As I sit back and reflect on the Al Bohl brouhaha at Fresno State, I can only wonder why funneling reserve funds into the FSU operating budget went on for three years before somebody at the school looked at the books and said, “Hey, we can’t do that.”
Bohl, who spent five years as Fresno State’s athletic director, has been fingered as the bad guy because he received bonuses for balancing the budget during each of those three years.
Time and again Bohl, now in his ninth month as Kansas AD, has denied any impropriety. If you read his comments closely, you’ll notice he has never denied the reserve money was shifted to the operating fund. What he says is that everyone who checked the budget, including the NCAA, neither suspected nor found any incongruities.
When the final audit is completed in a month or so, Bohl’s name will resurface and we’ll tread the same path again. Fresno State will say the funds were improperly transferred and Bohl will deny any knowledge of wrongdoing.
Bohl is no saint who is? and where there’s smoke there’s usually fire. Still, this is not a crucifying offense. It’s a rmlip and it will follow Bohl wherever he goes even if he is proved innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Meanwhile, the Fresno State albatross, while still circling, doesn’t seem to be affecting Bohl’s mission to resurrect Kansas University football and raise more money, more money, more money.
I asked Jay Hinrichs, new director of the Williams Fund, if any donors he has contacted have mentioned the Fresno State situation. Hinrichs said there were none, adding: “It’s all business, rather than perception.”
Time for a Shrine?: Members of the K-Club (former KU lettermen) are quietly conducting a campaign to raise money for an addition to Allen Fieldhouse that would house a KU Sports Hall of Fame.
Plans call for an 8,000-square foot structure that would connect to the fieldhouse’s east entrance via a breezeway. North of the shrine would be a landscaped and paved strollway that would include the Phog Allen statue.
Now that the School of Engineering is building an addition in front of Learned Hall, the open area east of Allen Fieldhouse is one of the few large green spaces left on the campus. Not that the Sports Hall of Fame would wipe it out. Plenty of green would remain.
Budig Back in Limelight?: News that former KU chancellor and American League president Gene Budig is considered one of the leading candidates to take over as president of the NCAA next January caught me by surprise.
I guess that’s because I expected the NCAA would pursue a younger man for the grueling, time-consuming post. The NCAA president is on the road about 200 days a year. That’s a lot of metal detectors and pre-flight searches since the NCAA doesn’t own a corporate jet anymore.
Budig, 63, is content living in Princeton, N.J., and teaching at the Ivy League school, but it may be too soon to put him out to pasture in the groves of academe.
In the meantime, the NCAA is moving at non-warp speed in its search to find a replacement for retiring Cedric Dempsey. Target date to name the new boss is Nov. 1.
Conference Room Dominoes: One of the amenities of the new $8 million Anderson Family Strength and Health Center, scheduled for a spring 2003 completion, will be a conference room that will replace the current Parrott Complex conference room that will be converted to a media workroom for Allen Fieldhouse events. The current media workroom is undergoing a renovation that will provide additional office space for an expanded Williams Fund office. Confused? Don’t blame you. I’ll just go where they point me.
As I sit back and reflect on the Al Bohl brouhaha at Fresno State, I can only wonder why funneling reserve funds into the FSU operating budget went on for three years before somebody at the school looked at the books and said, “Hey, we can’t do that.”
Bohl, who spent five years as Fresno State’s athletic director, has been fingered as the bad guy because he received bonuses for balancing the budget during each of those three years.
Time and again Bohl, now in his ninth month as Kansas AD, has denied any impropriety. If you read his comments closely, you’ll notice he has never denied the reserve money was shifted to the operating fund. What he says is that everyone who checked the budget, including the NCAA, neither suspected nor found any incongruities.
When the final audit is completed in a month or so, Bohl’s name will resurface and we’ll tread the same path again. Fresno State will say the funds were improperly transferred and Bohl will deny any knowledge of wrongdoing.
Bohl is no saint who is? and where there’s smoke there’s usually fire. Still, this is not a crucifying offense. It’s a rmlip and it will follow Bohl wherever he goes even if he is proved innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Meanwhile, the Fresno State albatross, while still circling, doesn’t seem to be affecting Bohl’s mission to resurrect Kansas University football and raise more money, more money, more money.
I asked Jay Hinrichs, new director of the Williams Fund, if any donors he has contacted have mentioned the Fresno State situation. Hinrichs said there were none, adding: “It’s all business, rather than perception.”
Time for a Shrine?: Members of the K-Club (former KU lettermen) are quietly conducting a campaign to raise money for an addition to Allen Fieldhouse that would house a KU Sports Hall of Fame.
Plans call for an 8,000-square foot structure that would connect to the fieldhouse’s east entrance via a breezeway. North of the shrine would be a landscaped and paved strollway that would include the Phog Allen statue.
Now that the School of Engineering is building an addition in front of Learned Hall, the open area east of Allen Fieldhouse is one of the few large green spaces left on the campus. Not that the Sports Hall of Fame would wipe it out. Plenty of green would remain.
Budig Back in Limelight?: News that former KU chancellor and American League president Gene Budig is considered one of the leading candidates to take over as president of the NCAA next January caught me by surprise.
I guess that’s because I expected the NCAA would pursue a younger man for the grueling, time-consuming post. The NCAA president is on the road about 200 days a year. That’s a lot of metal detectors and pre-flight searches since the NCAA doesn’t own a corporate jet anymore.
Budig, 63, is content living in Princeton, N.J., and teaching at the Ivy League school, but it may be too soon to put him out to pasture in the groves of academe.
In the meantime, the NCAA is moving at non-warp speed in its search to find a replacement for retiring Cedric Dempsey. Target date to name the new boss is Nov. 1.
Conference Room Dominoes: One of the amenities of the new $8 million Anderson Family Strength and Health Center, scheduled for a spring 2003 completion, will be a conference room that will replace the current Parrott Complex conference room that will be converted to a media workroom for Allen Fieldhouse events. The current media workroom is undergoing a renovation that will provide additional office space for an expanded Williams Fund office. Confused? Don’t blame you. I’ll just go where they point me.
As I sit back and reflect on the Al Bohl brouhaha at Fresno State, I can only wonder why funneling reserve funds into the FSU operating budget went on for three years before somebody at the school looked at the books and said, “Hey, we can’t do that.”
Bohl, who spent five years as Fresno State’s athletic director, has been fingered as the bad guy because he received bonuses for balancing the budget during each of those three years.
Time and again Bohl, now in his ninth month as Kansas AD, has denied any impropriety. If you read his comments closely, you’ll notice he has never denied the reserve money was shifted to the operating fund. What he says is that everyone who checked the budget, including the NCAA, neither suspected nor found any incongruities.
When the final audit is completed in a month or so, Bohl’s name will resurface and we’ll tread the same path again. Fresno State will say the funds were improperly transferred and Bohl will deny any knowledge of wrongdoing.
Bohl is no saint who is? and where there’s smoke there’s usually fire. Still, this is not a crucifying offense. It’s a rmlip and it will follow Bohl wherever he goes even if he is proved innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Meanwhile, the Fresno State albatross, while still circling, doesn’t seem to be affecting Bohl’s mission to resurrect Kansas University football and raise more money, more money, more money.
I asked Jay Hinrichs, new director of the Williams Fund, if any donors he has contacted have mentioned the Fresno State situation. Hinrichs said there were none, adding: “It’s all business, rather than perception.”
Time for a Shrine?: Members of the K-Club (former KU lettermen) are quietly conducting a campaign to raise money for an addition to Allen Fieldhouse that would house a KU Sports Hall of Fame.
Plans call for an 8,000-square foot structure that would connect to the fieldhouse’s east entrance via a breezeway. North of the shrine would be a landscaped and paved strollway that would include the Phog Allen statue.
Now that the School of Engineering is building an addition in front of Learned Hall, the open area east of Allen Fieldhouse is one of the few large green spaces left on the campus. Not that the Sports Hall of Fame would wipe it out. Plenty of green would remain.
Budig Back in Limelight?: News that former KU chancellor and American League president Gene Budig is considered one of the leading candidates to take over as president of the NCAA next January caught me by surprise.
I guess that’s because I expected the NCAA would pursue a younger man for the grueling, time-consuming post. The NCAA president is on the road about 200 days a year. That’s a lot of metal detectors and pre-flight searches since the NCAA doesn’t own a corporate jet anymore.
Budig, 63, is content living in Princeton, N.J., and teaching at the Ivy League school, but it may be too soon to put him out to pasture in the groves of academe.
In the meantime, the NCAA is moving at non-warp speed in its search to find a replacement for retiring Cedric Dempsey. Target date to name the new boss is Nov. 1.
Conference Room Dominoes: One of the amenities of the new $8 million Anderson Family Strength and Health Center, scheduled for a spring 2003 completion, will be a conference room that will replace the current Parrott Complex conference room that will be converted to a media workroom for Allen Fieldhouse events. The current media workroom is undergoing a renovation that will provide additional office space for an expanded Williams Fund office. Confused? Don’t blame you. I’ll just go where they point me.
As I sit back and reflect on the Al Bohl brouhaha at Fresno State, I can only wonder why funneling reserve funds into the FSU operating budget went on for three years before somebody at the school looked at the books and said, “Hey, we can’t do that.”
Bohl, who spent five years as Fresno State’s athletic director, has been fingered as the bad guy because he received bonuses for balancing the budget during each of those three years.
Time and again Bohl, now in his ninth month as Kansas AD, has denied any impropriety. If you read his comments closely, you’ll notice he has never denied the reserve money was shifted to the operating fund. What he says is that everyone who checked the budget, including the NCAA, neither suspected nor found any incongruities.
When the final audit is completed in a month or so, Bohl’s name will resurface and we’ll tread the same path again. Fresno State will say the funds were improperly transferred and Bohl will deny any knowledge of wrongdoing.
Bohl is no saint who is? and where there’s smoke there’s usually fire. Still, this is not a crucifying offense. It’s a rmlip and it will follow Bohl wherever he goes even if he is proved innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
Meanwhile, the Fresno State albatross, while still circling, doesn’t seem to be affecting Bohl’s mission to resurrect Kansas University football and raise more money, more money, more money.
I asked Jay Hinrichs, new director of the Williams Fund, if any donors he has contacted have mentioned the Fresno State situation. Hinrichs said there were none, adding: “It’s all business, rather than perception.”
Time for a Shrine?: Members of the K-Club (former KU lettermen) are quietly conducting a campaign to raise money for an addition to Allen Fieldhouse that would house a KU Sports Hall of Fame.
Plans call for an 8,000-square foot structure that would connect to the fieldhouse’s east entrance via a breezeway. North of the shrine would be a landscaped and paved strollway that would include the Phog Allen statue.
Now that the School of Engineering is building an addition in front of Learned Hall, the open area east of Allen Fieldhouse is one of the few large green spaces left on the campus. Not that the Sports Hall of Fame would wipe it out. Plenty of green would remain.
Budig Back in Limelight?: News that former KU chancellor and American League president Gene Budig is considered one of the leading candidates to take over as president of the NCAA next January caught me by surprise.
I guess that’s because I expected the NCAA would pursue a younger man for the grueling, time-consuming post. The NCAA president is on the road about 200 days a year. That’s a lot of metal detectors and pre-flight searches since the NCAA doesn’t own a corporate jet anymore.
Budig, 63, is content living in Princeton, N.J., and teaching at the Ivy League school, but it may be too soon to put him out to pasture in the groves of academe.
In the meantime, the NCAA is moving at non-warp speed in its search to find a replacement for retiring Cedric Dempsey. Target date to name the new boss is Nov. 1.
Conference Room Dominoes: One of the amenities of the new $8 million Anderson Family Strength and Health Center, scheduled for a spring 2003 completion, will be a conference room that will replace the current Parrott Complex conference room that will be converted to a media workroom for Allen Fieldhouse events. The current media workroom is undergoing a renovation that will provide additional office space for an expanded Williams Fund office. Confused? Don’t blame you. I’ll just go where they point me.
