Bob Bowlsby has always been a wrestler at heart, a tough nut who would mash your face into the mat to get a point. He loved the sport, rising to the level of captain for his team at Minnesota State-Morehead and winning the conference title at 167 pounds as a senior in 1975.
But even wrestlers wear down.
Amid the announcement that the 70-year-old Bowlsby would be stepping down as Big 12 commissioner after a decade, that was the conclusion drawn by some of his closest associates. Recent events had simply taken their toll.
“He’s getting like a lot of us,” said one colleague. “He’s frustrated.”
Everyone at the administrator level is dealing with the uncertain future of college athletics — a world which now includes name, image and likeness; the transfer portal and player empowerment, all while the authority of the NCAA is slowly but surely diminishing. This is not the version of college athletics Bowlsby — or…
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