Think the Teague situation is a sordid mess? Well in 1922 the first Athletics Director search at the U of M was weird too!
Doc Williams could bandage up players but couldn't save his own job after 20 years at the helm of Gopher football. Via MNHS.
After two down years in football the U of M alumni were fed up. They wanted major reforms. At the time the basketball coach, Dr. Cooke held an informal AD position at Minnesota, other schools in the 1920s such as Iowa, and Michigan had football coaches act as Athletic Director, but the stand alone position was relatively new and the alumni wanted one.