East Lansing — Michigan State needs a new athletic director. Again.
After losing President Kevin Guskiewicz to Clemson in May, Michigan State lost athletic director J Batt to Kentucky on Monday. The move comes only a year after the Spartans hired the 44-year-old away from Georgia Tech, and it leaves a significant hole at the top of MSU’s athletics department.
Saturday afternoon, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Batt had emerged as a frontrunner for the Kentucky job left vacant by the retirement of Mitch Barnhart. It took Kentucky another two days to negotiate Batt’s departure from East Lansing.
Michigan State has not yet named an interim athletic director.
Thamel reported Monday Batt and Kentucky finalized a six-year deal to be the school’s athletic director. Batt will also serve as CEO of Champions Blue, Kentucky’s for-profit LLC.
After losing President Kevin Guskiewicz to Clemson in May, Michigan State lost athletic director J Batt to Kentucky on Monday. The move comes only a year after the Spartans hired the 44-year-old away from Georgia Tech, and it leaves a significant hole at the top of MSU’s athletics department.
Saturday afternoon, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Batt had emerged as a frontrunner for the Kentucky job left vacant by the retirement of Mitch Barnhart. It took Kentucky another two days to negotiate Batt’s departure from East Lansing.
Michigan State has not yet named an interim athletic director.
Thamel reported Monday Batt and Kentucky finalized a six-year deal to be the school’s athletic director. Batt will also serve as CEO of Champions Blue, Kentucky’s for-profit LLC.
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