Who could be Georgia Tech’s next athletic director?

He also embraced the changing landscape of college athletics as it pertains to name, image and likeness,as well as the future of revenue sharing.

Although Batt’s departure for Michigan State might come as a surprise, given his signing of a contract extension in December, Tech should not be unprepared given that Batt’s name had been connected with recent athletic director searches at South Carolina, Missouri and Maryland. Michigan State, according to the Detroit Free Press, will give Batt an annual salary of $1.8 million per year and will pay Tech a little more than $2 million to buy out the remainder of his contract.

In 2022, Tech used the Parker Executive Firm to assist Cabrera in his search for its next,athletic director, the 11th full-time AD in its history.

Here are a few names and factors Tech might consider moving forward in its search.

Graham Neff

The Clemson athletic director is a Tech alumnus and was a student manager on its 2004 men’s basketball team that reached the Final Four. He previously worked for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association before joining the Clemson department in 2013.

Marvin Lewis

The athletic director at George Mason, Lewis was a team captain at Tech and played on that ‘04 Final Four team. Lewis has held roles at Tech, Brown, Maryland and Georgia State.

Jon Palumbo

Palumbo is Tech’s executive deputy athletics director and chief operating officer and might be in a good position to not only be a primary candidate, but also to hold the position on an interim basis. Palumbo previously was the athletic director at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.

Kevin White

White is Clemson’s deputy director of athletics and has been the deputy AD at Northwestern and chief operating officer at Southern Methodist University. White has a master’s degree from Georgia State and an MBA from Kennesaw State.

Charlie Cobb

Cobb has been the AD at Georgia State for a decade and was thought to be in the running during previous Tech searches for a new athletics director. Cobb has also been the athletic director at Appalachian State and is an ACC alumnus, having played football for North Carolina State.

Jared Benko

Benko left the athletic director chair at Georgia Southern in November to join the staff at Auburn as executive deputy athletic director. The Watkinsville native and Georgia graduate has worked at Georgia, Arkansas, Auburn and Mississippi State.

The wild card

Tech might look toward a similar area when it targeted Batt in 2022 — an administrator at a Power Four conference school with experience and success in fundraising and NIL initiatives. Ryan Alpert, the deputy athletics director and chief operating officer at Tennessee, would fit that description.