Guess who's a finalist for the UGA AD job?
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:50 amHeard something about this on ESPN this morning. Looks like a certain someone in Cowtown is a finalist for the UGA job. I wonder what the frog faithful are thinking. It would be kind of funny to see him bolt, to be honest but it remains to be seen.
Athens -- The final cuts have been made in Georgia's search for its next athletics director.
Georgia officials on Tuesday informed candidates whether they'd made the final cut. The search committee charged with finding Vince Dooley's successor will present the list of three finalists this week to UGA President Michael Adams, who will then decide who is hired. Adams has said he hopes to have a new athletics director in place by the end of this month.
On Tuesday night, it appeared the three finalists were N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler, Texas Christian University athletics director Eric Hyman and Georgia associate athletics director Damon Evans, several people close to the search process said.
The finalists were three of at least five candidates interviewed Sunday and Monday at the Atlanta Airport Hilton Hotel. Florida associate athletics director Greg McGarity was told on Tuesday that he was no longer under consideration for the job. Before becoming Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley's top assistant in 1992, McGarity worked 16 years in Georgia's athletics department.
It was unclear whether Mark Lewis, a former Georgia football player and vice president for Olympic sponsorships with General Electric, was still being considered. Lewis is the son of former Georgia assistant and Georgia Tech coach Bill Lewis.
Dooley, 71, will retire on June 30 after working the past 40 years in Georgia's athletics department. He has been the Bulldogs' athletics director since 1979.
Hyman, 52, has been the athletics director at TCU the past six years, overseeing the Horned Frogs' move from the Western Athletic Conference to Conference USA two years ago. He hired football coaches Dennis Franchione and Gary Patterson.
Hyman, a former North Carolina football player, was a candidate to replace Tennessee athletics director Doug Dickey last year.
Hyman declined to comment when reached at his office on Tuesday. Jere Morehead, chairman of the UGA search committee, couldn't be reached for comment.
Earlier this month, Hyman declined an invitation for TCU to play in Thursday night's GMAC Bowl in Detroit, citing the game falling in the middle of the school's final exams. The Horned Frogs will instead play Boise State in their own stadium in the Fort Worth Bowl on Dec. 23.
Athens -- The final cuts have been made in Georgia's search for its next athletics director.
Georgia officials on Tuesday informed candidates whether they'd made the final cut. The search committee charged with finding Vince Dooley's successor will present the list of three finalists this week to UGA President Michael Adams, who will then decide who is hired. Adams has said he hopes to have a new athletics director in place by the end of this month.
On Tuesday night, it appeared the three finalists were N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler, Texas Christian University athletics director Eric Hyman and Georgia associate athletics director Damon Evans, several people close to the search process said.
The finalists were three of at least five candidates interviewed Sunday and Monday at the Atlanta Airport Hilton Hotel. Florida associate athletics director Greg McGarity was told on Tuesday that he was no longer under consideration for the job. Before becoming Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley's top assistant in 1992, McGarity worked 16 years in Georgia's athletics department.
It was unclear whether Mark Lewis, a former Georgia football player and vice president for Olympic sponsorships with General Electric, was still being considered. Lewis is the son of former Georgia assistant and Georgia Tech coach Bill Lewis.
Dooley, 71, will retire on June 30 after working the past 40 years in Georgia's athletics department. He has been the Bulldogs' athletics director since 1979.
Hyman, 52, has been the athletics director at TCU the past six years, overseeing the Horned Frogs' move from the Western Athletic Conference to Conference USA two years ago. He hired football coaches Dennis Franchione and Gary Patterson.
Hyman, a former North Carolina football player, was a candidate to replace Tennessee athletics director Doug Dickey last year.
Hyman declined to comment when reached at his office on Tuesday. Jere Morehead, chairman of the UGA search committee, couldn't be reached for comment.
Earlier this month, Hyman declined an invitation for TCU to play in Thursday night's GMAC Bowl in Detroit, citing the game falling in the middle of the school's final exams. The Horned Frogs will instead play Boise State in their own stadium in the Fort Worth Bowl on Dec. 23.
