On Tuesday morning, UConn announced that Thomas C. Katsouleas will be succeeding Susan Herbst as president of the university. He comes to Storrs from the University of Virginia, where he has been executive vice president and provost since 2015.
This new job of course includes oversight of the UConn athletic department, which has been led by David Benedict since 2016. Katsouleas recently offered some thoughts on the direction of the football program to Patrick Eaton-Robb of the Associated Press.
#UConn's incoming prez Katsouleas: "Yes, I’m committed to football. I think it’s part of the identity of who we are as a major, broad-context university and I don’t think savings from cutting it are as great as people think.