D1.ticker Top Ten - the most clicked stories of the past week |
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#10: TCU will hire Charlotte Senior Assoc. AD for Strategic Communications Kyle Neaves for the same role with the Horned Frogs. (link) |
#9: The Virginia Athletics Foundation has named Syracuse Assoc. AD for Development and External Sales Stu Sutton as COO, effective August 4. (link)
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#8: President Donald Trump has appointed LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition and says the commission "will be working on college football in terms of what happened. It's a mess. What they're doing with college football – and the fans are upset about it. Players are being taken from team after team and traded around like playing cards. And a lot of money’s passing and nobody knows what’s happening, so these people behind me are going to be very much involved in figuring that whole thing out and working on it and trying to bring some sanity to that incredible, not only the football, college sports – very, very bad for women because all of the sudden there’s no women that are able to get the money that they’re talking about. It seems to be going mostly to football, some basketball, and women’s sports are being totally decimated. … Women are being left behind and lesser sports are being left behind and the Olympics is being decimated because that was training for the Olympics and now we’re not going to have many of those sports left. The smaller sports, they’re almost going to be completely wiped out.” (link)
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#7: Kansas AD Travis Goff provides a view of the progress at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium from the top of the bleachers. See for yourself. (link)
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#6: Houston has officially moved into the Hermann Memorial Football Operations Center. Join the team for a look inside the Cougars’ sharp new facility. (link)
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#5: Rutgers has parted ways with TurnkeyZRG, per NJ Advance Media’s Steve Politi and Brian Fonseca, who add “It is unclear if Rutgers will hire a new firm or continue the search without one.” (link)
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#4: UC Riverside AD Wesley Mallette is headed to South Carolina as Deputy AD/CMO after four and a half years leading the Highlanders. Gamecocks AD Jeremiah Donati: “Wes brings a wealth of energy and experience, having touched every aspect of an athletics program. Particularly, his experience in external relations from marketing, branding, content creation, communications and the NIL space will be critical as we continue to embrace a new landscape across college athletics. He will be a great addition to our leadership team, our athletics department, to our university and to the city of Columbia, and we look forward to the positive impact he will have with Gamecock student-athletes.” (link)
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#3: Stanford will hire former Nike, ServiceNow, eBay and Bain & Company President/CEO John Donahoe as its next AD, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel and Seth Wickersham, who add: “Stanford coveted a non-traditional candidate for the role. […] He's viewed by school officials as a ‘unicorn candidate’ because of extensive business experience and ties to the school. He’s a Stanford MBA graduate from 1986 and brings a wide business background to the athletic department.” Elevate Talent assisted with the search. (link)
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#2: Georgia Tech will hire Troy AD Brent Jones as the school's new Executive Deputy AD, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. (link)
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#1: Rutgers hires LSU Executive Deputy AD/COO Keli Zinn as its next AD, according to NJ Advance Media’s Brian Fonseca and Steve Politi, who report that Zinn met with RU Board of Governors Chair Amy Towers over the weekend. Fonseca and Politi also note that Zinn has a longstanding relationship with new Rutgers president William Tate given their overlap in Baton Rouge. “It appears likely that Zinn’s candidacy means Rutgers is abandoning the ‘pioneering’ new structure that was championed by TurnkeyZRG CEO Len Perna in favor of a more traditional model. Zinn is linked to LSU through June of 2030 with an annual salary of $425K after signing a contract extension in April. The deal – which was signed by Tate months before he left for Piscataway – does not include a buyout clause, however.” (link); The Rutgers Board of Governors is set to approve a five-year contract for LSU Executive Deputy AD/COO Keli Zinn on Wednesday to become the highest-paid AD in school history, per NJ Advance Media’s Steve Politi and Brian Fonseca. While it’s unclear what the incentive structure will be or if there is a buyout clause or any retention bonuses included as part of the deal, Zinn is set to make a base salary of $1.35M, which can be boosted through the athletic department achieving any of multiple included incentives. According to Politi and Fonseca, that base total “lags behind a majority of her Big Ten colleagues, particularly those who joined the league during this offseason,” including Maryland’s Jim Smith ($1.5M) and Michigan State’s J Batt ($1.85M). (link)
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