Where is lew perkins now

The breaking of this news has led to rampant speculation in different media outlets that Mark Mangino's job may be in jeopardy. Mangino has had to fend off charges that he has "lost" the team after this news and a five game slide. All of these developments should beg the question about why this information was made public by Lew Perkins. Kansas has to play Texas on Saturday and despite players' and coachs' claims that this news is not a distraction, it is a distraction.

Perkins, 65, said in June that he would retire in September Instead, he and chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little announced he was leaving immediately and didn't make themselves available to reporters to explain why. I appreciate his service and understand his decision. Senior associate athletic director Sean Lester, who came in with Perkins in , was named interim athletic director.

Spokesman Jack Martin told The Associated Press the chancellor hoped to have a replacement by the middle of the spring semester and would appoint a five- or six-person search committee. We consider it home. This decision will give us a chance to stay involved in the community in different ways.

It will also allow me to explore other professional opportunities. Leaving a year ahead of schedule will not cost Perkins any money. Associate athletic director Jim Marchiony, perhaps the closest staff member to Perkins, said the Massachusetts native had not been pushed out. Perkins arrived after a highly successful stint as athletic director at UConn and took over a department that had fallen woefully behind other Big 12 schools in both revenue and facilities.

Perkins immediately began a capital improvements program that picked up steam in when the Jayhawks won the NCAA basketball championship and enjoyed an unprecedented year of success in football, capped by a victory over Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. In the report, released Thursday May 26, at the Dole Institute of Politics, thousands of misdirected tickets and more than a million dollars diverted from KU.

Lew Perkins, KU Athletic Director, prepares to take questions from members of the media after a report detailing improprieties in its ticket office was released to the public Wednesday afternoon. In the report, six employees of Kansas Athletics are described as taking part in a scheme to divert tickets and funds to their own benefit and away from KU. Wednesday morning broke with a report from yahoo.

That reporter is Jason King. Freeman told King then what he told federal authorities late in , that Rodney Jones of the Williams Fund was among those selling Final Four tickets to brokers and pocketing the cash. He also successfully negotiated an apparel deal with Under Armour and a multimedia rights partnership with Learfield, both of which brought more money into the CSU athletic department.

She also oversaw operations for KU women's basketball, soccer, rowing, baseball, volleyball and tennis and was the administrative supervisor for sports medicine, the business office and human resources.

She played a major role in the renovation of Hoglund Ballpark around the turn of the century. He might not be the best candidate for the long term but could be worth considering as a short-term option while KU regains its footing. Ready for the role? They had all the preparations needed. They were just idiots. In all seriousness, could you have done worse by pulling a name out of the phone directory?

Give me a break. We need leadership, not another goof with the appropriate experience. Hire any name on that list ahead of Danny and you will get to watch your lame Chancellorship end up like a cadaver in Snow Hall. I'm sorry I might like Danny, but please has he ever hired a coach, has he done fund raising, has he done anything for a football program?

The answer is not yet. He was a excellent player, a great assistant coach, a mediocre head coach and would be aligned to assist an AD similar to Gayle sayers, but Danny is not ready for this position. Danny is not the right man for the job. Have you ever met him?

He is popular as a player and a name in Lawrence, but he does not have the experience to be AD. Yes I have met him. He is a very likeable and friendly guy who will speak to anyone. I don't know if he will make a good AD but he could draw interest back to the school and with the help of a professional search firm could hire the right fit for football head coach.

He certainly couldn't do any worse than Zenger or Long. I wouldn't want to hire Brian White.