Administrators administrate. Fundraisers chase money. Professors teach.
In most cases, our jobs aren’t complicated. Salesmen sell. Accountants run numbers. Farmers farm.
But as we’re starting to understand with the travails of the UI’s Mike Thomas, the obligations of a collegiate athletic director run the gamut of complexity.
Sure, corporate executives and college deans have complicated jobs, but few see their reputations so publicly tainted by the failures of two key hires to meet spectator expectations.
In my wanderings, I ran across criteria used in the UI’s annual summer evaluations of former Illini AD Ron Guenther beginning in the 1990s during the now-wondrous term of President Stanley O.