Baylor hires Mizzou's Mack Rhoades as new athletics director
Baylor University has hired Missouri's Mack Rhoades as its new athletics director, FOX Sports' Bruce Feldman confirms.
Welcome to #Baylor, Mack! // Mack Rhoades Named Vice President and Director of Athletics: https://t.co/SYR5NKapLd pic.twitter.com/CgUuuRl6fg
— Baylor University (@Baylor) July 13, 2016
#Baylor did very well landing Mack Rhoades as new AD. He's highly regarded in the business & his rep will help luring new coaches.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) July 13, 2016
This comes a little more than a month after former Baylor AD Ian McCaw resigned from his position in the wake of sexual assault allegations levied against members of the Bears football team.
Rhoades himself had only been AD at the University of Missouri for a little more than a year. He had tapped former Mizzou player and assistant Barry Odom to be head football coach after Gary Pinkel resigned from his post in December with a lymphoma diagnosis. Odom spoke at SEC Media Days on Wednesday afternoon.
Barry Odom on AD Mack Rhoades leaving for Baylor:"The Univ of #Missouri has been around since 1839 & it's gonna be around a long, long time"
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) July 13, 2016
Prior to arriving in Missouri, Rhoades served as VP for intercollegiate athletics at the University of Houston for six years.