Once Kansas University chancellor Robert Hemenway returns from attending an NCAA Executive Committee meeting in Indianapolis, he will appoint a search committee to find a replacement for athletics director Bob Frederick.
Most likely, the committee will be composed of a broad section of faculty, staff, alumni and students, although it will not make the final choice.
“In reality, it becomes a chancellor’s decision,” Hemenway said. “We will get it done by July 1.”
Frederick’s tenure will officially end on June 30.
No candidates have been contacted, Hemenway said, but a list of potential Frederick successors might include:
Bill Hancock, director of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship.
Mike Bohn, a former KU quarterback who is now AD at Idaho.
Jim Schaus, athletics director at Wichita State.
John Hadl, former KU football great and associate AD/development at Kansas.
Richard Konzem, associate AD/sport operation at Kansas.
Gary Hunter, former commissioner of the CBA, who also has served as executive vice president of the Denver Nuggets of the NBA and Colorado Avalanche of the NHL; athletics director at the University of Idaho and most recently CEO of Diamond Sports, a company in Boise, Idaho. He also was a KU assistant athletics director.