Category: Opinion

Marshall reportedly brought 5 AD candidates to campus last week, including 4 sitting ADs and a P4 executive via CollegeAD. The Rutgers search nears 1 calendar year. Reaction to Ryan Alpert and President Cabrera’s press conference. Utah State is bringing in Sandy Barbour and, I think, Huron Consulting. Is this the next popular play call…

Think of the AD Rundown as me reading out loud my iPhone Notes app from what I studied about athletic directors in the last week, mainly articles and interviews. Long solo video, but I added timestamps to easily find the 10+ things I talked about. Catch the video or search Higher Ed Athletics podcast on…

Marshall is searching for its next AD as the institution and Christian Spears agreed in April 2025 to not renew his contract that expires in March 2026. Marshall has once again tapped CarrSports to help with the search as they helped lead the search that led to Spears accepting the position in 2022. If you…

Georgia Tech is looking for its next athletic director after previous AD, J Batt, hired in 2022, left for the same position at Michigan State. If you are reading this because you are interested in the AD opening at Georgia Tech, then I invite you to read the HEA Briefing I completed. The purpose of the HEA…

For those that don’t know, I started Higher Ed Athletics to interview ADs in hopes of studying the position as a career one day in a research setting or at an industry search firm. I will be finishing my doctorate dissertation on athletic director hiring trends in 2025-2026 academic year, so I thought it was…