Huntington — It wasn’t as if Judy McLeod didn’t know about Marshall. Before coming to Conference USA in September 2005, she was athletic director at Tulsa for 10 years.
So she helped that school move from the Western Athletic Conference, joining Marshall and four other newcomers in the realignment of that time.
Her work there speaks for itself. I thought that school, pound for pound, had the most impressive athletic program of the 12 schools in the 2005-12 C-USA lineup.
She is a new commissioner — the third in the 21-year history of the league — but she has worked at the Irving, Texas, headquarters as long as MU has been a league member.