Athletic Director Greg Byrne will be leaving University of Arizona to replace Bill Battle, Director of Athletics at the University of Alabama. Battle announced Sunday evening that he is going to retire from his post to assume a new role as Special Assistant to the President.
Byrne was named Arizona’s Director of Athletics in March 2010
Prior to coming to Arizona, Byrne was Mississippi State University’s Director of Athletics, where he was the youngest athletic administrator in the Southeastern Conference and the youngest to lead an athletic program at the NCAA Division I-A level. He started out his career at MSU in June 2006 as Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs.