Stansbury eager to return to Orlando
AMELIA ISLAND – When Georgia Tech makes its first trip to Spectrum Stadium to play UCF, there will be a familiar face among the Yellow Jackets contingent.
was athletics director at UCF from 2012-15 before leaving to take a similar job at Oregon State. He later jumped to Georgia Tech. Little did he know that fate would bring him back to Orlando and the Knights.
“I had no idea that the last contract I may have signed was with Georgia Tech [and] I would be on the other side of that deal,” said Stansbury, who was back in Florida this week for the ACC spring meetings.
UCF will host Georgia Tech on Sept. 16, with the Yellow Jackets hosting the Knights on Sept. 19, 2020.
“I think it’s going to be incredibly gratifying to go back and see the [Wayne Densch] Center for Student Athlete Leadership and the beach club,” Stansbury said, referring to some of the projects he had a hand in launching on campus.
“I’m incredibly proud of some of the achievements that we had at UCF. Unfortunately, I left before I saw that stuff built. It’s going to be gratifying to see what they’ve done with the place since I left. And of course being able to see some great friends that we made while I was there.” weekly and eventually determining the four teams for the semifinals would become old hat.
“I think everybody goes there with their own process and agenda what works for them,” said Radakovich, the Tigers’ athletics director. “The guys that are sitting athletic directors have a little bit different process from the folks that aren’t because we have a job every Saturday. But the tools the committee gives us to be able to watch games and get data and help us get ready for our Monday calls is fantastic.”
There are three new members joining the committee this season: Ohio State athletics director
Robert Morris University president
and former Virginia Tech coach the NCAA that it received in December as part of an ongoing investigation into widespread academic fraud centered on players from both the football and basketball programs. It was the third Notice of Allegations the school received as part of this investigation, which stated several times the program suffered from a lack of institutional control.
Barring any unforeseen delays, North Carolina athletics director
believes the school will be ready for its hearing in front of the NCAA Committee on Infractions in August.
Cunningham declined to divulge the school’s response to the latest allegations.
“Everybody wants to get it to completion and sometime it takes longer than you hope, longer than you anticipate and this is one of those,” Cunningham said. “It will get there at some point. It is long.”