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| OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM DEC. 22, 2016 Scott Barnes Praised by Former Colleagues -- Portland Tribune (Dec. 29, 2016) "Happy to Be Home" -- Eugene Register-Guard (Dec. 29, 2016) "A Destination Job" -- The Oregonian (Dec. 29, 2016) "Personality Guy Takes OSU helm" -- Portland Tribune (Dec. 29, 2016) Why here? Why now? Oregon State University vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics Scott Barnes had clear, concise answers to both questions during his introductory news conference in late December of 2016. “The trajectory the university is on, the great coaches in place, and a president who understands what a vibrant athletic department can do for a university” made this position very attractive, Barnes said upon arriving at OSU. “To be back in the Pacific Northwest is an absolute no-brainer,” he added, noting he was born in Spokane, has relatives throughout the West Coast, and has spent almost all of his 27 years in athletic administration in the Pacific or Mountain time zones. “This is a destination,” not a whistle stop on the way to bigger and better things. “That means, ‘Can you accomplish the things you want to accomplish together: Win championships, go to postseason, graduate your student-athletes at a high level and have the quality of life you want for your coaches and student-athletes?’ “We can do all that. This is absolutely a destination job, no question about it. We are building for stability and sustainability in all of our programs,” and to create a vision that excites and inspires everyone in Beaver Nation. Hired on Dec. 22, 2016, Barnes has four legs to the strategic comprehensive plan that will move the Beavers forward in the coming years:
OSU president Ed Ray said Barnes, formerly the AD at Pittsburgh, stood out in a deep, talented, nationwide pool of almost 50 candidates during the hiring process. “Scott has demonstrated, everywhere he’s been, that he is committed to helping student-athletes be among the very best at whatever they chose to do academically and on the field,” Ray said. “It was clear to me as we moved forward the person we needed to lead us where we aspire to go is Scott Barnes. He is a proven performer in exciting fans and alumni.” OSU baseball coach Pat Casey was on the search committee that recommended Barnes be hired from what Casey called a deep, impressive field of candidates. “He has a great vision of what our department can be,” Casey said. “He has done it before. He is sincere about being on the West Coast and making OSU a place he wants to work at for a long time. One overriding theme for Barnes is the importance of fundraising, a strongpoint of Barnes’ impressive armory, to any sustainable future success. “We need to build revenues,” Barnes said. “We need to give our coaches the resources they need to compete. That means being great stewards of what you already have, but continue to build those resources. “When we think about ways to move our program forward, we have to be all-in, all-the-time in fundraising,” he added. “I’ve been in athletic administration for 27 years, 17 as an AD but all 27 as a fund-raiser. I’m excited about the opportunity.” Barnes hired OSU football coach Gary Andersen at Utah State for the 2009 season. They worked together to transform a downtrodden program into a Western Athletic Conference champion. Andersen left USU after the 2012 season, but they remained close in the intervening years. Andersen describes Barnes as a leader who understands what it takes to build a successful department. “Student-athletes are No. 1 with Scott, and he includes all sports,” Andersen said. “He’s fantastic at that. There is no hierarchy of sport … everybody is involved and everybody has a voice. He’s fair, he’s honest, and student-athletes are No. 1 to him.” Barnes said Andersen typifies the coaches at OSU. “Integrity, a high level of care for the student-athlete, and a plan for success,” Barnes said. “When I think about Oregon State, whether it’s Gary or any number of coaches, I think they are leaders, coaches who understand what our mission is.” Barnes’ professional career also includes at the University of the Pacific from 1990-94, and at Iowa State from 1994-97, before landing his first athletics director position at Humboldt State in 1997. Barnes was the athletics director at Eastern Washington from 1999-2005. He worked as a senior associate AD at Washington from 2005-08 before becoming the AD at Utah State, where he served for seven years before accepting the Pitt position in April, 2015. Barnes is a Spokane native who graduated from Fresno State with a bachelor’s degree in 1986 and a master’s degree in athletics administration and physical education in 1993. A basketball letterman under coach Boyd Grant, he helped the Bulldogs advance to two NCAA Tournaments and two NITs. He was a second-team PCAA all-star as a senior. Barnes played professionally for ASG Gottingen in Gottingen, Germany, in 1985-86. He then worked in private business, and as the general manager of the Fresno Flames of the World Basketball League from 1988-89 before starting his career in athletic administration in 1989 at the University of San Diego. He and his wife, Jody, have two children: Daughter Milanna, 20, a college sophomore who redshirted on the Utah State basketball team in 2015-16, and son Isaac, 19, a basketball-playing high school senior at North Allegheny High School in the northern Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford, Penn. In addition, the family dog is appropriately named Benny (OSU’s mascot is Benny Beaver). Jody Barnes also graduated from Fresno State. She was a standout high jumper who still ranks third on the school’s all-time list with a personal record of 5-9.75 “It’s an incredible honor, one we are humbled by,” Barnes said. “I could not be more excited about the opportunity before us. It’s great to be home.” Barnes’ accomplishments as the athletics director at Pitt and at Utah State: • The Pitt football team went 8-4 in the regular season and played in bowl games both years. The Panthers sold a school-record 55,000 season tickets in 2016. • Dormant football series with historic regional rivals Penn State and West Virginia were re-established. West Virginia will return to the basketball schedule. • The Pitt gymnastics team captured its initial East Atlantic Gymnastics League championship in 2016. • The men’s basketball team was selected to the 2016 NCAA tournament. • A total of 379 Pitt student-athletes were honored for achieving a 3.0 or higher GPA for the 2015 spring or fall terms; 24 earned a perfect 4.0. A record 245 student-athletes earned Atlantic Coast Conference all-academic honors and three earned ACC post-graduate scholarships. • He established the Fan Experience Committee, which took feedback from fans, boosters, students and student-athletes to enhance the game-day experience at Pittsburgh athletic events. • At Utah State, Barnes oversaw a successful transition from the Western Athletic Conference to the higher-profile Mountain West Conference. • USU teams won 20 conference championships during his tenure. • The USU football team was 30-11 overall from 2012-14, and won three consecutive bowl games for the first time in school history. • Existing facilities were improved and new buildings were added, most notably the ICON Sports Performance Center and the Wayne Estes Center, the home of men and women’s basketball and volleyball. Romney Stadium also underwent significant upgrades. • USU student-athletes had an 87 percent Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in 2014-15, his final academic year in Logan. USU led the WAC in GSR from 2008-13, and was No. 2 in all-academic selections upon joining the MWC. • He was named the 2013-14 Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year. He served as the chairman of the NCAA men’s basketball committee during the 2014-15 academic year. • He re-introduced the popular “Pitt” script logo for all sports at Pittsburgh in 2015, and oversaw a new athletics branding initiative at Utah State in 2012. • USU’s athletic department was named the most economically efficient in the country in June, 2009, by the Texas A&M Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics. USU also finished in the top-20 nationwide in 2010 (3), 2011 (4), 2012 (6) and 2013 (20). |
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