No offense to my attorney friends, of which there are many through the years and seemingly on every street corner now, but I really hope this next athletic director isn't an attorney. Their decision making is viewed through a lens clouded by the legality of too many complicated issues. Let's get a more regular, genuine glad-hander on the golf course, a people person more like all of us and one who works his ass off, all the while with a smile.
Bob Knight loved working under the directorship of Bill Orwig. Bill was a born and raised mid-westerner who played basketball and football, a Michigan man, who later coached at the collegiate level as an assistant and had a prior athletic administrative job at Toledo before taking over the reigns at IU. If only we could be lucky enough to hire another Bill Orwig. If only we had but the left over candy and nuts of Christmas, we'd still be eating, along with visions dancing in our heads, the way IU basketball used to be, not there, yet, for us to see.