Perspective: Janet Hill, with a Hall of Fame son and an all-pro husband, was a selfless star
; and began serving on numerous boards: the Wendy’s Company, the Carlyle Group, Dean Foods, Houghton Mifflin, the Kennedy Center.
“Almost all, without exception, people on the Knight Commission had some professional experience connected to collegiate athletics,” Kirwan said. “I can’t think of another person that was sort of a citizen. But she had lived [the collegiate athletic experience], with a star athlete as a husband and star athlete as a son, in ways other members had not. She had sensible and reasonable ideas about how intercollegiate athletics should work. The university and education was her central focus.
When Derrick Heggans, as a Duke junior, met Grant as a freshman, he counseled Grant on college life. In exchange, Grant put Heggans, who had an interest in business management, in touch with his mother.“I was thinking about going to Duke for an MBA, and Advantage called and said, ‘We have an opening in our basketball department,’ ” Heggans recounted to me Thursday. “Janet said, ‘Isn’t that what you want to do?’ She said, ‘You can always go back to get your MBA.
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