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For the last few months everybody has been wondering who will be the next target of Jason Whitlock’s unaffected scorn. Now we finally have the answer. Joining Mike Lupica, Al Sharpton, and Scoop Jackson on Whitlock’s hate list is Ball State athletic director Tom Collins. During a visit to his alma mater last week Whitlock made it known he’s not a fan of Collins’ work.

“I do believe we have one of the weakest athletic directors in Division I. You just expect from a leadership position, it’s like being a quarterback or head coach, you have the personality for it or you don’t. We have a guy that doesn’t have the personality for it.”

“I don’t have any money to give Ball State as long as he is here. Not that I give a whole lot of money, but he kills my enthusiasm and I don’t have any confidence in what we’re doing. So, I guess my protest is whatever $2,000 or $3,000 I give, or whatever I’ve given the last 12 years, I’m withholding until we get a new AD.”

“Unfortunately, we hired a weak leader and we didn’t allow him to hire his own people, which probably is a good thing because then we would be stuck with other people that aren’t that good.”

Those are some pretty harsh words. Personally, I think that Whitlock is just angry the school named its new media building after David Letterman and not him. As for the $3,000 donation, if the school the really wants to recoup that money it can just rent out the campus for another porno shoot.

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