The search is over.
This afternoon, Kansas State officially announced the hiring of Gene Taylor as its new Director of Athletics, with an introductory press conference scheduled for 10:30am Monday morning. Taylor replaces John Currie, who departed to take the same position at the University of Tennessee, and interim Director of Athletics Laird Veatch.
Taylor’s most recent position was as Deputy Director of Athletics at the University of Iowa, a job he accepted in the summer of 2014. Before then, however, the 58-year-old Taylor had spent 13 years as the man in charge of the North Dakota State University athletic program, where his record of success was phenomenal.