CHAMPAIGN – Warren Hood was instrumental in the renovations at Memorial Stadium. The longtime DIA administrator also took control of the State Farm Center project when Tom Michael left the University of Illinois to become athletic director at Eastern Illinois.
Now, Hood will be second in command. Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman formally anounced Hood as deputy director of athletics late Friday morning.
“I could not be more pleased to promote Warren Hood to the critical position of deputy director of athletics,” Whitman said in a release. “With more than three decades of involvement with the University of Illinois, his institutional knowledge and campus and community relationships are unmatched.