Everything you describe above about Pete Najarian you can say the same things about Trent Tucker and he actually lives in this community. He has AD experience although it is at the High School level, so he already has an understanding of what it is like to budget for a large amount of student athletes, facilities and run a large organization. He Tucker would have the ability to make connections with alumni, community groups, and handle the travel part of it to. You want a former athlete, than how about someone that would bring some pride back to Gopher athletics and has connections. Trent Tucker has those things to, for opening up doors and at least getting in the door for meetings. He was part of our last Big 10 championship basketball program to, so he may just know a thing or two about successful coaches having a strong work ethic and giving people opportunity. Having a relationship with the coaches in the Minneapolis public schools is not a bad thing for recruiting potential student athletes either. Tucker is an alumnus, I think we could be proud of as our athletic director, because he has a lot of the attributes we are looking for, and I think has just as much claim to having the opportunity to be great in the AD role for Gopher athletics. This isn't just a diversity thing either, this dude get's people, the art of bringing a big group of people together, and the art of making deals happen, so he has just as much right to have the media like Souhan or Hartmann calling out his name as a potential candidate as Najarian. If your going to take a chance on a former alumn and athlete, at least take one that has run an athletic department. To me on day one, he Tucker would bring the positive energy back to the department, and be able to tap on people like Tony Dungy for ideas to get this mess of a department back on track. It is time to bring back pride to that M, and start winning in all sports but especially the revenue sports.