In fairness to Leebron, I don't think he is nearly as anti-athletics as people here seem to think.

I am personally aware of things that he did, behind the scenes, to help athletics that neither Gillis nor Hackerman, despite their public cheerleading for athletics, would ever have done. He did acquiesce to having a decidedly anti-athletics prof on the selection committee that hired Ranger Rick, and that was probably his most anti-athletics move. I have also been much less favorably impressed with Leebron post-Baylor Med fiasco than before.

His problem is that whatever he wants for athletics, he doesn't know how to go about getting it. That's not his skill set. And the underlings that he has to count on to guide him--Ranger Rick and Karlgaard--have been singularly inept at providing any sort of viable guiding vision.