Radakovich’s name floated for job at Miami
Georgia Tech athletics director Dan Radakovich was included in a list appearing in Sunday’s Miami Herald of potential candidates to take a similar position at Miami. Former athletics director Kirby Hocutt resigned to accept a similar position at Texas Tech.
Radakovich has a tie to Coral Gables, having worked for Miami from 1983-85 as an assistant business manager.
He told a reporter from the Macon Telegraph on Sunday that he hasn’t had any discussions with Miami.
Since taking over in Atlanta in 2006, Radakovich has led an arguably unprecedented series of facilities improvements at Tech, including a new softball stadium, as well as a new practice facility for the men’s and women’s basketball teams. An indoor football practice facility is under construction and Alexander Memorial Coliseum will soon be demolished and construction will begin on the $45 million McCamish Pavilion. Plans for a rebuilt tennis facility are in the works, and there are discussions for internal renovations to the baseball stadium.
The Georgia Tech Athletics Association recently sold an approximately $90-million, 30-year bond that will fund the construction of those projects. With the bond, the GTAA’s projected debt will increase to approximately $190 million and will give Tech an annual debt service of as much as $13.7 million by 2014. The GTAA’s current annual debt is $7.2 million.
Though Tech is a public school and Miami is private they have similarities.
Miami had an undergraduate enrollment of 9,268 students in 2009-10, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Tech had 12,351 undergrad enrollees, according to the same report.
Miami’s athletics department had revenues of $56 million compared to $51 million in expenses in 2009-10, according to the DOE report. Georgia Tech had revenues of $47 million with similar expenses, according to the same report. Tech’s operating budget for the 2011 fiscal year will be approximately $55 million.
Tech and Miami field teams in many of the same sports, though Miami also features women’s golf , rowing and soccer and doesn’t have softball.
– Doug Roberson, AJC
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GDBurdell
March 7th, 2011
10:22 pm
5150 UOA(jacket) ummm research? 35-10? Tek = owned in last several meetings??? Freshman qb ate teks lunch? Hey was that the game that Bobby Dodd was out on the field urging the 300 or so tek fans to cheer and tek subsequently got dominated in the second half?
Jackets 2011
March 7th, 2011
10:30 pm
You misread Brock’s comment, Big Bee.
He takes a quote of dawgfan’s from a ga blog where he criticizes Tech fans so he can reveal him as a hypocrite.
You need to learn how to read blog talk better.
Brock is a Tech fan.
GDBurdell
March 7th, 2011
10:36 pm
Haha I love how all tekys are huge haters of every stripe, god what kind of rock do they hand out in that place. PS Miami IS a step up, morons…!
threetrone
March 9th, 2011
8:19 pm
I am a Tech grad of ‘73. We had Bobby Dodd as AD then. He made sure there were rigorous Physical Training courses for Freshmen and Sophomores, on the quarter system. We had to take 6 courses in total. Drownproofing, Gymnastics, Track for times in each race, such as the mile, as Freshmen, then usually Football, Basketball and Tennis as Sophomores. Now at Tech only one Sophomore semester course, 1 and 1/2 quarters in duration, is required for graduation, a course called “Wellness Training”. The AD now, Radikovich, has mainly only been responsible for building new facilities, not for keeping the students in shape. The football coach he signed was best the first season with the old gold on white uniforms, good the second season except for the Orange Bowl bust in 40 degree weather, not at the Orange Bowl stadium and without an Orange Bowl parade on national tv, and last year made sure Tech wore black in abundance, the color they usually lost in. Black is Wakes’ and Georgias’ colors. It is most annoying trying to identify with a Tech team wearing black knee socks, solid thick black pants side stripes, and wearing pink powder puff knee socks. The pink could have been left on the field as the color of the breast awareness symbols, and maybe in the end zones. Radikovich would be best somewhere else, and so would Hewitt. CPJ might be best somewhere else unless he can make us identify with the football team like we did the first season he coached. When he allows the team to wear black knee socks, that drives me up a wall. Georgia wears those. I don’t care for the team to be chummy with Georgia when we play them, and to look 100% different from them.
J W
March 12th, 2011
10:48 am
IMHO, Dan Radakovich: (1) not fully committed to GT for anything that doesn’t enhance his personal position; (2) probably will fire Coach Hewitt, then abandon the Institute; (3) I’d be staying far away from Miami / Coral Gables / whatever you wanna call south Florida; (4) he got lot of facilities improvements and expansion started at GT but also increased the long term debt for the Athletic Association, and that is a burden others will have to bear.