(01-26-2018 10:33 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(01-26-2018 09:51 PM)58-56 Wrote:  Barack Obama.

He needs a job. He has zero ***** to give. He went to Pepperdine; his brother-in-law flamed out of coaching so that conflict's not relevant. He knows sports, but isn't out of the sports-industrial complex. Most of all, as a Democratic ex-President he has the best chance of getting deference from the academic mandarins who control the universities that make up the NCAA.

Give him the powers Kennesaw Mountain Landis had after the Black Sox Scandal, and treat this as an existential moment for college sports on the same level as that one. Blow it all up.

Or, to suggest a name from the other party, who is in academia and also knows college athletics: Condi Rice.

Of course, neither one would be interested in that mess of a job.

I could see her name in the ring. I think there will be a strong push from some quarters for a female president. Like you said, she has the sports background, is female, and being a woman of color would get her bonus points from some.