I think it’s probably worth doing some research on typical university President resumes. Laurence Summers had zero experience as a university administrator before he became President of Harvard University, although he had an impressive career otherwise. Ben Sasse is running a 50k student university; his previous experience is with a 1500 person college.
Sasse was a political appointment, to force Republican politics on the students and faculty. That's a recent GOP tactic, and has happened in Florida too (and probably other places).
What do you actually expect to be on a university president's CV? The last two chancellors of UC Berkeley have been not-very-notable professors who worked their way up the administration ranks; the presidents of most Catholic universities are priests. It matters that you're a good manager, not that you've won the Nobel Prize.
Yeah, I probably had wrong expectations, I kinda assumed that they would have significant success in something other than climbing the academic administration ladder.
Larry Summers for example.
Perhaps in contrast the president of Princeton was a Rhodes scholar and clerked for a Supreme Court justice before going to teaching and administration.
Yeah, Princeton seems to have a record of choosing more academically accomplished faculty to serve as president. My point is that that's not really typical.
Serious academics don't go into administration.
You're inviting people to go looking at people like Mark Oliphant, Brian Schmidt, Howard Florey, Fred Banting, Lord Thompson of Kelvin, Rutherford...