Texas A&M expected to hire away Ole Miss AD Ross Bjork
It appears that Texas A&M has filled its athletic director vacancy.
According to a report by The Dallas Morning News’ Ben Baby, citing sources, the Aggies are expected to hire away Ole Miss AD Ross Bjork. Bjork would fill the position previously held by Scott Woodward. Woodward, of course, left TAMU for LSU last month for the same position.
Bjork has been Ole Miss’ AD since 2012 when he was the youngest AD at any BCS school at age 40. Prior to Ole Miss, Bjork was Western Kentucky’s AD. He’s worked at UCLA, Miami and Mizzou previously.
Under Bjork’s leadership, the Rebels football program climbed, including to No. 3 in the nation; however, some of those victories were vacated as part of NCAA sanctions. Now, Bjork will be responsible for one of the most profitable athletic departments in the country. Yes, he’ll still be in the same division, but now, he’ll be in charge of guiding the behemoth Aggies athletic department — namely football — to catch up to the likes of Alabama and LSU, among others.
Texas A&M is expected to hold a formal introduction for Bjork following next week’s SEC spring meetings in Destin, Florida.
UPDATE: Texas A&M has confirmed the hiring of AD Ross Bjork.
Well, good news for the rebels. Sorry, aggies.
That’s a shocking hire. Sucks for the Aggies.
Christmas in May!!!
This is the strangest decision by A&M
How is this true? I can’t fathom the reasoning behind this decision. Does he have something on Jimbo? I’ve never met anyone who has said, “You know who is a good AD…Ross Bjork.” I’ve never met an Ole Miss alum who thought he did a good job.
Horrible hire for A&M in my opinion….still scratching my head.
So you’re telling me TAMU couldn’t find anyone better? Crazy..
Bueller? Bueller?? Bueller???
Ole Miss won on this one lol
Seems like Bjork was doing a fine job at Ole Miss, until the NCAA caught on to how it was getting done.
The worst part, Bjork lied just as well as Freeze (straight into the camera)with out any problem doing it. Ole Miss was as clean as the driven snow.
I guess that’s one way for A&M to try and catch Alabama.
As a lifelong UT fan, in my expert opinion on bad AD’s, this is clearly a mistake.
And in related news, the NCAA is now looking for office space in College Station. The TA&M nation should be pissed.
That’s funny. Didn’t Miss State basically outbid Ole Miss for Leo Lewis? Pot meet Kettle. BTW, it’s “Aggieland”, not A&M nation.
I don’t think its good form to make “pot meet kettle” comments when you’re hiring the pot.
Is there any “good form” when commenting on cheating in college athletics?
Nope. Which confirms that you should have let that one go, right?
IDK, would anybody comment on much of anything if only showing good form? It’d be a bit boring.
This must be a misprint
Bjerk ran Ole Miss into the ground
Bjork has a terrible reputation amongst the Ole Miss fans. I don’t follow Ole Miss, so what makes him so bad?
Not an Ole Miss fan, but Bjork was running the show when Ole Miss was obviously cheating
Here’s a little perspective…with apologies to super villains everywhere!
Thanos has been vanquished. Darth Sidious has been eliminated. Lex Luther is in prison. The Joker has been dismissed. The force has restored balance and restored the Infinity Stones. It’s kind of like that!
Bjork was aggressively defensive and uncooperative in all NCAA inquiries (which were legitimate) to the point that he put Ole Miss in the crosshairs. If he had been somewhat helpful they might have been able to address the problems earlier and kept Ole Miss from some of the harsher penalties. It was almost like he was thinking, “It doesn’t matter if we get games and trophies stripped from us…if we just win them.” He made some decent decisions with hiring, but really hurt Ole Miss with his delayed responses to NCAA. I don’t understand how he survived. However, he did survive and that’s something.
I can’t wait to see what A&M’s next mascot will be. From Aggies to Ewoks?
10 points for Hufflepuff.
Athletic administrating, like coaching is a relatively tight circle and they make sure they hire within that circle. If they fire, they make sure the disembarking AD has a fluffy landing spot as some ‘associate’ AD somewhere. It’s getting egregious to the point of politics to maintain the exclusivity of the circle or ‘high table’.
I guess this serves as confirmation that these days 100% of an AD’s job is seen as fundraising. Just about every public statement Bjork ever made about Ole Miss’ problems ended up being brazen lies, it’s unbelievable to me he left Ole Miss on his own terms and then got another P5 job.