Syracuse names ESPN executive as athletic director
Posted Jul 6, 2016 03:31:24 PM.
Last Updated Jul 6, 2016 06:12:44 PM.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Syracuse University has chosen a longtime ESPN producer and executive to be its new athletic director.
The school announced Wednesday that it hired John Wildhack. He is a Buffalo native and 1980 graduate of the university’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
Wildhack joined the cable sports network soon after graduating. He has been executive vice-president for programming and production since 2014.
The university says Wildhack was responsible for several firsts at ESPN, including producing a live regular-season college football game in 1984 and a live NFL game in 1987.
Wildhack is expected to take over from acting athletic director Daniel French in mid-August.
He succeeds Mark Coyle, who left for the same job at Minnesota after less than a year at Syracuse.
