big man on campus

Here’s a story from 1989 about Gilbreath and his San Diego State days, proving he was a big man on campus.

“At Many, he was the best player, big man on campus,” Jess said, “and you’d see him with the young freshman.”

Soon, though, she was invited into the in-crowd by the GOP’s big man on campus, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, and she has done her best to please him.

Sometimes, the big man on campus has to smack down the snot-nosed upstart.

If Yeezys can still move after all of the controversy, if a pair of shoes Michael Jordan wore as a rookie can go for nearly $1.5 million, Tebow would have brought new meaning to the phrase “big man on campus” had student-athlete name/image/likeness deals been a thing when he was at his most popular.