Martin Jarmond Nowadays, not a particularly popular figure.
Some fans are disappointed Football team UCLA UCLA It is expected that in blue and gold will wear Fire Jarmond shirts in Blue and Gold on Saturday in Rose Bowl against Penn State. One group organized a banner of the aircraft to fly through the stadium before the game, with a similar message aimed at the besieged sports director of Bruins.
The list of complaints-long, leading group of almost dozen high-level donors in order to contact with the time that they claim that it is a model of unbridled dysfunction in the sports department, which goes far beyond the set of surprise and Open dismissal of football coach Deshaun Foster September 14 after 15 games.
Among other things, the donors also questioned the name, image and similarity of Jarmond, high expenses, despite the years of launch Massive shortage of sports department And the inability to shoot Coach Chip Kelly Against the background of the results of podkarov.
“What is happening now, it seems, how to observe the crash of the train in a slow state,” said Scott Treetsky, donor and subscription tickets for more than two decades. “What we see is not just a rude patch. This is institutional apathy. And if the administration does not care, why fans and recruits?
“This is not a random fan. I rarely miss the game. I have invested time, money and emotions for decades, and now it seems that people who control the show do not share the same investments. This program may flourish. We have a story, fans, resources. But she needs leadership with courage and a real plan.
One error asked the donor the question of whether there were operations in the Jarmond sports department even worse than they appeared at the surface level.
Ten days before the group of donors went on a trip to watch the UCLA football team in Utah in 2023, the email, indicating the route, was sent with unexpected attachment – the database revealing personal information and the habit of the largest supporters of the sports department.
In the spreadsheet, sent by several dozens of donors, a home address, email address and phone numbers of the Bruins Troy Aikman football legend were included. Separate columns included a lifelong donation and annual contribution to the wooden sports fund of more than 200 leading donors, such as the sports executive director of Casey Wasserman, the freemen of the frozen of Justin Wulverton and Philanthropus Wallis Annenberg, each donor assigned a priority number based on their level of generosity.
UCLA Sports Director Martin Jarmond stands along with the UCla Deshaun Foster football coach during his entrance press conference.
(Damian Dovargans/AP)
The donor, who did not want to publish his name from the sensitivity of data in the spreadsheet, told Times that he spoke with other people who are equally distrustful of obtaining such indicative information in an electronic letter from an assistant to a sports director for fundraising who no longer work in UCLA.
There was no apology or further communication, except for the subsequent electronic letter from an assistant sports director, sent 26 minutes after the first, just remembering the message. The representative of the sports department of UCLA refused to comment on the incident, except to say that an employee participating in the unauthorized distribution of information, and his direct manager no longer worked at the university.
“I would suggest that with something like that, where they knew what happened, they should just do something like:“ I am very sorry, it was an internal work file, we do everything that we can ”fix it. Just something, ”said the donor who received the information. “If I wanted to convey Troy Aikman, I have information to do it.”
Soon after the Jarmond and another employee of the sports department were informed that The Times writes about the management of Jarmond in the sports department, five donors called to speak on behalf of Jarmond. They referred to the financial restrictions that prevented the sports director from dismiss Kelly, hire Foster, how his attempt to make the maximum situation and the belief that Jarmond can help raise the resources necessary for hiring a much more successful replacement.
Other donors have already decided that they refuse great donations.
As a result of his misfortune, how the sports department is controlled, one donor, which was close to joining the 1919 society, which recognizes those who gave at least $ 1 million, said that he refused this effort.
Part of his dissatisfaction is rooted in dinners with Jarmond in Steak House in Tuson before UCLA played in Arizona in October 2021. He asked to share his favorite sports moment UCLA, the donor said that it was a football team that won three pink bowls and a fiesta when he studied at the beginning until the mid-1980s.
According to the donor and the other two at the table, Jarmond called the donor’s expectations unrealistic and said that historically, UCla won an average of seven to eight games a year, suggesting that they should be expectations.
Answering a question about the exchange, Jarmond said that “without going into the details of my conversations with any one person, my alleged message whenever this subject arises in the fact that the dynasty in football in college becomes more and more rare. In today's environment, with the implementation of income, zero and a transfer portal, it is increasingly difficult than ever maintaining success at a high level. But this does not mean that they are not a goal, that they are not a goal.
Several donors questioned Nil's commitment in the Jarmond sports department.
According to him, after one donor was made by the second great contribution of NIL, he reproached one high -ranking athletics official, who told him that his money would be better spent in a wooden sports fund, which supports the entire department. Donors criticized Jarmond for not forcing Kelly to do more work in order to support the efforts of a football team, which led to the fact that the team was significantly lagging behind their colleagues in the conference, and also in no hurry to publicly recognize and support the men of the WCLA NIL collective NIL.
Several donors said that from the very beginning Nil misunderstood, using small initiatives, such as Exchange Westwood, as a replacement for Bruins’s assistance to remain more competitive in other schools that understood that payment for the game was a generally accepted practice. After the start of income this summer, which allowed the school to pay athletes directly, UCLA even more stopped the importance of the presence of a reliable NIL program, even if it is widely believed that the new model ultimately resembles the old one.
Jarmond pointed out partnerships in UCLA with Nil Agency Agency Article 41 to improve the personal brands of athletes and the presence of social networks as evidence of the school’s commitment to the front edge of the NIL.
“We will provide someone in the following [football] A coach with resources and financial investments that we have not done before, frankly, ”said Jarmond.
UCLA teams won six NCAA championships under the Jarmond clock and published more conference titles last season than any other Big Ten team. It is also expected that the transition to a large ten will provide additional income to help stabilize the finances of the sports department, which required salvation at the university and made a sharp reproach from the executive council of the academic Senate of the school after launch of $ 219.55 in red over the past six financial years.
Jim Bendat, a male basketball subscription and a longtime fan, said that the sports director was faced with some unique problems that limited his success in the football program.
“I have some sympathy for Jarmond,” Bendat said. “Money was supposed to be a problem when he might have to fire Kelly immediately after the season 23 years. Then the time of Kelly's departure put Jarmond in an almost impossible situation. Basketball, baseball, softball and Olympic sports do everything in order. Is it true to pay tribute to these successes only to coaches and players, but, accusing only Jarmond, for football failures? I do not think that it is fair in the case.
“Since football is a milking cow, this is a lot of attention. I say that give this announcement another chance to do it correctly. This will be the biggest hire, which he will do, and he must do this correctly this time. ”
Criticism Jarmond, however, is becoming louder and brewed for many years.
Past problems are related to lack of communication when UCla suddenly got out of the festive bowl of 2021 For the Covid-19, only a few hours before the planned start. North Carolina Coach Dave Doeren blew up Bruins for the lack of transparency in relation to their situation in the list, which prevented Wolfupka from having a backup plan, saying: “We felt that, to be honest.”
Jarmond said that he was priority for the health and safety of the players, and Bruins had the whole intention to play if they could do it responsibly.
Only a month later, Jarmond was faced with a negative reaction that he slowly conflicted with the participation of a racial count used by a member of the female gymnastics. Jarmond met with the team only after Margzette Fraser and Nora Flatley wrote on Twitter to ask for his help, and Fraser later described the statement that Jarmond released About the situation as a “discouraging”, based on the reaction of the sports department to the scandal, which is “performative”.
Perhaps the biggest Jarmond problem was an ineffective football team that attracted Record crowds in pinkField
After a little more than one season, Foster’s fast fire led to a new opening in the sports department, at the same time heading the growing contingent of donors and fans to demand another. The petition to resign or be deleted Jarmond collected more than 1,400 signatures, and last week a mobile truck with a mobile advertising shield spread with such messages as UCLA football deserves the best fire advertising Martin Jarmond and UCLA $ 7 million for advertising UCLA? Failure never paid so well. “
According to the terms of extension of the contract, which he signed in May 2024, at the time when UCLA moved from the block of the outgoing chancellor to the successor Hulio Frencu – 45 – 45 jarmond will be approximately $ 7.1 million.
“Not a single person did more to damage the legacy and potential of UCLA football than Martin Jarmond,” said Ryan Bernard, one of the organizers of the Billboard mobile truck. “From his inability to shoot the Celli chip to his unjustified, lazy hire of the recently departed coach by running as the head coach, Jarmond's performance was terrible.”
