CFP officer. director Hancock to step down in ’25

• Heather Dinich, ESPN Senior WriterJun 21, 2023, 03:43 PM ET

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College Football Playoff executive director Expense Hancock will retire when his agreement ends Feb. 1, 2025, the CFP revealed following a routine June conference in Half Moon Bay, California, on Wednesday.Hancock, 72, will stay

in his present position through the 2023-2024 season. He’ll then take on an expert role to the brand-new executive director when the CFP expands from the current four-team playoff to the brand-new 12-team format for the 2024-25 season.Hancock was called executive director of the CFP a few months after the occasion was developed in 2012. According to the CFP, he was the only staff member at the time. The commissioners of the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick “directed him to settle the details of a media rights contract, negotiate contracts with bowl games and championship-game host cities, construct a staff, discover office, contact members to serve on the selection committee, and draft procedure and treatments for the committee to utilize,”according to the release.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated” My time at the CFP has been a dream come true,”Hancock said in a prepared declaration. “I value what I do and the folks I get to work with. And I do enjoy college football. “Hancock stated a plan had been developed for him to alert the CFP’s board of supervisors a year

ahead of time if he decided to step aside so they had ample time to find and shift to the next executive director.”Everyone who is blessed to work with Bill understands he is a highly experienced administrator, strong leader and really great person,”said Mississippi State president Mark E. Keenum, the chair of the CFP board of managers, in a prepared statement.” He’s a legend in college sports.””Expense Hancock has actually led the highest level of postseason college football for nearly twenty years and has done so with extraordinary steadiness and collaboration,”stated ACC commissioner Jim Phillips in a declaration.”His love for college athletics, and specifically the student-athletes, has actually radiated throughout his 50-year recognized profession and we eagerly anticipate his ongoing competence.”Hancock was the very first full-time director of the NCAA Guys’s Final 4, and the first administrator of the Bowl Champion Series. He joined the BCS in 2005 after 16 years with the basketball competition. Hancock started his career in 1971 as assistant sports info director at the University of Oklahoma, then spent 4 years as editor of the Hobart (Oklahoma) Democrat-Chief newspaper, then 11 years on the Big 8 Conference staff.