Why the Big Ten hiring TurnKey is a big deal in search for new commissioner
Channel: Winning Cures Everything
Date: 31/01/2023

The Big Ten has hired Turnkey - a corporate recruiting service - to lead their search for a new conference commissioner.  I'm sure a lot of you are saying "big whoop, Gary.  who cares?"  Let me explain why this is a big deal. The Big Ten just had a search for a commissioner in 2018-2019, which ended in June 2019 with them hiring Kevin Warren, the then COO of the Minnesota Vikings.  The difference there was that they used the Korn Ferry search firm last time.  So when I spoke about whether or not the school presidents in the Big Ten would be upset with Warren leaving to go back to the NFL, or if they would do something different this time to try and find somebody that will stick around longer than 3 years... well, choosing a different search firm is certainly noticeable.

Turnkey was contracted by the NCAA to find & hire the replacement for outgoing President Mark Emmert - and they found outgoing Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker.  But here's the other interesting wrinkle... this is the same search firm that was contracted for the recent commissioner searches by the ACC, which netted former Northwestern AD Jim Phillips, the Big 12, which netted former Nets executive Brett Yormark, and the Pac 12, which netted former MGM executive George Kliavkoff.

Now, I love a good conspiracy theory, and the idea that Jim Phillips took the ACC commissioner's job to work on relationships with ACC schools for the next time the Big Ten decides to expand... well, that's just nice and juicy for me.  Phillips was an AD in the Big Ten before, so he knows the landscape.  But there are a ton of other options as well, like Mark Silverman, Fox Sports president (who was just involved in the Big Ten media negotiations), Gene Smith, Ohio State AD, Jennifer Heppel, Patriot League commissioner and a Big Ten league office alum, along with plenty of others.  I'm extremely curious which direction this will go.

From Monday 1/30/23 full show: https://youtube.com/live/tif-w4xm5x8

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