Coastal Carolina University Hires New Athletic Director

[CoastalFan2005]

http://www.goccusports.com/genrel/113009aaa.html

Nov. 30, 2009

CONWAY, S.C. -- Coastal Carolina University President David DeCenzo has named Hunter Yurachek as the new Director of Athletics, announced today (Nov. 30). Yurachek will take over in January and replaces Warren “Moose” Koegel, who is moving into a fundraising role at the Chanticleer Athletic Foundation, which directly supports Coastal Carolina Athletics.

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Yurachek has spent the last three-and-a-half years at the University of Akron, serving the last two as executive senior associate athletics director. In that role, he led and managed the Zips’ external relations unit, which includes marketing and promotions, media relations, ticket operations, development (Z-Fund), video operations and merchandising.

I for one am VERY excited about this hire - he really impressed me in his interview, and seems very enthusiastic & eager to make CCU a top-performer across the board.

[Ibanez]

I'm eager to see what he does for the programs. I read up on him the other day.

[SuperHornet]

They'd have done better with Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

LOL.

[CoastalFan2005]

I'm eager to see what he does for the programs. I read up on him the other day.

Josh Hoke has been covering the process pretty well in his blog. If you haven't checked it out, look at these:

Yurachek's 100-day plan for his first 100 days at CCU:
http://thesunnews.typepad.com/files/yur ... y-plan.pdf

Audio of interviews with Holland and Yurachek (the 2 finalists):
http://thesunnews.typepad.com/coastal_c ... scipt.html

I'm frankly surprised that Holland made it so far in the process - as Josh pointed out in a later blog, he doesn't even come close to meeting the job requirements. His connections probably got him as far as he got.

[Grizalltheway]

I'm eager to see what he does for the programs. I read up on him the other day.

So are you switching back to your old username if he does a good job?