08-20-2023, 10:22 AM
Well, if you look up Mike Bohn on the internet, there's no shortage of articles detailing the toxic work environment and his lack of fitness for leadership positions. And yet that was the U$C AD who shoved the Trojans across the conference alignment Rubicon. He definitely could have been double-dealing, and maybe the big donors were exerting leverage.
Martin Jarmond, a UNC-Wilmington guy, is the UCLA athletic director. Both he and Bohn have masters in sports administration from Ohio University, albeit from different decades. Was he pushed into realignment by big donors?
Carol Folt, the U$C president, has degrees from UCSB and UC Davis. Gene Block, the UCLA chancellor, has degrees from Stanford and Oregon. He did his postdoc work under Donald Kennedy at Stanford. Both presidents don't seem like they have the kind of personalities to seek out Big 10 football money at the expense of all other athletics and student experience. It feels like they were outmaneuvered and forced into these positions.
It's a rotten situation to have to chase football money.
Martin Jarmond, a UNC-Wilmington guy, is the UCLA athletic director. Both he and Bohn have masters in sports administration from Ohio University, albeit from different decades. Was he pushed into realignment by big donors?
Carol Folt, the U$C president, has degrees from UCSB and UC Davis. Gene Block, the UCLA chancellor, has degrees from Stanford and Oregon. He did his postdoc work under Donald Kennedy at Stanford. Both presidents don't seem like they have the kind of personalities to seek out Big 10 football money at the expense of all other athletics and student experience. It feels like they were outmaneuvered and forced into these positions.
It's a rotten situation to have to chase football money.