Utah St. works with Big Ten’s Sabau as athletic director

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  40″/ > Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 7, 2023, 01:43 PM ET Utah State has employed former Big 10 deputy commissioner Diana Sabau as the school’s next athletic director, the school revealed on Monday night.Sabau oversees all 28 sports for the Big 10 and was the previous senior deputy to athletic director Gene Smith at Ohio State, where her tasks included being the sport administrator for the football program from 2017 through March of 2021. Sabau is successful interim athletic director

  Jerry Bovee, who took over in November after John Hartwell resigned.Editor’s Picks 1 Related Sabau takes control of at the Mountain West school at an interesting minute, as the instability of

the Pac-12

— which has just four remaining schools– has produced chances for the league. She leaves the Huge 10 in the wake of a busy week that saw the league add both Oregon and Washington as members.Sabau brings nearly 3 decades of experience in college athletics. In the 4 years she was Ohio State football’s sport administrator, the school won the Big Ten title all four times and she helped with the coaching transition from Urban Meyer to Ryan Day at the end of the 2018 season. Her roles at Ohio State consisted of every element of working in athletics administration– earnings generation, collaborations, sport oversight, branding, interactions, television liaison and working directly with student-athletes. Her function at the Big 10, which started in March of 2021, included department oversight of football administration, basketball administration, hockey administration, Olympic sports administration and officiating administration.