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Date Posted: 12:10:49 09/07/04 Tue
Author: dent
Subject: Glenn Dickey (SF Chron) on Coonan
In reply to: Bronco66 's message, "Re: AD obsevations" on 23:11:06 08/30/04 Mon

from the 9/7/04 SF Chronicle

Right move: Dan Coonan, a former athletic department executive at Cal, has only one regret about leaving to become the athletic director at Santa Clara. "I feel like Bob Rose (an associate AD at Cal who had been director of media relations for the Giants) when he left the Giants just before Barry Bonds had (completed) his record-setting season. I'm leaving just as the Bears have gotten really good in football."

The Santa Clara administration should have no regrets. Coonan is a man of impressive intelligence and integrity. He will do the job.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/07/SPG908KR2F1.DTL

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[> [> [> [> Coonan's focus is basketball -- JCard, 19:56:17 09/21/04 Tue

An Article we missed when DC was hired.BBall will get more support...and I suspect more scrutiny.

Cal official going to Santa Clara

By Dave Newhouse, STAFF WRITER
Inside Bay Area (Oakland Tribune)

Dan Coonan added it up. He has 24 years of Catholic education, including a business administration degree from Notre Dame, a law degree from Loyola Marymount and five years of teaching sports law at USF.
So it's only natural that he's the new athletic director at Santa Clara University, a Catholic institution.

Coonan, a Cal assistant athletic director in charge of revenue sports, was named Santa Clara's AD on Friday. He received a six-year contract in succeeding Cheryl Levick, now AD at Saint Louis University.

"I don't have a shred of red in my wardrobe, nor does my wife," Coonan said of Santa Clara's school colors.

Well, it's not advisable to wear red on the Cal campus.

Coonan contacted Santa Clara six weeks ago about the AD vacancy. He went through an extensive interviewing process before the search committee narrowed the field to Coonan and Evansville athletic director Bill McGillis. Coonan said he was offered the job Thursday.

"The (sports) facilities are pretty good," he said of the Broncos campus.

"I want to establish a rock-solid relationship with everyone connected to Santa Clara, and that's right up my alley.

"We need to get more revenue out of men's basketball, which is the foundation (of Broncos athletics). I want to create a game-day atmosphere, do everything we can to fill that place."

At Cal, Coonan was in charge of football and men's basketball revenue. He has worked at Cal twice, starting in 1995 and returning in 2001 after three years as assistant Pac-10 commissioner for governance and enforcement.


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[> [> [> [> [> Re: Coonan's focus is The Hut -- GB71, 14:22:42 10/22/04 Fri

That's where all the big decisions will be made at.

He and Dickey used to pony up to the watering trough together and tried lobbying for the Cal job. Didn't work.

Dickey is out too!


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