If luck happens and Ed Stewart becomes the full-time athletic director, you would have two football guys leading the athletic department from a football perspective. Garrett raised the funds for the new facilities, got NIL off the ground, and is very passionate about it (obviously based on the tweets). Ed has a ton of experience for football operations and other stuff (see his Big 12 bio for more info).
If both were working at Nebraska that would be a pretty damn good situation.
If not Ed, I'd just promote Garret to the full-time role. You can tell his heart and work ethic is there. His career after college was NOT at Wisconsin so he grew as a professional not under the wings of Barry Alvarez.
Ideally, Ed gets the head AD job and we give Garret a nice raise to keep him around. I like the work that Garret is doing.
IMO, no point in bringing in a complete outsider that doesn't have any insight into how NIL got started, the planning that went into all of it, and the launch of it and stuff since then. The only "outsider" I'd bring in is Ed Stewart.
If both were working at Nebraska that would be a pretty damn good situation.
If not Ed, I'd just promote Garret to the full-time role. You can tell his heart and work ethic is there. His career after college was NOT at Wisconsin so he grew as a professional not under the wings of Barry Alvarez.
Ideally, Ed gets the head AD job and we give Garret a nice raise to keep him around. I like the work that Garret is doing.
IMO, no point in bringing in a complete outsider that doesn't have any insight into how NIL got started, the planning that went into all of it, and the launch of it and stuff since then. The only "outsider" I'd bring in is Ed Stewart.