Dan Radakovich

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Dan Radakovich
Photo by Jamie Howell
College Georgia Tech
Years 2006-present
Title Athletic Director
School as a player
1977-1980 Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Position tight end / punter[1]
Positions
2006 - present
2001-2006
2000-2001
1994-2000
1989-1994
1983-1985		 AD, Georgia Tech
Senior Associate AD, LSU
AD, American University
Associate AD, South Carolina
Associate AD, Long Beach State
Athletics Business Manager, Miami

Dan Radakovich is the Athletics Director at Georgia Tech. He has held that position since February 22, 2006, beating out former Tech player and head coach Bill Curry and former Tech baseball and football player and baseball assistant coach Cam Bonifay for the job.[2][3][4] Radakovich has a long background in dealing with program finance, as well as large scale renovation and facility improvement. Over the course of his career, Radakovich has managed over a quarter of a billion dollars for various University's athletic departments.

Radakovich, a Serbian American, hails from Monaca, PA where he attended Center High School, just outside of Aliquippa, PA. Amongst his academic accomplishments is a master's degree in business adminstration from the University of Miami in 1982. Dan is a second cousin of former NFL offensive line coach, Dan "Bad Rad" Radakovich.[citation needed]

Radakovich is rumored to be a leading candidate to become athletics director at Louisiana State University when Skip Bertman retires at the end of the 2007-08 athletic season. Radakovich served as Senior Associate Athletics Director, the number two position at LSU, from 2000 until his hiring at Georgia Tech, and was widely believed to be Bertman's hand-picked successor.[citation needed]

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[edit] Career

[edit] Georgia Tech

  • Dramatically improved the sales of season tickets for the 2006 football season, especially "chairback" or "club level" season tickets.

[edit] LSU

  • Developed football ticket donation program
  • Involved in $90,000,000 renovation of Tiger Stadium

[edit] American University

[edit] South Carolina

  • Responsible for managing $33,000,000 in facility improvements
  • Helped managed logistics of new Colonial Center Arena, now the home of USC's basketball teams as well as other sports

[edit] Long Beach State

  • Revamped radio broadcast agreements

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Tech names Radakovich", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 2006-02-23. Retrieved on 2007-11-12. 
  2. ^ Georgia Institute of Technology (2006-02-22). "Dan Radakovich is Tech’s New Athletics Director". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-05-16.
  3. ^ Ramblinwreck.com: Radakovich Named Georgia Tech Director of Athletics
  4. ^ The Technique: Radakovich replaces Braine

[edit] External links

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