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Q&A with Athletic Director Mike Cassidy<\/strong>
\nBy Abbas Haleem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seven years ago, Mike Cassidy walked the perimeter of a parking lot on the southeast corner of Congress and Wabash, wondering how an athletics center could fit there.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt University had just hired him to bring varsity athletics back after a 20-year hiatus. His charge: to reintroduce men\u2019s sports and to start women\u2019s sports for the first time.
\n<\/p>\n

He was told, \u201cA year from now, we want to have intercollegiate athletics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two and a half years later, on Dec. 1, 2012, the Lakers held their first basketball game at the $5 million Goodman Center.<\/p>\n

Since Cassidy switched from the University of Illinois at Chicago to Roosevelt, he has introduced 14 intercollegiate teams and filled his tidy office with Lakers memorabilia. On his desk: A 1959 tennis trophy engraved with alumni names such as Emmanuel \u201cMike\u201d Agassi, Andre Agassi\u2019s father. In an interview at the Goodman Center, Cassidy discussed the challenges of building a program. Excerpts:<\/p>\n

Q: Where did you practice at first?<\/strong>
\nWe played a year at [the Illinois Institute of Technology, then] a year at what was formerly Attack Athletics, which is now Hope. We practiced a lot at UIC. That\u2019s where I came from, so I have relationships with a lot of the people over there.<\/p>\n

Q: And how much did you help with designing the Goodman Center?<\/strong>
\nI\u2019m not an architect, so obviously we hired some professionals to do it, but I was working with them step-by-step on what needs to be in the facility. Then they\u2019d come back with a drawing. \u201cWell, we need more bathrooms.\u201d Then there\u2019s code. I learned a lot about what it takes to build something in the city.<\/p>\n

Q: Did you know at the time that the Goodman Foundation would fund the construction?<\/strong>
\nNo, at the time, that part was not solidified yet. That was something that came up pretty early on, though, in the process. They [Larry and Lillian Goodman] had an interest not only in the athletic portion, but in the naming-rights portion. [We also collaborated on] some other drug awareness, drug prevention [and] drug education initiatives. They also had an interest in health and wellness and what this building could be used for, not only from an intercollegiate athletic aspect but for all of our students to use.
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\nQ: Did they tell you how they would distribute funds for the program?<\/strong>
\nNope. That was probably challenge No. 2 if not challenge No. 1. There\u2019s no book out there that says this is how much it costs to start an athletic program in an urban setting with no facility space. A lot of things, in my 11 years at UIC, I just took for granted because we just had it. We had space. We had facilities. Whereas here, \u201cWait, I need to transport our students to and from practice here, there and everywhere,\u201d so that\u2019s going to be expensive. We don\u2019t have any on-campus parking, so how do we deal with those issues? Where are we going to wash our uniforms? And how are we going to wash our uniforms on a daily basis? We don\u2019t have laundry facilities here on campus. Where are kids going to shower? Where are they going to work out? We didn\u2019t have any of these things that are normal for an athletic department to have. We didn\u2019t have one piece of equipment, so how much was each piece of equipment that it takes, how much was all that going to cost? Every day of my first three or four months was really about trying to piecemeal all that together.<\/p>\n

Q: When I went to Columbia [College], people didn\u2019t know we had sports teams. Are you facing something similar here at Roosevelt?<\/strong>
\nYes. I think it\u2019s an ongoing education of people understanding, \u201cOh, this is a something.\u201d I think it\u2019s one of the biggest reasons why we try to make sure our kids are wearing Roosevelt Lakers apparel. We have an internal rule of, \u201cWe don\u2019t want you wearing other college\u2019s stuff. You are our greatest billboards. When you\u2019re in class, when you\u2019re on campus, wear our stuff. The only way we\u2019re going to become cool is if you make us cool.\u201d My cool card has been revoked. I think once you turn 40, you\u2019re not cool anymore. So it\u2019s up to them. They\u2019re going to be the ones who are walking up and down State Street and the Magnificent Mile, and people are going to go, \u201cOh, that logo. That\u2019s cool. It\u2019s Roosevelt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q: Where is the program right now in terms of development?<\/strong>
\nWe\u2019ve grown out of the startup phase, and now we just need to figure out who we want to be in terms of our stake in the marketplace.<\/p>\n

Q: What\u2019s the next step for athletics at Roosevelt?<\/strong>
\nWe need to solve our outdoor facilities space issues. We have no Goodman Center [for] outdoor sports \u2014 obviously a huge challenge given the lack of green space in the city and the cost. This is not the suburbs. That\u2019s a huge challenge for us, but it\u2019s one I always have an eye on. [I also want] to tie our history to our present. There\u2019s more alumni I want to meet. There\u2019s more people I want to make aware that we\u2019re back.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Athletic Director Mike Cassidy (center) says his program is past the startup phase. (Photo courtesy Mike Cassidy)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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