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Mike Parrish

Mike Parrish

Associate Athletic Director of Advancement & Major Gifts at Western Michigan University; NIL strategist and collegiate athletics operations expert with 15+ years in higher education sports.

Aug 14, 2026

1:48
before which i can't imagine you've missed it your line like zigzags five or six times obviously cheese heads everyone loves cheese in wisconsin but how do you guys keep it going because that line not only is it super long but it moves it's like a robot thing going on it's fast we
2:03
we've got uh 12 uh six grills cooking 12 at a time and um they're just constantly going and we have specialty flavors that we do um This year, it's Windmere cheese.
2:14
These are award-winning cheeses.
2:16
And that's for a Colby.
2:18
And then we have some...
2:25
is it?
2:25
I think it's mild cheddar.
2:27
Oh, really? Honestly, I don't know.
4:20
And in terms of, you know, you getting any sort of rest or respite or any sort of help, did you at any point?
4:26
Well, I went to the local authority.
4:29
I tried this.
4:30
I think I knew what the result was going to be.
4:32
And I said... about Tom, do you have any recommendations for carers? No, we don't recommend carers, but we do have, because I'm in a rural area as well, this is probably a reason why, but it may apply elsewhere.
4:46
And they said, here's a list of what we call micro carers.
4:49
They are a mixture of small companies, one or two big companies, and mostly individuals who are just paid carers.

20 MINS LATER

25:02
How do people find you? Well,
4:13
dementia.
4:15
So there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing after seeing his GP.
4:18
And in the end, he was medically retired in March.
4:23
So it was a few years of them trying to adjust to him and him trying to adjust to them, but things weren't getting better.
4:32
And a number of people stepped in and said, this is the best result.
4:36
We have to do this.
4:37
It's not fair to sack him.

38 MINS LATER

42:28
So tell us a bit more now then about what happened as Tom progressed with his disease.
Rusty Taylor
Rusty TaylorPANELIST
75:35
Well, I think in today's game, you can't let it bother you because you know there's going
75:40
to be – you just can't have that mindset.
75:42
We have a coaching change, and I understand there's anxieties.
75:45
What the general public doesn't understand or realize or know these days, it doesn't matter if it's your best guy or the guy at the far end of the bench.
75:54
Everybody has a – Representative, call them an agent.
75:59
Somebody's in their ear telling them what to do.
76:02
And these guys that are making the decisions from our place, it's somebody else telling them what to do.

14 MINS LATER

90:36
He was in 94, okay.

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