Tracking The Changes: A Look At AD Turnover In 2018
As we turn the page to 2019, CollegeAD wanted to take one last look at the Division I AD turnover in 2018 and share the data that we’ve tracked during the course of the last 12 months. We entered 2018 with 22 openings left over from athletic director movements that happened mostly in 2017. Chicago […]
Tracking The Changes: A Look At AD Turnover In November
Three institutions experienced AD turnover in November. A pair of athletic directors announced their intentions to step away while UMKC found the next leader of its athletics department. Robert Morris University RMU was the first school to undergo AD turnover in November when long-time athletic director Craig Coleman announced his decision to step down. Coleman’s […]
CollegeAD Conversation: Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek
On December 4, 2017, Hunter Yurachek was officially announced as the next Director of Athletics at the University of Arkansas. A lot has happened in Fayetteville over the last 12-months. Just a few days after Yurachek was hired, he hired Chad Morris to lead the football program, the baseball team made a run to the […]
Buffalo AD Mark Alnutt Hones in on Branding, Stability, and Community
When Mark Alnutt took the Director of Athletics job at the University at Buffalo, he came in at a pivotal time. His appointment began in April, just after UB’s first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament for the men’s basketball team and the women’s basketball team had just earned its first trip to the NCAA’s Sweet […]
Brandon Martin Wants to Invigorate Student-Athletes, UMKC, and the City
After a four-month search, the University of Missouri-Kansas City announced Dr. Brandon Martin as the Roos new Director of Athletics Wednesday morning. Following his appointment, CollegeAD had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Marting about the opportunity UMKC presents as well as goals he has set for early in his tenure. “I’m delighted to serve […]
CollegeAD Conversation with Green Bay AD Charles Guthrie
In October 2017, Green Bay turned to Charles Guthrie to lead the Phoenix athletic department. In the year plus since Guthrie’s arrival in Wisconsin from the University of San Francisco, Guthrie has been hard at work. Guthrie oversaw the addition of upgrades to the Kress Center as well as the creation of the first ever consistent word mark […]