In stark contrast with her predecessor, Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little opted to attend meetings at KU Medical Center this morning instead of attending a press conference held to introduce new KU football coach Turner Gill.

While former Chancellor Robert Hemenway flanked Mark Mangino along with then-athletic director Al Bohl when Mangino was hired in 2001, Gray-Little spent this morning in Kansas City, Kan.

She said the meetings at the medical center had been scheduled for awhile, and she’d already met with the new football coach and his family.

Monday morning, she praised the hire, saying she liked what he was saying about coming to KU.

“I enjoyed my conversation with him,” Gray-Little said.