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04 June 2010
MORGANTOWN — Oliver Luck won’t be West Virginia University’s next director of athletics.
“Nothing has changed,” the former Academic All-America quarterback told me on Thursday via telephone. “I couldn’t be interested in that position at this time.”
Luck’s name has appeared among candidates for the athletic director position in some publications. But he never officially sought the job Ed Pastilong is vacating June 30 after 21 years.
Chief among Pastilong’s numerous achievements as AD was getting WVU membership in the Big East Conference. He will remain at the university two years for help in the transition.
Known to have been interviewed by the selection committee in a national search were Jim Schaus, Whit Babcock and Rob M. Mullens.
Schaus, whose deceased father served as athletic director from 1981-89, now is AD at Ohio University. He also held the position at Wichita State.
Babcock, former director of the Mountaineer Athletic Club, is an assistant director at Missouri.
Mullens has been the No. 2 man in athletics at both Maryland and Kentucky.
All have degrees from WVU.
