Is it common for the AD hire to be approved by the board of trustees after announcing? I honestly have no idea.
Excerpt from the article:
On Jan. 16, Bjork was named to succeed retiring Gene Smith as Ohio State’s athletic director. Eyebrows were raised across the country that new OSU president Ted Carter made Bjork his first major hire.
It wasn’t just that OSU didn’t choose one of the several candidates who had worked under Smith at Ohio State. It was that Bjork had been embroiled in controversies both at Ole Miss and then at Texas A&M, from where he was leaving to go to OSU. The biggest one at Texas A&M involved his decision to extend football coach Jimbo Fisher's contract, a move that backfired because it cost the university a historically high $77 million when he was fired last year.
Bjork certainly has navigated choppy waters, but the question is how much he helped cause them. In an interview with The Dispatch, Bjork defended his actions at Ole Miss.
The Ohio State Board of Trustees still has to approve Bjork's hiring at its next scheduled meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22.
Excerpt from the article:
On Jan. 16, Bjork was named to succeed retiring Gene Smith as Ohio State’s athletic director. Eyebrows were raised across the country that new OSU president Ted Carter made Bjork his first major hire.
It wasn’t just that OSU didn’t choose one of the several candidates who had worked under Smith at Ohio State. It was that Bjork had been embroiled in controversies both at Ole Miss and then at Texas A&M, from where he was leaving to go to OSU. The biggest one at Texas A&M involved his decision to extend football coach Jimbo Fisher's contract, a move that backfired because it cost the university a historically high $77 million when he was fired last year.
Bjork certainly has navigated choppy waters, but the question is how much he helped cause them. In an interview with The Dispatch, Bjork defended his actions at Ole Miss.
The Ohio State Board of Trustees still has to approve Bjork's hiring at its next scheduled meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22.
