J Batt leaves Michigan State for Kentucky athletic director role
Who will replace J Batt as Michigan State's athletic director?
Mark Hollis has expressed interest in the vacant Michigan State AD position.
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What fans said
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Leader. Innovator. The man for the job. ​ BBN, welcome J Batt as the CEO of Champions Blue, LLC and UK Athletics Director.
It’s sounding like he applied to Virginia Tech, Purdue, and Wisconsin. Dude was jonesing to leave. So to be clear, we fired our previous do nothing front office. Then actively sabotaged and harassed the people that we hired less than two years ago...
“Batt will average $3 million annually, making him one of the highest-paid ADs in college sports, starting with a total of $2,600,000 in 2026-27 — $400K in base salary, $2.2M in supplemental compensation.”
Well anytime there is a leadership change people tend to look to jump ship. This has more to do with our horrible BOT more than anything. Batt worked closely with the president & likely played a role in hiring him on as well. Without the president’s...
He had the courage to fire a coach that went 5-7 and 4-8 in his last two seasons and replace him with a coach that went 3-9 and 1-11 in his last two seasons. If we loss Batt, and MSU football has a losing record over the next few years, it is...
This year, @KentuckyMBB is a top 15 preseason team & really fits together well. They'll have depth, ball distribution & athleticism. @DrewByousBBN breaks it all down here in his first piece for SSM! 🔥 Agree?...
Batt did a good job fundraising & networking but he wasn’t here long enough to really do a whole lot else. I can’t even blame him for leaving though at all. Fitzgerald has to be annoyed now knowing the president and AD who hired him are now both...
Kentucky announces the hire of J Batt as Uk’s new AD. Batt didn’t stay long at Michigan State. He was there for a little over 365 days. He made some big moves then bolted, firing coach Jonathan Smith who MSU hired two years earlier and replaced him...
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