen some ideas taking place across the collegiate athletic landscape. A great example is what FedEx and Memphis have created in terms of getting a local corporation to buy into your story and brand for NIL.

I think you’ll see some nice enhancements to our corporate partnerships as we are working diligently to create new opportunities with our current partners as well as local corporations because we feel the Seton Hall brand has a lot to offer.

Lowest rated - biggest success at SHU.

Desi at #250

Damn - You could see the talent from Day One. Thankfully, he was at Lincoln when Isaiah was there, and we spotted him. Not sure how he was not rated higher, earlier.

Any other big jumps at SHU? I can think of a few but I wanted to start the conversation.

woahhh. tragic and sad. glad he's OK.

whoever did that just made him 100x stronger, but we cant have this in america

Def wants a cabinet role

By Colon Rajala

Trove: I wanted to start out with a question I saw posed from someone on the forum that I don’t think has ever been broached during past interviews with yourself or your predecessor Pat Lyons - how do you define success for Seton Hall athletics? What do those quantitative and qualitative metrics look like?


Bryan Felt: Absolutely. I think it's a great place to start. There's really a myriad of metrics. As a department we look at results as incredibly important and men's basketball results are at the top because it's our flagship program and when I talk about results, I mean what everybody sees that defines success, wins and losses.

Obviously when you work in athletics, wins and losses mean a great deal, but for me, success goes beyond that and it will always be our student athlete experience and the success of our student athletes that is most critical, because at the end of the day, that's who we are, we’re an educational institution.

Our student athlete GPA is 3.531 I believe, the highest in our history. So, there's a great metric we look at right there. We're at 85% of our student athletes with a 3.0 or above GPA, I think 60% of our student athletes are Dean’s List, which is a 3.4 or above GPA, so those are incredibly important metrics for us.

Our APR, academic progress rate, is higher than the division one average, which is another great metric we look at. I think performance results, as I said before on the court, or on the field or in the pool, wherever it might be, are one of the first and easiest ways to measure success because there are also things that are hard to measure. Your culture, our department culture specifically, is incredibly important and I think that defines our success a little bit.

I worry about culture all the time and I think it's so important. You have a real mixed bag of metrics that you look at, but I think at the end of the day, our student athlete experience has to be really strong and that means our student athletes are graduating, that means our student athletes are enjoying their experience here at Seton Hall and they're going on to become successful contributors to society.

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