Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Brad Chandler has earned a few headlines in recent weeks as the new athletic director at Wright State.
Twenty-two years ago, the Livingston County Daily Press and Argus in Howell, Michigan, gave him attention for a different reason.
“Howell’s scouting report had every indication that Novi’s Brad Chandler was a good player,” sports writer Andy Karl wrote in February 2004, “but the Highlanders didn’t know about his shooting ability until Friday night.
“‘He is one of the better guards in the league, and he was always in our scouting reports that he could drive well,” Howell senior Eddie Chodkowski said. “He never showed that he can shoot in the games that we watched.’ ”
“Chandler sunk five 3-pointers en route to a 21-point effort, as Novi edged Howell in the closing seconds, 42-39.”
Chandler, now 39, was a senior that season at Novi High School, which is located 31 miles northwest of Detroit. He enrolled at Michigan State University later that year and then attended the University of Toledo College of Law. His path to a career in college athletics began there with a graduate assistant job in NCAA compliance at Toledo.
