Sunday, April 22, 2018

Bright lights can obscure a sickly body

The AD is in charge of the entire athletic department. All the men's sports, all the women's sports. One is no less his concern than the other. The scope of the financial involvement may dictate that he spend more time on one than the other, but he is not less responsible for them.

In some high-dollar programs, success in the most visible money program sometimes obscures a lack of success in most of the others. Thus fans get a very tilted concept of the success of the AD in his overall job. For example, if the football team wins the national championship, but all the other sports are second division, then the AD has done a really second-rate job, even most fans will not realize it because most "fans" follow nothing but the big money sport.

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