I strongly disagree that the next president necessarily needs to be someone with ties to MSU. Sometimes it makes sense to hire from within. But ONLY when a nationwide job search has been done and the best candidate is someone with MSU ties. If you start making all of your hires from within, you wind up with an in-bred organization. And in-breeding in organizations is a lot like in-breeding in people. You wind up with a lot of defects.diehard4dawgs said:<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I really don't care as long as it is a MSU person. There are plenty of qualified people out there who are MSU people, and we don't need some guy with a mustache from Southern Illinois coming down here with no appreciation of where MSU has been and where it is going. </span></p>