URI Year in Review: An eventful beginning for Bjorn
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Thorr Bjorn will always remember his first year as athletics director at the University of Rhode Island. Budget cuts, program cuts and coaching cuts were among the challenges the former University of Massachusetts administrator faced. "It has been an exciting year. Obviously, there have been some wonderful parts of the year and some difficult parts. Dealing with a change in the football staff is never fun and easy. And then there was the cutting of sports. But I keep telling people I'm so excited about the coming year. I feel very excited about the direction we're going in. I'm far more excited about being at URI than when I got here. . . . I have learned so much. I learned more in 11 months here than I did in my previous 15 years of college athletics," he said. A people person and team builder, Bjorn learned that managing people at this level is a challenge and that "not everyone is going to love what you're doing, and that's OK." Click here to continue reading. ">Your Turn: Is URI athletics heading in the right direction? 
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