Strib's item speaks further in multiple ways; this link.
The only Crabgrass editorializing for this post is in choosing the headline quote. Readers of the Strib original, if choosing a headline quote, might present a different part of the Condon story. Read it to see what you think.
In judging coverage here, readers should know that I have consistently voted for Klobuchar in Senate contests against Minnesota's unimpressive Republican chain of challengers; (one, Mark Kennedy, having surprisingly reached an appointed major university governance status after his elective-office political career ended in a Senate-contest loss to Klobuchar).
Whether Klobuchar would make a good academic head honcho is interesting speculation. However, that question is irrelevant since she offers herself for a different and higher public service position.