AD Scoop - Thursday June 23, 2016

Thursday June 23, 2016

Conference USA: Former NFL executive Merton Hanks is now Conference USA's senior associate commissioner overseeing football and baseball.

Illinois-Springfield: UTSA deputy AD Jim Sarra has been named athletics director at Illinois-Springfield.

Clarion: Dr. Wendy Snodgrass has been promoted to interim AD and longtime women’s track and field coach D.J. Bevevino will move to interim assistant AD to replace Snodgrass.

Cal State-Los Angeles: Former Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross has been tabbed as the new athletic director. Gross was at Syracuse for a decade and transitioned to a role of special assistant to the chancellor in March of 2015 following an NCAA investigation into the basketball program. Gross will start in his new role in July.