With the firing of Shane Lyons announced last week, the West Virginia Mountaineers are currently operating under interim Athletic Director Rob Alsop while the University searches for a permanent replacement. They have hired Turnkey ZRG to assist in their search for the replacement for Lyons and hope to find a candidate similar to the candidate they found for the next Big 12 Commissioner - Brett Yormark.
Yormark’s background to Big 12 Commissioner was a bit unorthodox as he was previously the COO of Roc Nation - an entertainment agency founded by rapper Jay-Z.
Yormark served three years as the COO of Roc Nation and Co-CEO of Roc Nation Unified before moving to the Big 12.