When he swung open the door to the meeting room he reserved at Chicago’s Midway Airport, Baylor University president Dr. Robert Sloan expected to find the usual mundane conference table and chairs inside.
He instead walked into a room decked out in green and gold crepe paper, streamers and balloons like it was hosting a pep rally, not a job interview.
Scott Drew greeted Sloan and other members of Baylor’s hiring committee and urged them to help themselves to the snacks he had laid out. He then gave them time to check out the mock newspaper front pages he had created featuring fake stories of him reviving Baylor’s scandal-tainted basketball program and leading the Bears to future Big 12 titles and Final Fours.