{"id":761697,"date":"2026-02-19T05:07:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/761697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:07:41","slug":"former-msu-ad-to-potentially-be-in-the-mix-for-detroit-lions-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/761697\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MSU AD to potentially be in the mix for Detroit Lions opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 18, 2026, 8:59 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A former Michigan State administrator has found his name circling back in the sports media world. Mark Hollis has been identified as a potential leading candidate for the open vacancy as the Detroit Lions next president, according to Tony Paul of the Detroit News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Paul noted that Hollis has had a, &#8220;good second act as Dan Gilbert\u2019s right-hand man with Rocket and he knows the Hamps.&#8221; Also citing that the former Spartan athletic director was on the search committee that hired Dan Campbell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Hollis succeeded Ron Mason as the Spartans athletic director in 2008, before retiring in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespartanswire\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The SpartansWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartansWire\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Cory Linsner on X\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rex_Linzy\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Rex_Linzy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 18, 2026, 8:59 p.m. ET A former Michigan State administrator has found his name circling back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2071],"tags":[95878,146,113,2506,7,147,5264,6,108682,104450,95882,96027,96512,95893,108683,103257,103887,95899,95883,95894,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-761697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-lions","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-detroitlions","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-lions","14":"tag-mi","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportscollegespartans","17":"tag-sstsnspartans","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagcollege-sports","20":"tag-tagdetroit","21":"tag-tagfacebook","22":"tag-tagmark-hollis","23":"tag-tagmichigan","24":"tag-tagmichigan-state-university","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-tagtwitter","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116095565468921832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}