Teter's ties to area make WSU job attractive
Friday, May 09, 2008
Brian Teter was attending the Final Four in San Antonio when he heard that Mike Cusack was retiring as Wright State's athletics director.
"I had several basketball coaches and administrators from around the country come up to me and ask if I was interested," said Teter, athletics director at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. "I've got family in the area. I know the conference. I'd like to be part of something special."
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Get latest headlines via RSS feedsYes, Teter would be interested, and he is one of four finalists for the job who will be interviewed later this month.
Teter has a varied background in sports administration, much of it spent in southwest Ohio. He was a sports information director at Miami for more than three years and an assistant SID, then associate athletic director at Cincinnati for several years. He also was assistant commissioner of the Great Midwest Conference and associate commissioner of Conference USA.
"I enjoyed conference work," Teter said, "but I just love being on a college campus. I spent 81/2 years with Conference USA and there was a lot of big-picture thinking and long-range planning. At the same time, I wanted to get back to a college campus.
"I was on the ground floor when we put Conference USA together back in 1995. I was at Cincinnati when we moved into the Big East, which is the biggest jump that school has made into a league. I was at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi when we moved into the Southland Conference.
"I've got that kind of experience. I know how schools make conferences better and how conferences make schools better."
Teter was at Miami when Wright State opened the Nutter Center in 1990.
"We played there early (in the third year), and it was a great memory," Teter said. "I spent a lot of my professional life in southwest Ohio. I was in a natural progression and was ready to run my own program. I got that opportunity in 2006 (at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi). But things change, opportunities happen."
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