Adventures in Conference Realignment with Oliver Luck (Dosh)

[huskymedic]

Interesting listen/read:

Adventures in Conference Realignment with Oliver Luck

Former WVU athletic director Oliver Luck joined the podcast to discuss navigating the last round of conference realignment for the Mountaineers.

businessofcollegesports.com

-> In this episode we discussed:

• How Luck found out the Big East was in trouble
• Luck’s first actions once he realized WVU needed to find a new conference and which conferences he called first
• The challenges realignment brings for an athletic director
• The tight knit circle that an athletic director has when making decisions about realignment
• The different factors that a school considers when weighing the options of realignment
• How schools can salvage old rivalries even when changing conferences
• The lawlessness of conference realignment
• The amount of stress involved for an athletic director during realignment <-

 

[WestHartHusk]

Interesting listen/read:

Adventures in Conference Realignment with Oliver Luck

Former WVU athletic director Oliver Luck joined the podcast to discuss navigating the last round of conference realignment for the Mountaineers.

businessofcollegesports.com

-> In this episode we discussed:

• How Luck found out the Big East was in trouble
• Luck’s first actions once he realized WVU needed to find a new conference and which conferences he called first
• The challenges realignment brings for an athletic director
• The tight knit circle that an athletic director has when making decisions about realignment
• The different factors that a school considers when weighing the options of realignment
• How schools can salvage old rivalries even when changing conferences
• The lawlessness of conference realignment
• The amount of stress involved for an athletic director during realignment <-

A bit of puffery here: ADs don’t make conference realignment decisions.

 

[buddy]

A bit of puffery here: ADs don’t make conference realignment decisions.

Maybe not but an strong AD would certainly be helpful, like Jurich for Louisville.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Maybe not but an strong AD would certainly be helpful, like Jurich for Louisville.

I was talking about real schools. Louisville is an athletic club that offers a few classes and is clearly an exception.

 

[buddy]

I was talking about real schools. Louisville is an athletic club that offers a few classes and is clearly an exception.

But you have to admit they had a great AD when they needed one.

 

[ScottVib]

People forget about the three schools that left in 2000-2001 so the Big East had already been decimated if you will with the departure of those schools, and we added Louisville at the time, South Florida, maybe somebody else to replace the three that left.

Nothing highlights Cincinnati's place on the CFB spectrum like one of the ADs that was involved in the process of your "big break" into a AQ conference forgetting you were there.

 

[WestHartHusk]

But you have to admit they had a great AD when they needed one.

Jrich was irrelevant. It was all about FSU and Clemson.

 

[Hoophound]

Jrich was irrelevant. It was all about FSU and Clemson.

I don’t know. Jurich and UL in general, were aggressively growing the athletic department and I’m sure they did some things to get noticed. They were relentless in advancing their cause the whole time Jurich was there. He was a very powerful AD with a lot of clout on campus. It was often said, he was far and away the most powerful figure at UL.