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Sports columnist Doug Krikorian's piece in the Long Beach Press-Telegram today about the amazingly supportive Robert "Bob" Maxson, President of Long Beach State University, is well worth a read. Here are some excepts:

"I don't know for sure if Long Beach State's Dr. Robert Maxson is the most popular college president in the country, although I doubt there is one at any other campus who's on a first- name basis with more students than Maxson..."

"What I do know for sure about Dr. Robert Maxson is that there isn't a college president in the entire U.S. Of A. who is more passionate about his school's athletic teams, and the frenetic schedule he pursued last weekend was a graphic reflection of it.

If you were at the 49ers' baseball game Friday night at Blair Field against Pacific, you saw Maxson there from the first inning through the ninth, applauding Jered Weaver's 17-strikeout performance and schmoozing with the Dirtbags' boosters.

And, if you happened to be at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu Saturday night for the 49ers' men's volleyball NCAA championship match against Brigham Young University, you saw the tireless Maxson up there in the stands cheering loudly for the local heroes.

It turned out that Bob Maxson was the only college president to make an appearance at the Hawaii event, even though for him to do so resulted in a grueling 24-hour regimen in which he spent 11 hours on an airplane during the 6,000-mile round trip..."

""I simply enjoy going to our student functions,' says Maxson, who was unable to scurry over to Hawaii on Friday because he had several important budget meetings, as well as a gathering of the graduating President Scholars at the school's Japanese Gardens. "Earlier in the week, I went to a concert put on by the dance department. I always try to get out and see the events put on by our theater and music performers. I guess it's well-known I have a great fondness for athletics, but I also try to attend all our other student functions.'..."

""My favorite sports are those played by my students at the school,' he says. "I go to about one Angel and one Dodger game a year. The rest of the time I go to games played by my students. It is these that inspire my passions.'"

Read the entire column here. I have adopted Long Beach State...my alma mater is the southern most California State University campus, which will remain unnamed. In my tenure there, I never saw the university President until my graduation ceremony. Since I began attending Dirtbags games, I have been amazed by Dr. Maxson's personal involvement with LBSU students. His caring approach can do nothing but instill confidence in students, athlete or not.