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BLOOMINGTON — For Christmas last winter, Indiana athletic director Scott Dolson ’s children gifted him something nearly no one else would understand.

A clapperboard — the black-and-white apparatus snapped together to signify the start of filming on a movie set — with the words “Operation Bigfoot” written on the production line.

The clapperboard sits on Dolson’s desk. Sharp-eyed viewers will have spotted it in the background of a video posted to IU ’s social m