George F. "Buddy" Sasser

George F. "Buddy" Sasser was an American athletic administrator. As Big South Conference Commissioner between 1989 and 1996, Sasser was responsible for increasing membership, gaining automatic bids to the NCAA Basketball Tournament and adding basketball television exposure for the League.

Biography

Born in Conway, South Carolina, Sasser played college football for the University of North Carolina Tarheels earning two letters, the last in 1956. Sasser served as athletic director and head football coach at Conway High School from 1963 to 1970, leading the Tigers to a 66–17–5 record. He was assistant football coach and assistant athletic director at Appalachian State University from 1972 until 1977, and was athletic director and head football coach from 1977 until 1982 at Wofford College. He served as Coastal Carolina University’s Director of Athletics from 1986 until 1989 and again from 1996 until 1999.

Honors and awards

In 1982, Sasser was named Kodak Coach of the Year for the college division.^[1] He was inducted, along with three other Coastal Carolina University athletic administrators and student athletes, in the inaugural class of the Big South Conference Hall of Fame.

Each year, the George F. "Buddy" Sasser Cup Trophy (named for him in 2000)^[2] is awarded to the Big South member institution that has the most successful year in athletics.^[3] Coastal Carolina University's Athletic Hall of Fame was named in honor of Sasser on June 4, 2003.^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, Sasser Hall of Fame Members, 2010
↑ 2009 Track Guide, UNC Asheville (pdf)
↑ "Liberty University Leads Sasser Cup Race", Big South Conference, December 2, 2009

Wofford Terriers athletic directors

Ted Petoskey (1942–) Phil Dickens (1947–1952) Conley Snidow (1953–1971) Jack Peterson (1971–1973) Gene Alexander (1974–1976) George F. "Buddy" Sasser (1977–1982) Bill Parker (1983–1984) Danny Morrison (1985–1997) David S. Wood (1997–2001) Richard Johnson (2001– )

Wofford Terriers head football coaches

Edwin Kerrison (1889)
No coach (1890)
No team (1891–1892)
No coach (1893–1894)
Bill Wertenbaker (1895)
No coach (1896)
No team (1897–1899)
No coach (1900)
J. Norman Walker (1901)
No team (1902–1913)
Curtis McCoy (1914)
Harvey Hester (1915)
Lesley Moses (1916–1917)
Bernard Peters (1918)
Rip Major (1919)
John F. Gorsuch (1920)
Johnny Gilroy (1921)
Rip Major (1922–1926)
Tommy Scaffe (1927–1933)
Jules Carson (1934–1941)
Ted Petoskey (1942)
No team (1943–1945)
Ted Petoskey (1946)
Phil Dickens (1947–1952)
Conley Snidow (1953–1966)
Jim Brakefield (1967–1970)
Jack Peterson (1971–1973)
Steve Satterfield (1974–1976)
George F. "Buddy" Sasser (1977–1982)
Bill Parker (1983–1984)
Rick Gilstrap (1985–1987)
Mike Ayers (1988–)

East Tennessee State Buccaneers head football coaches

W. R. Windes (1920–1921)
J. K. Luck (1922–1924)
John Robinson (1925–1929)
J. S. Batey (1930–1931)
J. Gene McMurray (1932–1941)
No team (1942–1945)
J. Gene McMurray (1946)
Lloyd T. Roberts (1947–1951)
Star Wood (1952–1953)
Hal Littleford (1954)
Star Wood (1955–1965)
John Robert Bell (1966–1972)
Roy Frazier (1973–1977)
Jack Carlisle (1978–1982)
George F. "Buddy" Sasser (1983–1984)
Mike Ayers (1985–1987)
Don Riley (1988–1991)
Mike Cavan (1992–1996)
Paul Hamilton (1997–2003)
No team (2004–2014)
Carl Torbush (2015– )