Tucsonan Mike Lude to be inducted into Kent State HOF

Tucsonan Mike Lude, a Hall of Fame athletic director at Washington during the Huskies’ football glory days, will be inducted into the Kent State Sports Hall of Fame in September. It is long overdue. Lude, who is on the executive panel of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, was the AD at Kent State in the 1970s, where he hired Hall of Fame coach Don James. Little known story: When Alabama coach Nick Saban completed his playing career at Kent State, he went into Lude’s office and applied for a coaching position. Lude hired him as KSU’s secondary coach. The rest is history.