When the University of Toledo announces its next athletic director any day now, the new guy — Bryan Blair or Tom Moreland, well-regarded thirty-something deputies from Washington State and Purdue — will inherit a good job at a good time.
But just because outgoing AD Mike O’Brien is leaving UT on solid ground doesn’t mean it’s a turnkey shop.
With that, here’s our friendly to-do list for the next man up:
u25a0 Make it rain: As long as an AD fundraises, hires good football and basketball coaches, and fundraises some more, they can be incompetent at literally every other aspect of the job, and still be a first-ballot entry into the administrative hall of fame.