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Take a guess what sport Ohio State's athletic director played

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Foolmeoncefan

Dec 23, 2014
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Wonder what sport Ohio State's AD played?

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/genrel/smith_gene00.html

At Ohio State, the 59-year old Smith oversees the nation's most comprehensive and one of its most successful collegiate athletics programs. The department sponsors 36 fully-funded varsity sports with more than 1,000 student-athletes regularly competing for Big Ten Conference and NCAA championships.

Smith has additional oversight responsibility for a recently created Business Advancement Division of Ohio State which includes: Schottenstein Center, Nationwide Arena, Blackwell Hotel, Drake Union, Fawcett Center, and Trademark & Licensing.

As a highly-recruited student-athlete and member of national championship teams as a college athlete and coach, Smith is passionate about the well-being of student-athletes and the championship experience. "We want to create an environment for our student-athletes to be successful academically, athletically and socially," he said. "Intercollegiate athletics offers an unparalleled opportunity for young women and men to prepare for success in life."
 
What sport did Alabama's AD play?

http://www.rolltide.com/genrel/bill_battle_844031.html

William R. "Bill" Battle is in his third year as Director of Athletics at The University of Alabama. Battle took over the job on Friday, March 22, 2013, succeeding Mal Moore who had held the position since November, 1999. Battle joined the Crimson Tide after a career as a college football coach and entrepreneur that was consistently hallmarked by innovation and foresight.

A native of Birmingham, Ala., Battle attended The University of Alabama on a football scholarship and enjoyed a successful playing career as a three-year starter at end for the Crimson Tide under legendary head coach Paul "Bear" Bryant from 1960-62. Battle was a member of Bryant's first national championship team at Alabama in 1961. Generally regarded as the team's best end throughout his playing career, Battle came to Tuscaloosa after starring in three sports at Birmingham's West End High School.
 
What sport did Wisconsin's AD play?

http://www.uwbadgers.com/genrel/alvarez_barry00.html

Alvarez is a 1969 graduate of the University of Nebraska, where he played linebacker and went on to earn his master's degree. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from his alma mater in 2003. Alvarez and his wife, Cindy, were co-campaign chairs in the effort to bring a Gilda's Club (a free support center for families dealing with cancer) to Madison. That facility opened in the fall of 2008. In addition, Alvarez serves on the Board of Directors of the MACC Fund (Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer).

Over the next 16 seasons Alvarez transformed the football program and, subsequently, the culture of athletics at the UW. The success of the football program ignited and heightened interest in Badger sports. Alvarez's list of accomplishments at Wisconsin is remarkable. Consider just a few of the most notable ...

• winningest coach in school history (record of 118-73-4, .615)

• highest bowl winning percentage of all-time (8-3, .727)

• coached three Big Ten and Rose Bowl champions

• only Big Ten coach ever to win the Rose Bowl in consecutive seasons

• just the 10th coach in Big Ten history with 100 victories at one conference institution
 
What sport did USC's AD play?

http://www.usctrojans.com/genrel/haden_pat00.html

A 3-time letterman (1972-73-74), he led the Trojans in passing in 1973 and 1974 (and in total offense in 1973). He was a member of USC's 1972 and 1974 national championship teams and played in 3 Rose Bowls. He was Co-MVP of the 1975 Rose Bowl (with lifelong friend J.K. McKay, the son of head coach John McKay and now a senior associate athletic director at USC) when he threw for 181 yards and 2 scores, including a TD pass (to McKay) and a PAT pass late in the game, for a comeback 18-17 win over Ohio State. A Trojan co-captain in 1974, he was named the team's MVP and Most Inspirational Player that season and was selected to play in the 1975 Hula Bowl. He helped orchestrate one of the greatest comebacks in college football history, throwing 4 touchdowns to lead USC to a 55-24 win over Notre Dame in 1974 after trailing 24-0 late in the first half. He still ranks 14th on USC's career passing list (241 completions) and is 15th in total offense (3,802 yards). He threw for 3,288 yards and 33 TDs in his career.

He was a 2-time Academic All-American (1973-74) and was named an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholar, NCAA Today's Top Five Award winner and National Football Foundation Scholar-Athlete in 1974.

Haden graduated from USC magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in English. He was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics in 1978. He received a law degree from Loyola Law School in 1982.

A seventh round pick of the Los Angeles Rams in the 1975 NFL draft, he played for the Southern California Sun of the World Football League in 1975 and then the Rams for 6 seasons (1976-81) while also attending Oxford. He led the Rams to 3 NFC West Division titles (1976-77-78) and the team advanced to the NFC Championship Game in 1976 and 1978. He began 1979 as the starter, but was sidelined with a broken finger midway through the season as the Rams made it to the Super Bowl. He was the Rams' Rookie of the Year in 1976, made the Pro Bowl in 1977 and was named the NFC Player of the Year in 1978 by the Washington D.C. Touchdown Club. In his career, he completed 731-of-1,363 passes (53.6%) for 9,296 yards and 52 touchdowns.

He starred in football at Bishop Amat High in La Puente (Calif.), where he lived with the McKay family during his senior year because his family moved out of state.

He was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003, the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1995, the National High School Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in the 1988 inaugural class. He received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 2000 and a plaque on the San Pedro Sportswalk in 2011.
 
These people are committed to excellence. You want a championship it starts with the AD first. Not the coach. Do you think for one second that right after LSU makes it to the Rose Bowl, or any other BCS bowl that their AD is going to come rolling lowest salary in the SEC styled if their coach decides to retire? Here is a math formula. You just get to the Rose Bowl and get millions of dollars in ticket sales, concessions, royalties, donations are up, TV money up, admissions up, money is rolling in. Why not hire the next coach lowest salary in the big ten style. How does that sound for someone committed to excellence?

The guy making a decision like that. What sport might he play? Swimming or football? Lets thank about it. There is one rule for an Athletic Director in college football. There is ONLY one rule. Do whatever you want. Build softball stadiums. Build aquatic centers. Build horse tracks if you want. Build a soccer stadium. But the ONLY rule you have as the AD is that you never ever neglect the football team. That is the only sugardaddy. That is the only sugarmama. That is the only pimpdaddy you never take sugar from.


Any guess as to what the LSU AD's football position was?
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=1504631

Joe Alleva continues to bring unprecedented national recognition to LSU as Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics. Under Alleva’s leadership, LSU enjoys one of the country’s premier athletics programs with success on and off the field of competition. Now in his eighth year at LSU, Alleva is dedicated to athletic and academic excellence, and he is committed to providing the opportunities and the resources necessary for student-athletes to excel in competition, in the classroom and in the community. Alleva joined the LSU family on April 4, 2008, after a highly successful tenure as director of athletics at Duke University for 10 years. He was named vice chancellor at LSU in August of 2009, marking the first time in school history that the director of athletics has also held a vice chancellor position.

Alleva became director of athletics at Duke in 1998 and his impressive tenure there propelled the university into the ranks of America’s top all-around collegiate programs. Among his outstanding list of accomplishments includes the greatest 10-year period in Duke Athletics, winning more ACC and NCAA championships than in any other decade in school history.

Alleva, whose hometown is Suffern, N.Y., majored in Finance at Lehigh University and received his bachelor’s degree in 1975. While at Lehigh, Alleva was the quarterback of the football team and team captain in 1974. Alleva also played on the Lehigh baseball team. He served as a graduate assistant football coach and earned an MBA in 1976.
 
Yeah, but can we attract the attention of a competent AD, if the university is going to pick the pockets of the athletics department?
 
If you think Gene Smith is the driving force behind the football program at OSU, i have some ocean front property you might be interested in.
 
Foolmeoncefan said:
What sport did USC's AD play?

http://www.usctrojans.com/genrel/haden_pat00.html


He was inducted into the USC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003, the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 1995, the National High School Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in the 1988 inaugural class. He received an NCAA Silver Anniversary Award in 2000 and a plaque on the San Pedro Sportswalk in 2011.
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Pat said about Sarkisian "The decision I made didn't work out, and I own that. I own it." Classy manned up and did the right thing, not like BURKE!
 
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