A new home

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Athletic Director George Lee (left), and Chancellor Christy Drale give a basketball jersey to Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner Beth DeBauche during a news conference Thursday at the Jack Stephens Center in Little Rock announcing that the school was joining the Ohio Valley Conference. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Thomas Metthe)A young George Lee spent many days in Richard Turner's office in the late 1990s.

Lee, who'd returned to his alma mater as an athletics administrator almost a decade after his graduation, didn't hesitate to ask questions of Turner, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's swimming & diving and water polo coach as well as the…