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That's just... really, really bad.
Do you remember how they justified hiring him in the first place? I suppose that the idea was that the AD job was moving away from something a former coach would do and had become a job that was about business and contracts. But why would you hire a local attorney who had worked as part of CU counsel before entering private practice? I don't see how the dots connect to an endpoint where anyone would have thought that Tharp was the best candidate for the job they could possibly land. It's bizarre to me.
Tharp was part of the good old boy network at CU. There’s still some of that around, although it’s been diminished significantly . (The subject of this thread is part of that group, too). Tharp got the job because he was tight with the school leadership, and they reverse engineered a justification for his hiring. Hindsight is always 20/20, but it’s pretty clear at this point he was a horrible choice.
