Baylor Set to Appoint Doug McNamee as New Athletic Director

Baylor is finalizing the rent of Doug McNamee as its new athletic director, sources instructed ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Saturday, confirming a report.

McNamee, the president of Discipline and Stream, labored at Baylor from 2012-18, finally because the Baylor senior affiliate AD earlier than departing to be the president at Magnolia, the Waco way of life model run by Joanna and Chip Gaines, each Baylor alums. He joined Discipline and Stream in 2022.

McNamee replaces Mack Rhoades, who had been athletic director at Baylor since 2016, however stepped right down to take care of private points.

Baylor president Linda Livingstone instructed ESPN just lately {that a} new AD’s job can be to deal with the pressures of funding NIL and income sharing in faculty athletics.

“We’ve got to actually work with our donors to step up. We’ve got to work with sponsorships, we now have to work on corporations that can stroll beside us for NIL sponsorships,” Livingstone mentioned. “That is going to be a very large focus for a brand new athletic director. … That is what many, many establishments are taking a look at proper now. How can we complement and develop monetary assist for athletics in a means that is completely different than we have completed it up to now that does not put as a lot burden on our establishments?”

Certainly one of McNamee’s first duties might be to assist proper the ship in soccer beneath coach Dave Aranda, who Livingstone retained regardless of Baylor followers’ rising dissatisfaction.

In 2021, Baylor went 12-2 and gained a Huge 12 championship, however since then, the Bears have gone 22-28 over 4 seasons.

Information of Baylor’s resolution was first reported by SicEm365.