Saturday, May 31, 2008

The New Sheriff in Town

Duke just hired away Notre Dame's Athletic Director. Which sounds good, right? I don't know anything about the guy, but ND runs a big time athletics program, and (despite recent struggles) they run a big time football program under similar restrictions to those in place at Duke.


Of course, just because he HAS run a big football program doesn't mean he's run it well--this is the response I got from a ND friend when I sent him the news about Duke's hire:

"Haha THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! ND will be back!!

Duke basketball better wave good bye!!"

Ah well...nice thing about Duke--we have low expectations for success in football, and bball takes care of itself, so I think Mr. White will do fine.

Only beef with the guy--his picture looks like the yearbook photo of a high school principle from 1978. Weird.

2 comments:

rainer said...

Hopefully Duke will be able to turn around the football program in the next few years. I guess there's no real danger in the transition anyways since the only direction they can go is up! Go devils!

William Wren said...

thanks