There’s been a big shakeup in the athletic department at Miami, where IUP Hall of Famer Dan Radakovich has apparently been hired away from Clemson to take over the athletic director’s job with the Hurricanes.
Radakovich was a tight end and a student coach at IUP while earning his degree in finance. He was also honored as an IUP Distinguished Alumnus in 2009. He’s been the AD at Clemson since 2012 after serving in the same position at Georgia Tech starting in 2006.
The Hurricanes yesterday fired football coach Manny Diaz and hired Oregon’s Mario Christobal to be their new head coach. Christobal won two national championships as a player at Miami, in 1989 and 1991.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Athletics Hall of Famer Dan Radakovich ’80 has been named vice president and director of athletics at the University of Miami, announced Thursday.
“I am so grateful to President Frenk and the University’s Board of Trustees for this incredible opportunity,” said Radakovich. “Their commitment to Miami Athletics’ comprehensive pursuit of excellence and championships is what brought me back to Miami. As a unified Hurricane family—students, alumni, donors, and fans—there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. We are going to set the bar high and jump over it.”
Radakovich moves to Miami after spending nine years as the director of athletics at Clemson University where he helped the Tigers to 15 Atlantic Coast Conference team titles. The Clemson football program won two national championships, made six College Football Playoff appearances, and captured six ACC titles. In the classroom, Clemson student-athletes recorded nine semesters with a 3.0 GPA or higher. The athletic department attained the school’s highest-ever NCAA Graduation Success Rate at 93 percent in 2020 and scored 91 percent or better for seven consecutive years.
Prior to Clemson, Radakovich served as director of athletics at Georgia Tech from 2006 to 2012 and as a senior associate athletics director at Louisiana State University. At LSU, he worked closely with then-head coach Nick Saban, including during the Tigers’ 2003 national championship season. He has also served as director of athletics at American University, as associate athletics director at the University of South Carolina, as associate athletics director at Long Beach State University, and as athletics business manager at Miami, the latter from 1983 to 1985.
Radakovich was enshrined into the IUP Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021 due to those accomplishments as an administrator. He’s a native of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from IUP in 1980, where he was a football letterman and student coach, and an MBA from Miami in 1982. He was also honored by IUP with a distinguished alumni award in 2009.
Born June 9, 1958, Radakovich and his wife, Marcie, are the parents of two sons—Christian, who graduated from Georgia Tech in 2012, and Grant, who graduated from Mercer in 2015—both of whom live and work in Atlanta.
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