Welcome to my world. I am Jack Sly. Charmer, Trickster and Renovator. The one with the awesome power to bring about change no matter where he is. That's me in a nutshell. A tall, good-looking black man in his early thirties. I am currently the Athletic Director at Bruno College, a small private four-year technical College located in Central Oregon. Bruno College was the first place to hire me after I got my Masters degree in Business Administration from the prestigious Boston University the year before. I've been looking for a job in Sports management but they're hard to come by. I didn't have a long list of contacts. I did play College basketball a while ago, but I wasn't picked for the pros. When I came along, Bruno College was a small private school with an almost laughable Sports program.
They offered Men's Intercollegiate Soccer, Basketball, Baseball and Cross Country. They also offered Women's Intercollegiate Soccer, Basketball, Softball, Cross Country, Swimming and Field Hockey. These Sports made no money and there was even talk of cutting them because they didn't generate sufficient revenue. Bruno College Sports Teams competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's lowest tier, Division III. For those of you who don't speak the College Sports lingo, that means the students play Sports because they want to, not because they receive scholarships. The school was sixty percent female and forty percent male. I set out to change things. I'm a firm believer in balance. If that makes me politically incorrect, then so be it.
I talked to the College president, Mr. Hanover and told him that if he were to take a chance with my plans, we could revolutionize athletics at the school. He was reluctant, but went along with my plans anyway. The following Summer, we set up a press release announcing that we started a Football Team at Bruno College. What do you know? Male applicants came to the College by the droves. The school originally had six thousand students, and more than half of them were women. Well, all that changed when we added a Football Team. Suddenly, Bruno College was now fifty percent male and fifty percent female. That's what's up, holler!
One hundred young men from high schools around the state joined our Football Team. The first Football game, against nearby Hancock Technical Institute, was attended by almost eighty percent of the whole town. With an even number of men and women on the College campus study body, I could now move more freely as Athletic Director. My plan was to revolutionize the Department of Athletics. The Football program attracted corporate sponsorship, and generated tons of revenue. You had to be there. I mean, it boosted student morale and also put Bruno College on the map. With the new funding we received, I added new Sports. We started a Men's Wrestling Team, along with Women's Volleyball. The new Sports Teams quickly filled up with good rosters due to heavy recruiting. We also added Men's Volleyball and Women's Ice Hockey. Not long after, we started a Men's Ice Hockey Team. How about that? Bruno College now offers sixteen Varsity Sports, eight for men and eight for women. And our Varsity Football Team is the pride of the school as well as the entire town.