They moved quick...and Costello deserves his own thread.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...cle_5b51b515-ea0c-51e7-9e5c-e0780c8c3ff9.html
Montana State wasted little time after recently appointed athletic director Kyle Brennan of Utah unexpectedly backed out, naming South Dakota State’s Leon Costello to the same post Tuesday afternoon, the school confirmed in a text message to the Chronicle.
The move comes less than 24 hours after Brennan, the Utes’ deputy athletic director, spoke with MSU President Waded Cruzado and expressed a variety of concerns — among them finding affordable housing and schools for his three children — before turning down the position.
“It would be an understatement to say I am disappointed,” Cruzado said in a school news release Tuesday morning. “We simply have been dealt an extraordinarily rare and unfortunate hand.”
Cruzado then reached out to Costello, the Jackrabbits’ senior associate athletic director, one of five finalists who interviewed on campus last week. He will make the same $185,000 offered to Brennan and will start no later than July 1, according to the school.
Costello played a major role in helping to secure a new basketball arena at UNI, and then assisted in raising more than $57 million at SDSU. That money resulted in the construction of a $32 million indoor center that provides space for football, track and field and other sports. The Jackrabbits also are in the process of completing Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, a $63 million, 19,340-seat football stadium.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.co...cle_5b51b515-ea0c-51e7-9e5c-e0780c8c3ff9.html
Montana State wasted little time after recently appointed athletic director Kyle Brennan of Utah unexpectedly backed out, naming South Dakota State’s Leon Costello to the same post Tuesday afternoon, the school confirmed in a text message to the Chronicle.
The move comes less than 24 hours after Brennan, the Utes’ deputy athletic director, spoke with MSU President Waded Cruzado and expressed a variety of concerns — among them finding affordable housing and schools for his three children — before turning down the position.
“It would be an understatement to say I am disappointed,” Cruzado said in a school news release Tuesday morning. “We simply have been dealt an extraordinarily rare and unfortunate hand.”
Cruzado then reached out to Costello, the Jackrabbits’ senior associate athletic director, one of five finalists who interviewed on campus last week. He will make the same $185,000 offered to Brennan and will start no later than July 1, according to the school.
Costello played a major role in helping to secure a new basketball arena at UNI, and then assisted in raising more than $57 million at SDSU. That money resulted in the construction of a $32 million indoor center that provides space for football, track and field and other sports. The Jackrabbits also are in the process of completing Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium, a $63 million, 19,340-seat football stadium.
