Sports Illustrated featured Alarie in its Catching Up With feature this winter. By all appearances, Alarie seemed on a clear path to a life far removed from the business world. But within a few weeks of the season s end, Alarie announced his resignation. In short, he says, he found he didn t have enough of the right stuff. It s hard to sum up in two sentences or less, he says.
College basketball happens to be a very confined environment.
It is difficult, if not impossible,to be entrepreneurial, to build something that hasn t been built before. There is a heavy-handed regulatory association the NCAA and it is very conservative by its nature. I needed to be 100 percent certain that it was the path I wanted to follow. I came to the conclusion that it simply wasn t. De Voe indicated it was purely Alarie s decision to leave, that he had not been pushed out of a job.