We talked briefly last week about Oliver Luck and how to appropriately measure and project his work in such a small amount of time in his office. It was a good point, I thought, because, realistically, what has he done relative to what he can do or be expected to do?

He probably wouldn’t want concrete opinions about him to form just yet because, in a way, I doubt he thinks he’s given a true representation of what he’s capable of in his position. Yet.

Still, I can’t get enough of listening to and reading the things he has to say because he pulls back the curtain an awful lot with regard to how things work and how things are to work. You see how he locks in on some stuff and tell change is on the way. Within everything, you can find something to show what he’s doing and how he thinks. Example:

I learned fairly early that our bus system wasn’t synched up with events. You can want to come to a volleyball game here at the Coliseum or a soccer match, but if you’re in Boreman Hall downtown you didn’t have a way to get out here unless you had a car. So we sat down with the transportation folks and figured out a way to allow the busses to run a little longer, whether it’s volleyball, soccer, or going forward with gymnastics, wrestling or whatever. It’s important that we make it easy for students to get out here. It’s a small development but I think it helped us get 600 fans in here to watch us beat Marshall in volleyball for the first time in many years. That matters. You bring 50 or 100 Mountaineer Maniacs out to anything and that will make a difference.