Nine potential candidates to take over as Michigan State’s athletic director.
Michigan State started the month of May by making a major splash in the college athletics world. The Spartans fired athletic director Alan Haller, choosing to move the Michigan State athletic department in a new direction.
As MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz said in a release about his decision, the Spartans are looking to adopt an athletics focus on fundraising and making tangible progress to stay ahead of the curve in the ever changing landscape of collegiate athletics.
This next hire for the university is going to be massively important. The scope of the changes across the athletics landscape has been so large that the athletic department must be at the top of its game. Michigan State will use the search firm TurnkeyZRG and create an advisory committee to look for its next leader.
With Guskiewicz looking for the next leader of Spartan athletics, we compiled a list of some of the options he could be sifting through.
Jeff Konya (San Jose State
Allen Greene (Pitt
Martin Jarmond (UCLA
Dan Bartholomae (Western Michigan)
Scott Wetherbee (Eastern Michigan
Mark Dantonio or Tom Izzo
