Ex-UI football star shining in new role
To many Illini fans, Mike Bass is probably best known as a standout, barefoot kicker from the early 1980s and a member of the University of Illinois' All-Century football team.
Over the past two decades, however, he went on to become a major player in state government as budget director for the Senate Republicans and then returned to the UI, where he now serves as executive assistant vice president of operations and external affairs.
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