CFP exec. director Hancock to step down in ’25

School Soccer Playoff govt director Invoice Hancock will retire when his contract expires Feb. 1, 2025, the CFP introduced following a routine June assembly in Half Moon Bay, California, on Wednesday.

Hancock, 72, will stay in his present place by the 2023-2024 season. He’ll then tackle a guide function to the brand new govt director when the CFP expands from the present four-team playoff to the brand new 12-team format for the 2024-25 season.

Hancock was named govt director of the CFP a number of months after the occasion was created in 2012. Based on the CFP, he was the one worker on the time. The commissioners of the ten FBS conferences and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick “directed him to finalize the small print of a media rights settlement, negotiate agreements with bowl video games and championship-game host cities, construct a workers, discover workplace house, contact members to serve on the choice committee, and draft protocol and procedures for the committee to make use of,” in line with the discharge.

“My time on the CFP has been a dream come true,” Hancock mentioned in a ready assertion. “I cherish what I do and the oldsters I get to work with. And I do love school soccer.”

Hancock mentioned a plan had been established for him to inform the CFP’s board of managers a yr prematurely if he determined to step apart so they’d ample time to seek out and transition to the following govt director.

“Everybody who’s blessed to work with Invoice is aware of he’s a extremely expert administrator, robust chief and actually good particular person,” mentioned Mississippi State president Mark E. Keenum, the chair of the CFP board of managers, in a ready assertion. “He is a legend in school sports activities.”

“Invoice Hancock has led the best stage of postseason school soccer for almost 20 years and has executed so with unbelievable steadiness and collaboration,” mentioned ACC commissioner Jim Phillips in an announcement. “His love for school athletics, and particularly the student-athletes, has radiated all through his 50-year distinguished profession and we stay up for his continued experience.”

Hancock was the primary full-time director of the NCAA Males’s Remaining 4, and the primary administrator of the Bowl Championship Sequence. He joined the BCS in 2005 after 16 years with the basketball event. Hancock started his profession in 1971 as assistant sports activities data director on the College of Oklahoma, then spent 4 years as editor of the Hobart (Oklahoma) Democrat-Chief newspaper, then 11 years on the Massive Eight Convention workers.