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GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 27, ISSUE 5 52 BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF I n April, Mike Bobinski didn't even realize how long he'd been on the job as Purdue's athletic director. His first six months had been quite the whirl- wind: Dismissing a football coach, hiring another, eval- uating the athletic department and setting a standard of expectations for it, traveling with the men's basket- ball team during its Sweet 16 run, trying to cultivate re- lationships with donors, fans and student-athletes and trying to keep track of all of the school's 18 teams. Bobinski touched on it all during an hour-long ap- pearance on "Gold and Black LIVE" on April 7. The fol- lowing are excerpts: Gold and Black: It has been a whirlwind for you at Purdue so far. How's it been? Bobinski: "It has gone fast. I was meeting with a recruit and his family earlier and talking to them about similarities with them and my job. There are always un- certainties and you wonder if it is going to be similar to how it was described, and I can say with 100-percent certainty that I have not had one moment of buyer's re- morse thinking, 'What have I gotten myself into?' There has been none of that. It's been terrific and everyone has been very supportive and welcoming. People are willing to embrace new thoughts and adjustments to how we are doing things. Some of what we are doing is just what we have been doing, but overall it's been great even though I have already lost track of how long I have been doing it. We've got miles to go and a lot to get done, but early on it feels like we've got things go- ing in a direction that looks like a good one for us here at Purdue." Gold and Black: What are you pleased to have accomplished here in the first six months? Bobinski: "I haven't accomplished a whole lot, to be honest with you, because it has been an adjustment process. Working with an organization isn't a moment in time. It is a set of processes and occurrences, just like building a team is. These things happen over the Tom Campbell Mike Bobinski has seemed to get off to a hot start as Pur- due's athletic director, gaining momentum from the Jeff Brohm hire in football and men's basketball's Sweet 16 appearance. Q&A Settling In AD Bobinski likes direction department headed

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