'I’d want to stay open-minded about the question, to see where Temple football lands in the next three to five to seven years.'
There’s no mention of athletics in her official bio. This is not an omission. They can’t list everything. JoAnne Epps, Temple’s acting president, didn’t miss too many stations in her decades on North Broad Street. In addition to all her years teaching law students, she’s been dean of the law school and provost, Temple’s chief academic officer.
At the same time, she said, she stepped away from that “insider role” almost two decades ago. She explained that she had been on a two-hour American Athletic Conference call the day before, presidents and athletic directors. “I realized how much I have to re-familiarize myself, because I’ve let that go.”The day after this interview, Southern Methodist announced it was leaving the AAC, accepted into the Atlantic Coast Conference. But the call wasn’t only about such moves.
“So backing up to this day, I don’t really have an opinion,” Epps said. “Because I’m not sure what I think today would really inform what we ought to do.” She worries about the “accessibility of sports” for the generation just becoming sports fans, “people who are 6 to 10 ― I think that’s unfortunate, but I have no control over that.”
Always offering his views of the world — “but he was simultaneously warm, and not a bully, so he was generous with his time and his goodies — he’d show up and give you something sweet to eat.”“Just his amalgamation of various personalities all wrapped into one,” Epps said.
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