Feb 11, 2020
Tailgate Guys Founder & CEO Parker Duffey hosts a trio of Deputy ADs – Mississippi State’s Jared Benko, Kentucky’s DeWayne Peevy, and Clemson’s Graham Neff – for an in-depth conversation about the Deputy AD role. The group discusses career paths and plans, managing up, addressing their weaknesses, and much more.
1:20 - What are some misconceptions about the Deputy AD
position?
3:20 - How do you manage up and what is the importance of managing
up as a Deputy AD?
5:56 - As a Deputy AD, what do you wish you knew more about?
9:24 - What are you doing to improve and work on your
weaknesses?
13:18 - How specific was your career plan and how aligned has that
been plan been with your career path?
18:23 - How do you balance your responsibilities and influence with
being able to make things happen?
20:38 - How do you communicate across campus about major issues in
college athletics and what your departments are doing about these
issues?
25:17 - What are the characteristics of the perfect institution if
and when you would step into the AD chair?