Gregory Byrne

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Greg Byrne is the current athletic director of Mississippi State University.^[1]

[edit] Early life

Byrne grew up in San Diego, California, and Eugene, Oregon.^{[citation needed]} He attended Arizona State University. He started working around athletics working for the Fiesta Bowl. Then he was the director of the director of the "Duck Club" in southern Oregon. When he and his wife Regina, lived in Medford, Oregon, they had their first son, Nicholas, on July 2 1995. In 1998, Byrne went from Oregon to Oregon State University, as the director of the "Beaver Club". In 2002 he took a job at the University of Kentucky as a assiant athletics director. In 2005 he worked for a litigation support software company, CaseLogistix, out of Jackson, Mississippi. In 2006, Byrne took the "Bulldog Club" director job for Mississippi State University.

[edit] Athletic director career

Byrne will take full duties as athletic director at Mississippi State on July 1, 2008. On June 7, 2008, Byrne hired John Cohen to replace Ron Polk, who retired in March. Polk, who endorsed his assistant Tommy Raffo upon his retirement, protested the hire, and called Byrne unqualified.^[2][3]

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