I don't care what anyone says, it never seemed right to me that this guy was an AD at UNI and reffing D1 basketball games. A couple years ago when UNI was a bubble team and he was reffing a game of another bubble team, I don't care how "professional" you are, in my eyes there was a definite conflict of interest.
As someone who has had interactions with Rick in other forms of business' he is involved in (Mainly Motorsports) I can tell you he is a good guy and I believe in his refereeing and his ADing he keeps them seperate and while on the surface there may appear to be a conflict the integrity he has wouldn't allow it.
Back the topic of Rick resigning. Rick has many business interests outside of UNI like I said above mainly in Motorsports. He owns a 2 car race team (his wife Jill drives one of the cars) and they travel quite a bit for this in the summer and Jill is now currently involved in the NASCAR drivers diversity program. Rick is also a part owner of 3 Wide Media a print company that publishes Motorsports (they will be doing an article on Vanillathrilla and myself in March or April) magazines in the U.S. Along with that it is rumored but not confirmed in the Iowa racing community that he will be running a race track that is in the Cedar Falls area this summer. Oh yeah and add to all that that he and Jill had a baby last year about this time. I honestly do not know when the guy has time to sleep!!!