Hopefully, you can follow this convoluted story. Shortly after MU's President, Fr. Wild, announced his retirement, four athletes (assumed bball players) were accused of assaulting a student about 6 months earlier. Evidently, the day after the incident, the accuser went to campus police, reported the incident, and then changed her mind. The campus police (rent-a-cops) dropped it. Unfortunately, that violated state law. This came on the heels of a couple other incidents, e.g underage drinking tickets, a bar fight at a private party with some of the Bucks, etc. The matter blew up and the AD at the time was forced to resign. BTW, charges were never brought. However, accuser went to the Chicago Tribune and they wrote a nasty article blasting MU. The Milwaukee paper, not to be outdone, wrote a handful of unpleasant articles on MU. At that point, the MU board hired Fr. Pilarz to replace Fr. Wild. Pilarz, in turn, brought in a new AD, Larry Williams. Evidently, the new hires were instructed to clean up the athletic program. Pilarz and Williams came down hard on the program including moving freshmen into regular dorms, limiting JUCO recruitng, etc. In addition, Larry made some not so well received comments about Buzz in the press. Clearly, Buzz and Larry did not get along. Well, the tension resulted in donations dropping significantly. It didn't help that the AD even declined a donation to build a new "athletic" dorm. Well, the Board get fed up quick and Fr. Pilarz resigned after only 1 1/2 years on the job. Fr. Wild came back as the interim. (Side note, Buzz hand wrote a letter to Fr. Wild every three weeks during Wild's retirement. Evidently, they have a very close relationship.) Well, a couple of months after Fr. Wild's return, Larry Williams abruptly resigned. Our old AD is now the interim AD. It is expected that MU will name a new President at the end of April and he will name the new AD. The assistant AD is a close friend of Buzz and many expect him to get serious consideration for the full time AD position.