I just started drinking. I suggest you do, too.
The administration has been far from a model competence when it comes to athletics and I don't know enough of the recent era details to know where the blame lies. I have always had the sense, perhaps inaccurately, that the president defers considerably to the AD to run athletics. The goober before Herbst, Hogan, seemed even more out of touch to me, and when I met him briefly it confirmed that sense.
Herbst got rid of Hathaway, who imo remains the most responsible for our crappy conference predicament because he squandered the greatest window of opportunity for us at a time when he knew--as did his predecessors--that the landscape was changing rapidly and we needed to be proactive or be left behind. He blew it.
Herbst hired Manuel, who inherited a mess, and he did little to help--and actually seems to have made matters worse--before beating a path out of Dodge. Then she hired Benedict, who also inherited a mess, and I guess the best we can say is that the jury is still out on him but the early returns don't look good. His legacy imo will be defined in large part by how he handles getting Ollie out and getting the the flagship sports program of our state flagship university back on track. And, I guess, hers pretty much hangs in the balance on that, too.
