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FILE – Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes talks with press before an NCAA football game against Oregon, Sept. 14, 2024, in Corvallis, Ore.<\/p>\n
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Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes will retire on Aug. 31 after nearly 10 years in the position, the university announced Thursday. <\/p>\n
Following his retirement, Barnes will serve in an advisory role for the department through Aug. 31, 2027. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhile this chapter comes to a close, I look forward to continuing to support Oregon State in an advisory role and remain committed to contributing to its future success,\u201d Barnes said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Barnes has been director of intercollegiate athletics for the Beavers since February 2017. His retirement comes as Oregon State and Washington State, the lone remaining members of the Pac-12 after realignment in 2023, prepare to relaunch the conference. <\/p>\n
Boise State, Colorado State<\/a>, Fresno State, San Diego State, Utah State, Texas State and Gonzaga will join the new Pac-12 to launch in July.<\/p>\n In November, Barnes hired JaMarcus Shephard as the new football coach<\/a> and more recently named Justin Joyner as the Beavers\u2019 new men\u2019s basketball coach. <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI am very grateful to Scott for his many years of dedication and commitment to Oregon State University, its athletics program and OSU student-athletes,\u201d Oregon State President Jayathi Murthy said. \u201cHis leadership and integrity helped guide the Pac-12 and Oregon State University through a very tumultuous time, and the launch of the new Pac-12 Conference this summer will forever be an integral and far-reaching part of his legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n While Barnes had been criticized for a failed NIL management deal, he also had successes, including a $162 million project to renovate Reser Stadium. <\/p>\n Barnes had four years remaining on his contract. Before coming to Oregon State, he had stints as athletic director at Utah State, Pittsburgh and Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n Oregon State will hire a firm to conduct a national search for Barnes\u2019 successor. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here<\/a> and here<\/a> (AP News mobile app). AP college football: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-football-poll<\/a> and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – Oregon State athletic director Scott Barnes talks with press before an NCAA football game against Oregon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,115268],"class_list":["post-836529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-oregon-state-university-beavers-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116300404803159557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836529","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=836529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}