My thought was that if he was choosing Indiana's football coach basketball coach etc he'd have a well-rounded background at least in high school. I couldn't find any evidence that he played any organized sports. Not even flag football! But then again flag football probably would not have been mentioned in Wikipedia.
He started out mopping the floors and doing laundry for the basketball team. And eventually he worked his way up to head student manager. At some point he worked for Tim Knight. And then he was back in Assembly Hall working for Fred Glass.
When Glass retired as athletic director he recommended to Dolson that he apply for the AD job, which he did. So apparently somebody with virtually no athletic experience recommended somebody else with no athletic experience to be athletic director. One of the first things he did was give out big contract extensions to the football staff.
I can't imagine that kind of authority could rest solely with an athletic director or even with a committee from the athletic department.
And yet if that is the case I would not be surprised.
Quite often the highest paid state employees work in athletic departments. Clearly things are way out of control. Just look at the Paul Chriyst situation in Wisconsin
He started out mopping the floors and doing laundry for the basketball team. And eventually he worked his way up to head student manager. At some point he worked for Tim Knight. And then he was back in Assembly Hall working for Fred Glass.
When Glass retired as athletic director he recommended to Dolson that he apply for the AD job, which he did. So apparently somebody with virtually no athletic experience recommended somebody else with no athletic experience to be athletic director. One of the first things he did was give out big contract extensions to the football staff.
I can't imagine that kind of authority could rest solely with an athletic director or even with a committee from the athletic department.
And yet if that is the case I would not be surprised.
Quite often the highest paid state employees work in athletic departments. Clearly things are way out of control. Just look at the Paul Chriyst situation in Wisconsin