Washington State’s Pat Chun is one of several athletic directors who previously worked alongside Gene Smith at Ohio State that could now be candidates to succeed him.
A source close to Ohio State toldon Wednesday that Washington State athletic director Pat Chun, who previously worked for the Ohio State athletic department from 1997 to 2012, is a frontrunner to succeed Smith as Ohio State’s new athletic director when SmithChun would bring over a decade of experience as a Division I athletic director to Ohio State, as he was the athletic director at Florida Atlantic for six years before becoming the AD at Washington State in 2018.
Diana Sabau, who worked at Ohio State for more than two decades before becoming the Big Ten’s deputy commissioner and chief sports officer in 2021, is now the athletic director at Utah State – though she might be a less likely candidate given that Utah State hired her on Monday. TJ Shelton, who worked alongside Smith for 14 years at Ohio State, has been the athletic director at Case Western Reserve since January 2022.
That decision, however, will ultimately be made by Ohio State’s new president. The university has not yet named its replacement for Kristina Johnson, who announced in November that she would resign at the end of this past academic year.
“It depends on the person and how my connection with them occurs,” Smith told Eleven Warriors. “It would be easy to talk about the characteristics, but I'm not going to strap them with the burden of a name unless they ask me or provide me that opportunity. They need to make their own decision.”
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