This was brought up on the ninernation.net:

Quote:Utah, Charlotte, Wake, Creighton, Davidson, Louisville, Western Michigan, Oklahoma, UTEP, UTSA, Navy, Providence, Virginia, DePaul, Kentucky, Toledo and UCLA all have AD tenures >= 15 years in that order.

The average AD tenure is about 4-6 years. Median was reported at 5 years and mean at 6.4 years.

Judy Rose (Charlotte) is the second longest tenured AD in the country (at any level) at 27 years and counting. 27. Vs 5 yr average. She has stated she has no plans on retiring because she still has "things to accomplish". I'd interpret that as she hasn't completely demolished the 49ers revenue sports - I mean, they're strapped on a table in the ER with a faint pulse instead of on a slab @ the morgue, but just barely. Her insistence that women's sports get equal billing, marketing and funding to revenue sports (not men's sports, just revenue sports), means that the ADs office spends more time marketing WBB than they do Football.

Really tired of this woman's attitudes. Her inability to see the difference between revenue sports and non-revenue sports (eg men's soccer, which Charlotte is really good at) because she chooses to see everything as a Title IX battle has killed all momentum the 49ers athletics programs ever had. Charlotte has a $5Million+ tennis center but cant afford to expand its football facilities. SEC AD reps touring campus saw the tennis center and remarked ("there's no way we could get this built at our schools" - to which she probably fist pumped)

I'm curious if the other fanbases on this list with oddly long tenured ADs are happy with theirs, and if not what their complaints are? Also, I'd welcome outsiders opinions on these ADs. Sympathy for afflicted fanbases is welcomed as well.