It's going to be much the same way here with the regents and the regents' staff. It brings us together. It provides a rallying point. Given the diversity and the various foci around an institution, it's hard to find rallying points. I don't know anything that brought Columbus together like Ohio State football.
Athletic systems get in trouble when students cease to be students.
But you have to be a real student, and to me that means going to class and moving towards a degree. The burden now under the new federated structure, which I played a hand in writing, is on the presidents. I'm not sure that presidents are any more virtuous than coaches or ADs. Whether or not enough presidents will devote enough time to provide the kind of leadership that's needed is one of the key issues in this whole restructuring effort. The American Association of Universities came up during your summer visit.