MINNEAPOLIS -- The University of Minnesota will use a 16-person committee to search for and hire an athletic director, one response to the mistake made four years ago.
President Eric Kaler carefully assembled the mixture of faculty members, current and former Gophers athletes, statewide business leaders and one head coach, a deliberation rooted in the debacle that unfolded last year with the resignation of Norwood Teague.
Finalist interviews will be conducted by a group four times as large as the one that sat down with Teague.
Interim athletic director Beth Goetz took over last August after Teague left in disgrace following a report from two high-level university administrators that he sexually harassed them at a senior leadership retreat.