Eastman & Beaudine, to Help With Coach Search

It looks like Eastman and Beaudine will help with our football coach search, from Chuck Landon of the Herald Dispatch on June 10th 2010:

Speaking of executive recruitment firms such as Eastman & Beaudine, this is how they operate.
They are somewhat like a law firm on retainer.

When they are hired to do one job search, the client university also is obligated to the firm for the school’s next athletic job search.

Take SMU, for example.

Eastman & Beaudine handled the Mustangs’ search for a new athletic director. They successly landed Steve Orsini, who had been UCF’s athletic director, for SMU.

So, then, when the Mustangs were in the market for a new men’s head basketball coach, Eastman & Beaudine also filled that vacancy.

That’s how SMU got current coach Matt Doherty.

Orsini has worked out well.

Doherty?

Not so much.

It just goes to show that sometimes with executive recruitment firms, a university has to take the good with the bad.

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/sports/x1984676419/Chuck-Landon-MU-search-and-more