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4:30 a.m. to go work.
Jennings said the job was exhausting and draining the life out of him. The demand of the job caused him to cancel appointments nearly everyday. At this point in his life he would rather spend most of his time with his family, he said.
Jennings has two grandchildren and before he became interim athletics director he saw them everyday. After taking the job, he saw them once every week to ten days.
"I say that not to complain," Jennings said. "It is just an observation of the reality of it. That is what it takes to do the job."
When Hemenway first offered him the temporary position, Jennings said he made two stipulations. First, the chancellor himself must take on the main responsibility of choosing the new athletic director and not leaving it up to a committee.
"The ultimate trigger was his to pull, because if we stumble, he is the one who is going to take the heat," Jennings said.
Second, the chancellor had to set a clear deadline as to when the new athletic director would be hired. Jennings was not about to give up control of his life for a long period of time.
KU Athletics Directors since 1911
W.O. Hamilton 1911-1919
F.C. "Phog" Allen 1919-37
Gwinn Henry 1938-42
Karl Klooz (interim) 1943
E.C. Quigly 1944-49
Arthur "Dutch" Laenborg 1950-63
Wade R. Stinson 1964-72
Clyde Walker 1973-77
Bob Marcum 1978-81
Del Shankel (interim) 1981
Jim Lessig 1982
Del Shankel (interim) 1982
Monte Johnson 1982-87
Bob Frederick 1987-2001
Allen Bohl 2001-2003
Drue Jennings (interim) 2003
Lew Perkins (present) 2003-?
Source: University of Kansas Athletic Corporation
"My family is extremely important to me,"Jennings said. "My wife died last September of cancer, which makes my children and grandchildren much more precious to me and I need to be around them a little more than usual."
— Edited by Jennifer Wellington
Drue Jennings, former interim athletics director, sits in his office. Jennings, hired as a temporary replacement for Al Bohl, was instrumental in the acquisition of Lew Perkins, who was named Kansas athletics director yesterday.
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