The Deputy Position: Mississippi State’s Benko, Clemson’s Neff and Kentucky’s Peevy

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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.

00:00 - Introduction
01:03 - What are some misconceptions about the Deputy AD position?
03:03 - How do you manage up and what is the importance of managing up as a Deputy AD?
05:39 - As a Deputy AD, what do you wish you knew more about?
09:07 - What are you doing to improve and work on your weaknesses?
13:01 - How specific was your career plan and how aligned has that been plan been with your career path?
18:07 - How do you balance your responsibilities and influence with being able to make things happen?
20:20 - How do you communicate across campus about major issues in college athletics and what your departments are doing about these issues?
25:00 - What are the characteristics of the perfect institution if and when you would step into the AD chair?

Originally published on 11/24/2019

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