New Sun Belt Commissioner

[T-Dog]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

[MAD Doctor]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

[AppDawg]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Former Duke football player with admin Experience at Vandy & Oklahoma.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatod ... 3208252002

https://247sports.com/Article/Keith-Gil ... 130258859/

[Yosef84]

Looks solid to me. Hopefully he continues the progress that the Belt has made in football and can help get some traction in basketball as well.

[mikeyosef]

Looks like a good hire. In my opinion he has big shoes to fill but also inherits a conference on the RISE. Congratulations.

[MAD Doctor]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Former Duke football player with admin Experience at Vandy & Oklahoma.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatod ... 3208252002

https://247sports.com/Article/Keith-Gil ... 130258859/

I knew he had played football at Duke. Its just that according to his bio, his administrative experience has been mostly with basketball, as his primary focus the past two years has been Men's Basketball Championship Community Relations for the A-10. I wish him well and hope for our sake he's a great hire.

[AppFan11]

Benson was good. He brought a wealth of experience and relationships across the NCAA committee structure. He also could “look ahead” and see what would benefit his institutions. As a G5 Commissioner, that skill is vitally important. We don’t have the resources that others have yet we still need to achieve similarly. Part of the reason the SunBelt is on the rise is that it was Carl’s vision that saw that adding App and GASO would improve the athletic profile of the conference. It has. Also his beating the drum for a change in football scheduling to 1-P5 and 2- G5 teams had much to do with the conference getting more money and there by schools getting more money. He knew how to use the system we are in to advance the conference.... Mr Gill would be wise to continue on that path.

[Stonewall]

We made Karl look good.

[Yosef10]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Former Duke football player with admin Experience at Vandy & Oklahoma.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatod ... 3208252002

https://247sports.com/Article/Keith-Gil ... 130258859/

I knew he had played football at Duke. Its just that according to his bio, his administrative experience has been mostly with basketball, as his primary focus the past two years has been Men's Basketball Championship Community Relations for the A-10. I wish him well and hope for our sake he's a great hire.

Looks like he had an interesting stint as AD at Richmond and that boosters were mad he didn’t pay enough attention to basketball. It sounds like football has been his main priority.

[diehardapp18]

Excited to have someone that will place an emphasis on basketball. Conference really needs to develop some exciting basketball culture

[MAD Doctor]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Former Duke football player with admin Experience at Vandy & Oklahoma.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatod ... 3208252002

https://247sports.com/Article/Keith-Gil ... 130258859/

I knew he had played football at Duke. Its just that according to his bio, his administrative experience has been mostly with basketball, as his primary focus the past two years has been Men's Basketball Championship Community Relations for the A-10. I wish him well and hope for our sake he's a great hire.

Looks like he had an interesting stint as AD at Richmond and that boosters were mad he didn’t pay enough attention to basketball. It sounds like football has been his main priority.

Richmond has football?

[MAD Doctor]

A different article shows perceived problems with Gill’s leadership with Richmond football leading to his resignation.

https://www.richmond.com/sports/college ... 6.amp.html

[Yosef10]

A different article shows perceived problems with Gill’s leadership with Richmond football leading to his resignation.

https://www.richmond.com/sports/college ... 6.amp.html

Yeah that’s the article i got my info from. If you read through essentially the issues were he wouldn’t let unqualified kids into the school just to play football, and if you go lurking on message boards they said he didn’t pay enough attention to basketball. Seems most side with Gill over the football coach Danny Rocco, who seems to have left because he didn’t see eye to eye with Gill on the quality of student needed to be admitted to play football at UR.

[MAD Doctor]

Yep. Sounded like a mess with all of the UR coaches and strongest program supporters going against him. Anyway, he takes over at a time when the SBC is much improved in football, with 4 ten win teams, bowl success, and having basically leapfrogged CUSA and the MAC. Hopefully he can build on Benson's successes.

[hotrod2001]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Seeing Georgia State's football program has been a dumpster fire essentially since its inception, I'd be talking about my school's better team too.

[Yosef84]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Seeing Georgia State's football program has been a dumpster fire essentially since its inception, I'd be talking about my school's better team too.

What does Georgia State's football program have to do with Gill?

[hotrod2001]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Seeing Georgia State's football program has been a dumpster fire essentially since its inception, I'd be talking about my school's better team too.

What does Georgia State's football program have to do with Gill?

It doesn't, I misread a SBC graphic on social media which looked like someone from Georgia State had gotten the nod for the position.

[Yosef84]

Keith Gill, Executive Associate Commish of the A-10, according to USA Today.

First Aftrican-American Commissioner of an FBS Conference. Will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.atlantic10.com/ViewArticle.d ... =211604713

Congrats to him, but I’d sure like to have seen the word “football” somewhere in the write up. I don’t know him from Adam but he sure sounds like a basketball guy. Bentsen was a pleasant surprise, hopefully he will be too.

Seeing Georgia State's football program has been a dumpster fire essentially since its inception, I'd be talking about my school's better team too.

What does Georgia State's football program have to do with Gill?

It doesn't, I misread a SBC graphic on social media which looked like someone from Georgia State had gotten the nod for the position.

Well, that sounds like something I would do!

[appgrad2010]

Could not find how to post new topic but it appears Brian Tracey has left App State Athletics:

https://ncaamarket.ncaa.org/jobs/121223 ... evelopment

Any news where he went?