The most famous athletic figure at Sacred Heart probably isnโt a football or basketball coach, or a player of any sort. Itโs the AD.
Bobby Valentine is the same outspoken guy who played 10 years in the major leagues and managed the Rangers, Mets and Red Sox. Heโs also the same guy who still owns two โBobby Vโ restaurants, one in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, and the other in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Yet his role as what the school calls its โexecutive director of athleticsโ is not ceremonial by any means. Valentine regularly does the 30-minute commute from Stamford to the Sacred Heart campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, where the school says he has spearheaded efforts to add a conditioning staff and make numerous facility upgrades.ย
