Bob Bowlsby
Bob Bowlsby
Robert Addison "Bob" Bowlsbyis the fourth commissioner of the Big 12 Conference replacing Dan Beebe. Prior to that position, he served as the athletic director at the University of Northern Iowa, University of Iowa, and Stanford University...
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This has been a very difficult last 10?12 days. I have been involved in wrestling a long time. I had a short list of coaches. There were a lot of people with Iowa backgrounds and some who didn't have any ties to Iowa. It all came down to one candidate and that candidate is Tom Brands. He did a terrific job at Virginia Tech. He has a fierce, competitive spirit and that's what we are looking for.
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We don't even know who was involved yet. The first step is to find out who was involved. In the grand scheme of things, it's likely not all that serious.
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Everyone has jumped to the conclusion that he was somehow engaged with Missouri, and I don't know that he was. And I don't know if anyone else knows that, either.
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The best we can do now is improve on the process for selection of officiating crews to make sure we are doing what we can to avoid these situations in the future.
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I have no idea when or where it will stop, ... but I do know that I don't see it happening in the foreseeable future. Every time you think it's topped out, somebody goes over it.
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I have not talked with anyone about any possible change in the current situation.
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They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.
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There could be more to it than we know, but I would be shocked if it is more than a minor deal.
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Big Ten teams are sort of going on the road and playing -- not home games at the other place -- but neutral sites, where both teams can benefit financially.
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You have to pay what the market bears, ... and in that regard, we are no different than any other business or industry. We compete at the hospital for researchers, and we compete in a lot of areas on campus for the best people.
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This has been a very difficult 10 or 12 days. Yet having said that, it culminates in an event we're very excited about.
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The temptation is to begin drawing conclusions, and I think that's a real mistake, because lots of things happen in the month of February and the conference tournaments, ... The process is best served by doing some background work and not coming to any conclusions.
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Of all the changes we could make, the one with regard to home-versus-away games is one that your gut tells you should be incorporated, ... How we do that and in what proportions is yet to be determined, but I think it's fair to say that most people's intuition is that there ought to be some weighting for road wins.
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What it means is they have a chance to call him and he can decide whether he wants to go and interview.