Auburn has decided to hire Buffalo athletic director Allen Greene to replace Jay Jacobs. Greene, 40, has been an athletic director for only two years.
What Auburn fans should like most about Allen Greene
When Jacobs announced his decision to resign after 13 years in the AD chair at Auburn, I immediately wrote that the most important quality the Tigers’ next athletic director must possess is outside thinking. In this case, being an “Auburn Man” (or woman) would be a drawback.
For too long, Auburn’s athletic department has suffered from too much insular thinking, too many people who’ve only seen how it works at Auburn, too few people with outside experiences to draw from and bring to the Plains.