Martin Jarmond was hired Sunday to become UCLA's athletic director, the first black person in that role in the school’s 101-year history, replacing longtime department boss Dan Guerrero.
The Power Five conferences vary in their approaches to playing during the coronavirus outbreak, but they know they need to work on a solution together.Jarmond, who turns 40 in November, assumed the Boston College job in June 2017 at age 37 after 15 years as an administrator in the Big Ten Conference, where he worked at both Ohio State and Michigan State and developed a reputation as an adept fundraiser.
That experience could help him solve the huge financial dilemma he inherits at UCLA, where the athletic department ran an $18.9-million deficit for the 2019 fiscal year, requiring an interest-bearing loan from the university. The Bruins are expected to go much deeper into the red in 2020 because of reduced revenue and donations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is endangering the 2020-21 sports calendar.
Even with interviews confined to online video chats, UCLA stuck to the May hiring timeline it set in September after Guerrero announced he would be retiring at the end of June.Guerrero’s 18-year tenure was marked by wild success in almost every measure other than the school’s two marquee sports.
“The legacy topic is not for me to even talk about,” Guerrero told the Los Angeles Times earlier this year. “That will be determined by other individuals and not by myself.” Jarmond, a former two-time captain of the men’s basketball team at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has quickly risen through the athletic-administration ranks after obtaining his business degree and a master’s in sports administration from Ohio University. He was assistant athletic director for development and regional giving at Michigan State, where he worked for six years before going to Ohio State in 2009.
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