Ex-UI football star shining in new role
By Kate Clements
Sunday September 11, 2005
by Robin Scholz
Mike Bass, a barefoot kicker on the University of Illinois football team in the early 1980s, is back at the UI as executive assistant vice president for operations and external relations.
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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