FAIRFIELD, CONNECTICUT – It didn’t take long for Bobby Valentine to move past his year to forget in Boston. Of course, there was a new challenge to help him along the way.
Some five months after being fired as manager of the Red Sox, Valentine was introduced Tuesday as the new athletic director of Sacred Heart University.
Valentine, a Connecticut native who lasted just one season with Boston, will take over a program that competes in the Northeast Conference and has 31 teams, including baseball.
“I don’t look back,” Valentine said, as he flashed his traditional array of smiles. “I don’t do that stuff. Maybe one bike ride and I said ‘Oh, darn.’ Maybe, I don’t know. It wasn’t my first rodeo. It wasn’t the first time I was fired and it probably won’t be the last time.”