2021 Football Media Guide
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2021 FOOTBALL Media Guide 2021 Sun Belt Football Media Guide 1 2021 Sun Belt Football Media Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS SUN BELT CONFERENCE OVERVIEW 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive Commissioner Keith Gill ........................................................................................................................................................................................................4 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Sun Belt Conference Staff .....................................................................................................................................................................................................5 www.sunbeltsports.org 2020 Composite Schedule ....................................................................................................................................................................................................6 Championship Game ................................................................................................................................................................................................................7 Commissioner Keith Gill YEAR IN REVIEW 2020 Year in Review ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8-9 Deputy Commissioner 2020 Team Overall Stats ..............................................................................................................................................................................................10-12 Kathy Keene, Ph. D. 2020 Team Leaders...........................................................................................................................................................................................................13-15 2020 Individual Overall Stats ...................................................................................................................................................................................16-17 Executive Associate Commissioner / Chief Financial Officer 2020 Individual Leaders ...............................................................................................................................................................................................18-21 Herbert L. Carter, III 2020 Team Conference Stats ..................................................................................................................................................................................22-24 2020 Individual Conference Stats ......................................................................................................................................................................25-26 Senior Associate Commissioner / Chief Communications & Branding Officer RECORD BOOK Nancy Yasharoff Team Records ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27-33 Individual Records........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34-40 Senior Associate Commissioner / Career Records .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................41-44 Football & Broadcasting Travis Llewellyn ARCHIVE All-Conference Honors .................................................................................................................................................................................................45-64 Associate Commissioner / Championships & Sport Administration Player of the Week Archive ........................................................................................................................................................................................65-71 Spencer Dodd Year-by-Year Final Standings ................................................................................................................................................................................ 72-90 All-Time Sun Belt Standings ............................................................................................................................................................................................91 Associate Commissioner / NFL Draft History ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 92-94 Communications & Branding Sam Knehans Associate Commissioner / Governance & Compliance Maura Smith Assistant Commissioner / Championships & Sport Administration Cat Krawiec Executive Director of Administration Donna O’Brien Director of Championships Marcus Bishop Director of Creative Video Matthew Nieto 2021 Sun Belt Football Media Guide 3 COMMISSIONER KEITH GILL Keith Gill was named the athletics for 10 years, serving at the University of Richmond Sun Belt Conference’s sixth for five years and American University for five years. commissioner on March 19, At Richmond, he was appointed as the A-10’s 2019. representative on the NCAA Council and served as the With his appointment, governing body’s Vice Chair. He also was the Co-Chair of the Gill became the first African- NCAA Ad Hoc Transfer Issues Working Group in 2015. Gill was American to be named honored as an Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year by commissioner of a NCAA NACDA in 2015. Football Bowl Subdivision At American, Gill led a department where 16 teams conference. earned a combined grade point average over 3.0 for Already early in his 23 consecutive semesters, 25 teams won conference tenure leading the Sun Belt, championships, 16 individuals won conference Gill has established priorities for the conference based championships, there were 25 All-Americans and the men’s on emphasizing the academic successes and personal basketball team won the Patriot League Championship, development of student-athletes, implementing strategies earning the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament aimed to boost the league’s competitive success across all appearances in 2008 and 2009. sports and expanding the league’s national profile through Prior to his time at American, Gill spent three years at branding and inclusion initiatives. the University of Oklahoma from 2004-07 and served two A veteran of intercollegiate athletics for nearly 25 years, stints at the NCAA national office from 1995-99 and 2000-04. Gill came to the Sun Belt from the Atlantic 10 Conference Between his time at the NCAA office, Gill was an Assistant where he served as Executive Associate Commissioner. Director of Athletics at Vanderbilt University. At the A-10, Gill served as the primary liaison to the A-10 A 1994 graduate of Duke University with a bachelor’s Men’s Basketball Advancement Committee, worked with the degree in history and sociology, the Orlando, Fla., native was a A-10 Men’s Basketball Championship, supported the A-10’s four-year letterman in football. He received a Master’s Degree digital and television broadcast strategy and supported the from Oklahoma in 2006. A-10 Council of Presidents and Directors of Athletics. Prior to his time at the A-10, Gill was a director of 2021 Sun Belt Football Media Guide SUN BELT CONFERENCE STAFF 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 www.sunbeltsports.org Commissioner ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Keith Gill Deputy Commissioner ..........................................................................................................................................................................Kathy Keene, Ph.D. Executive Associate Commissioner, Chief Financial Officer ........................................................... Herbert L. Carter, III, CPA Sr. Associate Commissioner, Chief Communications & Branding Officer ..............................................Nancy Yasharoff Sr. Associate Commissioner, Football & Broadcasting ...............................................................................................Travis Llewellyn Associate Commissioner, Championships & Sport Administration ....................................................................Spencer Dodd Associate Commissioner, Communications & Branding ...............................................................................................Sam Knehans Associate Commissioner, Governance & Compliance .........................................................................................................Maura Smith Assistant Commissioner, Championships & Sport Administration ........................................................................ Cat Krawiec Executive Director of Administration..............................................................................................................................................Donna O’Brien Director of Championships ........................................................................................................................................................................Marcus