Shawn Eichorst believes in the University of Wisconsin way. There should be no question about that after the event introducing him as the Badgers’ new athletic director or the news conference that followed it at Camp Randall Stadium.
In fact, Eichorst spent so much time talking about the importance of education that anyone who stumbled upon the Big Ten Network’s live coverage Tuesday afternoon may have thought they were watching UW-Madison’s new chancellor — not its new athletic director — holding court.