New Miss State AD Officially Announced Friday as Zac Selmon

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Selmon would be school’s first Black AD.

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Oh yay. A woke hire

Son of Buccaneers legend Dewey and nephew of Buccaneers Hall of Famer Lee Roy.

Between Lucious, Dewey and Lee Roy, the Sooners had national defensive players of the year, No. 1 overall picks, NFL All-Pros and Hall of Famers.

OU just put up statues of Selmon brothers in Sep

Zac Selmon serves as Deputy Athletics Director / External Engagement and Advancement. As a member of the executive leadership team, Selmon provides oversight of the Stakeholder Relations objective of OU Athletics' strategic plan, which includes: Sooner Club (Athletics Advancement), Varsity "O" Association, strategic communications, media relations, digital media, SoonerVision, fan engagement, marketing, multi-media rights, licensing, brand management, and ticket sales. In addition, Selmon has sport oversight for football.

In September 2019, Selmon was appointed to the NCAA Football Rules Committee.
From 2017-2021, Selmon served as the Senior Associate Athletics Director for Advancement / Administration and had sport oversight of Men's and Women's Track and Field / Cross Country. Under Selmon's leadership, the Sooner Club set annual giving records for donations in 2018 and 2019, while activating new philanthropic annual membership levels and developing the fundraising strategy for OU Athletics' $200 million capital campaign, Champions of Magic: Our Constant Pursuit of Excellence. In 2020, the Sooner Club set a record for the highest amount of philanthropic giving in OU Athletics' history.

Selmon returned to the OU Athletics Department as Senior Associate Athletics Director/Chief of Operations in July 2015. In that role Selmon contributed to the department's overall direction and culture through responsibilities related to leading OU's strategic planning process and the implementation of specific initiatives, including the department's diversity and inclusion programming. He also assisted in the strengthening of key stakeholder relationships, led sport administrator meetings and facilitated additional projects all geared toward developing a world-class experience for Oklahoma student-athletes.

Selmon served the 2014-15 academic year as Associate Athletics Director and Special Assistant to the Athletics Director at the University of North Carolina. At UNC, his duties included monitoring and tracking the athletics department's strategic plan, representing the athletics director at meetings and on committees, assisting with internal communications, serving as liaison with external groups such as the ACC, NCAA and NACDA, and administering the department's executive and senior staff meetings.

Prior to working at North Carolina, Selmon began his career in the OU Athletics Department as a graduate assistant in 2009 before holding the titles of Assistant Director of Development, Associate Director of Development and Director of Capital Gifts.

A four-year dean's list member as a student-athlete at Wake Forest University, Selmon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religion and international studies in 2007. He was a four-year starter at tight end on the Demon Deacons' football team.

In 2010, Selmon graduated from OU with a master's degree in education and an emphasis in intercollegiate athletics administration.

Selmon and his sister Shannon Selmon-Carter, who played basketball at OU, co-founded the Shine Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving those in need, with an emphasis on children's projects in West Africa. They are still heavily involved with the organization.

Selmon's father, Dewey, and uncles Lee Roy and Lucious Selmon, were defensive linemen on the OU football team in the 1970s. Dewey and Lee Roy both earned consensus All-America and Academic All-America honors in 1974 and 1975. Lucious was a consensus All-American in 1973.
Selmon and his wife Rachel reside in Norman and have two daughters, Shayne and Rylee.

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Not hired yet but leading candidate. Yes, he has a good background and should be great hire if picked. But until he has to make a big decision or new coaching hire you can’t evaluate how he’ll approach those processes. But he has had good teachers and that can’t hurt

This guy is solid as they come. Miss St would do well to get him.

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Sources: Mississippi State is set to hold a Friday morning press conference to introduce new AD Zac Selmon.
10:06 AM · Jan 12, 2023

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100% agree

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They put this in there and people automatically think "woke" hire which takes away from the fact that it is a good hire. Just leave that part out. Selmon was hired on merit not color.

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Correct. Croom was a woke hire before it was cool, but Selmon is not that.

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Oh yay. A woke hire


Maybe he's just not white? I mean, I hate wokeness as much as anybody, but I also hate racism and generalizations.

I don't know anything about the guy, so maybe he is woke and maybe he isn't. But it seems the only thing you know about him is his color and you immediately went there. That's worse than being woke.

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Well said Hogfan13, racism and generalizations are inverted self-esteem issues or an inferiority complex.

Croom was not a woke hire. It is unfortunate that a person’s color of skin gets noted when someone is hired.

IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. If the person can handle the responsibilities of the job whether it is a teacher, coach, AD, President etc. nothing else makes a difference.

If this man is right for the job, then I hope he is hired. Maroon is the only color that matters at State. Period. Exclamation point!