TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Greg Byrne will take over a flourishing Alabama athletic department with a dominant football program and a men's basketball team that appears to be on the rise.
A big challenge facing the Crimson Tide's newly hired athletic director is to sustain and build upon that success, and avoid the kind of overconfidence or complacency that can lead to a fall-off.
"It can happen to anybody if you're not having that vision for the future," Byrne said Thursday. "While things are going extremely well here right now, and we want them to continue in the future, you always have to look ahead and say, `What are those next steps?