Mike McBride
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Given timing and location sounds like it was in the works.
Sounds like a completely made up position. Development of what? Is there a junior associate? Is there a senior non associate? How do people get these.
Michael McBride Named to Lead Owls Development Efforts - Rice University Athletics
Will oversee all aspects of development for the Owl Club, including major gifts, annual giving, and capital campaigns.
riceowls.com
Did he have one legitimate success here? Anything he could put on his resume?Michael McBride Named to Lead Owls Development Efforts - Rice University Athletics
Will oversee all aspects of development for the Owl Club, including major gifts, annual giving, and capital campaigns.riceowls.com
It’s a fundraising position. Development is fund raising.
According to his LinkedIn his top brag is bringing in Frank the Tank as an affiliated influencer
If you’ve never heard of that position, you’ve never been in or around college athletics.
Similar role to the one Felt had in athletics at SHU before going to St. Peter’s to become their AD.
… and yet is a self-styled expert on the subject.
Those type of titles Very common in Athletic departments. He’s raising money. That’s what development officers do. Rice well heeled alums. Large endowment, excess of 7 billion. Should be tad easier than here.
Development and fundraising is all about cultivating relationships over time. There is a personal aspect to it - like selling your personal connection to the institution. When your family is living in Texas that’s a hard sell. Usually you want people in those roles that have a strong connection to the area and community.
To be honest, I never really understood completely what McBride‘s role was. I thought it was more about corporate sponsorships than cultivating relationships with financial donors.
To be honest, I never really understood completely what McBride‘s role was. I thought it was more about corporate sponsorships than cultivating relationships with financial donors.
NIL started out with 300K & wound up at $1.5m. It's amazing how you guys fixate on blaming individual people but the man who is directly in charge of the program is untouchable for some reason. This is a systemic problem from the top down.
Exactly, and not only college athletics, but very common position at colleges in general, as well as most mid to large non profits.
It's a shame it sounds like we're not going to replace his role, I was just about to update my resume lol
SHU billed this guy as the NIL savior and seems like we’re worse off now relative to everyone else than when he was hired. Classic.
This guy also gave one of the most embarrassing interviews I've ever read.
lol. Man I still can’t get over that interview, and he was surprised at the pushback.
Worked closely with McBride, he was doomed from the jump. He had great ideas and lots of drive, but he was working for a university that exercises way too much control over staff. In my 40 years in business I surrounded myself with talent and delegated authority, this is not the way SHU operates.
I'm certain that interview was scrubbed before it was presented.
I concur with this opinion. It was apparent from a conversation with him that he had the goods to be successful. Like Walshtrips articulates - he had drive and ideas (maybe too many). I get the feeling he either had lack of direction or worse, no direction. Looking for the magic bullet rather than building the NIL initiative brick by brick. I fear there were shackles put on him through micro-managing. Two years later and nothing to show for it.
