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News originally broken to us by our friends at BlueGoldSports.com of interest to Texas fans. Word is Mountaineers Athletic Director Oliver Luck will interview next week for the Texas Athletic Director job, and will accept if offered.
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Highlights of the Luck File:
At West Virginia:
- He has overseen major projects such as the $25 million practice facility for men’s and women’s basketbal. A women’s soccer training complex was also constructed.
- Brought West Virginia into the Big 12 Conference
- Brought Alcohol Sales to Puskar Stadium and made WVU more profitable
Prior to West Virginia:
- Chief executive officer of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority in 2001.
- Oversaw the development and management of a $1 billion professional sports and entertainment complex for the city of Houston that included Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, Reliant Stadium, home of the Houston Texans, the Toyota Center, home of the Houston Rockets, Comets and Aeros and the Livestock Show and Rodeo.
- First president of Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamos, helping that organization to a pair of MLS Cup titles in his first two years at the helm. Luck secured the funding for an $80 million soccer complex to house the Dynamos.
- Was on the Gov. West Virginia University Board of Governors, a spot he relinquished to become director of athletics.
- The Rhodes Scholar finalist graduated Phi Beta Kappa from WVU in 1982. He also earned a law degree from Texas, graduating cum laude in 1987.
- In 1997, Luck was inducted into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, and in 2008, he was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
(List via WVU Athletics Webpage)
Luck has the business and sports acumen to be an absolute home run hire for Texas. More to this as it develops.
