If you’re searching for a President to quote, the good news is you have 43 to choose from.

The bad news happens when you choose to paraphrase a quote from not only one of the most forgettable Presidents in American history, but from one of the darkest periods in the nation’s lore.

Enter Fred Glass. He’s Indiana’s new athletic director. Speaking at his hiring ceremony Tuesday, he said :

“We’re almost over the long, national nightmare, I hope, because our place is one that has always followed the rules”.

Maybe he deserves credit: At least he didn’t say “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice …” well, you and W can fill in the rest of the joke.

Glass is talking about the program decimation occurring during Kelvin Sampson’s reign, one leaving IU (and now Glass) waiting to hear if a phone call scandal and allegations of not properly monitoring coaches will lead to more sanctions. Beyond that, IU basketball returns just one player, is picked dead last in the Big Ten, and the football team is lifeless with a dead fish of coach owning three more contract years.

Ok, maybe the analogy wasn’t so bad. But you shouldn’t say it out loud because, well, it just sounds stupid. Puppy dogs, dandelions, babies. Yay!

Glass will replace Rick Greenspan at the end of the year. Greenspan hired, then oversaw, the mess of Sampson’s era and gave football coach Bill Lynch a 4-year contract.