Shortly after he became athletics director at West Virginia University, in 2010, Oliver Luck sat down with the three most important law enforcement officials in his new community: the university police chief, the city of Morgantown’s police chief and the colonel of the state police department.
They all shared one concern: Alcohol-soaked football game days at WVU, where a lively tailgating scene and the school’s halftime pass-out policy had combined to create an environment for heavy binge drinking — and all the headaches that followed.
Luck had a two-part plan that he figured could make a difference.