Counting Our Blessings One AD At a Time.

Kyle King has an outstanding piece up at Dawg Sports this morning considering what a cautionary tale the current Arkansas mess is for other programs. If you read this page I'm assuming you already read Kyle's blog. If you don't, you should. Especially today.

It really is shocking that we had such a seamless transition from Dooley to Evans given the rancor in Dawg Nation prior to the changing of the guard. Sure, Michael Adams continues to meddle in athletic business whenever he has the inclination, and usually with consequences that range from the disasterous to the pointless and embarassing.

However, as Kyle points out, Damon Evans has quietly built the most profitable athletic department in the country, presided over a gaggle of SEC and National championships in mens and womens sports and sheparded facility upgrades that have and will benefit students, student-athletes and fans. All this whilst emerging from the shadow of his predecessor, the most well known and influential sports figure in University history (except of course for some guy from Wrightsville named Walker). Damon Evans came in facing long odds, and he's responded beautifully.

Also worth checking out is the interview that David Ching conducted with Evans a few days ago. In it he talks about some of things that have been accomplished and some of the things that he hopes to accomplish (like raising the abysmally low student-athlete graduation rates he inherited from Donnan HarrickDooley).