How social media reacted to Jack Swarbrick stepping down as Notre Dame’s athletics director
Notre Dame will have a new director spearheading its athletics sometime between January and March 2024. On Thursday, the University of Notre Dame announced that director of athletics Jack Swarbrick will step down after 15 years.
The University of Notre Dame also announced that the chairman of NBC Sports, Peter Bevacqua, would succeed Swarbrick as the 13th Fighting Irish athletic director.
Bevacqua, a 1993 graduate of Nore Dame, will begin working for the university as a special assistant to the president for athletics on July 1. He will assume Swarbrick’s position when he steps down sometime within the next 7-9 months.
“This is an unbelievable honor for me and a dream come true,” Bevacqua said in a statement. “With the exception of my family, nothing means more to me than the University of Notre Dame.
“As a Notre Dame alum, I have a keen understanding and deep appreciation of the lifetime, transformational benefit our student-athletes receive in a Notre Dame education, one that is unique and unlike any other institution in the world.
“I am so grateful to Father Jenkins, the Board of Trustees and, of course, Jack Swarbrick. Jack has become a true friend over the course of the past several years and I am looking forward to working alongside him and learning as much as I can from the person I admire and respect the most in college athletics.”
The announcement of Swarbrick’s departure sparked an extensive reaction. Here’s what …
Social media reacts to Jack Swarbrick stepping down from Notre Dame, the Irish hiring Pete Bevacqua
Brady Quinn played quarterback for Notre Dame from 2003-06.
Mike Golic Jr. is a podcast host of the GoJo Show at Draft Kings. He played at Notre Dame from 2008-12, which were Swarbrick’s first five years at the university.
Pete Byrne is the sports director at WSBT.
Dennis Dodd covers college football for CBS Sports.
Vic Lombardi hosts the Denver Nuggets’ pre-game, halftime, and post-game broadcasts. He is a 1991 graduate of Notre Dame.
Steve Lauletta is the president of Pigeon Sports Marketing. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1986.
LEAD1 represents the athletics directors of the 133 member universities of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). It was founded in 1986 and formerly known as the Division 1A Athletic Directors Association,
Joe Favorito is a lecturer at Columbia School of Professional Studies.
Amanda Christovich is an author at Front Office Sports.
Andrew Hammond is the sports editor for AL.com.
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