Later today, UM will announce the hiring of Warde Manuel as the 13th director of athletics at the University of Michigan.
Manuel, a teammate of Jim Harbaugh's back in the 80's, has most recently (since 2012) served as the AD at the University of Connecticut. Before that, in 2005 he took his first AD job at Buffalo after serving as an associate AD at Michigan.
Manuel will be the first AD Michigan has ever hired who has prior athletic directing experience at another school. However, every Michigan AD since 1921 has had at least some prior connection with the University.