You’ll remember last week we discussed the resignation of Craig Walker and how this might affect the search for a new Director of Athletics. A few suggestions and some intelligent discourse followed and as we sifted through the names and the nobodies, we came across a very solid candidate.

You hear some names as this process unfolds — Oliver Luck and Whit Babcock immediately come to mind; I’m sorry, I just can’t see West doing it — and there isn’t much more to be learned about the people because we know so much already. Schaus, though, is a little different in that he hasn’t been around lately … and that may be a good thing.

It might be impossible for WVU to reconcile its desire to take one of its own, but it might be best if WVU found someone who hadn’t been around for or associated with any of the craziness of the past (insert your time frame here).

That could be Schaus, who in two years might be ready and willing, to say nothing of giddy about embracing the homecoming. More importantly, I gather he’s obsessed with making things happen at and not letting anything get in the way of progress.

His name generated a lot of feedback, including one e-mail from a … well, let’s call this person a qualified source.

Mike,

This Schaus thing is real……..you just need to figure out who his “champion” is or is going to be in the WVU administration, assuming he is as politically neutral as I think. He did serve 3-4 seasons as associate AD in Clifton with Huggy Bear in the Fortson years.
 
If he shows up in MGT, he’s going to be Vytorin for that sclerotic mess of a department. In a month or so at Ohio, he’s hired four head coaches and dumped a radio PBP guy. Jim Schaus doesn’t believe in committees; he believes in Jim Schaus………kind of like Chuck Norris.

Best regards,
(Qualified source)