Bill Hancock | College Football Playoff Executive Director - a podcast by Richmond Weaver
from 2019-04-19T07:00:09
Episode 107: Bill Hancock | College Football Playoff Executive Director
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Show Notes:Rich Spotlight: Bill Hancock
Passion for the College Football Playoff is extremely high and fans want to have input and fans have a sense of ownership with college sports and especially football which causes such high passionLove baseball first and then came college football and his favorite memories were of baseball with the local semi-pro team in Hobart, OK
Started at Dartmouth and then finished school at Oklahoma marrying his childhood sweetheart and they have been married for 50 yearsEven though he had a paper route as a kid and started being a writer in high school he wanted to be the next great American Classical pianist
Doesn’t play much anymore and developed a phobia of playing in front of peopleFell into the Sports Information department his senior year and worked full time at Oklahoma in 1971
Barry Switzer was the best people person that he ever metJohn MacLeod was the basketball coach at the time and convinced him to start running
After his daddied he helped his brother take over the newspaper business
Has run 15 marathons and endurance sports was a way to get back to normal after his son’s death who died when the Oklahoma St. University men’s basketball team planes crashed in eastern Colorado
He had a premonition that his son would die which gavehim proof of the eternal truth of God and his son’s death gave him a gift of understanding how precious life is
Rode his bike across the country from Los Angeles to Savannah 7-months after the death of his son and eventually wrote a book about that journey,“Riding With The Blue Moth”
He feels that he’s the luckiest person to be involved with March Madness and CFP
Words of Wisdom from Bill Hancock:“Treat people the way you want to be treated.”
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