Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin has signed an extension of three years that keeps him under contract until 2030, a person who is familiar with the deal told ESPNs Pete Thamel On Friday. Financial details were not announced.
Scott Stricklin came to Florida in November 2016
His new deal was reached after the Gators won a national championship in men’s basketball, the third in program history and the first under Coach Todd Golden. Stricklin hired Golden in March 2022.
In 2020, the Sports Business Journal was named Athletic Director of the Year by the Sports Business Journal and agreed to an extension until 2027 together with an increase from 33% to $ 1.8 million per year, per year Edgar Thompson from the Orlando Sentinel.
Under Stricklin, Florida also opened a football facility of $ 85 million and a baseball stadium of $ 65 million. The athletic program has preliminary plans to undergo a renovation project of $ 1 billion for Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, better known as ‘The Swamp’.
According to Florida personnel directoryStricklin succeeded Jeremy Foley, who served as an athletic director of Florida for 25 years. Stricklin became the 14th athletic director of Gators in school history on November 1, 2016.
Along the way, the Gators won 13 national titles, including at least one in each of his nine years at the school, and 45 conference crowns while leading one of the most recognizable brands in college sports.
The Florida football program does not yet have to enjoy similar success among coach Billy Napier, who in three seasons only encounters 19-19 in the season opener of Long Island University.
The No. 15 Gators, however, ended 2024 on a four-game extraction streak, the longest current series in the SEC, and are ranked for the first time since 2021 in the previous season.
Stricklin previously served as athletic director of Mississippi State
Stricklin came to Florida with more than 29 years of experience in intercollegial athletics, including six as a athletic director at his Alma Mater, Mississippi State University.
The Jackson, Miss., Indigenous led more than $ 140 million in improvements to facilities while he led MSU, along with a significant increase in membership and donations of Booster Club.
The student athletes of MSU also flourished academically under the leadership of Stricklin and posted a combined 3.0 GPA in 2014-15, which marked the highest in the history of MSU.
In addition, Stricklin received the Athletic Director of the Year Award 2015-16 from the National Association of College Directors of Athletics (NACDA), which recognizes the efforts of athletic directors at all levels.
Stricklin also served as director of Associate Media Relations at Auburn University of 1993-98. He then went to Tulane to become an assistant athletic director and the primary media asset for the Green Wave football team for a four-year-old Stint in Baylor of 1999-2003 as an assistant advertisement for communication and marketing.
After his Baylor official period, Stricklin returned to the SEC to work as the associated advertisement for media relationships in Kentucky from 2003-08, so that the daily publicity of Wildcat-Basketball supervised.
Stricklin, who also served a three -year -old Stint as a member of the selection committee of the College Football Playoff, is considered one of the best advertisements in the nation.
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