Tuesday Takedown: College Search Firm Business Booming

The University of South Florida thought it had its new men's basketball in Steve Masiello, but an inconsistency uncovered during a background check determined the Manhattan College coach had lied on his resume about graduating from the University of Kentucky. He had already signed a five-year deal with USF when the contract was voided after the discrepancy was discovered. (In an interesting twist, Manhattan opted to keep Masiello but only if he completed his undergraduate degree.)

The Masiello fiasco at South Florida briefly threw the spotlight on the practice of resume manipulation or embellishment, something most commonly associated with University of Central Florida head football coach George O'Leary. In 2001, he resigned as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame after five days after admitting to falsifying parts of his athletic and academic background on his resume. But in South Florida's case, the focus quickly shifted from resume impropriety to the common practice of using third-party search firms to help fill administrative and coaching vacancies — and the alarming amounts of money being given to these search firms.

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