For Charlie Baker, the past few months have been quite a whirlwind.
As he completed his term as Massachusetts governor, the NCAA hired him in December to replace Mark Emmert. After he was whisked around the NCAA convention in mid-January, he took off to Australia for two weeks—his first vacation with wife Lauren in more than 20 years—and then became a grandfather last week.
Through it all, Baker’s phone buzzed constantly. From school presidents to athletic directors, from coaches to college athletes and their parents, they shared a similar message with the incoming NCAA president.
