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Jim Livengood wasn’t UNLV’s choice to fill its athletic director vacancy as of Wednesday afternoon, according to sources with knowledge of the hiring process, but by late that night things had changed.
UNLV’s search for a new athletic director continued Wednesday, with school president Neal Smatresk saying he was still gathering information and examining contract issues.
Jim Livengood didn’t wait for anyone to ask.
Count Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White among those who are not excited about the finalists for the UNLV athletic director position.
The search for UNLV’s next athletic director could conclude with an offer to one of three finalists today, which probably explains the festive mood president Neal Smatresk championed at the school’s basketball game Saturday.
Bill Moos caught himself Monday saying “us” about the UNLV athletic department he hopes to run. … “I’m talking like I already have the job,” said the 58-year-old former Oregon athletic director, one of three finalists for UNLV’s AD position. … That remains to be seen. … UNLV president Neal Smatresk could make a decision as soon as tonight, after interviewing the final candidate, Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood.
Jim Livengood didn’t wait for anyone to ask, quickly addressing at this morning’s forum his motivation for wanting to become UNLV’s next athletic director. “I’m not interested in retiring. I’m interested in working,” he said. “I am incredibly interested in trying to become (the) new athletic director at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”
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UNLV athletic director candidate John Johnson did more than describe the type of football coach he would hire if he gets the AD job. He actually named names.
The work ethic that John Johnson developed growing up working in his dad’s automotive mechanic shop still serves him well.
I am trying to determine how UNLV will inform the two finalists who won’t be offered the school’s athletic director job, given the ridiculous manner (e-mail from a search committee chairman) in which others were told Tuesday.
Jim Rogers was adamant Monday that he isn’t the driving force behind Jim Livengood’s candidacy to become UNLV’s next athletic director.
Maybe the hiring of Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood as UNLV’s next AD isn’t so inevitable.
Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood is in Las Vegas to interview for UNLV’s vacant AD position, several sources said Friday.
The search committee to find UNLV’s next athletic director met for about two hours Tuesday, but details of the meeting were mostly kept private.
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