Central Michigan did well with Dave Heeke's replacement

On paper, Central Michigan appears to have scored well in replacing Arizona athletic director Dave Heeke. The MAC school last week hired Michael Alford, senior associate AD at Oklahoma. Alford has spent a career in sales/marketing at Alabama, USC and in the NFL, and recently was the key figure in raising $160 million for the Sooners’ equivalent (and then some) of Arizona’s Lowell-Stevens Football Facility. Heeke’s final fundraising project at CMU was to raise $2 million to build a performance and development center at the school’s baseball stadium. His son, freshman Zach Heeke, is hitting .253 as a starting third baseman for the Chippewas. 

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