Former CU ski coach and athletic director Bill Marolt and former co-sports information director Steve Hatchell at the 1980 Olympics.
BOULDER — It was almost 50 years ago that a recent Colorado grad and employee of the CU Athletic Department helped come up with the idea of an annual banquet and ball to raise money for the CU ski team.
Since then, Steve Hatchell has served — among other things — as an associate commissioner of the Big Eight, executive director of the Orange Bowl, commissioner of the Southwest Conference, the first-ever commissioner of the Big 12 and, currently, as president and CEO of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.