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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Radakovich to Washington? No
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech athletics director Dan Radakovich would be a logical candidate for the opening for an athletics director at the University of Washington. Mark Emmert, president of the UW, was chancellor at LSU when Radakovich worked there, and Wayne Clough, who hired Radakovich at Tech, is leaving to head the Smithsonian Institution.
But there’s nothing to it. Radakovich said he isn’t interested in the job and hasn’t been contacted.
“I have the greatest respect for Dr Emmert … we had a great time and did many positive things (due to his leadership) at LSU, but I am very happy here at Tech,” Radakovich said by e-mail Wednesday afternoon.
That’s good news for the Yellow Jackets, because having an athletics director opening now would be tricky without a president in place. Radakovich is busy negotiating a new marketing deal with ISP (and, if that doesn’t get done, potentially with some other company). He is also in the second year of implementing the Tech Fund program, in the middle of constructing a softball stadium and working on various other renovations and projects.
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