The most famous athletic figure at Sacred Heart probably isn’t a football or basketball coach, or a player of any sort. It’s 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. He’s also the same guy who still owns two “Bobby V” restaurants, one in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut, and the other in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Yet his role as what the school calls its “executive director of athletics” 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.
