Syracuse loses AD to Minnesota after less than a year on the job
Minnesota will hire Syracuse athletic director Mark Coyle for the same role with the Gophers.
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Tom Fornelli
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Minnesota announced on Wednesday morning that it would be hiring Mark Coyle as its new athletic director. The decision comes less than a year after Coyle accepted the same position at Syracuse.
According to an announcement from Syracuse, Coyle made the decision to leave for Minnesota for "family reasons."
Prior to being hired at Syracuse in June 2015, Coyle had served as the athletic director at Boise State for four years, and was deputy athletic director at Kentucky before that.
This won't be Coyle's first time working at Minnesota, either, as he worked as the school's associate athletic director for external relations from 2001 to 2005.
Coyle replaces Norwood Teague, who resigned from the position in August 2015 amid reports of sexual harassment, including some improper texts sent to a non-student employee of the school.
As for Syracuse, the school will now begin its second search for an athletic director in the last year, and if you're Dino Babers, whom Coyle just hired to take over the football program this winter, it can't exactly feel good to see the man who hired you leave so quickly after doing so.
