This is not aimed at you "mksioux" but to the general audience (you just happened to bring it up):
This "president should run athletics" mindset (perpetuated by the NCAA no less) is hokum in my opinion.
Yes, athletics is very public, but it's one aspect of a major university. Why should the president "more run" directly athletics moreso than medicine, law, art & sciences, engineering, research, or any other division? Good leaders delegate.
If athletics at a university, any university, requires a "full-time president" maybe we should shut down the rest of the university and call college athletics what it is in that model: professional, with a CEO.