C of C to announce Hull as athletic director
Joe Hull, a senior associate athletic director at Maryland, is the College of Charleston's choice to replace Jerry Baker as the Cougars' athletics director.
Hull will be introduced as the new athletic director at noon today at Randolph Hall on the College of Charleston campus, sources close to the search process told The Post and Courier.
Hull declined to confirm his appointment on Monday.
Joe Hull
"I'm not going to comment on that," Hull said when contacted by phone. "Whatever information you get, you need to get from the college."
Interim athletics director Fred Daniels, who headed the search for Baker's replacement, declined comment.
Tony Ciuffo, Charleston's assistant athletics director for media relations, would not confirm Hull's hiring, but did confirm an announcement concerning the hiring of an athletic director would be made today.
"There will be a major announcement today concerning the athletic director's position," Ciuffo said. "That's all I'm at liberty to say."
Hull, a 1978 graduate North Carolina State, has worked at Maryland since 1997.
His experience includes supervising athletics fundraising, compliance, media relations, facility construction, marketing, promotions and licensing.
He coordinated and led the team responsible for the design and construction of a new $125 million arena and athletic complex at Maryland.
He also developed the athletic department's first strategic plan for athletic fundraising.
Hull, who worked at N.C. State from 1985 to 1997, has a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University and a law degree from Campbell School of Law.
While an undergraduate at N.C. State, Hull played on the Wolfpack golf team where he made the Atlantic Coast Conference academic honor roll for three consecutive years.
Hull was one of five finalists for the job left vacant in June when Baker resigned after 15 years as athletics director.
The other finalists were East Carolina senior associate athletic director Jimmy Bass, Notre Dame associate athletic director Eugene 'Boo' Corrigan, former Rhode Island athletic director Tom McElroy and Colorado associate athletic director Chris May.
Reach Charles Bennett at cbennett@postandcourier.com.
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Tulane75 (anonymous) says...
One point of focus for the new AD should be the excellent C of C Baseball squad. You need to put people in the seats, as one component of the bid to host a Regional. Despite the team's performance over the last few years, baseball remains an afterthought for most C of C fans.
In 2005, before Hurricane Katrina, Tulane ran a promotion where everybody at the day's baseball game got a free ticket to the basketball game later that night. You could promote that in reverse. Give each of the fans at a given basketball game a ticket to the baseball game that week. Since basketball has unconditional support and baseball doesn't, it could make a difference.
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