No problem - here it is.
Reporter: There is the perception that high-profile, big-money boosters are
putting make-a-change-or-else pressure on you and IU President Michael
McRobbie, that if you don't make a basketball coaching change, they'll
pull money for projects you are planning. Is that true?
Glass: "That
is absolutely not true. I find the whole thing silly. We had a saying in
politics that the $100 donors griped the loudest. There may be somebody
saying something about this or that, but first, nobody is saying that
to me, and second, if they did say that, it wouldn't have any impact.
You can't chase that stuff.
People who take that position, they
always want the guy on the sideline with the baseball cap and the
clipboard. Everybody is calling for the back-up quarterback. If you
would put the back-up in, everything would be all right. There are
people like that, but they aren't the people whose judgment I value or
who I listen to. If they want to threaten to yank a donation, go ahead. I
can't chase all that stuff.
Having said that, that hasn't
happened. It hasn't happened once, not one time. Sometimes I'll get a
letter from someone saying he's a member of the Varsity Club, and blah,
blah, blah, and I find out he's not even a member of the Varsity Club.
It's just not been an issue."
(Emphasis is mine.)
The general consensus is that it's something that's fine to say when fundraising, but being dumb enough to say that in public is (pardon the politics) Romney-esque.
The entire interview is worth reading, if you have twenty minutes to process it and a few brain cells to kill. It's four parts, and it shows a remarkable lack of media savvy.