It’s official, Allen Greene will become the 15th director of athletics in Auburn history. The school announced the news Thursday, while noting the former Buffalo AD will take over Auburn athletes in February.
A graduate of Notre Dame, with a master’s from Indiana, Greene has run Buffalo’s athletics since 2015. He also has experience at Ole Miss and in the Notre Dame administration.
Auburn President Steven Leath offered up this statement in the school’s release:
“Allen kicks off the next exciting chapter for Auburn Athletics. In our interviews and due diligence learning all we could about him, it became overwhelmingly clear that Allen has the right combination of leadership, enthusiasm, experience and management to lead Auburn Athletics to success well into the future.”
In addition to those comments, Greene offered up this statement:
“Serving Auburn University as Director of Athletics is a tremendous honor and an awesome responsibility. Time-honored traditions have helped create a culture of success at Auburn that is incredibly rare. I am humbled that President Leath and the Search Committee entrust me to maintain all that is uniquely Auburn and utilize that foundation to forge a path to even greater heights. Whether in the classroom or on the fields and courts of play, these lofty expectations are embraced, and I am eager to get to work for the Auburn Family.”
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