December 18, 2007

University of St. Thomas retains The Team to assist in head football coach search

DUBLIN, Ohio – The University of St. Thomas Department of Athletics has retained The Team: Sports, Entertainment, & Media to assist with its upcoming search for a permanent Head Football Coach.

The Team, through its Collegiate Services Division, will research and identify potential candidates for the head football coaching position as well as provide general assistance with the search.

“We believe that this search is an opportunity for us to find a candidate who can lead our football program to the top of the MIAC and the elite of Div. III, said Steve Fritz, Director of Athletics at St. Thomas. This is a very exciting time for all involved with our program and university. We are very pleased to have Frank Pergolizzi and the TEAM assisting us with the search.”

“We very much look forward to working with the St. Thomas athletic department and helping them to increase the quantity and quality of the applicant pool for their head football coaching position,” said Frank Pergolizzi, The Team’s Director of Collegiate Services.

The Team’s Collegiate Services Division, was launched in January 2007, and offers an array of products and services to college athletics administrators, including certification consultation, strategic planning, program review, feasibility studies, sponsorship sales assessment and training, gender equity and compliance consulting, and executive search services.

The division has serviced a number of collegiate clients since its start, including the University of Pittsburgh, Louisiana Tech University, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Western Michigan University. Cabrini College, Manatee Community College, Crown College, the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the American Southwest Conference, the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Eastern Nazarene College, Stevens Institute of Technology and the University of Arkansas-Monticello.

Based in Dublin, Ohio, The Team: Sports, Entertainment, & Media began operations in January 2002 and has successfully managed transactions for an array of entities throughout the sports and entertainment industries, including teams at all levels, venues, buyers, sellers, licensed products, television and media projects, feature films, and other related businesses.

Along with brokering professional sports and entertainment opportunities, The Team also offers comprehensive consulting services to sports and entertainment organizations throughout North America.